Graduate Students

Research Interests

Feminism, gender issues and the rhetoric in the politic discourse (focused on latinoamerican females leaders Eva Perón and Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner).

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My research interests include the theories and practice of composition and rhetoric pedagogy, the history of science and technology, scientific literacy, popular science, and the history of anti-intellectualism in the US.

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• Heather’s research interests include infertility, reproductive technologies, the clinical gaze, and theories of spatiality. One of her most recent projects concerns infertility and female embodiment through the visualization of the transvaginal ultrasound. Gazing through the lens of Foucault’s theories of spatiality, she has also explored LeCorbusier’s refashioning of subjectivity through the architectural form of whitewashing.

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• Silke’s current interests are exploring animal ethics and combining a knitting charity project with service learning/service teaching components. She is especially concerned with the disjuncture between our discussion of and our treatment of animals. In particular, examining the rhetoric used on animals, which often fragments them, can help shed light on the complicated nature of animal rights.

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• Shelly’s research interests include speculative fiction, satire, comedy, faux news, the philosophy of technology, popular science, and rhetoric. Of special interest are the intersections between comedy and rhetoric and the ambiguous role of comedians as public intellectuals, particularly their responsibilities when weighing in on political matters as well as on contentious scientific controversies.

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• Nancy works primarily at the intersection of discourse analysis, rhetoric, and literary studies with an emphasis on the relations between discourse, subalternity, and power. She has completed work on style in Ama Ata Aidoo’s narratives and has investigated issues of language and power in an electoral campaign.

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• Wenjing Liu's research interests include cultural studies, theories of feminism, and theoretical perspectives on everyday technologies. Her current project is about how bio-technologies, such as reproductive technologies and cosmetic technologies, shape females' understandings of their identities.

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• Tolu has an abiding interest in how discourses are employed to assign people to particular social categories. Her other areas of interest include Gender Studies, Black Studies, and Cultural Studies. She has previously conducted research on the sociolinguistics of major Nigerian popular culture forms, including Nollywood and Naija Hip-hop.

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• My research interest is on rhetorical representation of physical disability in selected African fiction, particularly the work of Florence Serwaa Oteng and John Maxwell Coetzee. I will look at the rhetoric of disability in selected works with a view to finding the general perception of disability. Particular emphasis will be placed on the issue of identity and the other. Critical evaluation will be made of types and stereotypes. Disability as a motif will be problematized and efforts will be made to prescribe the representation of disability.

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• Aranya’s research interests include cross-language composition, EFL writing, Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL), and multimodal composition. In her present project, she is exploring the application of new media studies in order to restructure remedial programs for college-level English composition.

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Richard’s research interests center around technical communication and composition pedagogies and the emphasizing of interdisciplinary collaborations that strengthen the university’s community literacy through a unified science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM). His present work applies this research in the technical communication classroom, where his students engage in service learning that applies their STEM experience to the industry and business of the visual and performing arts.