Graduate Students
PhD Students
| Name | Research and Teaching Interests |
|---|---|
| Emmanuella Afimaa | Technical communication, user centered design, AI and writing, legal rhetoric |
| Caitlin Baulch | Rhetoric of expertise, rhetoric of science and medicine, conspiracy theories & pseudoscience, composition pedagogy |
| Kathleen Bolander | Rhetoric of silence, digital rhetoric with special interest in online rhetorical silence, teaching with multimodality, engaged pedagogy, and transformed curriculum |
| Jessica Borsi | Technical communication, gamification, rhetoric of gaming, online rhetoric |
| Cody Bursch | Educator and relational becoming, critical trauma theory, genuine listening practice |
| Mikayla Davis | Composition pedagogy, first-year writing pedagogy, creative writing studies, play pedagogy, multimodality studies, genre studies |
| Stuart Deets | Rhetoric of science, citizenship & democracy, climate change |
| Asmita Ghimire | Feminist perspective in technology and technical communication, public policy rhetoric, transnational and translingual writing and composition |
| Emily Gresbrink | Technical and professional communication, digital communication design, pandemic and health crisis rhetoric, rhetoric of health and medicine |
| Amy Harbourne | Rhetoric of health and medicine, discourse analysis, communication |
| Jacqueline James | Rhetoric of health and medicine, rhetorical histories, archival methods, critical disability studies, embodiment |
| Kalie Leonard | Scientific communication, visual rhetoric, affordances/constraints of jargon |
| Alison Obright | Rhetoric of science and medicine, composition pedagogy, rhetoric of risk, writing in the sciences |
| Jessica Remcheck | Digital rhetoric, persuasive technology, rhetoric of health & medicine, visual rhetoric |
| Carol Saalmueller | |
| Luke Shackelford | Bisexual and queer rhetorics, rhetorics of gender and masculinity, rhetoric of health and medicine, multimodal and critical engaged pedagogy, literacy and first-year writing |
| Jessa Wood | Writing program administration, first-year writing pedagogy, writing across the curriculum/writing in the disciplines, program assessment |
| Rira Zamani | Rhetoric of science and medicine, trust and ethos, scientific and technical communication, visual rhetoric, history of technology and medicine |
MA Students
| Name | Teaching and Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Rebecca Felter | Technical communication, rhetoric of health and medicine, rhetoric of science, digital rhetoric |
| Madeline Melchert | Contemporary rhetorics, biopolitics, climate change communication, community hazard response, technological life and AI, place attachment |