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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 |
