Graduate Students

Research Interests

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

Research Interests

• 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.

Research Interests

• 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.

Research Interests

• 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.

Research Interests

• 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.

Research Interests

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.