Graduate Students

Research Interests

• Environment and Culture
• Creative Writing

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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• 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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Media and Communication
• Indian Mythology
• Audience Perception