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 Communication and Culture, Digital Humanities, Media Studies, focusing on tourism and hospitality services' online reviews. He explores how tourist imaginaries interact in the digital representation of iconic tourist destinations to illuminate broader cultural and societal dynamics

D-Jay Bidwell

D-Jay Bidwell

  • PhD Student
  • Graduate Teaching Instructor
  • Assistant Director of Composition

Research Interests

D-Jay’s research interests center on technical communication, usability studies, universal design, accessibility, and disability studies, with a particular emphasis on rhetoric. In his work, he examines the rhetorical choices students in the writing classroom make when designing and composing materials, especially how these choices intersect with inclusive and accessible design practices.

Jordan Dagenais

Jordan Dagenais

  • PhD Student

Research Interests

  • Jordan researches the writing classroom, with special focus on first-year writing, writing program administration, technical writing, and multimodal composition.
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

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
Beheshteh Mikaniki

Beheshteh Mikaniki

  • PhD Student

Links of Interest

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Specialties

Intellectual Property Law, Science and Technology, Feminist and gender studies, Media and globalization, communication, digital copyright, and virtual worlds,

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 Rosenfeld

  • PhD Candidate

Links of Interest

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Research Interests

Lior Rosenfeld obtained an M.A. in Philosophy from the New School in 2020. Currently, Lior is a fourth-year Ph.D. Candidate at Michigan Technological University. In his research, Lior investigates how the phenomenological description of the life-world alleviates the tension between democracy and science as illustrated by contemporary examples such as climate change denial and vaccine skepticism.

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

I have a keen interest in academic research at the intersection of documentary, visual cultures, history, and subalternity. I aim to conduct relevant research related to film as a mediation between historical master narratives and subaltern perspectives and explore these topics through the lens of Marxist historiography and film theory.

Samantha Stein-Brevitz

Samantha Stein-Brevitz