English Department Graduate Assistants

Hari Adhikari
Doctoral Student
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Children’s and Young Adult Literature, World Literature, Post-colonial Literature, South Asian Literature, First-year Composition.

Jordana Hall
Doctoral Student
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Cognitive Narratology

Nicole Osolin
Masters Student
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TESOL, Linguistics, Teacher Education

Beyazit Akman
Doctoral Student
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Orientalism, Post-Colonialism, British Literature and Culture Pre-1800, Comparative Literature, Comparative Studies Global Literature Middle Eastern Languages and Literature, History of the Ottoman Empire

Sarah Hercula
Doctoral Student
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Sociolinguistics; English language variety; "Standard" English

Rachel Parish
Masters Student
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Rural Literacies, Visual Rhetoric, Translation Studies, Manga/Anime

Rebecca Anderson
Doctoral Student
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Global Citizenship Pedagogy, Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Cultural Studies, Poststructural Theory, Postcolonial Theory and Applied Linguistics

Josue Hernandez
Master's Student
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Post-Colonialism, Non-Western/World Literature, Post-Modernism

Beth Pearce
Doctoral Student
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Children's Literature, especially Adolescent Fantasy; Domestic Spaces

Shushan Avagyan
Doctoral Student
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Translation Theory and Practice, Diasporan American Studies, Feminist Theory

Amy Hicks
Doctoral Student
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Children's literature, especially Victorian and Edwardian Children's Literature; Literary Representations of Girlhood; Spatial Theory

Lisa Phillips
Doctoral Student
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Rhetoric and Composition, Visual Rhetoric, Cultural Studies, Eco-Criticism, Art Criticism, New Media, Visual Culture

In Shik Bang
Doctoral Student
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Life Writing Studies; Travel Writing

Autumn Jackson
Masters Student
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Second Language Writing, Multilingual Writers' Strategies; World Englishes; Code Switching and Code Meshing

Julie Pond
Doctoral Student
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Children's Literature; Southern Literature; Classic French and German Fairy Tales

Filiz Barin
Doctoral Student
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Victorian Literature; 19th Century British Travel Narratives on the Ottoman Empire; Orientalism: Representation of the Middle Eastern Cultures and Women

Emily Johnston
Doctoral Student
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Rhetoric; Cultural Studies; Gender Studies; Trauma Studies

Chamere Poole
Doctoral Student
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Member of Sigma Tau Delta, International English Honor Society
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19th Century American/African American Literature; 20th Century American/African American Literature

Celine Bourhis
Doctoral Student
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Postcolonial Studies; Life Writing; Cultural Studies; Pedagogy

Samuel Kamara
Masters Student
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Postcolonial Feminism

Summer Qabazard
Doctoral Student
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Creative Writing - poetry, Pedagogy of Creative Writing

Brooke Burns
Masters Student
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Women's and Gender Studies, Nonfiction, Poetry, African American Literature, Women's Literature

L Keller
Doctoral Student
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Space & Place in Children's Literature / Young Adult Fantasy / Law and Literature

Flourice Richardson
Doctoral Student
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New Media; Visual Rhetoric; Medical Rhetoric

Jane Carman
Doctoral Student
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Creative Writing; Experimental/Innovative Writing Pedagogy; Hybrid Forms; Innovative/Experimental Literature and Writing; Women's and Gender Studies; Current American Literature; Genre Lines and Limitations; Cultural Studies

Erin Kilian
Doctoral Student
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Creative Writing Pedagogy

Lasantha Rodrigo
Doctoral Student
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Shakespeare; World Literature: Prose, The Short Story/The Novel; World Drama

Pankaj Challa
Doctoral Student
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Creative Writing

Matthew Kim
Doctoral Student
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rhetoric and multimodal composition; genres of community action; civic engagement; public writing, writing across the curriculum 

Susana Rodriguez
Doctoral Student

Ryan Clark
Doctoral Student
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Creative Writing; Homophonic Translation; Hybrid Forms; The Experimental Feminine;
Nomad Poetics and the Rhizome; The Pun

Rob Koehler
Masters Student
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Early American Literature; Copyright History and Theory; Textual Scholarship; History of the Book

Ana Roncero-Bellido
Masters Student
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Literature and Foreign Languages

Gina Cooke
Doctoral Student
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History of Spelling/Orthographic Conventions; History of Writing; History of Spelling Instruction; Linguistics in Education/Language; Pedagogy

Francisca Kumavie
Masters Student
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Precolonial and Colonial Literature; Transnational Feminist Literature; Postcolonial Literature; National and Biopolitical Identities

Rob Rowan
Doctoral Student
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Technology and Culture; Knowledge Management; Open-Source Education

Jordan Cox
Masters Student
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Creative Writing

Jesse L'argent
Doctoral Student
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New Media; Post Humanism; Urban Ecocriticism

Arnab Roy
Masters Student
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Post-Colonial Literature, South Asian Studies; Culture Studies; Theory

Kathleen Daly
Master's Student
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Archive studies, Kenneth Burke, Literary Theory

Jamison Lee
Doctoral Student
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Rhetorical Techniques of Humorists; Intersections of Poetry and Music;
Technology's Influence on Fine Arts; Song Writing's Search for a Place in Academia

Jessica Safran
Doctoral Student
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Multiethic Literature; Navajo Long Walk; Holocaust Literature; Women's Studies/Feminist Studies; Code Switching and Translation

Chereka Dickerson
Doctoral Student
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Race and Gender Studies; American Literature w/emphasis on Ethic American Literature

Alan Lin
Masters Student
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Graphic novels, postmodernity, post-colonial literature, Taiwanese history, video game theory, cultural theory, film.

Scott Sands
Doctoral Student
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Assessment; Writing Centers; Metadiscursivity;
Interdisciplinarity

Katrina Dunbar
Doctoral Student
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The process of composing high stakes technical documents; Developmental Writing; Pedagogy, Writing Assessments

Stefanie Lovelass
Graduate Student, Ph.D. Program, Graduate Teaching Assistant

Hilary Selznick
Doctoral Student
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Holocaust Literature; Jewish Studies; Life Writing

Ryan Edel
Doctoral Student
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Speculative Fiction, Social Issues related to childhood.

Amy Lucas
Doctoral Student
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Composition Methods in Secondary Education; World Englishes in Secondary Composition Classrooms; Genre Studies in Composition; Language Policy in Secondary Education; Adolescent Literacy; 21st Century Literacies; Positions of Power in Education; Education Policy

Kellie Sharp Hoskins
Doctoral Student
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Rhetorical Theory; Feminist Theory; Composition Theory; Studies in Subjectivity, Performativity, and Emotion; Pedagogical Theory

Gretchen Frank
Doctoral Student
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Victorian Literature; Victorian Social History; Separate Spheres; Angel in the House; Women's Literature

John Maclean
Doctoral Student
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Composition/Rhetoric; Cultural Studies; Interfaith Relations and Dialog

Yvonne Silkiluwasha
Doctoral Student
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Postcolonial Theory; African Children's Literature

Erin Frost
Doctoral Student
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Technical Communication; Rhetoric/Composition; Women's and Gender Studies

Arwa Malaibari
Doctoral Student
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New Media Studies; Multicultural Rhetoric and Literatures; British Literature

Barbi Smyser-Fauble
Doctoral Student
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Intersections of Technology and Pedagogy; New Media; Technical Writing; Gender Issues

Raul Garcia-Lopez
Master's Student
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Applied Linguistics,  English as a Foreign Language, Teacher Professional Development

Christopher Mays
Doctoral Student
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Public Argumentation; Rhetorical Theory; Composition Theory; Pedagogy

Ardis Stewart
Doctoral Student
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Classical Rhetoric in Literature; 18th Century British Literature; Creative Writing in Composition; Spirituality in the Classroom; Writing Pedagogy; EcoCriticism

Susan George
Master's Student
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Modernism, gender theory, female feminist theory writers.
1890-1920 British, American Literature "Love Theory"

Kristi McDuffie
Doctoral Student
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Composition Pedagogy; Language Ideologies; Feminist Theory and Pedagogy; Discourse Analysis

Moria Torrington
Doctoral Student
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Writing Center Studies, Visual Rhetoric, New Media

Ayla Goetsch
Master's Student
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Children and Young Adult Literature, Graphic Novels, Film, Children's Culture, Feminist Theory, Trauma Theory, Queer Theory, Cultural Theory

Meghann Meeusen
Doctoral Student
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Adaptation Studies; Children's Fantasy and Visual Culture

Jessica Turrubiartes
Masters Student
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19th Century American Women Writers and the Idea of Sentimental Realism; Representation of Women in the American Literary Canon; Feminist Literary Theory and Male Writers of the 19th Century (American); Post-colonial Theory and its relevance to 19th Century American Writers

Melanie Goss
Doctoral Student
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Children's and Young Adult Literature; Theories of Power & Agency; Feminist, Gender, & Queer Theory; Disability Theory

Kathleen Miller
Doctoral Student
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Creative Writing Pedagogy; Genre Studies; Innovative Writing

Shoshanna Van Tress
Masters Student
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Victorian Literature, Medieval Literature, TESOL

Adriana Gradea
Doctoral Student

Shailen Mishra
Doctoral Student
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Narrative Theory; Narrative Framework in Fiction; Writing Process; Post-colonial Theory; Post-colonial Literature

Elizabeth Williams
Doctoral Student
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Children's Literature; Rhetorical Silence; Invitational Rhetoric

Dustin Grayson
Master's Student
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English and Post-Modernism, American Fiction (1950-current)

Emily Moody
Masters Student
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Poetry, Mixed/hybrid Genre Writing, Writing in Spanish, Feminist Texts

Ericka Wills
Doctoral Student
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American/Trans-American Literature; Theory; Beat Literature; Environment and Nature Writing; Subaltern Studies; Cultural Studies

Stacy Greathouse
Doctoral Student
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Moral Development, Misdirection, and Psychoanalytic Theory in Children's Literature; Literary representations of Mermaids and Pirates; Re-Integrating Memory Training–the Fourth Rhetorical Canon–into the Composition Classroom

Niall Nance-Carroll
Doctoral Student
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Children's Literature

Emily Woster
Doctoral Student
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Lucy Maud Montgomery; Children's and Victorian Literature; Intertextuality and Adaptation

Megan Gregory
Doctoral Student
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Medieval Lit, especially Middle English texts
Ecocriticism / Ecofeminism
Reusing, Repurposing Texts

Evan Nave
Masters Student
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Creative Writing

Jessica Zhang
Doctoral Student
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Biopolitics; Intercultural Communication in Technical Communication

Karly Grice
Doctoral Student
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Children's and Adolescent Literature, American Literature, Transcendentalism, American Postmodernism

Irina Nersessova
Doctoral Student
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Psychogeography, Urban Space, Displacement, War Literature, Postmodernism, Postcolonial Theory, Marxism, Working-class Studies, Comic Books and Graphic Novels

Elizabeth Zold
Doctoral Student
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Travelogues; Women's Literature; Adaptations; Literary Manuscripts

Curt Hagegeorge
Master's Student

Farran Norris
Doctoral Student
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Children's Literature; Victorian Literature; Fantasy/Sci-Fi; Gothic Literature; Women and Gender Studies