PhD Alumni | Rhetoric and Composition

List includes students' dissertation titles and current placement.

Britt Barron
2024

"'I'm 100% that Bitch': The Feminism and Feminist Rhetorical Strategies of Lizzo"

Rob Cole
2024

"Concurrent Curricular & Worksite Transfer: A Study of Students' Writing Transfer through a College Work Internship"

Amory Orchard
2024

"Composing Commitment: Diversity Statements on the Writing Studies Job Market" / Affiliate Professor in Writing, Grand Valley State University

Ashleah Wimberly
2024

"A Constellation of Stories: Liminality and Transition in the Experiences of Graduate Student Instructors" / Assistant Professor of English, North Dakota State University

Andrew Canino
2023

"(Re)Visions of Bitzer for New Media Ecologies: Rhetorical Situations and Social Media Rhetoric" / Teaching Faculty, Archimedean Academy

Nitya Pandey
2023

"Care-Full Connections: Responding to Students' Writing in the Online Writing Instruction Classroom" / Assistant Professor of Instruction, Ohio University

Joel Bergholtz
2022

"Birtherism of a Nation: Racial Ideologies and Antiracist Strategies in Response to Circulating Media Artifacts" / Instructor, University of Central Florida

Brendan Hawkins
2022

"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
2022

"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
2022

"Pulling Back the Curtain and Breaking Down Barriers: A Study of Race, Writing, and First-Year Composition at Two-Year Open Access Institutions" / Associate Dean of Faculty Initiatives, Tallahassee State College

Kamila Albert
2021

"Design Thinking in Writing Centers" / Specialized Teaching Faculty and Director of the Reading Writing Centers and Digital Studios, Florida State University

Mandy Brooks
2021

"Constellations of Beliefs: Self-Efficacy in an Online Writing Course"

Michael Healy
2021

Michael Healy "Tracing Techne: Distributed Histories of Invention, Creativity, and Text-Technologies in Rhetoric and Composition Scholarship from the 1990s" / Instructor, Western Kentucky University

Katelyn Stark
2021

"Writer Development Within and Outside the Composition Classroom: A Study of Concurrent Transfer" / Manager, Marketing and Creative Media, Grow Healthy

Jessi Thomsen
2021

"Alternative Cartographies: Reflection(s) for the Complexities of Writing and Sustainability" / Assistant Professor of English, Western Kentucky University

Ellen Cecil-Lemkin
2020

"Including Disability in Collaborative Writing Pedagogy"/ Teaching Faculty, University of Wisconsin

Amanda May
2020

"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
2020

"iRhetoric: Classical Rhetoric in Digital Multimodal Compositions" / Adjunct Assistant Professor, Baruch College

Meghan Velez
2020

"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
2019

"Notes Toward A Panoramic View: A National Portrait Of GTA Writing Pedagogy Education Across Doctoral Programs In Rhetoric and Composition" / Associate Director for CTLE, and Adjunct Faculty, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Anna Worm
2019

"Embodied Experiences in the Online Writing Center" / Assistant Professor, West Virginia University Institute of Technology

Jeanette Lehn
2019

"A Renewed Critical Pedagogy: Rethinking Activism within Writing Program Administration" / Assistant Professor of English, Barry University

Travis Maynard
2019

"A Curriculum Delivered, A Curriculum Remembered: An Alumni Study of a Undergraduate Concentration in Writing and Rhetoric" / Assistant Professor, Elon University

Julianna Edmonds
2019

"Revitalizing Feminist Ethics for Composition Studies: From Standpoint to Epistemology" / Instructor, Florida Atlantic University

David Bedsole
2019

"Striking a Chord: Playing (with) Music in the Writing Classroom" / Marketing and Communications Coordinator, Culverhouse College of Business, University of Alabama

Martha McKay Canter
2018

"Rhetoric on a Slant: Eighteenth-Century Performances in Sarah Fielding" / Visiting Instructor, University of South Florida

Joe Cirio
2018

"Everyday Writing Assessment: An Alternate Approach to Writing Assessment Theory" / Associate Professor of Writing & First-Year Studies, Stockton University

Jason Custer
2018

"More Modes, More Problems: Examining Tutor Education in Multimodal Writing Centers" / Assistant Professor of English, Midway University

Jennifer Enoch
2018

"'Do Not Forget His Name': Making and Remaking the Self in Everyday Writing" / Assistant Professor, Northwestern State University of Louisiana

Jeff Naftzinger
2018

"A Portrait of Everyday Writing: A Writer-Informed Approach" / Assistant Professor, Sacred Heart University

Andrew Burgess
2017

"'Like a Rolling Stone': Moving Toward Methodologies for Analysis of Multimodal Musical Performance" / Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Buffalo

Aimee Jones
2017

"The Role of Motivation in International ESL Graduate Students' Engagement with Writing at the University Writing Center" / Assistant Professor, Barry University

Megan Keaton
2017

"'I Just Kinda Messed with It': Investigating Students' Resources for Learning Digital Composing Technologies Outside of Class" / Assistant Professor, Pfeiffer University

Heather Lang
2017

"Understanding, Perception, and Accommodation of Disability in Writing Centers" / Assistant Professor, Susquehanna University

Erin Workman
2017

"Visualizing Transfer: How Do Students' Conceptual Writing Knowledge Structures Connect to Their Transfer of Writing Knowledge and Practice?" / Assistant Professor and Director of First-Year Writing, DePaul University

Kendall Sanchez
2017

"Requisite to Great Undertakings: Impacts of Self-Efficacy Beliefs in College Composition Instructors"

Molly Daniel
2016

"Dancing into the Digital: Embodied Performance and Digital Multimodal Composition" / Assistant Professor, University of North Georgia

Bruce Bowles
2016

"Taken Out of Context?: Examining the Influence of Context on Teachers' Written Responses to Student Writing" / Assistant Professor and Director of the University Writing Center, Texas A&M University-Central Texas

Logan Bearden
2016

"Favorable Outcomes: The Role of Outcomes Statements in Multimodal Curricular Transformation" / Associate Professor, Nova Southeastern University

Jacob Craig
2016

"The Past is Awake: Situating Composers' Mobile Practices within their Composing Histories" / Assistant Professor and Director of Writing, Rhetoric, and Publication, College of Charleston

Brittany Boykins
2016

"Inclusive Pulpit? Rhetoric and Gender in the African Methodist Episcopal Church" / Assistant Professor, Florida A&M University

Leah Cassorla
2015

"The Shifting Sands of Authority in the Age of Digital Convergence" / Visiting Assistant Professor, Trinity College Hartford, CT

Kendra Mitchell
2015

"Language in the Center: A Case Study of Multilingual Learners in a Historically Black University Writing Center" / Assistant Professor, Florida A&M University

Christine Martorana
2015

"Looking Outside to Empower Within: Feminist Activists, Feminist Agency, and the Composition Classroom" / Instructor, Florida International University, Writing Across the Curriculum Consultant

Bret Zawilski
2015

"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
2014

"Mourning the Dead: Living Memorials, Rhetorical Functions, and Everyday Multimodality" / Associate Professor, Western Oregon University

Rory Lee
2014

"Now with More Modes?: The Curricular Design and Implementation of Multimodality in Undergraduate Major Programs in Writing/Rhetoric" / Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Composition, Ball State University

Stephen McElroy
2014

"Assembling Postcards: The Multimodal Production of Curt Teich & Company" / Assistant Professor and Director of First-Year Writing, Babson College

Josh Mehler
2014

"Mobile Vulgus: Everyday Writing, Portable Technology, and Counterpublics" / Learning Consultant at Healthesystems

Jennifer O'Malley
2014

"Writing as a Social Practice: How Interaction and Circulation are Enacted in the First-Year Writing Class" / Learning Consultant at Healthesystems

Elizabeth Powers
2014

"Reconstructing Florida's Ethos" / Associate Professor and Writing Center Director, University of Maine at Augusta

Natalie Szymanski
2014

"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
2014

"Dissolving Transnational Boundaries: Interfaces and Invitations to Embody" / Associate Professor and Writing Center Director at Texas A&M University, San Antonio

matt davis
2012

"Rhetorical Composing: A Multimodal, Multimedia Model of Literacy" / Associate Professor and Director of the Center on Media and Society, University of Massachusetts, Boston

scott gage
2011

"Creating the Cult: Image-Word in the Formation of a Supremacist Community" / Associate Professor, Texas A&M, San Antonio

Tony Ricks
2011

"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
2011

"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
2011

"Connecting the Dots: Does Reflection Foster Transfer?" / Teaching Associate Professor and ePortfolio Coordinator, University of Denver

Kenya MaKonnen Thompkins
2007

"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
2006

"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
2005

"Writing From the Inside Out: Connecting Self and Community in the First-Year Writing Classroom" / Professor, Belmont University

Dan Melzer
2002

"Assignments across the Curriculum: A Study of Writing in the Disciplines" / Professor and Director of First-Year Writing, University of California, Davis

Pavel Zemiliansky
2002

"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
1990

"The Effects of College-Level Academic SkillsTest Instruction on the Development of First-Year Writers" / Director of College Writing, Flagler College