Graduate Students

Recently Graduated Students

For a list of recently graduated doctoral students and their work, please visit Recent Dissertations. To learn more about their career opportunities and trajectories, please visit Job Placement.

Current Graduate Students

Name Specialty
A. Adams Disability studies; rhetoric; critical cultural studies; performance writing/performance studies
Kyra Bowar Rhetorical studies, Popular culture, Critical media studies
Emma Bruce Gender and Sexuality Studies, Television and Film, Media Studies, Affect Theory
Nou-Chee Chang                 Critical media studies
Noelle Craveiro Critical cultural studies, Rhetorics of space/place/region, Affect/emotions, Public feeling(s)
Rhetorical studies; critical media studies
Clare Frances Kennedy Rhetoric, Reproductive Justice, Rhetorics of Mobility, Affect Theory
Jack Lassiter Rhetorical studies
Shelby Limbach Rhetorical Studies, Media Studies
Peter Ma  
Saumya Malhotra New Media Technologies, Critical/Cultural Studies, Intersectional Materialism, Critical Futurities
Alexa Mayerhofer Popular Culture, Fandom Studies, Westernization/Globalization, Parasocial Interaction
Mindy Morin Native American Studies, Gender Studies, Identity Studies, Reproductive Justice
Marceleen Mosher  Environmental communication; rhetorical studies
Vanessa Nyarko Critical media studies; media history; media, technology and culture; political economy of media; popular culture; feminist media and cultural studies; visual communication; political gossip and scandal
Sean Quartz Rhetorical theory and criticism; social movement theory; environmental communication; rhetoric of science; instructional communication
Nicole Rudisill Organizational communication: feminist and gender studies; care theory; affect theory
Mark Schmutzler Rhetorical studies
Emily Scroggins Southern studies; television and film; gender and sexuality studies; rhetoric and media studies
Michael Tahmoressi Critical media studies
Alisha Wilson Political Economy of Media, Popular Culture and Social Media, Cultural Studies, Critical Theory, Media and Race