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Sherry Southard joined the ECU faculty in 1989 after nearly ten years on the graduate faculty at Oklahoma State University. Since coming to ECU, she has served on the English Department's Computer and Instructional Technology Committee for over six years and has written grant proposals collaboratively to fund computer-aided classrooms and laboratories. She currently teaches students to use electronic components in her classes in order to collaborate as well as develop information products. Together with Philip Rubens, she helped develop the post-baccalaureate online Certificate in Professional Communication. At both Oklahoma State and East Carolina University, she has served in many administrative positions.

Her advising has been recognized with an ECU 1999 Outstanding Advisor Award for Undergraduate Studies and a national 2000 Outstanding Advisor Award given by the National Academic Advising Association. A Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication, she received the Jay R. Gould Award for Excellence in Teaching Technical Communication. In addition to serving actively in STC activities, she has participated in the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing and Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication.

Her professional career outside of academia includes writing and editing for employers such as NASA (Langley Research Center), Fire Protection Publications ("redbooks" for firefighters), and Carolinas Association of General Contractors.