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Caitlin Alvarez Master's Student *** Hybrid Genre, Memoir, Prose Poetry, Historical Fiction
Josue Hernandez Master's Student *** Post-Colonialism, Non-Western/World Literature, Post-Modernism
Evan Nave Doctoral Student *** Creative Writing
Rebecca Anderson Doctoral Student *** Composition, World Literature and Global Citizenship Pedagogy, Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Cultural Studies, and Applied Linguistics
Amy Hicks Doctoral Student *** Children's literature, especially Victorian and Edwardian Children's Literature; Literary Representations of Girlhood; Spatial Theory
Irina Nersessova Doctoral Student *** Psychogeography, Urban Space, Displacement, War Literature, Postmodernism, Postcolonial Theory, Marxism, Working-class Studies, Comic Books and Graphic Novels
Kate Browne Doctoral Student *** 19th & 20th century American popular culture; circus & sideshow literature; P.T. Barnum; life writing
Jeffrey Higgins Master's Student
Farran Norris Doctoral Student *** Children's Literature; Victorian Literature; Fantasy/Sci-Fi; Gothic Literature; Women and Gender Studies
Kayla Bruce Master's Student *** Victorian British Literature, Rhetoric & Composition, Literary Theory
Laurenn Jarema Master's Student *** Composition Pedagogy
Helena Oberzaucher Doctoral Student
Brooke Burns Masters Student *** Women's and Gender Studies, Nonfiction, Poetry, African American Literature, Women's Literature
Emily Johnston Doctoral Student *** Rhetoric; Cultural Studies; Gender Studies; Trauma Studies
Beth Pearce Doctoral Student *** Children's Literature, especially Adolescent Fantasy; Domestic Spaces
Ryan Clark Doctoral Student *** Creative Writing; Homophonic Translation; Hybrid Forms; The Experimental Feminine; Nomad Poetics and the Rhizome; The Pun
Samuel Kamara Doctoral Student *** Postcolonial Feminism, Postcolonial & Diaspora Studies, Global Literatures, Cultural Studies, Trauma Theory
Lisa Phillips Doctoral Student *** Rhetoric and Composition, Visual Rhetoric, Intersensory Rhetorics, Cultural Studies, Eco-Criticism, Art Criticism, New Media, Visual Culture
Gina Cooke Doctoral Student *** History of Spelling/Orthographic Conventions; History of Writing; History of Spelling Instruction; Linguistics in Education/Language; Pedagogy
L Keller Doctoral Student *** Space & Place in Children's Literature / Young Adult Fantasy / Law and Literature
Chamere Poole Doctoral Student
Kathleen Daly Master's Student *** Archive studies, Kenneth Burke, Rhetoric and Composition
Erin Kilian Doctoral Student *** Creative Writing Pedagogy
Summer Qabazard Doctoral Student *** Creative Writing - poetry, Pedagogy of Creative Writing
Chereka Dickerson Doctoral Student *** Race and Gender Studies; American Literature w/emphasis on Ethic American Literature
Francisca Kumavie Doctoral Student *** Precolonial and Colonial Literature; Transnational Feminist Literature; Postcolonial Literature; National and Biopolitical Identities
Flourice Richardson Doctoral Student *** New Media; Visual Rhetoric; Medical Rhetoric
Katie Dubois Master's Student
Jamison Lee Doctoral Student *** Rhetorical Techniques of Humorists; Intersections of Poetry and Music; Technology's Influence on Fine Arts; Song Writing's Search for a Place in Academia
Jeff Rients Master's Student *** Literary Hoaxes, Inspired Literature, Invented Places
Katrina Dunbar Doctoral Student ***
The process of composing high stakes technical documents; Developmental Writing; Pedagogy, Writing Assessments
Francesco Levato Doctoral Student *** Cinepoetics, Poetry in Translation, Hybrid Works, Documentary Poetics
Lasantha Rodrigo Doctoral Student *** Shakespeare; World Literature: Prose, The Short Story/The Novel; World Drama
Cayla Eagon Master's Student *** Psychoanalytic Theory; Women's & Gender Studies; the Gothic; British Literature from the late 18th century to the 20th century
Lisa Lindenfelser Master's Student *** Cultural & Critical Theory; Power Structures
Susana Rodriguez Doctoral Student
Ryan Edel Doctoral Student *** Speculative Fiction, Social Issues related to childhood.
Tristan Lipe Master's Student
Ana Roncero-Bellido Masters Student *** Literature and Foreign Languages
Kelsey Forkner Master's Student *** Liminal Spaces, Disassociation, Rhetorical Grammar, Semiotics & Naturalism
Eric Longfellow Doctoral Student *** Gender and Sexuality Theory, Object Studies, Queer Theory, Cultural Studies, Psychoanalytic Theory, Creative Writing-Fiction
Rob Rowan Doctoral Student *** Technology and Culture; Knowledge Management; Open-Source Education
Gretchen Frank Doctoral Student *** Victorian Literature; Victorian Social History; Separate Spheres; Angel in the House; Women's Literature
Josette Lorig Master's Student *** 20th Century American Literature & Culture; Gender & Sexuality; Cultural & Critical Theory
Scott Sands Doctoral Student *** Assessment; Writing Centers; Metadiscursivity; Interdisciplinarity
Erin Frost Doctoral Candidate *** Technical Communication; Rhetoric/Composition; Women's and Gender Studies
Amy Lucas Doctoral Student *** 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
Hilary Selznick Doctoral Student *** Holocaust Literature; Jewish Studies; Life Writing
Susan George Master's Student *** Modernism, gender theory, female feminist theory writers. 1890-1920 British, American Literature "Love Theory"
John Maclean Doctoral Student *** Composition/Rhetoric; Cultural Studies; Interfaith Relations and Dialog
Barbi Smyser-Fauble Doctoral Student *** Intersections of Technology and Pedagogy; New Media; Technical Writing; Gender Issues
Melanie Goss Doctoral Student *** Children's and Young Adult Literature; Theories of Power & Agency; Feminist, Gender, & Queer Theory; Disability Theory
Arwa Malaibari Doctoral Student *** New Media Studies; Multicultural Rhetoric and Literatures; British Literature
Irene Taylor Doctoral Student *** Oral Histories, Life Writing, Creative Non-Fiction
Dustin Grayson Master's Student *** English and Post-Modernism, American Fiction (1950-current)
Christopher Mays Doctoral Student *** Public Argumentation; Rhetorical Theory; Composition Theory; Pedagogy
Moria Torrington Doctoral Student *** Writing Center Studies, Visual Rhetoric, New Media
Stacy Greathouse Doctoral Student ***
Pirates in Children's Literature
Kristi McDuffie Doctoral Student *** Cultural rhetorics and writing, rhetorics of race, critical pedagogy, language ideologies
Elizabeth Williams Doctoral Student *** Children's Literature; Rhetorical Silence; Invitational Rhetoric
Megan Gregory Doctoral Student *** Medieval Lit, especially Middle English texts Ecocriticism / Ecofeminism Reusing, Repurposing Texts
Meghann Meeusen Doctoral Student *** Adaptation Studies; Children's Fantasy and Visual Culture
Ericka Wills Doctoral Student *** American/Trans-American Literature; Cultural Theory; Labor Literature; Interdisciplinary Studies; Globalization; Subaltern Studies; Cultural Studies; Working Class Studies; Labor History; Ethnographies of Work
Karly Grice Master's Student *** Children's and Adolescent Literature, American Literature, Transcendentalism, American Postmodernism
Kathleen Miller Doctoral Student *** Creative Writing Pedagogy; Genre Studies; Innovative Writing
Michael Wollitz Doctoral Student *** Contemporary Literature; 20th Century American Literature; 20th Century Irish Literature; Cultural Theory
Curt Hagegeorge Master's Student
Shailen Mishra Doctoral Student *** Narrative Theory; Narrative Framework in Fiction; Writing Process; Post-colonial Theory; Post-colonial Literature
Emily Woster Doctoral Student *** Children's and Victorian Literature; Women's Life Writing; Lucy Maud Montgomery; Intertextuality and Adaptation
Jordana Hall Doctoral Student *** Cognitive Narratology
Emily Moody Masters Student *** Poetry, Mixed/hybrid Genre Writing, Writing in Spanish, Feminist Texts
Jessica Zhang Doctoral Student *** Biopolitics; Intercultural Communication in Technical Communication
Brian Hedgepeth Master's Student
Niall Nance-Carroll Doctoral Student *** Children's Literature
Elizabeth Zold Doctoral Student *** Travelogues; Women's Literature; Adaptations; Literary Manuscripts
Sarah Hercula Doctoral Student *** Sociolinguistics; English language variation; World Englishes; "Standard English"
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