Graduate Students

Masters Students

Hooriya Habib

Hooriya Habib

Research Interests

  • Technical Communication
  • Virtual Reality
  • Augmented Reality
  • AI Writing
  • Scientific Writing.
  • Technical Writing
Anna Lindgren

Anna Lindgren

Research Interests

  • Indigenous Studies
  • Language Revitalization
  • Decolonization
  • Indigenous Storytelling
Edith Ogbodo

Edith Ogbodo

Research Interests

  • Communication
  • Technology
  • Human Machine Communication,
  • Digital Media
  • Gender Studies
  • Culture
  • Drama and Performance.
Cornelius Fuumaale Suom-Kogle
"True humility is staying teachable, regardless of how much you already know."
—Annette J. Dunlea

Cornelius Fuumaale Suom-Kogle

Research Interests

  • Technical communication
  • Critical Discourse Analysis
  • Multimodal Studies
  • Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis
  • Usability studies
  • Rhetoric

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.

James Akinola

James Akinola

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

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
  • Graduate Teaching Instructor
  • Assistant Director of Composition

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.
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 Candidate

Specialties

  • 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 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.

Ronald Klingler

Ronald Klingler

Research Interests

  • Philosophy of Language
  • Political Philosophy
  • Dialogue between Pre and Postmodern thought
Erick Kunkuri

Erick Kunkuri

Research Interests

  • Technical and professional communication
  • The intersections between language and law
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
Beatrice Quarm
"Being Blessed with a Crisis:"
—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

Research Interests

  • Digital Technologies, Dataveillance and Society
  • Crisis and Political Rhetoric
  • Power Dynamics in the Digital Era
  • Social Media and Identity Construction
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
Samantha Stein-Brevitz

Samantha Stein-Brevitz