Andreas Karatsolis

Director of Writing, Rhetoric and Professional Communication at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Teaching and Learning

Learning is, for the most part, habit-formation, and a direct result of goal-directed practice and actionable feedback by experts (practitioners and teachers). As a teacher, I have spent the past 30 years in three different continents, supporting the learning experiences of students and faculty with a diverse set of needs. My background in Rhetoric has allowed me to help them learn how to respond to a diverse set of complex knowledge problems: mainly how analyze audiences, purposes and contexts in order to develop their own expertise.  


Research Interests 

  • Communication Assessment and Feedback
  • Language learning collaborative environments
  • Outcomes-based educational assessment 
  • Classical Rhetorical pedagogy
  • Methodologies of analyzing text 
  • Data Visualization and Storytelling 
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Select Courses 

At Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
21W.015 Writing and Rhetoric: Writing about Sports
21W.747 Rhetoric 
7.19 Communication in Experimental Biology
16.995 Doctoral Research and Communication Seminar
3.014 Materials Science Laboratory (communication lead)
4.053 Visual Communication Fundamentals (writing expert)
ES.S70 Special Seminar in Interdisciplinary Studies 

At Carnegie Mellon University Qatar 
76-270 Writing in the Professions
76-478 Online Information Design
76-373 Contemporary Public Discourse and the Classical Rhetorical Tradition
76-318 Communicating in the Global Marketplace
 15-221 Technical Communication for Computer Science
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At other Institutions 
Principles of Communication in Health Professions (ACPHS)
Business Communication for MBA students (ALBA)
Writing for Classroom and Career (Rensselaer)

Select Publications

Joao Aparicio, Carlos Costa and Andreas Karatsolis, “From Technofeudal Enclosure to Open GenAI: A Three-Layer Framework” (2026). WorldCist'26 (14th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies)
Andreas Karatsolis and Mohammed Al Sudairi (2026) “Arabophone Cultures of Translation: Patterns and Factors for their Emergence” In Translating Cultures: New Histories and Geographies in the Arab World. Taylor and Francis. 
Lane Suzanne, Andreas Karatsolis, Leslie Roldan, Susan Ruff, Malcah Effron, Jessie Stickgold-Sarah and Michael Trice (2022). “Mapping the Relationship of Disciplinary and Writing Concepts: Charting a Path to Deeper WAC/WID Integration in STEM.” Writing Across the Disciplines
Ibrahim, Z., Papadopoulos, P., & Karatsolis, A. (2017). ‘Arabiyyatii: An Innovative Technology-Based Curriculum for Teaching Arabic to Native Speakers. In Handbook for Arabic Language Teaching Professionals in the 21st Century, Volume II. Routledge.
Andreas Karatsolis, Suguru Ishizaki, Marsha Lovett and Stacie Rohrbach (2016). “Supporting Technical Professionals’  Metacognitive Development in Technical Communication through Contrasting Rhetorical Problem Solving.” Technical Communication Volume 25, 2016 - Issue 4 
Andreas Karatsolis (2016). "Rhetorical Patterns in Citations across Disciplines and Levels of Participation." Journal of Research in Writing
Nicholas Cifuentes-Goodbody and Andreas Karatsolis (2015). “More Than a Mirage: The Role of Assessment in International Accreditation.” In Assessment of Learning in Higher Education, Nygaard, Branch & Bartholomew editors, Libri Press

Brief Bio 

Andreas Karatsolis is a Senior Lecturer and the Director of Writing, Rhetoric and Professional Communication (WRAP) within the department of Global Languages at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  He previously taught Professional Communication and Information Design at Carnegie Mellon University Qatar and directed the Qatar campus Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence. He holds a Ph.D. in Communication and Rhetoric from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 

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About WRAP 

Writing, Rhetoric and Professional Communication
Massachusetts Institute of Technology  
50 Ames Street, E18-228
Cambridge, MA 02139
617-253-3039
wrap at mit dot edu

WRAP is the recipient of the 2021-2022 CCCCs Writing Program Certificate of Excellence