Jennifer Andrus <jandrus@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. candidate, Rhetoric

Jennifer Andrus is a Ph.D. Student, in Rhetoric.
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Nathan Atkinson <natkinso@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Rhetoric

Nathan Atkinson is a Ph.D. Student, in Rhetoric.
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Clover Bachman <cub@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. candidate, Literary and Cultural Studies

I am interested in the interdisciplinary foundations of aesthetics and how conceptions of cultural criticism, including art and literary criticism, fit into European intellectual history. My dissertation describes historically significant approaches to criticism (with an emphasis on the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries), examining their engagement with problems of judgment and subjectivity. The overall goal of my project is to explore how relationships between theories of knowledge and theories of imagination and creativity have come to define the modern critical undertaking - particularly in academic and institutional contexts. To what extent do the artworks and cultural examples we enjoy and engage with, come to represent back to us (through the critical process) a convergence of systematic knowledge and aesthetic pleasure? What preoccupies me throughout my research is the way objects of study are constituted intellectually. How are abstract or technical questions being posed? How do these questions themselves become legitimated through institutional programs of taste, knowledge, aesthetic autonomy, and aesthetic pleasure?
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Dan Baumgardt <dbaumgar@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Rhetoric

Dan Baumgardt is a Ph.D. Student, in Rhetoric.
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William Blake <wrblake@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Literary and Cultural Studies

William Blake is a Ph.D. Student, in Literary and Cultural Studies.
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Thomas Bondra <tbondra@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Literary and Cultural Studies

Thomas Bondra is a Ph.D. Student, in Literary and Cultural Studies.
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Julie Bowman <jdbowman@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Literary and Cultural Studies

Julie Bowman is a Ph.D. Student, in Literary and Cultural Studies.
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Thora Brylowe <tbrylowe@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. candidate, Literary and Cultural Studies

My dissertation traces the process by which early Romantic-era visual arts
ordered themselves into a field. Painters and promoters of the English
School used metaphors of the sister arts to legitimize their trade as a
liberal art. I look at the relationships between the book and engraving
trades and the discursive as well as material practices that created a call
for history painting in Britain around the turn of the nineteenth century.
Especially relevant to my study are John Boydell, Sir William Hamilton,
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Greg Caruso <gcaruso@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Literary and Cultural Studies

Greg Caruso is a Ph.D. Student, in Literary and Cultural Studies.
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Mario Castagnaro <marioc@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. candidate, Literary and Cultural Studies

Mario Castagnaro is a Ph.D. Candidate in Literary and Cultural Studies.
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David Cerniglia <dcernigl@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student,, Literary and Cultural Studies

David Cerniglia is a Ph.D. Student, in Literary and Cultural Studies.
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Nilak Datta <ndatta@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Literary and Cultural Studies

Nilak Datta is a Ph.D. Student, in Literary and Cultural Studies.
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J. Timothy Dawson <jtdawson@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Rhetoric

I am an actor with a masters in writing. I am interested in performance and performativity as each relates to literacy and composition pedagogy. Through my work developing and researching arts-in-education programming and arts-based curricula, I am advancing my interests in both a rhetoric of live performance and an investigation of the artistic process as a way of coming to knowledge. Influenced by the notion of "powerful literacy", I incorporate into composition pedagogy strategies normally reserved for performance pedagogy : I seek to involve writers in a physical relationship with their thoughts and words. In addition, I help run the Unseam'd Shakespeare Co. (www.unseamd.org). Now its 11th season, Unseam'd Shakespeare attacks works from the classical canon with a visceral wit and no respect whatsoever.
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Darlene Everhart <dme@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. candidate, Literary and Cultural Studies

Darlene Everhart is a Ph.D. Candidate in Literary and Cultural Studies.
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Hilary Franklin <hilaryf@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Rhetoric

Hilary Franklin is a Ph.D. Student, in Rhetoric.
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Erin Friess <efriess@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Rhetoric

My dissertation investigates how technical communicators use argumentation in “real world” settings. Specifically, I explore evidence strategies within biweekly meetings of novice technical communicators hired by a real-world client to redesign several documents. In this case study, I use ethnographic techniques to observe this group for one year and discourse analysis techniques to assess the talk of the group. I discover that although this group has significant training in user-centered design and claims to value the findings from usability sessions, surprisingly little of the evidence used by the novice technical communicators to support their decisions stems from their usability sessions. I then use Michael C. McGee’s concept of the ideograph, Erving Goffman’s concept of face, and Penelope Brown and Stephen Levinson’s theory of politeness to explain why, in some speech act situations, usability findings may be a rhetorically inferior evidence choice for this group.  This dissertation suggests that novice technical communicators deviate from the user-centered design process by abandoning their usability findings when they would ostensibly need them the most—when they are providing evidence for one design decision over another. I also teach courses in professional communication and design.
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Geoffrey Glover <gglover@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Literary and Cultural Studies

Geoffrey Glover is a Ph.D. Student, in Literary and Cultural Studies.
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Eric Hanbury <ehanbury@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Rhetoric

Eric Hanbury is a Ph.D. Student, in rhetoric.
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Jeffrey Hinkelman <jh51@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Literary and Cultural Studies

Jeffrey Hinkelman is a Ph.D. Student, in Literary and Cultural Studies.
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Stephen Jordan <stj@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Rhetoric

Stephen Jordan is a Ph.D. Student, in Rhetoric.
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Ginger Jurecka <gjurecka@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Literary and Cultural Studies

Ginger Jurecka is a Ph.D. Student, in Literary and Cultural Studies.
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Ashley Karlin <akarlin@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Rhetoric

Ashley Karlin is a Ph.D. Student, in rhetoric.
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Emily Klein <ebklein@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Literary and Cultural Studies

Emily Klein is a Ph.D. Student in Literary and Cultural Studies.
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Sheila Liming <sliming@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Literary and Cultural Studies

Sheila Liming is a Ph.D. Student in Literary and Cultural Studies.
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Kari Lundgren <klundgre@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Rhetoric

I am interested in the intersection between religion, rhetoric, and policy. How do different images of the divine manifest in speakers’ rhetorical choices, and what do these manifestations imply for human action in the world? I am particularly interested in American Christianity, both Protestant and Catholic. I have found that some contemporary American Christian discourse manifests free market economic theories, which I believe has implications for public policy. An example is discourse surrounding the global warming debate, in which some evangelical groups employ language drawn from free market economics in their theological statements, resulting in apparent biblical justification for laissez faire environmental policies. These and similar phenomena involving religion, rhetoric and policy are where my research interests lie.
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Daniel Markowicz <dmarkowi@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Literary and Cultural Studies

Daniel Markowicz is a Ph.D. Student, in Literary and Cultural Studies.

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Rebecca May <rmaatta@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. candidate, Literary and Cultural Studies

I completed both my BA and MA degrees here at CMU with a brief two-term study at Oxford University during undergrad. Currently, I am ABD, having completed my exams in the British long nineteenth century, emphasis on the novel. My interests (both research and teaching) include gender, histories of sexuality and medicine as well as all things gothic. In addition to teaching freshmen comp here at CMU, I have taught Intro to Gender Studies, Looking Forward, Sliding Back?: Nineteenth Century Stories of Progress and Decay and The Man(-) Made Monster from Frankenstein to Dracula. I have also led a seminar on Shakespeare at Chatham’s Pittsburgh Teacher’s Institute. My dissertation Morbid Parts: Gender, Seduction and the Necro-Gaze considers eroticized representations of corpses in travel and execution narratives, novels, poems, medical textbooks and engravings from the mid-eighteenth through the nineteenth centuries. A compressed version of it is forthcoming from Palgrave in A History of Sexual Perversion 1650-1850, edited by Julie Peakman. Finally for the academic year 2007-2008 I am interim director of the LCS MA program.
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William Marcellino <wmarcell@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Rhetoric

William Marcellino is a Ph.D. Student, in Rhetoric.
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Thomas Mitchell <tmitchel@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Rhetoric

Thomas Mitchell is a Ph.D. Student, in Rhetoric.
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Meghan O'Keefe <mmo@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Rhetoric

Meghan O'Keefe is a Ph.D. Student, in Rhetoric.
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Ronald Placone <rplacone@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Rhetoric
[home page]

Ronald Placone is a Ph.D. Student, in Rhetoric.
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Robin Reames Henry <rreames@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Rhetoric

Robin Reames Henry is a Ph.D. Student, in Rhetoric.
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Laura Schmidt <laurasch@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. Student, Rhetoric

Laura Schmidt is a Ph.D. Student, in Rhetoric.
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David Schuldt <dschuldt@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Literary and Cultural Studies

David Schuldt is a Ph.D. Student, in Literary and Cultural Studies.
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Salita Seibert <sseibert@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Literary and Cultural Studies

Salita Seibert is a Ph.D. Student, in Literary and Cultural Studies.
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Ludmila Selemeneva <lselemen@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. candidate, Rhetoric

Ludmila Selemeneva is a Ph.D. Student, in Rhetoric.
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Leslie Setlock <lsetlock@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Rhetoric

Leslie Setlock is a Ph.D. Student, in Rhetoric.
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Ann Sinsheimer <asinshei@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Rhetoric

Ann Sinsheimer is a Ph.D. Student, in Rhetoric.
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Emily Stark <vestark@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Rhetoric

Emily Stark is a Ph.D. Student, in Rhetoric.
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Heather Steffen<hsteffen@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Literary and Cultural Studies

Heather Steffen is a Ph.D. Student, in Literary and Cultural Studies.
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Christopher Taylor <cjt@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Literary and Cultural Studies

Christopher Taylor is a Ph.D. Student, in Rhetoric.
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Alexis Teagarden <ateagard@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Rhetoric

Alexis Teagarden is a Ph.D. Student, in Rhetoric.
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Mark Thompson <mathomps@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Rhetoric

Mark Thompson is a Ph.D. Student, in Rhetoric.
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William Thomas <bt16@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Rhetoric

William Thomas is a Ph.D. Student, in Rhetoric.
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Angela Todd <at3i@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. candidate, Literary and Cultural Studies

Angela Todd is a Ph.D. candidate focusing on eighteenth-century literature and culture and Birmingham School cultural studies. She has previously published and presented papers on teaching the eighteenth century, ethnographic methodologies, and the eighteenth-century beauty patch. Currently she is an archival assistant at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation.
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David Van Every <dv2a@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. Candidate, Rhetoric

David Van Every is a Ph.D. Candidate in Rhetoric.
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Eric Vazquez <evazquez@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Literary and Cultural Studies

I am principally interested in how the processes of globalization register in the United States. A common misunderstanding about these processes is that they radiate from the center (the U.S.) and move outward. I want to explore how American culture tries to make globalization “knowable” to itself in the contemporary moment. How does this seemingly unseen development become represented as a reality? To that end I want to explore the questions of the “real” in things like documentary, fictional and pornographic modes of representation. Other things that interest me include: theories of desire, theorizing the social substrate, the relationship of technology to culture, and materialisms.
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Necia Werner <nkw@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Rhetoric
(412) 268-7509
[home page]

I came to the rhetoric program from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where I worked in the psychology department as a research assistant and as an editorial assistant for Memory & Cognition. It was there that I became interested in science as a persuasive enterprise, and in the rhetorical dimensions of cognitive neuroscience and editorial peer review. My dissertation research explores the role of values and objectivity in shaping scientific peer review practices during moments of controversy and change. I also teach courses in professional and technical writing, and will begin serving as Assistant Director of our undergraduate and masters programs in professional and technical writing in Fall 2006.
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Jessica Wilton <jwilton@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. student, Literary and Cultural Studies

Jessica Wilton is a Ph.D. Student, in Literary and Cultural Studies.
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Joel John Woller <jw5m@andrew.cmu.edu>
Ph.D. Candidate, Literary and Cultural Studies

Joel Woller studies American literature and culture, with a focus on the emergence and consolidation of Fordism in the US (roughly 1910-1950). His areas of interest include cinema, proletarian fiction, and popular memory.
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