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Department of Writing Studies
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Ph.D. Students

Name Teaching & Research Interests
Dawn Armfield
Rhetorical theory; Identity research; Visual rhetoric; Rhetoric of anonymity; Social media literacies; Internet studies; Rhetoric of online artifacts (textual and visual juxtapositions); Online and hybrid pedagogies; technical and professional communication
Abi Bakke Privacy rhetoric, social media, technical communication, writing in the disciplines, writing centers, writing program assessment
Joe Bartolotta Risk Communication, Literacy Policy, Research Methods, Environmental Rhetoric, Technical and Scientific Communication, History of Writing, Classical Rhetoric, Cicero, Kenneth Burke
Stephen Brasher Cultural Studies & Rhetoric/Writing - particularly studying the intersection between institutional religion and rhetorics of power. Religion and Education. Rhetoric and Film. Critical Pedagogy & Writing for Social Change.  Modern Rhetorical Theory. History of Rhetoric and Scientific/Technical Communication. Exploring the perennial conflict between Rhetoric and Philosophy. Existentialist Rhetorics. Postmodern Critical Theory
Andrew Buchner  
Ashley Clayson Engineering communication, engineering communication pedagogy, writing across the disciplines, writing across the curriculum, visual rhetoric, professional identity
Kira Dreher Genre Studies, Modern Rhetorical Theory, Theories of Language, Research Methods, Gender Studies, Digital Genres, Argumentation
Cara Gillotti Rhetoric of knowledge, medical discourse, stylistics, argument, rhetoric of science, philosophy of language, metadata
Ed Hahn Composition Studies; Rhetoric; Political Philosophy; Historical Materialism; Critical Humanism
Keith Harms Composition studies; electronic literacies; critical pedagogy; multi-modal and collaborative writing in FYC; writing across the curriculum; poststructuralism; rhetoric of taste
Trent Kays Digital and Critical Rhetoric, Internet Studies, New and Social Media, Critical Pedagogy, Identity, Postmodernism, Open Access, Digital Humanities, and Rhetorical Ethics
Brian Larson Rhetoric in the law; argumentation theory; rhetorical genre theory in legal discourse; legal analysis and reasoning; pedagogy of legal writing; natural language processing and technical communication; law of contracts, mass communications, the Internet (particularly the domain name system), and copyright
Molly Li Contrastive rhetoric, visual rhetorics, genre theory, rhetorical theory, and composition studies
Christopher Lindgren New media studies, object-oriented rhetorics, proceduracy and procedural rhetorics, open-source technologies, copyright/left and Fair Use, and teaching critically with technologies.
Aaron Little Classical and Contemporary Rhetorical Theory, Argumentation, Intertextuality, The Rhetorical Presidency, Global Rhetorical Interaction,The Rhetoric of Sacred Texts, Social Constructivism, Social Movements, Burmese Pro-Democracy Movements, The Pedagogical Implications of Learning Management Interfaces, Business Writing Pedagogy, Technical Writing Pedagogy
Michael Madson Second language writing, intercultural and contrastive rhetoric, intercultural training, English for specific purposes, research methods, genre, memory and genealogy studies, rhetoric as a pedagogical tradition, narrative rhetoric, first year writing, James Berlin
Kimberly Miller  
Brigitte Mussack Post-structural and feminist theory; theory and philosophy of language; voice, agency, and identity; social media; and composition studies
Timothy Oleksiak Rhetorical listening, online writing instruction, writing theory, critical pedagogy, democratic theory and philosophy, multimodality
Tad Patterson Rhetoric of mathematics
Laura Pigozzi Healthcare communication, technical communication pedagogy, technology diffusion. Doctoral minor: Bioethics
Jacqueline Schiappa Gender in relation to environmental ethics and justice, interdisciplinary space(s), critical pedagogy, rhetorical criticism, social protest and cult discourse
Rachel Tofteland Technology and culture, visual rhetoric, internet studies, first year writing, intercultural communication, small group communication, and identity
Andrew Virtue Teaching interests: technical writing, technology, and composition
Current research: digital literacies, online pedagogies, and technological studies
Joe Weinberg Online Identity, Gender studies, Logic, and a pedagogy of consensual misdirection
Joshua Welsh Open source collaboration, genre theory, discourse communities, institutional communication, new media and digital literacies
Mary Jo Wiatrak-Uhlenkott Rhetoric of law, cultural criminology, law and society, feminism and law, policy studies, media and law
Anne Wolf Multiple literacies; African American literacies; critical online pedagogy; rhetorical listening; discursive justice; memory studies; dialogic memory; critical composition studies; First Year Writing instruction
Thomas Wright Rhetoric of science, especially evolutionary biology; classical rhetoric; medical discourse; online rhetoric; history of science