Masters Students

Genevieve Delali Antonio
- MS Student
- gantonio@mtu.edu
- Walker 331
Research Interests
- Environment and Culture
- Creative Writing

Tucker D. Nielsen
- MS Student
- tdnielse@mtu.edu
- Walker 141
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 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.

Ayodele James Akinola
- PhD Student
- aakinola@mtu.edu
- Walker 140
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
- iamaraiz@mtu.edu
- Walker 314
Personal Web Site
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
- 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
- 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
- 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.

Fredrica Markson Eduaful
- PhD Student
- fmarkson@mtu.edu
- Walker 332

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

Brilynn Janckila
- PhD Student
- bjancki@mtu.edu
- Walker 313

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.

Nila McGinnis
- PhD Student
Research Interests
Social Media, Influencer Culture, Digital Humanities, Internet Policy, Information Science, Law & Culture

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

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
- PhD Student
- tcreeder@mtu.edu
- Walker 333

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

Basanti Timalsina
- PhD Candidate
- She/Her/Hers
- btimalsi@mtu.edu
- Walker 329D