Graduate Students
PhD Students
| Name | Research and Teaching Interests |
|---|---|
| Emmanuella Afimaa | Usability and user experience, critical AI literacy, technical communication |
| Caitlin Baulch | Rhetoric of expertise, rhetoric of science and medicine, rhetorical histories, social media, tech comm 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 | Peer response and listening rhetorics, critical epistemologies and reflection, writing program leadership |
| Stuart Deets | Rhetoric of science, citizenship & democracy, climate change |
| Rebecca Felter | Technical communication, rhetoric of health and medicine, and rhetoric of science |
| Asmita Ghimire | Feminist perspective in technology and technical communication, public policy rhetoric, transnational and translingual writing and composition |
| Amy Harbourne | Rhetoric of health and medicine, discourse analysis, embodiment, medical narrative |
| Kalie Leonard | Trends and use of generative AI in content operations, technical communication |
| Alison Obright | Rhetoric of science and pseudoscience, genre theory, materialist rhetoric |
| Jessica Remcheck | Rhetoric of science, technology, and medicine, critical public health, environmental rhetoric, technical communication, bioethics |
| Carol Saalmueller | Rhetoric and technical communication |
| Taryn Seidler | Feminist composition pedagogy, feminist rhetoric, rhetoric of health and medicine |
| Rira Zamani | Rhetoric of health and medicine (RHM), ethos and trust, history of medicine, technical and professional communication (TPC), RHM and TPC pedagogy |
MA Students
| Name | Teaching and Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Madeline Melchert | Contemporary rhetorics, biopolitics, climate change communication, community hazard response, technological life and AI, place attachment |
| AJ Siegel | Digital rhetoric, extremism and radicalization, contemporary rhetoric, deradicalization, masculinity |