Dr. Robyn Walker is professor emerita of management communication at the Department of Business Communication at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business, where she taught business writing and business communication to undergraduate and graduate students. She earned a master’s and a doctoral degree in communication from the University of Utah, a master’s degree in professional writing from the University of Southern California, and holds an MBA. Dr. Walker has held faculty appointments at the University of Arizona and California State University, Fullerton.

Before entering academia, Dr. Walker worked as a professional writer and editor with such organizations as United Press International, McGraw-Hill, and Novell. She also has worked as a writing consultant for companies such as Hoffman LaRoche Pharmaceuticals and Franklin-Covey, Inc. She conducted research and has delivered dozens of conference papers on intercultural communication, rhetoric, cultural studies, and business communication pedagogy and published articles on intercultural communication in groups, leadership, and place-based identity.

Walker is currently the editor of Business and Professional Communication Quarter and has been the editor of the International Journal of Business Communication, a contributing editor of BCOM (Cengage Learning), co-editor of a volume of research entitled Discourse Perspectives on Organizational Communication (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2011), and co-author of Leadership Talk: A Discourse Approach to Leader Emergence (Business Expert Press, 2014). She is a member of the Association of Business Communication, Management Communication Association.