New Masters Students (2009-2010)

Jessica N. Jackson

Jessica N. Jackson is a first-year Master's student in Rhetoric and Composition and a teaching assistant in the First-Year Composition program. Jessica received both her B.A. in Creative Writing in 1998 and her MPA in Public Administration in 2005 from Florida State University. She enjoys writing creative non-fiction and poetry. Upon completing her Master's, Jessica plans to pursue her Ph.D. Jessica's research projects include refining her focus on the impact of gender and culture on writing behaviors.

Caleb Sutton

Caleb Sutton is a first-year Master's student in Rhetoric and Composition and a teaching assistant in the First-Year Composition program. Caleb received his B.A. in English Writing with a minor in Spanish from the University of West Florida in Pensacola in 2006. He then worked as an ESL teacher/administrator in Trujillo, Peru, his home away from home. Caleb's research interests include the validity of multiple literacies and World Englishes in the context of the composition classroom.

Continuing Masters Students

Katie Bridgman

Katie Bridgman is a second-year Master's student in Rhetoric and Composition and a teaching assistant in the First-Year Composition program. Katie received her B.A. from the University of North Carolina-Asheville. Her interests include exploring a sociocultural perspective on literacy, as well as digital composition. She is delighted to be at a Research-1 institution and hopes to become more involved in ongoing research at FSU. While working on her Master's, Katie seeks to obtain a certificate in Critical Theory, after which she intends to pursue a Ph.D.

Leigh Gruwell

Leigh Gruwell is a second-year Master's student in Rhetoric and Composition and a teaching assistant in the First-Year Composition program. She received her B.A. in English Literature from FSU in April 2008, with minors in Communications and Humanities. Her interests include rhetoric of popular culture, feminist theory, and postmodern studies.

Jennifer O'Malley

Jennifer O'Malley is a second-year Master's student in Rhetoric and Composition, a teaching assistant in the First-Year Composition program and the program assistant for the Graduate Program in Rhetoric and Composition. . Originally from Ormond Beach, Fla., Jennifer received her B.A. in English with a minor in Writing from Jacksonville University in May 2006. Her interests include digital media in the first year composition classroom and the teaching of effective communication in the workplace.

Gilman Page

Gilman Page is a second-year Master's student in Rhetoric and Composition. Gilman received his B.A. in English from FSU in 2007. Gilman's interests include homiletics, the visual rhetoric of military-based images and sixteenth century English history. He plans to obtain a certificate in Critical Theory. He is recently married and works at the Office of Student Financial Services at FSU as an accounting specialist. Gilman hopes to fuse his business and book smarts together in order to one day get a job somewhere cold-Alaska or Colorado would be nice.

Minors in Rhetoric and Composition

Emily Dowd

Emily Dowd is currently a Ph.D. student in 18th Century British Literature, and is an Assistant to the Director of FSU's First-Year Composition program. Emily graduated from Florida State University with a M.A. in English. Her research focuses on the rhetorical construction of female authority and identity in 18th Century Literature and Periodicals. Recent work in Rhetoric and Composition includes a CCCC NYC 2007 presentation on International TAs and the language barrier in the FYC classroom, and research on transfer for CCCC with Kathleen Yancey.