Michael Lawrence

Michael Lawrence has taught courses for USF’s minor in User Experience and User Interface Design (UX/UI) and for the Honors College. His career spans academic and professional work at the intersection of language, culture, and design. He works full-time as a UX content designer, with over a decade of industry experience that includes freelance work and roles at Meta, Indeed, eBay, and Chime.

Michael’s academic background is in communication, rhetoric, and cultural studies. His teaching integrates professional experience designing human-centered products in complex technical and social contexts with a commitment to critical reflection, ethical practice, and liberal arts education in service of the common good.

• User experience design (UX)
• UX writing & content design
• Critical cultural studies
• Rhetorical theory & criticism

• University of Iowa, PhD in Communication Studies
• Simon’s Rock College of Bard, BA in Cultural Studies and Studio Arts

• Senior Content Designer, Meta
• Senior Content Strategist, Indeed
• Interim Director, First-Year Seminar, Columbia College Chicago
• Lecturer in Liberal Arts & Sciences, Columbia College Chicago

• Outstanding Dissertation Award, Critical and Cultural Studies Division, National Communication Association