PhD Alumni | Rhetoric and Composition
List includes students' dissertation titles and current placement.
Amanda Ayers
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“‘Care for the Souls of Our Students’: Practicing Care in the Social-Justice Oriented Writing Classroom” / Visiting Assistant Professor, College of Charleston |
Sam Kronforst
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“I Am Because We Are: A Community-Based Writing Center Grounded in African Rhetorical Traditions” / Adjunct Professor at Valencia College and Florida Southwestern State College |
Bridgette Sanders
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“Empathy and Healing in Sistah Mentoring in Rhetoric and Composition Programs” / Visiting Instructor of Writing, University of Florida |
Ashley Pendleton Lister
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"'Finding the Dead Girl': A Critical Archival Analysis of Literacy Ancestorship in the Works of Toni Morrison" / Instructor of English and Debate Team Advisor, Wewahitchka High School |
Hannah Betz
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"AI and Writing: Where Are We Now?" |
Drew Hudnall
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"From White Ideological Literacy to Racial Literacy: A Road Map of Critical Transformations for White Writing Instructors" |
Britt Barron
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"'I'm 100% that Bitch': The Feminism and Feminist Rhetorical Strategies of Lizzo" / Coordinator of Nationally Competitive Scholarships, University of North Georgia-Gainesville |
Rob Cole
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"Concurrent Curricular & Worksite Transfer: A Study of Students' Writing Transfer through a College Work Internship" / Instructor of Writing at the University of Mississippi |
Amory Orchard
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"Composing Commitment: Diversity Statements on the Writing Studies Job Market" / Affiliate Professor in Writing, Grand Valley State University |
Ashleah Wimberly
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"A Constellation of Stories: Liminality and Transition in the Experiences of Graduate Student Instructors" / Assistant Professor of English, North Dakota State University |
Andrew Canino
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"(Re)Visions of Bitzer for New Media Ecologies: Rhetorical Situations and Social Media Rhetoric" / Visiting Teaching Professor at Florida International University |
Nitya Pandey
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"Care-Full Connections: Responding to Students' Writing in the Online Writing Instruction Classroom" / Assistant Professor of Instruction, Ohio University |
Joel Bergholtz
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"Birtherism of a Nation: Racial Ideologies and Antiracist Strategies in Response to Circulating Media Artifacts" / Instructor, University of Central Florida |
Brendan Hawkins
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"Generic Desires: Genre, Agency, and the Potential for Change in the Research Article Composing Process of Newcomers" / Senior Learning Experience Designer, Villanova University |
Amanda Presswood
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"Contending with Language Difference in the Writing Center: An Investigation of Attitudes and Expectations toward Second Language Writers" / Assistant Professor English, Southern New Hampshire University |
Tricia Rizza
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"Pulling Back the Curtain and Breaking Down Barriers: A Study of Race, Writing, and First-Year Composition at Two-Year Open Access Institutions" / Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, Tallahassee State College |
Kamila Albert
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"Design Thinking in Writing Centers" / Specialized Teaching Faculty and Director of the Reading Writing Centers and Digital Studios, Florida State University |
Mandy Brooks
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"Constellations of Beliefs: Self-Efficacy in an Online Writing Course" / Operations Lead at Grant Street Group |
Michael Healy
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"Tracing Techne: Distributed Histories of Invention, Creativity, and Text-Technologies in Rhetoric and Composition Scholarship from the 1990s" / Assistant Professor of English, Western Kentucky University |
Katelyn Stark
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"Writer Development Within and Outside the Composition Classroom: A Study of Concurrent Transfer" / National Marketing Director at Cookies |
Jessi Thomsen
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"Alternative Cartographies: Reflection(s) for the Complexities of Writing and Sustainability" / Assistant Professor of English, Western Kentucky University |
Ellen Cecil-Lemkin
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"Including Disability in Collaborative Writing Pedagogy" / Assistant Teaching Professor for the Writing Center at University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Amanda May
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"New(er) Accounts, New(er) Networks: An Examination of Writing Center Social Media Practice" / Assistant Professor and Writing Center Director, New Mexico Highlands University |
Kyllikki Rytov
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"iRhetoric: Classical Rhetoric in Digital Multimodal Compositions" / Adjunct Teaching Faculty, Northern Kentucky University |
Meghan Velez
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"Framing ‘Quality’ in Context: A Study of Writing, Assessment, and What We Value in Quality Enhancement Plans" / Assistant Professor Writing and Rhetoric, University of Central Florida |
Amy Cicchino
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"Notes Toward A Panoramic View: A National Portrait Of GTA Writing Pedagogy Education Across Doctoral Programs In Rhetoric and Composition" / Associate Professor, University of Central Florida |
Anna Worm
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"Embodied Experiences in the Online Writing Center" |
Jeanette Lehn
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"A Renewed Critical Pedagogy: Rethinking Activism within Writing Program Administration" / Associate Professor of English, Barry University |
Travis Maynard
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"A Curriculum Delivered, A Curriculum Remembered: An Alumni Study of a Undergraduate Concentration in Writing and Rhetoric" / Associate Professor, Elon University |
Julianna Edmonds
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"Revitalizing Feminist Ethics for Composition Studies: From Standpoint to Epistemology" / Instructor, Florida Atlantic University |
David Bedsole
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"Striking a Chord: Playing (with) Music in the Writing Classroom" / Communications Specialist III, The University of Alabama |
Martha McKay Canter
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"Rhetoric on a Slant: Eighteenth-Century Performances in Sarah Fielding" / Visiting Instructor, University of South Florida |
Joe Cirio
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"Everyday Writing Assessment: An Alternate Approach to Writing Assessment Theory" / Associate Professor of Writing & First-Year Studies, Stockton University |
Jason Custer
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"More Modes, More Problems: Examining Tutor Education in Multimodal Writing Centers" / Assistant Professor of English, Midway University |
Jennifer Enoch
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"'Do Not Forget His Name': Making and Remaking the Self in Everyday Writing" / WPA and Associate Professor, Northwestern State University of Louisiana |
Jeff Naftzinger
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"A Portrait of Everyday Writing: A Writer-Informed Approach" / Senior Researcher, IronArch Technology |
Andrew Burgess
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"'Like a Rolling Stone': Moving Toward Methodologies for Analysis of Multimodal Musical Performance" / Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Buffalo |
Aimee Jones
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"The Role of Motivation in International ESL Graduate Students' Engagement with Writing at the University Writing Center" / Assistant Professor, Barry University |
Megan Keaton
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"'I Just Kinda Messed with It': Investigating Students' Resources for Learning Digital Composing Technologies Outside of Class" / Assistant Professor, Pfeiffer University |
Heather Lang
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"Understanding, Perception, and Accommodation of Disability in Writing Centers" / Director of Academic Professional Development, Community College of Aurora |
Erin Workman
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"Visualizing Transfer: How Do Students' Conceptual Writing Knowledge Structures Connect to Their Transfer of Writing Knowledge and Practice?" / Associate Professor of Writing, Rhetoric & Discourse, and Director of The Women's Center, DePaul University |
Kendall Sanchez
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"Requisite to Great Undertakings: Impacts of Self-Efficacy Beliefs in College Composition Instructors" |
Molly Daniel
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"Dancing into the Digital: Embodied Performance and Digital Multimodal Composition" / Associate Professor, University of North Georgia |
Bruce Bowles
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"Taken Out of Context?: Examining the Influence of Context on Teachers' Written Responses to Student Writing" / Associate Professor of English, Texas A&M University-Central Texas |
Logan Bearden
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"Favorable Outcomes: The Role of Outcomes Statements in Multimodal Curricular Transformation" / Associate Professor, Nova Southeastern University |
Jacob Craig
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"The Past is Awake: Situating Composers' Mobile Practices within their Composing Histories" / Associate Professor and Director of Writing, Rhetoric, and Publication, College of Charleston |
Brittany Boykins
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"Inclusive Pulpit? Rhetoric and Gender in the African Methodist Episcopal Church" / Assistant Professor, Florida A&M University |
Leah Cassorla
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"The Shifting Sands of Authority in the Age of Digital Convergence" |
Kendra Mitchell
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"Language in the Center: A Case Study of Multilingual Learners in a Historically Black University Writing Center" / Associate Professor, Florida A&M University |
Christine Martorana
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"Looking Outside to Empower Within: Feminist Activists, Feminist Agency, and the Composition Classroom" / Associate Teaching Professor and Associate Director of Writing Across the Curriculum, Florida International University |
Bret Zawilski
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"When All That Is Old Becomes New: Transferring Writing Knowledge and Practice Across Print, Screen, and Network Spaces" / Lecturer in Critical Skills, Maynooth University, Ireland |
Leigh Graziano
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"Mourning the Dead: Living Memorials, Rhetorical Functions, and Everyday Multimodality" / Associate Professor, Western Oregon University |
Rory Lee
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"Now with More Modes?: The Curricular Design and Implementation of Multimodality in Undergraduate Major Programs in Writing/Rhetoric" / Associate Professor and Director of the Writing Program, Ball State University |
Stephen McElroy
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"Assembling Postcards: The Multimodal Production of Curt Teich & Company" / Associate Professor and Director of First-Year Writing, Babson College |
Josh Mehler
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"Mobile Vulgus: Everyday Writing, Portable Technology, and Counterpublics" / Learning Consultant at Healthesystems |
Jennifer O'Malley
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"Writing as a Social Practice: How Interaction and Circulation are Enacted in the First-Year Writing Class" / Learning Consultant at Healthesystems |
Elizabeth Powers
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"Reconstructing Florida's Ethos" / Associate Professor and Writing Center Director, University of Maine at Augusta |
Natalie Szymanski
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"Untangling the Ecological Knots: Exploring the Creation and Maintenance of Sustainable Technology-enabled First Year Composition Programs" / Assistant Professor and Director of the College Writing Program, Buffalo State University |
Katherine Bridgman
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"Dissolving Transnational Boundaries: Interfaces and Invitations to Embody" / Associate Professor and Writing Center Director at Texas A&M University, San Antonio |
matt davis
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"Rhetorical Composing: A Multimodal, Multimedia Model of Literacy" / Professor and Co-Director of Writing across the Curriculum, University of Massachusetts, Boston |
scott gage
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"Creating the Cult: Image-Word in the Formation of a Supremacist Community" / Associate Professor, Texas A&M, San Antonio |
Tony Ricks
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"Communal Belief and Textual Invention: An Ethnographic Analysis of First-Year College Students' Writing Processes in a Living Learning Community" / English Faculty, Excelsior University |
Liane Robertson
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"The Significance of Course Content in the Transfer of Writing Knowledge from First-Year Composition to Other Academic Contexts" / Associate Professor and WPA, University of South Florida, Tampa |
Kara Taczak
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"Connecting the Dots: Does Reflection Foster Transfer?" / Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric, University of Central Florida |
Kenya MaKonnen Thompkins
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"One Size Doesn't Fit All: A Descriptive Study of First-Year Writing at Selected Florida Colleges and Universities" / Professor, Tallahassee State College |
Terra Williams Bradley
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"Student Discussion of Assigned Reading in Online First-Year Writing Courses" / Assistant Dean for Research Administration and Senior Research Associate, College of Medicine, Florida State University |
Amy Hodges Hamilton
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"Writing From the Inside Out: Connecting Self and Community in the First-Year Writing Classroom" / Professor, Belmont University |
Dan Melzer
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"Assignments across the Curriculum: A Study of Writing in the Disciplines" / Professor, University of California, Davis |
Pavel Zemliansky
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"Genuine Training in Academic Discourse or an Artificial Construct?: Reconsidering the Past, Present, and Future of the College Research Paper" / Associate Professor of English for Academic Purposes, Oslo Metropolitan University |
Deborah Teague
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"The Effects of College-Level Academic SkillsTest Instruction on the Development of First-Year Writers" / Director of College Writing, Flagler College |
Ronald F. Lunsford
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"The Topic-Focus Method: An Experiment in Thesis Construction" / Emeritus Professor of English, University of North Carolina-Charlotte |