Richard Colby rcolby@bgnet.bgsu.edu -- http://personal.bgsu.edu/~rcolby/webfolio PhD in Rhetoric & Writing
Current Students and Alumni
~~ Bios and Portfolios ~~
Jennifer Almjeld jalmjel@bgnet.bgsu.edu -- http://personal.bgsu.edu/~jalmjel/portfolio
Jen Almjeld is a second-year PhD student who hails from Kentucky. Jen received her MA in English from Eastern Kentucky University, where she also taught journalism for two years before coming to Bowling Green. This summer Jen again had the chance to teach journalism – this time to high school students as part of BGSU's summer Upward Bound Program. Jen serves as Assistant to the Director of the General Studies Writing program at BGSU.
Florence Elizabeth Bacabac florenb@bgnet.bgsu.edu -- http://personal.bgsu.edu/~florenb/portfolio
Florence Elizabeth Bacabac is a second-year Rhetoric & Writing Ph.D. student and composition instructor. For more information, check out her personal webpage link.
Mwangi Chege (Alex) cmwangi@bgnet.bgsu.edu
Alex is a third-year student in the Rhetoric & Writing PhD program here at Bowling Green State University. He comes from Kenya. He graduated from Moi Unversity- Kenya with a Master of Philosophy with emphasis in linguistics. Areas of interest are Literacy & Writing and ESL.
AnDrea Cleaves acleave@bgnet.bgsu.edu
AnDrea, a BGSU Presidential Scholar, is a first-year PhD student in Rhetoric & Composition. She received both her BA in Communication and her Master of Education from the University of Toledo. She has worked in radio – hosting her own one-hour show, Toledo Concerns – and served as the Off-Campus Program Coordinator for UT. If a TV viewer is particularly perceptive, AnDrea can be seen and heard in many local commercials. Her real joy, however, is teaching writing at Owens State Community College.
Richard Colby rcolby@bgnet.bgsu.edu -- http://personal.bgsu.edu/~rcolby/webfolio
Richard comes to us from sunny southern California, home of traffic, smog, movies and Disneyland. Coupled with an unhealthy fascination with computers, his primary work includes composition theory and pedagogy, primarily relying on Deweyan and Rortyian philosophy to guide his way.
His quirky research interests include humor, visual rhetoric, and the pedagogical significance of computer games. Richard is a fourth-year student in the Rhetoric & Writing PhD program, and he is currently working on his dissertation. His work as design editor and reviewer for Computers and Composition Online can be found at http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline.
Christine Peters Cuccciarre (Cooch-a-ray) cpcucci@bgnet.bgsu.edu --
Christine is a doctoral candidate in Rhetoric & Writing. Her dissertation, Exploring Audience in Undergraduate Creative Writing Pedagogy, will be completed early next year. She is currently a full-time instructor in the General Studies Writing department, and her professional activities include upcoming presentations in November at the National Council of Teachers of English conference in Pittsburgh, and in March at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in Chicago.
Christine Denecker cdeneck@bgnet.bgsu.edu
Chris Denecker is in her third year of the Rhetoric & Writing doctoral program. When she's not looking for a parking place on the BG campus or trading glorious insights and delightful banter with her BG counterparts, she can be found at the University of Findlay where she is a full-time assistant professor of English.
Erin Dietel-McLaughlin edietel@bgnet.bgsu.edu
Erin Dietel-McLaughlin is a first-year continuing PhD student in the Rhetoric & Writing program. She completed her undergraduate study in English literature at Eastern Washington University, where she also worked for four years as a public relations aide, writer, and editor in EWU's Division of University Relations. As a McNair Scholar, Erin was pleased to serve as an academic assistant to the McNair Scholars Program before going to work for a newspaper in her hometown of Spokane, Washington. While she hopes to focus her research interests during the course of the next two years, she is particularly curious about such broad areas as social rhetoric and discourse, composition pedagogy, writing across the curriculum, and writing center administration.
Justin Felix felixj@bgnet.bgsu.edu -- http://personal.bgsu.edu/~felixj
Justin Felix is currently in his fourth year of the PhD program. He gave a presentation with Brennan Thomas and Thai Tran at the 2005 CCCC Convention in San Francisco and joined several other R&W students in a panel discussion chaired by Kris Blair at the 2005 Computers & Writing Conference at Stanford. He will have a short story published in the upcoming "It's That Time Again 3: Even More New Stories of Old Time Radio" from Bear Manor Media. He has also been published in the previous two volumes of the series. Justin is currently working on his dissertation and plans to finish in the summer of 2006.
Elizabeth Fleitz efleitz@bgnet.bgsu.edu
Elizabeth Fleitz, a first-year student in the PhD program, recently graduated with her MA in Literature from BGSU. Her diverse research interests include the body and language, women’s friendships, women and eating disorders, and trauma studies. Presentations include a paper at the MMLA conference on Art Spiegelman and his artistic response to 9/11 in November, and in spring a paper on Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman at the Twentieth-Century Literature Conference.
Alec Fleshner alecf@bgnet.bgsu.edu -- http://personal.bgsu.edu/~alecf/
Alec Fleschner is a second-year doctoral candidate in the Rhetoric & Composition program. His research interests involve computers and technology in writing and the pedagogy of creative writing. When not in classes, Alec serves as a graduate student senator for the English department and helps out the Bowling Green Gaming Society.
Robert Graves rgraves@bgnet.bgsu.edu
Robert Christopher Graves is a first-year PhD student from Wichita, KS. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing and a BA in English. His interests include Latin and the Romance languages, mythology, Jungian psychology, witchcraft, Taoist meditation, and the divine nature of Shakespeare's plays. He has recently had work published in the Chiron Review, Poetry Motel, and Mikrokosmos.
Cheryl Hoy choy@bgnet.bgsu.edu
Cheryl is a doctoral student in the Rhetoric & Writing program. She has taught English 111 and 112 in both traditional classrooms and in MAC and Dell Computer labs. This fall, she'll be teaching English 110 and English 207. Her research interests include computers and composition and the adult learner in the collegiate online environment.
Ann-Gee Lee leea@bgnet.bgsu.edu
Ann-Gee Lee is in her second year in the PhD program and is teaching for GSW. A native of California, she chose BGSU simply because she was accepted. Her MA in English with a concentration of TESOL and Rhetoric-Composition comes from California State University Stanislaus, where she also received her BA in English with TESOL and minor in Spanish. After receiving her BA, Lee taught high school English for a year and then went back for her master’s degree at CSUS. The focus of her thesis/project was multi-genre writing with English language learners, which was also presented at a local conference.
Robin Murphy murphyr@bgnet.bgsu.edu -- http://personal.bgsu.edu/~murphyr
Robin Murphy, a third-year PhD student from Oklahoma, recently presented at the Computers and Writing Conference on a panel with Dr. Kris Blair and some fellow PhD students. She also presented her paper “Ain’t I funny, too? Women’s Humor as Social Agency” at the Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference in October. Robin took her Preliminary Exams and will finish her coursework this semester.
Sergey Rybas srybasr@bgnet.bgsu.edu -- http://personal.bgsu.edu/~srybas/eng728/
Sergey is in his second year of the doctoral program. He received his MA in Scientific and Technical Communication from BGSU and his BA in Teaching English and German from Taganrog State University in Russia. His research interests include use of technology in written communication, study of usability, as well as intercultural and interpersonal communication.
James Schirmer jschirm@bgnet.bgsu.edu
James Schirmer, a second-year student in Rhetoric & Writing, came to BGSU by way of Texas A&M in Corpus Christi, where he received a Master of Arts in Rhetoric and Composition. His current research interests include online learning spaces, multi-modality, visual rhetoric, and computers and writing.
Yvonne R. Schultz yschult@bgnet.bgsu.edu
Yvonne is a first-year PhD student in Rhetoric & Writing, starting back as a student after 10 years’ college teaching. Her day job—and also night, as she teaches in Adult and Graduate Studies as well—is as an assistant professor of journalism at Mount Vernon Nazarene University. Her MA is from the University in Akron in English/Composition track, which she finished after doing half a master’s in literature from Villanova University in Pennsylvania.
Rebekah Schultz schultz@bgnet.bgsu.edu -- http://personal.bgsu.edu/~rshultz
Rebekah is a third-year Rhetoric & Writing PhD student. She misses her cat, Sugar, whom she had to leave in California. Rebekah has eclectic research interests. She got her BA in English with a focus on poetry, wrote her MA thesis on Amy Tan's rhetorical use of Taoism in The Joy Luck Club, and is currently interested in research that furthers pedagogical evolutions in composition, and women and technology, particularly women and computer games.
Bethany Snyder-Morse bnsynde@bgnet.bgsu.edu
Bethany Noelle Snyder-Morse is a first-year student in the PhD program in Rhetoric & Writing. She received her BA/BS in Spanish and advertising from the University of Illinois-Urbana, and an MFA in fiction from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. She taught basic English at orphanages in Ecuador and India, and she helped tutor students at an English college for the handicapped in China. She also taught composition and creative writing in Michigan.
Lucie Shetzer shetz@bgnet.bgsu.edu
After earning her undergraduate degree in Secondary English Education from Penn State University in 1985, Lucie Shetzer began her teaching career as a high school English teacher in California. Several years later, after moving to Ohio, Lucie earned an Associate in Applied Science from Owens Community College, becoming a licensed Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA). An MA in Scientific and Technical Communication at Bowling Green State University followed in 2001, and Lucie subsequently worked for two years as a full-time Writing Specialist in the BGSU Writing Center. While employed at the Writing Center, she tutored students enrolled in all levels of first-year composition, provided direct support for UPAS students, designed and maintained an online tutoring service, and maintained the Writing Center’s website. After leaving the Writing Center to pursue full-time doctoral studies in Rhetoric & Writing at BGSU.
Heather Speweik hspeweik@bgnet.bgsu.edu -- http://personal.bgsu.edu/~hfester
Heather is in her fourth year at BGSU, currently as a PhD student in the Rhetoric & Writing PhD program. Originally from Jefferson City, Missouri, she graduated from Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri with a Bachelor of Science in English, emphasis in Linguistics. She also earned an MA from BGSU in English. Areas of scholarly interest: the usefulness of oral interpretation in the college classroom, cognitive psychology (particularly psycholinguistics), teaching the conflicts, public discourse in the postmodern era, multiple literacies, visual rhetoric, the rhetoric of op/eds, and creative nonfiction. Hobbies: golf, various intramural sports (Go, Quills!), film studies, web design, and crafty things. Courses Taught: several English 111 & 112s and a computer-assisted section of 111 at BGSU.
Eric Stalions eric.stalions@wku.edu --
http://personal.bgsu.edu/~sweric/
Eric Stalions is in his third year in the program. In addition to teaching English 207: Intermediate Writing in the fall, he is an assistant to the Director of the General Studies Writing Program. He is also the Book Reviews Editor for Computers and Composition Online. His principle research interest is writing assessment. Eric and his wife, Annette, have three children: Eric Jr., Philip, and Caroline. Eric Jr. and Philip are one-year-old twins, and Caroline is two.
Brennan Thomas bmthoma@bgnet.bgsu.edu - http://personal.bgsu.edu/~bmthoma/splash.html
Brennan Thomas is a third-year Rhetoric & Writing PhD student and composition instructor. For more information, check out her personal webpage link.
Thai Tran thait@bgnet.bgsu.edu -- http://personal.bgsu.edu/~thait
Thai Tran came all the way from a remote but not unfamiliar land to the United States: Vietnam. She taught English as a foreign language in high school and college in the Mekong Delta. With an MA in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) from the University of Canberra (Australia), she sought further studies at BGSU in a discipline new to most Asian countries: rhetoric and composition.
Angela Zimmann angelaz@bgnet.bgsu.edu -- http://personal.bgsu.edu/~angelaz
Angela is a second-year student in the Rhetoric & Writing PhD program. She serves as a group leader for General Studies Writing at BG, along with teaching English 111. As an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Angela's research interests in the field of rhetoric are related to preaching and the uses of rhetoric within the congregation and the churchwide structure.
Lanette Cadle http://personal.bgsu.edu/~cadle/eportfolio
Karen Rowe http://personal.bgsu.edu/~kdrowe
Inez Schaechterle http://personal.bgsu.edu/~inezs/myweb/