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 Online rhetorical silence, technical and professional writing, writing and generative AI
Jessica Borsi Rhetoric of commodification, particularly affect, emotional labor, and neoliberalism; information design, game studies, and aesthetics
Stuart Deets Rhetoric of science, citizenship & democracy, climate change
Rebecca Felter Rhetoric of health and medicine, technical communication, UX design
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, reproductive justice, autoethnography, rhetorical histories
Maddi Melchert New materialism, ecology, critical composition pedagogy
Alison Obright Rhetoric of science and technology, rhetorics of evidence and misinformation, genre theory, materialisms
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
Hunter Whitt Critical disability studies, composition studies, rhetoric 
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
AJ Siegel Digital rhetorics, male supremacism, the far-right, gender and masculinity, critical media literacy