Graduate Students

Writing Studies has an energetic and active graduate student community. Graduate students are engaged in research that spans multiple aspects of technical communication, rhetoric, and writing pedagogy. Graduate students also serve as the primary instructor teaching undergraduate courses.
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Emmanuella Afimaa

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PhD Student

Specialties

Technical Communication; Usability and User Experience; Inclusive AI

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Kathleen (KR) Bolander

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PhD Student

Specialties

Digital Rhetoric; Rhetoric of Silence; Technical and professional writing; Writing and generative AI

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Jessica Borsi

PhD Student

Specialties

Rhetoric of commodification; Particularly affect; Emotional labor; Neoliberalism; Information design; Game studies; Aesthetics

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Stuart Deets

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Graduate Instructor, PhD Student

Specialties

Stakeholder Management; Rhetoric; Scientific & Technical Communication; Clean Energy; Citizenship & democracy; Climate change

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Rebecca Felter

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PhD Student

Specialties

Rhetoric of Health and Medicine; Disability Studies; Technical Communication; User Experience; Biomedical Ethics

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Amy Harbourne

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PhD Student

Specialties

Rhetoric of health and medicine; Reproductive justice; Autoethnography; Rhetorical history and historiography

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Maggie Hart

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PhD Student

Specialties

Rhetoric of Health and Medicine; Composition; Feminist Rhetoric; Narrative Studies

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Jackson W. Martin

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PhD Student
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Specialties

Critical composition pedagogy; Contemporary rhetoric theory; Writing technologies; Posthuman and object-oriented ontologies; Mimetic studies

Maddi Melchert

Maddi Melchert

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PhD Student

Specialties

New materialist rhetoric; Critical composition pedagogy; Ecology

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Jessica Remcheck

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PhD Student

Specialties

Rhetoric of Health and Medicine; Environmental Rhetoric; Environmental Justice; Rhetorical Infrastructure; Technical and Scientific Communication

Carol Saalmueller

Carol Saalmueller

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PhD Student

Specialties

Rhetoric and technical communication

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Taryn Seidler

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PhD Student

Specialties

Feminist composition pedagogy; Feminist rhetoric; Rhetoric of health and medicine

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AJ Siegel

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PhD Student
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Specialties

Digital rhetorics; Tactical technical communication; The far-right; Male supremacism; Critical media literacy

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Hunter Whitt

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PhD Student

Specialties

Critical disability studies; Composition studies; Rhetoric

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Marcus Woodman

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PhD Student

Specialties

Queer rhetoric; Medical rhetoric; Transitional genres and writing

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Rira Zamani

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PhD Student

Specialties

Rhetoric of health and medicine (RHM); Ethos and trust; History of medicine; Technical and professional communication (TPC); RHM and TPC pedagogy