Graduate Profiles
Current Graduate Students
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Name: Todd Battistelli Program: PhD, English (Rhetoric and Writing) Website: http://locus.dwrl.utexas.edu/battistelli/ Projects: Forthcoming dissertation titled Appeals to Reason: Negotiating Rhetorical Propriety and Dialectical Constraints in Church-State Separation Discourse. Research Interests: History of Rhetoric, Composition, Political and Judicial Discourse, & the Rhetoric of Church-State Separation |
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Name: Will Burdette Program: PhD, English (Rhetoric and Writing, Digital Literacies and Literature) Projects: Tracing the spaces where writing and audio recording intersect. Research Interests: Digital Writing and Rsearch, Techno-Theory, Rhetoric, Audio Recording Technologies |
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Name: Doug Coulson Program: PhD, English (Rhetoric and Writing) Website: www.dougcoulson.info Projects: Forthcoming dissertation examining the rhetoric of race and law in judicial cases between WW I and WW II considering racial prerequisites to naturalization in the early U.S. naturalization statute. Research Interests: Legal Rhetoric, Political Rhetoric, Rhetoric and Race and Nationality; History of Rhetoric, Modernism Publications: "Distorted Records in 'Benito Cereno'; and the Slave Rebellion Tradition";Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities 22 (2010): 1-34. “Legal Writing and Disciplinary Knowledge-Building: A Comparative Study,” Journal of the Association of Legal Writing Directors 6 (2009): 160-99, available at http://www.alwd.org/JALWD/CurrentIssues/2009/Coulson_1.html. |
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Name: Eric Detweiler Program: PhD, English (Rhetoric and Writing) Projects: Upcoming 4Cs presentation "I Am Not My Ethos: The Use of Rhetorical Irony in Teachers' and Teaching Identity, " DWRL Immersive Environments group Research Interests: Rhetorical irony, pedagogy, the rhetorical construction of physical/virtual spaces, ethos construction Publications: "'I Was Just Making a Little Joke There': Irony and the Paradoxes of the Sitcom in The Office." Journal of Popular Culture. Forthcoming. "Hyperurbanity: Idealism, New Urbanism, and the Politics of Hyperreality in the Town of Celebration, Florida." Disneyland and Culture: Essays on the Parks and Their Influence. Ed. Kathy Merlock Jackson and Mark I. West. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011. |
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Name: Eric Dieter Program: PhD, English (Rhetoric and Writing) Projects: Completing dissertation, tentatively title "Enduring Character: The Persistence of Ethos and the Problems with Authenticity in the 2008 Presidential Election" Program & Curriculum Coordinator, Students Partnering with Undergraduates for Rhetoric Success (SPURS) Program, UT-Austin's Division of Diversity and Community Engagement Research Interests: Ethos and authenticity; American campaign politics; public debates on politics and policy; rhetoric and composition; rhetoric and literature, particularly 20th-century American; transitioning from high school to college writing; teaching English / writing teachers Other: DRW Assistant Director, 2004-2007. Member, Rhetoric Interest Group (RIG) |
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Name: Marjorie Foley Program: PhD, English (Rhetoric and Writing) Projects: Immersive Environments, Rhetoric Interest Group Research Interests: Clarity and obscurity, academic rhetoric, composition pedagogy, digital literacy |
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Name: Kendall Joy Gerdes Program: MA/PhD, English (Rhetoric and Writing) Website: http://www.visualcv.com/kendalljoy Projects: Spring 2011 MA Report on the performative force of humility in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest Research Interests: Ancient rhetorics, queer rhetorics, performativity, humility, David Foster Wallace |
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Name: Tekla Hawkins Program: PhD, English (Digital Literacies and Literature) Projects: DWRL Games Group, Graduate Student Rhetoric Interest Group Research Interests: Digital narratives, arguments of legitimacy, pedagogy & new media Publications: "The Role of Elijah in Ulysses Metempsychosis" Texas Studies in Literature and Language 51:4, "The Avatar that Therefore I Am (Following)" Currents in Electronic Literacy. 2010. Co-authored with Trevor Hoag. (Forthcoming). |
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Name: Mary Hedengren Program: PhD, English (Rhetoric and Writing) Projects: Rhetoric in emerging nations Research Interests: Rhetoric of poetics, identification, nationalism, WAC/WID, writing programs, assessment Publications: "The Service-Learning Brochure: A Proposed Solution to the Problems of Service Learning in the Composition Classroom.” With Jon Ogden. Locutorium 2009. Web.
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Name: Trevor Hoag Program: PhD, English (Rhetoric and Writing) Website: http://instructors.dwrl.utexas.edu/hoag/ Projects: Forthcoming Dissertation: "Leaving the Umbrella: A Rhetorical Ethics of Forgetting" Research Interests: Histories and theories of rhetoric(s), memory and forgetting studies, theories of writing, digital media, continental philosophy, rhetoric and philosophy (especially ethics), pedagogical theories. Publications: "The Avatar that Therefore I Am (Following)" Currents in Electronic Literacy. Digital Writing and Research Lab. University of Texas at Austin, 2010. Co-authored with Tekla Hawkins. (Forthcoming) |
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Name: Scott Nelson Program: PhD, English (Digital Literacies and Literature, Rhetoric and Writing) Projects: Rhetorical Peaks; The Agon Research Interests: Gaming pedagogy, code studies, DWRL, & multimodal literacies |
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Name: Stephanie Odom Program: PhD, English (Rhetoric and Writing) Research Interests: Composition pedagogy, writing in the disciplines, rhetoric and poetics |
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Name: Andrew Rechnitz Program: PhD, English (Rhetoric and Writing) Projects: "The Agon" Research Interests: High Theory, New Media Theory, Sophistic Rhetoric Education: B.A. Boston College, M.A. Colorado State |
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Name: Stephanie Stickney Program: PhD, English (Digital Literacies and Literatures, Rhetoric and Writing) Projects: Digital Literatures, new media and pedagogy Research Interests: Digital Literatures and online Fiction and Poetry Journals |
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Name: Amanda Wall Program: PhD, English (Digital Literacies and Literatures, Rhetoric and Writing) Projects: DWRL Audio/Video Research Group, Grad Student Rhetoric Interest Group Research Interests: Online argumentation, online communities, public & civic discourse, rhetorical genre theory, fan culture Publications: "Representing Gender: Constructing a Feminine Identity in the House of Representatives." Research in Political Sociology. Co-authored with Sheri Kunovich. Forthcoming 2012. |
Recent Alumni
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Name: John Jones Program: PhD, English (Digital Literacies and Literature), 2011 Current Position: Assistant Professor, West Virginia University Dissertation: "Embodied Rhetoric: Memory and Delivery in Networked Writing" Research Interests: Technology and Writing, New Media studies, Digital Media and Learning |
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Name: Matt King Program: PhD, English (Rhetoric and Writing), 2012 Current Position: Assistant Professor in Rhetoric, Writing, and Literature at St. Bonaventure University Website: http://instructors.dwrl.utexas.edu/king/ Research Interests: Rhetorics of Identification, 20th Century American Literature, New Media, Videogames |
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Name: Nate Kreuter Program: PhD, English (Rhetoric and Writing), 2010 Current Position: Assistant Professor, Western Carolina University Disseration: "Rhetorical Intelligence: The Role of Rhetoric in the US Intelligence Community" Research Interests: Political Rhetoric, Modernism, Prose Style, Epistemology, Visual and Digital Rhetorics, Pedagogy |
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Name: Sean McCarthy Program: PhD, English (Digital Literacies and Literature), 2012 Current Position: Assistant Professor in Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication at James Madison University Research Interests: Digital Literacies, Community Engagement |
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Name: Jasmine Mulliken Program: PhD, English (Digital Literacies and Literature), 2011 Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Oklahoma State University Research Interests: James Joyce, Digital Literature and Literacies, Digital Identities, Media Theory |
Name: Amy Root Program: PhD, English (Rhetoric and Writing), 2010 Current Position: Chair, Humanities Division, Concordia University Texas Research Interests: Modernism, American Literary Publishing, Kenneth Burke |
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Name: Dale Smith Program: PhD, English (Rhetoric and Writing), 2011 Current Position: Assistant Professor, Ryerson University, Toronto Website: http://rhetoricandpublics.wordpress.com/ Research Interests: Rhetorical Studies, Poetics, Public Culture, Art, Activism, and Technology |
