Graduate Students

Masters Students

Genevieve Antonio

Genevieve Delali Antonio

  • MS Student

Research Interests

  • Environment and Culture
  • Creative Writing
Tucker Nielsen

Tucker D. Nielsen

  • MS Student

Research Interests

Tucker is studying processes for improving student retention in writing programs, specifically within writing centers. His work will focus on creating methods to reinforce the importance of composition and rhetoric for STEAM students.

PhD Candidates and Students

Eugene Agyei

Eugene Brown Agyei

  • PhD Student

Research Interests

Eugene’s research interests include communication studies, technical communication, new and digital media technologies and their disruption of traditional media practices. He's also interested in understanding trends in Africa's growing digital media space.

Ayodele Akinola

Ayodele James Akinola

  • PhD Student

Research Interests

James’ major interest revolves around digital humanities, visual rhetoric, digital communication and culture. He is also involved in digital discourses on humour, politics, misinformation and technical communication in the health industry.

  • PhD Student
  • He/Him/His

Personal Web Site

https://www.amaraizu.com

Research Interests

Genius is interested in Technoculture; working between digital humanities’ and digital cultures’ intersection with contemporary democracy and developmental practices, especially as it concerns media, migration and social justice.

Kendall Belopavlovich

Kendall Belopavlovich

  • PhD Candidate
  • They/Them/Theirs

Research Interests

Kendall's research interests include transnational cultural products and cultural policies, visual representations of indigeneity, Japanese anime and manga, global popular culture, and the work of acknowledging (decolonizing institutional spaces). 

D-Jay Bidwell

D-Jay Bidwell

  • PhD Student

Research Interests

D-Jay’s research interests center around  technical communication, usability studies, universal design, and rhetoric. Particularly, what rhetorical choices students in the writing classroom make when designing/writing materials.

Jordan Dagenais

Jordan Dagenais

  • PhD Student

Research Interests

  • Jordan’s research focuses on technical writing and editing, with a special focus on comic books used as a tool for technical communication and how mental health themes are communicated through them.
Fredrica Eduaful

Fredrica Markson Eduaful

  • PhD Student
Lindsay Hiltunen

Lindsay Hiltunen

  • PhD Student
  • Member, Michigan Historical Records Advisory Board

Research Interests

Lindsay is interested in intersections of archives, rhetorical production and meaning making in history, and memory studies, especially around contexts of labor upheaval, social movements, and contested public space. Other activities and interests include digital humanities, horror cinema and film studies generally, underground and marginalized music scenes, and sporting culture, especially ice hockey.

Aaron Hoover

Aaron Hoover

  • PhD Student
Nila Horner

Nila Horner

  • PhD Student

Research Interests

Social Media, Influencer Culture, Digital Humanities, Internet Policy, Information Science, Law & Culture

Brilynn Janckila

Brilynn Janckila

  • PhD Student
Emma Johnson

Emma C. Johnson

  • PhD Student

Research Interests

Cultural studies, aesthetics, socio-economic class, globalization, philosophy. Asymmetries in power in Palestine/Israel as a case study for invisible global structures.

Favour Normeshie

Favour Normeshie

  • PhD Student
Elizabeth Novotny

Elizabeth Novotny

  • PhD Candidate

Research Interests

  • Contemporary Rhetorical Theory (especially Poststructuralist/Postmodernist and New Materialist theories)
  • Continental Philosophy of Language
  • Writing Studies, Pedagogy, and Program Administration
Samantha Quade

Samantha Quade

  • PhD Candidate

Research Interests

  • Feminist Dystopian Fiction
  • Dystopia and Sci-Fi
  • Phenomenology, Recognition/Recognition Theory
  • Subjectivity and Subject Formation
  • Power and Agency
Tori Reeder

Tori Reeder

  • PhD Student
Lior Rosenfield

Lior Rosenfield

  • PhD Student

Research Interests

  • Phenomenology of technology, metaphysics, and the possibility of a future in a technological world.
  • Phenomenology of Support. Can we save our normative language in an engineered society? Or perhaps we are at a point in which we have to focus our attention on the meaning of support rather than evaluating The Evidence.
Kim Rosewall

Kim Rosewall

  • PhD Student

Research Interests

  • Kim's research interests include literary theory, feminism and gender studies, and critical theory. She is particularly interested in teaching literature and gender studies at the post-secondary level and the best ways to navigate the difficult discussions therein.
Sharvaree Sawant

Sharvaree Sawant

  • PhD Student

Research Interests

  • Media and Communication
  • Indian Mythology
  • Audience Perception
Basanti Timalsina

Basanti Timalsina

  • PhD Candidate
  • She/Her/Hers