Alumni
Updated 06/01/2022
Note: Alumni, if you would like to update your information or can provide current information about those on this list, please contact the Rhetoric and Writing Studies Program Director.
Doctoral Program
Since its founding in 1980, the Rhetoric and Writing Studies Doctoral Program has been committed to preparing its graduates for faculty careers in rhetoric and composition.
2022
Morgan Buchs
Dispositions and Dual Credit: A Study on Student Attitudes toward Writing
Assistant Professor-Educator at the University of Cincinnati with a primary focus on hybrid writing courses in the Composition program.
Emma Guthrie
Constellating Graduate Students' Perceptions of the Impostor Phenomenon, Writing, and Mentoring
Director of ELG Consulting, Coaching, and Editorial Services and Student Success Specialist for the BGSU College of Business's Doctorate in Organization Development and Change program.
Tim Snyder
Durable WAC : a sustainability study of two WAC programs at two, two-year colleges
2021
Adam Kuchta
Collections Assistant, Piqua Public Library
Tammie Southall
Brandie Bohney
Force of Nurture: Influences on an Early-Career Secondary English Teacher's Writing Pedagogy
Literacy Consultant at North Central Ohio Educational Service Center
Bailey Lang
"Nowhere is Straight Work More Effective": Women's Participation in Self-Culture
Owner of The Writing Desk, LLC
Lena Ziegler
A Revisionist History of Loving Men: An Autoethnography and Community Research of Naming Sexual Abuse in Relationships
Lecturer of English, Albright College (Reading, PA)
Brian Urias
Adapting Writing Transfer for Online Writing Courses: Instructor Practices and Student Perceptions
Instructor of English, Andrews University (Berrien Springs, MI)
Renee Drouin
"Fans are Going to See It Any Way They Want": The Rhetorics of the Voltron: Legendary Defender Fandom
Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Center for Writing Director, Norwich University (Northfield, VT)
Ran Meyer
2020
Darlene Johnston
Assistant Professor of English, Ohio Northern University (Ada, Ohio)
Jonathan Brownlee
Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition, Indiana Tech (Fort Wayne, IN)
Triauna Carey
The Revolution Will Be Spotified: A Rhetorical Analysis of Music as a Mode of Resistance in the 21st Century
Lecturer: Southern Methodist University, Dallas Texas
Stephen Ohene-Larbi
Harnessing Multimodality in First-Year Composition Classrooms in Second Language (L2) Settings to Enhance Effective Writing
Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Toledo
2019
Sara Austin
By Any Other Name: (Mis)Understanding Transfer-Focused Feminist Pedagogy
Assistant Professor of English, AdventHealth University (Orlando, FL)
Lauren Garskie
Becomings of Space and Collaboration: Applying Design Thinking to a Study of Space and Collaboration in the Collab Lab
Assistant Professor, Gannon University (Erie, PA)
Kristin LaFollette
The Queer Art of Writing: (Re)Imagining Scholarship and Pedagogy Through Transgenre Composing
Assistant Professor of English, University of Southern Indiana (Evansville, IN)
Kelly Moreland
Rhetorical Embodied Performance in/as Writing Instruction: Practicing Identity and Lived Experience in TA Education
Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Marshall Saenz
Networks of Interaction: Investigating Writing Course Design Through Fourth Generation Activity Theory and Principles of Play
Lecturer, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Lauren Salisbury
The Role of Space and Place: A Case Study of Students’ Experiences in Online First-Year Writing Courses (OFWYCs)
Instructor, Florida Atlantic University
2018
Danielle Donelson
Theorizing a Settlers' Approach to Decolonial Pedagogy: Storying as Methodologies, Humbled, Rhetorical Listening and Awareness of Embodiment
Visiting Assistant Professor,
Pfeiffer University (Misenheimer, NC)
Danielle.Donelson@pfeiffer.edu
Nicholas Novosel
Teaching Them to Fish: Creative Nonfiction as a Toolkit for Transfer
Academic Advisor, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana)
Stephen Raulli
From Pro-Ana to Bikini Bridge: The Online Discourse of Eating Disorders
Joseph Robertshaw
The Phenomenon of Academic Labor in 21st Century Composition: A Heuristic For Textual Study
Lecturer
University of Alabama (Huntsville, AL)
jwr0015@uah.edu
Soha Youssef
International Teaching Assistant (ITA) training program at Bowling Green State University: Putting the needs of ITAs and the expectations of undergraduate native English-speaking students (NESSS) in conversation
Assistant Professor
Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia, PA)
2017
Caleb James
Learning to Teach Locally: A Case Study of Graduate Students' Teaching Philosophies and Classroom PracticesInstructor of Rhetoric and Writing
Assistant Professor of English, Rhetoric and Technical Communication, University of Maine at Augusta
Brianna Mauk
General Studies Writing Digital Communication at Bowling Green State University: To Web 2.0 or Not to Web 2.0
Copywriter, Wiley University Services (Louisville Kentucky)
Jeffrey Moore
Digital Literacy Practices of Second Language Students: A Student Perspective on Writing, Technology, and Privilege
Associate Professor of English: Howard Community College (Columbia, MD)
jmoore@howardcc.edu
Adam Sprague
Analyzing the Feedback Preferences and Learning Styles of Second Language Students in ESOL Writing Courses at Bowling Green State University
Student Success Coordinator and Assistant Professor of English
Bellin College (Bellevue, WI)
adam.sprague@bellincollege.edu
Tiffany Richmond Wang
Devout Pedagogies: A Textual Analysis of Late Nineteenth Century Christian Women
Public Relations Manager
ResonanceGroupToledo, OH
tiffany.wang@resonancegroupusa.com
2016
Tina Arduini
Tools of Play: Developing a Pedagogical Framework for Gaming Literacy in the Multimodal Composition Classroom
Associate Professor of English and Composition Coordinator: Ferris State University (Big Rapids, MI)
Pauline Baird
Towards A Cultural Rhetorics Approach to Caribbean Rhetoric: African Guyanese Women from the Village of Buxton Transforming Oral History
Assistant Professor of English
University of Guam
pbaird@triton.uog.edu
April Conway
Practitioners of Earth: The Literacy Practices and Civic Rhetorics of Grassroots Cartographers and Writing Instructors
Lecturer
Sweetland Center for Writing
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI)
arconway@umich.edu
Christine Garbett
Literacies in Context: Working-Class Deaf Adults
Humanities Division Chair
Western Wyoming Community College (Rock Springs, WY)
cgarbett@westernwyoming.edu
Aimee Taylor
Fat Cyborgs: Body Positive Activism, Shifting Rhetorics and Identity Politics in the Fatosphere
Writing Specialist
Clarke University (Dubuque, IA)
aimee.taylor@clarke.edu
2015
Megan Adams
Through Their Lenses: Examining Community-Sponsored Digital Literacy Practices in Appalachia
Recipient of 2015 Distinguished Dissertation Award
Assistant Professor of Communications
University of Findlay (Findlay, OH)
adamsme@findlay.edu
Estee Beck
Computer Algorithms as Persuasive Agents: The Rhetoricity of Algorithmic Surveillance within the Built Ecological Network
Assistant Professor of Professional/Technical Writing and Digital Humanities
The University of Texas at Arlington (Arlington, TX)
estee.beck@uta.edu
Shirley Faulkner-Springfield
Winifred O. Stone Presidential Scholar for Graduate Diversity
Claiming and Framing African American Male Ethos: Case Studies of the Literacy Practices of Two African American Male Writers
Assistant Professor/Coordinator of First-Year Writing
Virginia State University (Petersburg, VA)
sfaulkner-springfiel@vsu.edu
Mariana Grohowski
At War with Words: Understanding U.S. Service-Personnel's Literate Practices for a Universal Design for Learning Worldview
Assistant Professor of English
Indiana University Southeast (New Albany, IN)
Ken Hayes
Socializing First Year Composition: A Study of Social Networking Sites' Impact on First Year Students
Assistant Professor of English & Writing Program Coordinator: Central State University (Wilberforce, OH)
Eden Leone
Rhetorical Inquiry: Feminist Argumentative Modes and Expectations in Detective Fiction
Mitchell Hamline School of Law (St. Paul, MN)
Craig Olsen
New at Barnes and Noble: An Argument for More Public Based Scholarship in Rhetoric and Composition Studies
Assistant Professor
University of Arkansas Monticello (Monticello, AR)
olsen@uamont.edu
2014
Laural Adams
Theorizing Mental Models in Disciplinary Writing Ecologies through Scholarship, Talk-Aloud Protocols, and Semi-Structured Interviews
Instructor, School of Business
Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, VA)
lladams@vcu.edu
Amira Akl
Multimodal Expressions of Young Arab Muslim American Women
Instructor of English
Tennessee Technological University (Cookeville, TN)
aakl@tntech.edu
Amanda Athon Hemmerling
Fostering Language Diversity through Classroom-Based Assessment Practices
Assistant Professor of English
Governors State University (Chicago, IL)
aathon@govst.edu
Matt Bridgewater
What Hath Mobiles Wrought? Smartphone and Tablet Multiliteracies and Their Implications for Writing as Process
Assistant Professor of Writing & Assistant Chair
Woodbury University (Burbank, CA)
matthew.bridgewater@woodbury.edu
Kent Lenz
The Semiotics, Practical Application, and Assessment of the Modalities
Assistant Professor of English
Del Mar College (Corpus Christi, TX)
klenz@delmar.edu
Deborah Morris
Reconsidering Teacher Commentary as Interactive and Collaborative Dialogue: Implications for Student Writing and Revising
Instructor of English
Ivy Tech Community College (Fort Wayne, IN)
dmorris99@ivytech.edu
Heather Pristash
A Sharper Point: A Feminist, Multimodal Heuristic for Analyzing Knitted Rhetoric
Assistant Professor of Composition
Western Wyoming Community College (Rock Springs, WY)
hpristash@westernwyoming.edu
Michael Salitrynski
Teaching People, Not Writing: Civic Education & Critical Pedagogies in the Multimodal Writing Classroom
Assistant Professor of English and Philosophy
Snow College (Ephriam, UT)
mike.salitrynski@snow.edu
Martha Schaffer
Affective Possibilities for Rhetoric and Writing: How We Might Self-Assess Potentiality in Composition
Lecturer & Director of Writing Foundations
Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, OH)
mws94@case.edu
Heather Trahan
Relationship Literacy and Polyamory: A Queer Approach
Independent Scholar
2013
G. Bret Bowers
Post-Literacy: Designing Writing Curricula around Emerging Literate Activities
Assistant Professor of English
University of Arkansas, Fort Smith (Fort Smith, AR)
bbowers@uafs.edu
Kerri Hauman
Community-Sponsored Literate Activity and Technofeminism: Ethnographic Inquiry of Feministing
Assistant Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, & Communication
Transylvania University (Lexington, KY)
khauman@transy.edu
Stacy Kastner
Identity Chats: Co-Authorized Narratives and the Performance of Writerly Selves in Mass-Multiliterate Times
Associate Director of the Writing Center
Brown University (Providence, RI)
Jeff Kirchoff
Writing Centers as Literacy Sponsors in the 21st Century: Investigating Multiliteracy Center Theory and Practice
Associate Dean of English, Communication, and Media Studies
Kirkwood Community College (Cedar Rapids, IA)
jeff.kirchoff@kirkwood.edu
Alison Witte
Preaching and Technology: A study of Attitudes and Practices
Coordinator of Supplemental Instruction: University of Dayton, OH
2012
Katherine Fredlund
"Among Ourselves:" The Collaborative Rhetorics of Nineteenth Century Ladies' Literary Societies
Director of First Year Writing
Memphis State University (Memphis, TN)
kfrdlund@memphis.edu
Jie Li
Process and PostProcess in China's Educational Context
Assistant Professor of English
Xi’an International Studies University (Xi’an, Shaanxi, China)
Krista Petrosino Barber
Some (Still) Like it Hot: Re-envisioning Transdisciplinarity and Collaboration in First Year Composition and Jazz
Assistant Professor of English
Georgia Southern University (Statesboro, GA)
kpetrosino@georgiasouthern.edu
Shawn Ramsey
Deliberative Rhetoric in the Twelfth Century: The Case for Eleanor of Aquitaine, Noblewomen, and the Ars Dictaminis
Arkansas State University (Jonesboro, AR)
2011
Suzan Aiken
Silence as a Rhetor's Tool: Rhetorical Choices for and uses of Silence
Robert Half International (Columbus, OH)
Emily J. Beard
First-Generation College Students Transitioning to Graduate Teachers of Writing: A Proposed First-Generation Pedagogy
Associate Professor of English and First Year Writing Coordinator
Saginaw Valley State University (University Center, MI)
ejbeard@svsu.edu
Toby F. Coley
Digital Media Ethics in the Writing Classroom
Assistant Professor of English
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor (Belton, TX)
tcoley@umhb.edu
Vanessa Cozza
Winifred O. Stone Presidential Scholar for Graduate Diversity
Latino/as in Higher Education: Modes of Accommodation in First-Year Writing Programs
Assistant Professor of English
Washington State University Tri-Cities (Richland, WA)
vanessa.cozza@tricity.wsu.edu
Joe Erickson
Composing Rhetoric and Composition Program Websites: A Situated Study and a Heuristic Model
Assistant Professor of English
Anoka-Ramsey Community College (Coon Rapids, MN)
Joe.Erickson@anokaramsey.edu
Bobby Kuechenmeister
Answering the Call of Duty: Composition Pedagogy Problems, Multimodal Solutions, and Gaming Literacies
Call Center
Radial Corporation (Eau Clair, WI)
Yvonne Schultz
Remediating Rhetorical Room at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair: Lucy Stone, Mary Cassatt, and Ida B. Wells
Associate Vice President for Academic Administration
Mount Vernon Nazarene University (Mount Vernon, OH)
yvonne.schultz@mvnu.edu
2010
Stephanie Anderson Quinn
Preparing Doctoral Students in Rhetoric and Composition for Faculty Careers that Contribute to the Public Good
Associate Professor
McKendree University (Lebanon, IL)
smquinn@mckendree.edu
Elizabeth L. Church
Epideictic Without the Praise: A Heuristic Analysis for Rhetoric of Blame
Editor, Rossford Record Journal
bethchurch325@yahoo.com
http://www.rossford.com/RRcontactus.html
Brittany Cottrill
Transitioning to E-Portfolios in a First-Year Writing Program
Associate Professor of English
Grand View University (Des Moines, IA)
Cheryl Hoy
The Adult Learner in the Online Writing Course
Lecturer of General Studies Writing
Bowling Green State University (Bowling Green, OH)
choy@bgsu.edu
Meredith Graupner Hurley
Remediating the Professionalization of Doctoral Students in Rhetoric and Composition
Writer and Computer Software Consultant (San Francisco, CA)
Erin Dietel-McLaughlin
Remediating Democracy: Youtube and the Vernacular Rhetorics of Web 2.0
Associate Teaching Professor
University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN)
Erin.Dietel-McLaughlin.1@nd.edu
Jeremy Schnieder
Placing One Program's Assessment and Its Effects on a Novice Teacher
Assistant Director of Preparing Future Faculty
Claremont Graduate University (Claremont, CA)
Ruijie Zhao
Weaving Web 2.0 and the Writing Process with Feminist Pedagogy
Associate Professor of English
Parkland College (Champaign, IL)
rzhao@parkland.edu
2009
Heather Fester
Rhetoric and the Scholarship of Engagement: Pragmatic, Professional, and Ethical Convergences
Assistant Professor & WAC Director
Lincoln University (Jefferson, MO)
Elizabeth Fleitz
The Multimodal Kitchen: Cookbooks as Women's Rhetorical Practice
Associate Professor of English
Lindenwood University (St. Charles, MO)
efleitz@lindenwood.edu
Robert Graves
The Art of Heterotopian Rhetoric: A Theory of Science Fiction as Rhetorical Discourse
Mitigation Specialist
Texas Regional Public Defender for Capital Cases (Wichita Falls, TX)
Amie Caroline Wolf
Preparation of Graduate Assistants Teaching First-Year Writing at Ohio Universities
Senior Lecturer
The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)
wolf.346@osu.edu
2008
Jennifer Marie Almjeld
The Girls of MySpace: New Media as Gendered Literacy Practice and Identity Construction
Associate Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, & Technical Communication
James Madison University (Harrisonburg, VA)
almjeljm@jmu.edu
Florence Elizabeth Bacabac
From Cyberspace to Print: Re-Examining the Effects of Collaborative Online Invention on First-Year Academic Writing
Associate Professor & Director, Women's Resource Center
Dixie State University (St. George, UT)
bacabac@dixie.edu
Christine Peters Cucciarre
Audience Matters: Exploring Audience in Undergraduate Creative Writing
Associate Professor & Associate Director of Composition
University of Delaware (Newark, DE)
Erin Laverick
Feminist and other Intertwining Pedagogies of Writing Instruction in the University of Findlay's Intensive English Language Program
Professor
Concordia University (Ann Arbor, MI)
erin.laverick@cuaa.edu
Ann-Gee Lee
Female Fabrications: An Examination of the Public and Private Aspects of Nüshu
Associate Professor of English
University of Arkansas-Fort Smith (Fort Smith, AR)
ann-gee.lee@uafs.edu
Sergey Rybas
Community Revisited: Involving the Subjectivity of the Online Learner
Associate Professor of English
Capitol University (Columbus, OH)
srybas@capital.edu
James Schirmer
Acquiring Literacy: Techne, Video Games and Composition Pedagogy
Associate Professor of English & Department Chair
University of Michigan-Flint (Flint, MI)
jschirm@umflint.edu
2007
Christine M. Denecker
Toward Seamless Transition? Dual Enrollment and the Composition Classroom
Professor of English, Chair of the English Department, & Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence
The University of Findlay (Findlay, OH)
denecker@findlay.edu
Robin Murphy
Post-9/11 Rhetorical Theory and Composition Pedagogy: Fostering Trauma Rhetorics as Civic Space
Associate Professor of English
East Central University (Ada, OK)
rmurphy@ecok.edu
Lucie Shetzer
Confronting Aging and Serious Illness through Journaling: A Study of Writing as Therapy
Assistant Professor
Owens Community College-Toledo (Toledo, OH)
lucille_shetzer@owens.edu
Eric W. Stalions
Dynamic Criteria Mapping: A Study of the Rhetorical Values of Placement Evaluators
Associate Professor & Director of Intensive English Program
Martin Methodist College (Pulaski, TN)
estalions@martinmethodist.edu
Thai Tran (Retired)
Indirectness in Vietnamese Newspaper Commentaries: A Pilot Study
Lecturer
An Giang University (Long Xuyēn, Vietnam)
Angela Wallington Zimmann
Turning the Noose that Binds into a Rope to Climb: A Textual Search for Rhetorical and Linguistic Gender-Markings in Speech Samples of Three Contemporary Female Orators
Visiting Professor of Preaching & Advancement and Communication Executive
Lutheran Theological Seminary (Gettysburg, PA)
azimmann@Ltsg.edu
2006
Alex Mwangi Chege
"Old Wine" and "New Wineskins" (De)Colonizing Literacy in Kenya's Higher Education
Assistant Professor of English
University of Cincinnati Blue Ash (Blue Ash, OH)
chegemi@ucmail.uc.edu
Richard J. Colby
Computers, Composition and Context: Narratives of Pedagogy and Technology Outside the Computers and Writing Community
Lecturer
University of Denver (Denver, CO)
richard.colby@du.edu
Christopher Harris
First-Year Composition Handbooks: Buffering the Winds of Change
Assistant Professor
California State University (Los Angeles, CA)
charris3@calstatela.edu
Brent Royster
The Construction of Self in the Contemporary Creative Writing Workshop: A Personal Journey
Assistant Professor of Developmental Studies-Writing
Central Texas College (Killeen, TX)
broyster@ctcd.edu
Rebekah Shultz Colby
Resistance as Negotiation: Strategies and Tactics for Redefining Power Relationships in the Composition Classroom
Lecturer
University of Denver (Denver, CO)
rebekah.shultzcolby@du.edu
Brennan Thomas
Composition Studies and Teaching Anxiety: A Pilot Study of Teaching Groups and Discipline- and Program-Specific Triggers
Associate Professor of English
St. Francis University (Loretto, PA)
bthomas@francis.edu
2005
Holly Baumgartner
Visualizing Levinas: Existence and Existents Through Mulholland Drive, Memento, and Vanilla Sky
Professor of English & Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Lourdes University (Sylvania, OH)
hbaumgartner@lourdes.edu
Lanette Cadle
A Public View of Private Writing: Personal Weblogs and Adolescent Girls
Professor of English
Missouri State University (Springfield, MO)
llcadle@missouristate.edu
Mona Dunckel (Deceased)
Re-Vision: A Rhetorical Analysis of Change in the Holocaust Memorial Center
Chair, Division of Social Sciences Bob Jones University (Greenville, SC)
Karen Rowe
Painted Sermons: Explanatory Rhetoric and William Holman Hunt's Inscribed Frames
Associate Professor of English
Bob Jones University (Greenville, SC)
krowe@bju.edu
Inez Schaechterle
Speaking of Sex: The Rhetorical Strategies of Frances Willard, Victoria Woodhull, and Ida Craddock
Recipient of 2005 Distinguished Dissertation Award
Associate Professor of Composition
Northland Pioneer College (Painted Desert, AZ)
2004
Paul Casey (Deceased)
Moments of Reconciliation: Kairos in Theory and Praxis
Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric
Occidental College (Los Angeles, CA)
Cynthia Mahaffey
Wearing the Rainbow Triangle: The Effect of Out Lesbian Teachers and Lesbian Teacher Subjectivities on Student Choice of Topics, Student Writing, and Student Subject Positions in the First-Year Composition Classroom
Lecturer of General Studies Writing
Bowling Green State University (Bowling Green, OH)
mahaffc@bgsu.edu
Elizabeth Monske
Transitioning into the Fully Online Writing Course: A Pilot Study
Professor of English
Northern Michigan University (Marquette, MI)
emonske@nmu.edu
Thai Tran
Winifred O. Stone Presidential Scholar for Graduate Diversity
Retired
Professor of English
An Giang University (Long Xuyen, Vietnam)
2003
Paul A. Cesarini
Toward a New Literacy: Technology, Policy, and Control
Professor & Assistant Vice Provost Online and Summer Academic Program
Bowling Green State University (Bowling Green, OH)
pcesari@bgsu.edu
Julie Kearney
Winifred O. Stone Presidential Scholar for Graduate Diversity
The Potential for Expressive and Therapeutic Writing Outcomes in the Basic Communication Course at Denver University, 1939--1950
Associate Professor of English
Massachusetts Maritime Academy (Bourne, MA)
jkearney@maritime.edu
Doreen Piano
Congregating Women: Reading the Rhetorical Arts of Third Wave Subcultural Production
Associate Professor of English
University of New Orleans (New Orleans, LA)
dpiano@uno.edu
2001
Josephine Booth Foster
This is Not Your Mother's Education: The Need for Hypertext Writing in First-Year Composition
Professor of English
Armstrong Atlantic State University (Savannah, GA)
josephinefoster@comcast.net
Randall W. McClure
Authority as a Tension in the College Composition Classroom: Making the Case for a Teacher-Centered, Student-Focused Pedagogy
Associate Professor of English
Pfeiffer University (Meisenheimer NC)
Russell Sprinkle
Written Commentary and Reflective Teaching: A Systematic, Theory-Based Approach to Response
Writing Center Tutor
Owens Community College-Toledo (Toledo, OH)
russell_sprinkle@owens.edu
Barbara Toth
The Rhetoric, Writing, and Action in Context of Teresa of Avila: An Appraisal
Retired, Director of Writing Center
Part-Time Instructor of English and General Studies Writing
Bowling Green State University (Bowling Green, OH)
btoth@bgsu.edu
Christine Tulley
Removing the Mask of Silence: Building Female Self-Esteem in the Junior High Writing Classroom Using the Cybergrrl Project
Professor of English, Director of Masters in Rhetoric & Writing, & the Center for Teaching Excellence Faculty Liaison
The University of Findlay (Findlay, OH)
tulley@findlay.edu
2000
Edward Karshner
Representation, Interpretation, Writing: A Phenomenological Approach to Composition
Director, Communication Intensive Courses and Associate Professor of English
Robert Morris University (Moon, PA)
karshner@rmu.edu
John Mauk
Writing in Place: A Story of Geography and Composition Pedagogy
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
Miami University (Oxford, OH)
maukjd@MiamiOH.edu
1999
Scott Calhoun
The Classical Trivium in Contemporary Contexts: Receptions and Re-Formations of an Ancient Model of Schooling
Professor of English
Cedarville University (Cedarville, OH)
Jai Hee Cho
A Study of Contrastive Rhetoric between East Asian and North American Cultures as Demonstrated through Student Expository Essays from Korea and the United States
Part-time Faculty
California State University – Fullerton (Fullerton, CA)
jcho@fullerton.edu
Keith Duffy
The Role of Spirituality in Re-Envisioning Writing Pedagogy
Associate Professor of English
Penn State Harrisburg (Middletown, PA)
wkd2@psu.edu
Richard Miller
The Rehabilitating Role of Martin Buber's I-Thou Relationship in Rhetoric and Composition Studies
Associate Professor of English & Director of Writing
Suffolk University (Boston, MA)
rmiller@suffolk.edu
Michael Ryan
Words Signifying Light: The Rhetorical Figures as a Prism of Illumination in St. Augustine's "Confessions"
Instructor of English
Terra Community College (Fremont, OH)
Avis Rupert
Ethnography and Ethnographic-Like Approaches in the Composition and Language Arts Classroom: A Guide to Student Instruction
Professor of English
North Lake College (Irving, TX)
arupert@dcccd.edu
Paul A. Tanner
Embedded Assessment and Writing: Potentials of Portfolio-Based Testing as a Response to Mandated Assessment in Higher Education
Professor of English
Utah Valley University (Orem, UT)
tannerpa@uvu.edu
Joseph Wilferth
Toward Literacy in a New Medium: Hypertext Writing and Composition Pedagogy
Professor & Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (Chattanooga, TN)
joe-wilferth@utc.edu
1998
Brad Barry
Writer Motivation, Rhetorical Purpose and Classroom Web Publication Projects
1998 Distinguished Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention
Professor of English
Dixie State University (St. George, UT)
barry@dixie.edu
Kitty S. C. Burroughs
Diversifying Models of Audience: Gendering the Relationship between Author and Audience in Written Communication
Senior Lecturer of General Studies Writing
Bowling Green State University (Bowling Green, OH)
sburrou@bgsu.edu
Guo Danquing
Metaphor in Context: Toward a Tagmemic Linguistic Approach
John R. Delbridge (Deceased)
Partners or Patriarchs? Promise Keepers and the Rhetoric of Gender Reconciliation
Associate Professor of English
Tacoma Community College (Tacoma, Washington)
John J. Fallon
The Impact of Inservice Teacher Training on the Writing of 879 High School Juniors in Five West Central Ohio Counties
Professor & Chair, Department of Humanities
Rhodes State College (Lima, OH)
fallon.j@rhodesstate.edu
Billie J. Jones
The Rhetoricity of Museum Design: An Analysis of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a Rhetorical Text
Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Technical Writing
James Madison University (Harrisonburg, VA)
Barbara Little Liu
Winifred O. Stone Presidential Scholar for Graduate Diversity
Meeting the Needs of Diverse Students in Institutions of Diversity: A Genre Process Approach to College Writing Instruction
Professor of Composition & Rhetoric, Director of the Liberal Studies Major, & Acting Coordinator of the First Year Writing Program
Eastern Connecticut State University (Willimantic, CT)
liub@easternct.edu
Teresa Murden
Technological Literacy: Historical Perspectives on Literacy in American Law, Legislation, and Public Policy
Assistant Professor of English
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (Brownsville, TX)
teresa.murden@utb.edu
Timothy Ray
Troubling the Technology: Exploring Issues of Community and Diversity in the Network-Supported First-Year Composition Classroom
Associate Professor of English & Assistant Chair
West Chester University of Pennsylvania (West Chester, PA)
tray@wcupa.edu
Rosalee Stilwell
Ethos in the Reflective Voice of James Morris Associate
Associate Professor of English
Indiana University of Pennsylvania (Punxsutawney, PA)
stilwell@iup.edu
Xuewei Wu
Writing Across Culture: An American Woman Writing her Life in China (1912-1926): A Rhetorical Analysis of Grace McClurg Carson's Archival Collections
Professor of English
Century College (St. Paul, MN)
xuewei.wu@century.edu
1997
Carolyn Keefe (Deceased)
On the Road: Exploring Travel and Travel Writing in Composition Studies
Emeritus Associate Professor of English
Lindsey Wilson College (Columbia, KY)
keefec@lindsey.edu
Alan I. Rea, Jr.
Practicing Informed Writing Pedagogy in the Computerized Classroom: Talking the Talk and Walking the Walk
Professor of English
Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI)
alan.rea@wmich.edu
Christine Shearer-Cremean
(Re)Constructing the Scene of a Crime: A Descriptive Taxonomy of Police Reports on Conjugal Violence Against Women
Dean, College of Education, Arts & Sciences and Education
Montana State University-Northern (Havre, MT)
c.shearercremean@msun.edu
Sharon Strand (Retired)
Reporting Writing Center Successes: Authentic Assessment in the Writing Center
English Department, Black Hills State University (Spearfish, SD)
1996
Steven D. Krause
The Immediacy of Rhetoric: Definitions, Illustrations, and Implications
Professor of English
Eastern Michigan University (Ypsilanti, MI)
skrause@emich.edu
Michael C. Morgan
Student Rhetorical Interaction in an E-mail Conference: A Case Study of a First-Year Writing Course
Professor of English
Bemidji State University (Bemidji, MN)
mmorgan@bemidjistate.edu
1995
John Michael Clark (Retired)
Cognitive Apprenticeship, Motivation, and College Writing: Theoretical and Pedagogical Considerations
Director of Student and Information Services
Bowling Green State University (Bowling Green, OH)
jclark2@bgsu.edu
Priscilla Riggle
A Critique of College-Level Writing Placement Procedures: A Case Study of the Reading Practices of Four Evaluators
Professor of English
Truman State University (Kirksville, MO)
priggle@truman.edu
Yan Xiao-Tong
Cohesion and Online Documentation
1993
Donna Nelson-Beene
Portfolio Assessment as a Tool for Training Composition Instructors: A Consideration of the Model Implemented by the General Studies Writing Program at Bowling Green State University
Director, BG Perspective (General Education) & Associate Professor of English
Bowling Green State University (Bowling Green, OH)
dnelson@bgsu.edu
Virginia (Ginny) Skinner-Linnenberg
Dramatizing Writing: Reinstating Delivery in the Classroom
Professor & Director of Communication and Media Program
Nazareth College (Rochester, NY)
vskinne5@naz.edu
1992
Phyllis L. Eck
The Process in Revision: One Writing Program's Challenges and Changes, 1960-1990
1991
Gail Shanely Corso
How to "Let them Write-Together": The Effects of Social Styles on Written Products of College Entry-Level Collaborative Writers
Professor of English
Neumann University (Aston, PA)
gcorso@neumann.edu
Mark Delmaramo
Microcomputers and the Writing Process: A Survey and Critique
Professor of English
Thiel College (Greenville, PA)
mdelmara@thiel.edu
Marjory Kinney (Deceased)
Writing in the Disciplines: The Use of Writing in the Undergraduate Sociology Curriculum at Bowling Green State University
1990
Louise Golden
What's not Right with Writing: The Effects of Grammar Instruction and Writing Apprehension on the Composing Processes of Basic Writers at the American State College
Chair of English
Savannah Technical College (Savannah, GA)
lgolden@savannahtech.edu
Craig Hergert
Towards a Rhetoric of Satire: The Interaction between Reader and Satiric Text
Professor of English
Minnesota Community and Technical College
craig.hergert@minneapolis.edu
Peter Schreffler
Caught between Two Worlds: The Spiritual Predicament and Rhetorical Ambivalence of Garrison Keillor
Associate Professor of English & Department Chair
Florida Southern College (Lakeland, FL)
pschreffler@flsouthern.edu
1989
Janet Auten
The Text in the Margin: A Theoretical Analysis of Teacher Commentary on Student Writing
Director, Writing Center
American University (Washington, DC)
jauten@american.edu
Rex Easley
Common Ground: Fiction-writing and Composition Associate
Professor of English
Thomas More College (Crestview Hills, KY)
rex.easley@thomasmore.edu
James Martin
Towards a Theory of Textuality for Contrastive Rhetoric Research
Professor of English
Mount Ida College (Newton, MA)
jmartin@mountida.edu
Lynnette Porter
Technical Writing with Computers: A Study of the Documentation-Production Processes of Technical Communicators in Industry
Professor of English
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (Daytona Beach, FL)
porterly@erau.edu
1988
Donna R. Cheney
Teaching Basic Writing: Synthesizing Divergent Elements of Who We Teach, What We Teach, and How We Teach
Professor of English
Weber State University (Ogden, UT)
Robb Jackson (Deceased)
Regents Professor of English
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (Corpus Christi, TX)
Vanessa Furse Jackson (Retired)
Professor of English
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (Corpus Christi, TX)
1984
John Cullen
The Ordinary Self and the Maker of Images: An Introduction to Headhunting
Professor of English
Ferris State University (Big Rapids, MI)
cullenj@ferris.edu
Roxanne Cullen
Toward A Pedagogy of Rewriting (Composition Theory)
Professor of English
Ferris State University (Big Rapids, MI)
roxannecullen@ferris.edu
MA Program
In the 1990s and as a complement to the doctoral program in Rhetoric and Writing, a small MA program in Rhetoric was offered. The Rhetoric faculty decided to discontinue the MA program in order to expand admissions into and curriculum for the doctoral program.
1997
Angela Haas
Associate Professor of English
Illinois State University (Normal, IL)
Scott D. Calhoun
“Why Should We Go to School, St. Basil?” A Rhetorical Study of St. Basil the Great’s Attitude toward Education in Late Antiquity
Professor of English
Cedarville University (Cedarville, OH)
Elizabeth D. Saneholz
Silence as a Potentially Positive Rhetorical Strategy: Exploring Examples from Women’s Writing and Chinese Rhetoric
Secretary, First Presbyterian Church (Waterville, OH)
1996
Billie Jones Waisanen
Why Tell? An Examination of the Motivations and Benefits of Narrative Construction by Holocaust Victims
Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Technical Writing
James Madison University (Harrisonburg, VA)
Ann Westrick
Lecturer of General Studies Writing
Bowling Green State University (Bowling Green, OH)
1995
Bill Hart-Davidson
Professor of English & Associate Dean for Graduate Education
Michigan State University (Lansing MI)
Stephanie Stalmah
Responding to Student Writing
Program Director & Institute for Career Development (Valparaiso, IN)
Sylvia Cunningham
Teaching the Reluctant Writer: African-American Males and School Writing.
1994
Michael “Mick” Doherty (Deceased)
Cyberwrite and Audience Accessed: Kairos Comes Online in the Composition Classroom
Founding Editor of the journal Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy
For more about Mick and about his influence on the digital turn in the field of rhetoric and writing, please click here:
http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/19.1/loggingon/mick.html
Teresa Toritsky
Academic Advisor, Opportunity Office
St. Vincent College (Latrobe, PA)
1993
John Clark
Consensus, Dialectic and Progress: “Normal Science” in Theoretical Approaches to the Teaching of Writing
Director of Student and Information Services
Bowling Green State University (Bowling Green, OH)
jclark2@bgsu.edu
Paul Tanner
Homework in the Halls: Student Social Practices and Academic Performance
Professor of English
Utah Valley University (Orem, UT)
tannerpa@uvu.edu
1992
Ben Kolt
Helping Secondary Basic Writers with Alternative Styles for Writing
Director of Client Experience
IBM Watson Health (Cleveland, OH)
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