Summary
Chris Lindgren is an Assistant Professor of Technical Communication with 12 years of experience studying coding and data work as rhetorical practices and teaching critical, ethics-centered data literacies. His research bridges literacy studies, technical and professional communication, and critical data studies, producing humanities-centered theories applied across interdisciplinary collaborations. He partners with Indigenous communities—most notably the Aqqaluk Trust-led Rematriation Project and the Iñupiatun Language Access Project—to build community-first digital archives and language revitalization tools that use NLP and machine learning for historic data rescue. At Virginia Tech and now NC State he has developed community-engaged methodologies that prioritize Indigenous Data Sovereignty while advancing scholarly conversations in leading journals. Beyond academia, his background includes hands-on technical work with digital archives, usability research, and collaborative tech-communication projects that translate complex data practices into actionable capacity-building.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
MA, English: Composition Studies, MA, English: Composition Studies at North Dakota State University