Department of English at Illinois State University

English Department Graduate Assistants

Image of Alvarez Caitlin Alvarez
Master's Student
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Hybrid Genre, Memoir, Prose Poetry, Historical Fiction

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

Image of Nave Evan Nave
Doctoral Student
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Creative Writing

Image of Anderson Rebecca Anderson
Doctoral Student



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Composition, World Literature and Global Citizenship Pedagogy, Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Cultural Studies, and Applied Linguistics

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

Image of Nersessova 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

Image of Browne Kate Browne
Doctoral Student
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19th & 20th century American popular culture; circus & sideshow literature; P.T. Barnum; life writing

Image of Higgins Jeffrey Higgins
Master's Student

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

Image of Bruce Kayla Bruce
Master's Student
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Victorian British Literature, Rhetoric & Composition, Literary Theory

Image of Jarema Laurenn Jarema
Master's Student
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Composition Pedagogy

Image of Oberzaucher Helena Oberzaucher
Doctoral Student

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

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

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

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

Image of Kamara Samuel Kamara
Doctoral Student
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Postcolonial Feminism, Postcolonial & Diaspora Studies, Global Literatures, Cultural Studies, Trauma Theory

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

Image of Cooke 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

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

Image of Poole Chamere Poole
Doctoral Student

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Studies in the African-American Literary Tradition; Neo-Slave Narrative Genre

Image of Daly Kathleen Daly
Master's Student
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Archive studies, Kenneth Burke, Rhetoric and Composition

Image of Kilian Erin Kilian
Doctoral Student
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Creative Writing Pedagogy

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

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

Image of Kumavie Francisca Kumavie
Doctoral Student
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Precolonial and Colonial Literature; Transnational Feminist Literature; Postcolonial Literature; National and Biopolitical Identities

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

Image of Dubois Katie Dubois
Master's Student

Image of Lee 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

Image of Rients Jeff Rients
Master's Student
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Literary Hoaxes, Inspired Literature, Invented Places

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

Image of Levato Francesco Levato
Doctoral Student
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Cinepoetics, Poetry in Translation, Hybrid Works, Documentary Poetics

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

Image of Eagon Cayla Eagon
Master's Student
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Psychoanalytic Theory; Women's & Gender Studies; the Gothic; British Literature from the late 18th century to the 20th century

Image of Lindenfelser Lisa Lindenfelser
Master's Student
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Cultural & Critical Theory; Power Structures

Image of Rodriguez Susana Rodriguez
Doctoral Student

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Children's and Young Adult Literature; Women's and Gender Studies; Critical and Cultural Theory; Art as Life.

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

Image of Lipe Tristan Lipe
Master's Student

Image of Roncero-Bellido Ana Roncero-Bellido
Masters Student
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Literature and Foreign Languages

Image of Forkner Kelsey Forkner
Master's Student
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Liminal Spaces, Disassociation, Rhetorical Grammar, Semiotics & Naturalism

Image of Longfellow Eric Longfellow
Doctoral Student
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Gender and Sexuality Theory, Object Studies, Queer Theory, Cultural Studies, Psychoanalytic Theory, Creative Writing-Fiction

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

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

Image of Lorig Josette Lorig
Master's Student
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20th Century American Literature & Culture; Gender & Sexuality; Cultural & Critical Theory

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

Image of Frost Erin Frost
Doctoral Candidate
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Technical Communication; Rhetoric/Composition; Women's and Gender Studies

Image of Lucas 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Image of Taylor Irene Taylor
Doctoral Student
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Oral Histories, Life Writing, Creative Non-Fiction

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

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

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

Image of Greathouse Stacy Greathouse
Doctoral Student
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Pirates in Children's Literature

Image of McDuffie Kristi McDuffie
Doctoral Student
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Cultural rhetorics and writing, rhetorics of race, critical pedagogy, language ideologies

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

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

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

Image of Wills Ericka Wills
Doctoral Student
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American/Trans-American Literature; Cultural Theory; Labor Literature; Interdisciplinary Studies; Globalization; Subaltern Studies; Cultural Studies; Working Class Studies; Labor History; Ethnographies of Work

Image of Grice Karly Grice
Master's Student
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Children's and Adolescent Literature, American Literature, Transcendentalism, American Postmodernism

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

Image of Wollitz Michael Wollitz
Doctoral Student
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Contemporary Literature; 20th Century American Literature; 20th Century Irish Literature; Cultural Theory

Image of Hagegeorge Curt Hagegeorge
Master's Student

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

Image of Woster Emily Woster
Doctoral Student
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Children's and Victorian Literature; Women's Life Writing; Lucy Maud Montgomery; Intertextuality and Adaptation

Image of Hall Jordana Hall
Doctoral Student
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Cognitive Narratology

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

Image of Zhang Jessica Zhang
Doctoral Student
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Biopolitics; Intercultural Communication in Technical Communication

Image of Hedgepeth Brian Hedgepeth
Master's Student

Image of Nance-Carroll Niall Nance-Carroll
Doctoral Student
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Children's Literature

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

Image of Hercula Sarah Hercula
Doctoral Student
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Sociolinguistics; English language variation; World Englishes; "Standard English"

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