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Cydney Alexis
PhD Candidate
Minor: Material Culture Studies
BA, English, the University of Florida
MA, Film & Media Studies, the University of Florida
JD (anticipated August 2006) from the University of Wisconsin
cydneyalexis [at] gmail [dot] com

Interests: material culture, popular culture, visual culture, consumer culture, thrift stores/theme parks/sites of consumption, vernacular architecture, visual rhetoric, writing program administration, writing center pedagogy, ethics, citizenship, traveling around Wisconsin, and taking my dog on long walks.



Scot Barnett
PhD Candidate
Minor: Communication Arts
BA, English, Penn State University
Secondary Teaching Certification, North Carolina State University
MA, Rhetoric and Composition, North Carolina State University
rsbarnett [at] wisc [dot] edu / blog / currently teaching: English 201

Interests: critical theory, cultural studies, rhetorical theory, visual rhetorics, spatial rhetorics, new media studies, rhetorics of science and technology



Maria Bibbs
PhD Candidate
BA, English Literature, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
MA, Afro-American Studies, University of Wisconsin- Madison
mlbibbs [at] wisc [dot] edu

Interests: African American rhetorical traditions, the Black press, autobiography, visual rhetoric, critical race theory, and the educational philosophy of Paulo Freire.


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Rush Daniel
PhD Student



John Drake
PhD Candidate
BA, Columbia College Chicago (1997)
MA, Temple University (1999)

Interests: the philosophy of language; the potential applications of avant-garde aesthetic theories upon the discourse of the public sphere; the history of rhetoric; the rhetoric of non-linguistic argumentation; the rhetorical significance of kitsch upon the ideology of mass-culture and deconstructive pedagogies of socio-cultural development and representation



Beth Godbee
PhD Candidate
Minor: Children's and Adolescents' Literature
MA, English with an Emphasis in Rhetoric, Composition, and Professional Writing, Georgia State University (2005)
Teaching Certification, Secondary Education in Political Science (Grades 6-12), Agnes Scott College (2002)
BA, Political Science; Minor in Women's Studies, Agnes Scott College (2001)
bethgodbee [at] gmail [dot] com

Interests: Writing centers, tutoring practice, composition pedagogy, women's rhetoric, women's studies, democratic theory, literacy studies, digital literacies, archival research, qualitative research methodologies, and children's and adolescents' literature


Melvin Hall
PhD Candidate



Melanie Hoftyzer
PhD Candidate


David Hudson
David Paul Hudson
PhD Student
B.S. University of Southern Indiana
M.A. Southern Illinois University

Interests: religious rhetorics, literacy studies, citizenship, histories of rhetoric, composition pedagogy and administration, and adolescent literature.


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Rik Hunter
PhD Candidate
Distributed Minor: New Literacy & New Media Studies / Games, Learning, and Society
BFA, Art & Design, Northern Michigan University (1996)
BS, English, Northern Michigan University (2002)
MA, English (Composition and Writing), Northern Michigan University (2004)
rlhunter [at] wisc [dot] edu / blog / wiki / some past courses: English 201 -- Fall 2006 / Spring 2007 (.doc) / Spring 2008

Interests: collaborative writing; literacies studies; multiliteracies; new media studies/literacies; fan studies/participatory culture; service-learning; the writing major; autoethnography; narrative; and . . . making awesome smores.



Tim Laquintano
PhD Candidate
MA, English, Rutgers University
BA, English, University of Pittsburgh
laquintano [at] wisc [dot]edu

Interests: literacy studies; rhetorical theory; disciplinary history of composition-rhetoric; history of the essay



Rebecca Lorimer
PhD Student
MA, English - Composition, San Francisco State University
BA, English - Creative Writing, University of Southern California
rlorimer [at] wisc [dot] edu

Interests: writing assessment, writing program administration, writing across the curriculum, second language writing, composition pedagogy, service learning


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Antonia E. Massa-MacLeod
PhD Student
MA, English – Literary Studies, University of Wisconsin
BA, English – Mount Holyoke College
massamacleod [at] wisc [dot] edu

Interests: composition pedagogy, literacy studies, ethnography, immigration, the memoir & creative non-fiction, and how class & gender intersect with all of these.



Kim Moreland
PhD Student
BA, English, the University of Wisconsin
MA (anticipated January 2008), Applied English Linguistics
klmorela [at] wisc [dot] edu

Interests: critical theory, discourse analysis, rhetorical theory, semiotics, classroom films, consent forms



Terry Nuckolls
PhD Student
BA, Northwestern College, Watertown, WI
MDiv, Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, Mequon, WI
MA English (applied English linguistics), UW-Madison
Teaching Assistant: English as a Second Language Program
tbnuckolls [at] wisc [dot] edu

Interests: Biblical Studies, Puritan Rhetoric, History, Writing from the perspective of a nonnative speaker



Matthew Pearson
PhD Candidate
Minor: Distributed (focus on Cities and Urban Education)
BA, Literary Studies and Sociology, Beloit College
MEd, English Education, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
mdpearson [at] wisc [dot] edu

Interests: community-based writing; online writing/emerging genres; non-formal (i.e., not school-based) literacy; university/community partnerships; writing across the curriculum; writing center administration and instruction; the rhetoric of everyday life; pop music; and basketball



Jacqueline Preston
PhD Student
Distributed Minor: Qualitative Methods
MA, English (Comp/Rhet), Wright State University
Master of Humanities, English, Wright State University
Thesis: Emerson's Rhetoric: Restructuring Religious Thought Through Metaphor
BA, English Education, Ohio University, Athens
jspreston [at] wisc [dot] edu

Research Interests: ethnography, rhetoric of social movement and cultural change, community-based literacies, competing rhetorics, rhetoric of class.

Theoretical Interests: Sociohistoric, Sociocultural, Burke and Bakhtin


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Dave Stock
PhD Student
Minor: Distributed, emphasis in rhetoric and education
MA, English--Rhetoric & Composition, Brigham Young University
BA, English, Brigham Young University
dstock [at] wisc [dot] edu

Interests: rhetorical education, writing across the curriculum/writing centers, genre theory, histories of rhetoric and composition, civic rhetoric, service learning, writing program administration, new media studies



Katy Southern
PhD Candidate

Interests: literacy programming in libraries (historical approaches); literacy practices outside of compulsory education; research as a recursive, rhetorical process; research methodologies in Composition-Rhetoric and Library & Information Studies; learning differences and alternative
pedagogies; children's and YA literature



Christine Stephenson
PhD Candidate
Minor: Higher Education Leadership and Policy Analysis
MFA (credit completed toward), Poetry, Northern Michigan University
MA, English, Literature and Writing (dual track), Northern Michigan University
BA, English, Waynesburg College
cstephenson [at] wisc [dot] edu

Interests: The role of rhetoric in formations of ideology, community, and culture; the effects of the rhetorical encounter on identity and community/cultural membership; civic and political discourse in contemporary and historical contexts; classical rhetoric, poetics, and contemporary writing pedagogies; higher education leadership, community, and mission. Also a crazy avid lifelong Pittsburgh Steelers fan!
(just had to throw that in).

Favorite quote of the moment: "You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country." Robert Frost



Christopher J. Syrnyk
PhD Candidate
Minor: Literary Studies (focus on the Body in the Humanities)
BA, Russian Literature, University of Oregon
REESC Certificate, University of Oregon
MA, Russian Literature, University of Oregon
MA, English and American Literature, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
ABD, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Part-time Provisional Certificate with the Wisconsin Technical College System
cjsyrnyk [at] wisc [dot] edu

Interests:The intersection of rhetoric and literature; ethics; disability studies; the animal question; the Sophists; classical and contemporary rhetorical theory and history; composition and pedagogy; history of ideas; voice; rhetoric of voicelessness; rights-based argumentation; WPA.

And when my nose is not in a book: good cheeses; the outdoors; the Arts and Crafts movement; Mission-style furniture; and single malt scotch from the Islay region; and my family.


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Kate Vieira
PhD Candidate
Minor: Distributed minor in global studies
BA, English, University of Texas at Austin
MA, Literary Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison
kevieira [at] wisc [dot] edu

Interests: biliteracy, global studies, feminist theory, immigration narratives, composition pedagogy


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Annette Vee
PhD Candidate
Minor: Distributed, with a focus on uses of technology in education
MA, English literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison
BA, English (minors in African American studies and education), Princeton University
avee [at] wisc [dot] edu

Interests: from African American lit to the uses of technology to enhance the writing classroom, particularly through the use of blogs

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