Biography

Dr. J. Yellowlees Douglas has completed her undergraduate studies in English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan in 1982; where she went on to get an M.A in Cinema and Literary Theory. She received her Ph.D. in English and Education from New York University in 1992. She spent a year as a Research Fellow at Brunel University in London examining the ways in which hypertext affects the construction of digital technologies. She has worked in the Advertising Industry, serving as a Copywriter for Graham & Gillies Advertising and becoming a partner at Garrison Gibbs Communications. In academia, Dr. Douglas has been the Director of the program in professional writing and an Assistant Professor of English at Lehman College. She is presently Associate Professor of Management Communication in the Warrington College of Business Administration at the University of Florida, where she has also served as Director of the William and Grace Dial Center for Written and Oral Communication. She has created a number of different works over her career. She has been intricately linked to hypertext and its uses and development. One of her most popular works is the book The End of Books or Books without End in which she examines how interactive fiction works, and also discusses the current state or hypertext criticism. Dr. Douglas has also created a short story entitled I Have Said Nothing. She has published 50 research articles in journals as well as 47 conference papers contributed as author/co-author. Her main area of research interest focuses on Cognition and writing, Cognitive Neuroscience and Writing Pedagogy, writing and New Media, Writing in the Biomedical Sciences, Cognition and Persuasion, Cognition and Storytelling and Neuroscience and Public Relations.

Area of Interest:

Social Sciences

100%

Cognitive Science

62%

Writing

90%

Public Relations

75%

Education

55%

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Selected Publications

Douglas, Y. and S. Miller, 2015. Availability bias can improve women's propensity to negotiate. Int. J. Bus. Admin., 6: 86-95.
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Shenoy, V., A. Gjymishka, Y.P. Jarajapu, Y. Qi and A. Afzal et al., 2013. Diminazene aceturate treatment attenuates pulmonary hypertension pathophysiology. Am. J. Respirat. Crit. Care Med., 187: 648-657.
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Petersen, J.W. and J.Y. Douglas, 2013. Tenascin-X, collagen and ehlers-danlos syndrome: Tenascin-X gene defects can protect against adverse cardiovascular events. Med. Hypotheses, 81: 443-447.
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Douglas, Y., M.B. Grant, L. Shaw, D. Carnegie, B. Moshiree and M. Raizada, 2012. The bone marrow-CNS connection: Implications in the pathogenesis of diabetic retinopathy. Prog. Retinal Eye Res., 31: 481-494.
Fishwick, P., Y. Douglas and T. Davis, 2005. Model representation with aesthetic computing: Method and empirical study. ACM Trans. Model. Comput. Simul., 15: 254-279.
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Hargadon, A.B. and Y. Douglas, 2001. When innovations meet institutions: Edison and the design of electric light. Admin. Sci. Quart., 46: 476-501.
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Douglas, Y. and A. Hargadon, 2001. The pleasures of immersion and engagement: Schemas, scripts and the fifth business. Digital Creat., 12: 153-166.