Elena is a lecturer in the Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. candidate in the Composition and Rhetoric program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her teaching and research is broadly focused on understanding and interrogating the values, norms, and discourses in technical and scientific communities. She has recently published in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Professional Communication, Proceedings of the 40th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, the Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, and elsewhere.