Masters Students
Hooriya Habib
Research Interests
- Technical Communication
- Virtual Reality
- Augmented Reality
- AI Writing
- Scientific Writing.
- Technical Writing
Anna Lindgren
- amlindgr@mtu.edu
- 906-458-3763
- Walker 313
Research Interests
- Indigenous Studies
- Language Revitalization
- Decolonization
- Indigenous Storytelling
Edith Ogbodo
Research Interests
- Communication
- Technology
- Human Machine Communication,
- Digital Media
- Gender Studies
- Culture
- Drama and Performance.
—Annette J. Dunlea
Cornelius Fuumaale Suom-Kogle
- cfsuomko@mtu.edu
- Walker 311
Research Interests
- Technical communication
- Critical Discourse Analysis
- Multimodal Studies
- Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis
- Usability studies
- Rhetoric
PhD Candidates and Students
Eugene Brown Agyei
- PhD Student
- eagyei@mtu.edu
- Walker 140
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.
James Akinola
- aakinola@mtu.edu
- Walker 140
Research Interests
- James's primary interest lies at the intersection of digital communication and digital humanities, focusing on online reviews within tourism and hospitality services. He explores how digital affordances and tourist imaginaries interact in the representation of iconic tourist destinations to illuminate broader cultural and societal dynamics.
Kendall Belopavlovich
- PhD Candidate
- They/Them/Theirs
- kybelopa@mtu.edu
- Walker 312
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
- PhD Student
- Graduate Teaching Instructor
- Assistant Director of Composition
- djbidwel@mtu.edu
- Walker 314
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
- PhD Student
- jpdagena@mtu.edu
- Walker 311
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.
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
- PhD Student
Nila Horner
- PhD Student
Research Interests
Social Media, Influencer Culture, Digital Humanities, Internet Policy, Information Science, Law & Culture
Brilynn Janckila
- PhD Candidate
- bjanckil@mtu.edu
- Walker 313
Specialties
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Girlhood studies, Barbie and Barbie media, feminist research methods, fan culture, writing studies, and writing program/writing center administration, usability and social justice in technical communication
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.
Ronald Klingler
- rlklingl@mtu.edu
- Walker 311
Research Interests
- Philosophy of Language
- Political Philosophy
- Dialogue between Pre and Postmodern thought
Erick Kunkuri
- edkunkur@mtu.edu
- 906-319-9190
- Walker 311
Research Interests
- Technical and professional communication
- The intersections between language and law
Favour Normeshie
- PhD Student
- fnormesh@mtu.edu
- Walker 332
Elizabeth Novotny
- PhD Candidate
- ecwahmho@mtu.edu
- Walker 331
Research Interests
- Contemporary Rhetorical Theory (especially Poststructuralist/Postmodernist and New Materialist theories)
- Continental Philosophy of Language
- Writing Studies, Pedagogy, and Program Administration
—Exploring the Rhetoric of Crisis Exploitation in the Mepe Flood in Ghana. Presented at the 10th International Conference of the African Association for Rhetoric
Beatrice Quarm
- baquarm@mtu.edu
- Walker 329D
Research Interests
- Digital Technologies, Dataveillance and Society
- Crisis and Political Rhetoric
- Power Dynamics in the Digital Era
- Social Media and Identity Construction
Lior Rosenfield
- PhD Student
- lrosenfe@mtu.edu
- Walker 311
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
- PhD Student
- klrosewa@mtu.edu
- Walker 313
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
- PhD Student
- ssawant2@mtu.edu
- Walker 332
Research Interests
- Media and Communication
- Indian Mythology
- Audience Perception
Samantha Stein-Brevitz
- sbstein@mtu.edu
- 231-557-5806
- Walker 332