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Graduate Student Profiles: D to K

Lauren Danhof is a first-year MA student studying early British Literature, especially interested in scribal culture and early print.

Julie M. Davis is a third-year PhD student in Technical Communication and Rhetoric, writing her dissertation on technology as a catalyst for a third shift in which women can advance themselves through distance education. She has co-authored publications on learning styles and distance education in "The handbook of research on virtual environments for corporate education, employee learning and solutions and the integrated use of audio in the MOO classroom in Computers and Composition". TCR

Lynn DiPier is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing/Fiction. Her MFA is in poetry

Marco A. Dominguez is a PhD student at Texas Tech University, specializing in creative writing. His plays have been performed in California and Texas, and his poetry has appeared in literary journals such as Indiana Review, South Dakota Review, Water-Stone Review, and Willow Springs.

Kristi Dunks is a PhD student in Technical Communication and Rhetoric. She is interested in risk communication, technical communication within aviation, and the rhetoric of government reports. TCR

Stephanie Eckroth is a PhD candidate, studying the late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century periodicals market. She is an associate editor for the Romantic Women Writers Reviewed series (Pickering 2012ff) editing reviews of women appearing in the Lady's Magazine, and her article on celebrity and anonymity is forthcoming in "Women Writers and the Artifacts of Celebrity" (Ashgate 2010). NCS  BH

David A. Edgell is a second-year PhD student in the Technical Communication & Rhetoric program studying medical rhetoric, practitioner-patient communication, medical ethics, and informed consent. He is president of the student chapter of the STC and has published on the subjects of usability, distance internships, DITA, collaborative information technologies, and interviewing subject matter experts. TCR

Kimberly Elmore is a second-year online PhD student, exploring connections between rhetoric, ethics, and disability studies.  She is currently researching ethical argumentation in the online publications of stakeholders in autism research. TCR

Peter England is a PhD candidate in Technical Communication and Rhetoric.  His dissertation, entitled "Research Methods for Program Review in Technical Communication," studies methods of gathering information from students, faculty, recent graduates, and employers in order to examine how technical communication service courses respond to stakeholder needs. TCR

Kerry Fine is a first year PhD student, studying Western American Literature and ecocriticism. She has presented papers on literature of place, place theory, and body mediated epistemological development at conferences of the Western Literature Association and the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. LSJE

Deborah Fontaine is a first year PhD student in Technical Communication. She is interested in studying technology and developmental writers as well as rhetoric. TCR

Joey Franklin is a doctoral fellow in English and Creative Writing. He writes essay and memoir and has work published in Brevity and in Random House's anthology, Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers.

Rachel Furey is a first-year PhD student specializing in creative writing with an emphasis in fiction.  Her work has appeared in several small publications, including Chicken Soup for the Soul: Twins and More, Freight Stories, Women's Basketball Magazine, and, most recently, Sycamore Review after Tobias Wolff selected her short story Birth Act as the winner of the 2009 Wabash Prize.

Henrietta Goodman is a first-year student in the PhD English program, with a specialization in Creative Writing/Poetry. Her first book of poetry, titled Take What You Want, was published in 2007 by Alice James Books, and she has recently published poems in Valparaiso Poetry Review, Guernica, and Field. 

Sabra Ladd Gore is a third-year MA student in the TCR program. Already holding a Master�s degree in science and technology journalism, she is currently focused on technical and science writing education and training, particularly online, and the relationship between academia and industry. TCR

Quan Manh Ha is a Ph.D. candidate in American literature, with a concentration on multicultural studies and racial/ethnic issues in Asian American texts. In additions to 15 articles in journals such as Southeast Review of Asian Studies, Ethnic Studies Review, and the Southern Humanities Review, Ha published the Introduction to The Consolation of Queen Elizabeth I: The Queen's Translation of Boethius's Consolatio Philosophiae (2009) and a book-length translation of West-East Calligraphy (2009).

Victoria Harding is a first year MA student in English Literature program, specializing in Women's Literature. Her research interests include feminist theory and current issues concerning equality for minority women. LSJE

Lacy Harvey is a third-year PhD student in 20th-century literature, specializing in war literature and ecocritical theory.  Her critical and creative work has been published in the Concho River Review, TexWomen Magazine, and Angelo State's Oasis Literary Magazine.

Micah Heatwole is a first year MA student, studying creative writing/poetry. He is interested in reading and writing contemporary poetry.

Jenee' Higgins is a second-year MA student, studying nineteenth-century British literature. She is interested in women writers, specifically Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and transatlantic literature. NCS, BH

Ryan Hoover , a PhD candidate in Technical Communication, is writing his dissertation on the relationship between rhetorical agency and social structures at the National Science Foundation. He has an article in press with the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication that looks at the role of ethics in the websites of NSF and NIH.

Alec R. Hosterman is a PhD candidate in Technical Communication & Rhetoric, writing his dissertation on hyperreality and graphic novels. He has presented comics-related papers at the Comics Art Conference, a regional Popular Culture conference, and the National Communication Association's annual conference. TCR

Adam Houle is a second-year PhD student in the creative writing program. His focus is contemporary American poetry, and his poetry have appeared or will soon in MARGIE, Agni online, and Linebreak.

Kathleen Hudgins is a first year MA student, studying British and American literature, with an emphasis in twentieth-century women writers.

Andrew Husband is a first-year PhD student studying nineteenth and twentieth-century Anglophone literature, with special interests in environmental writing and ecocriticism. He has presented papers on the fiction of Cormac McCarthy and Stephen Crane, and his article on Nuruddin Farah's novel Maps is forthcoming in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. LSJE

Luke Iantorno is a first year English MA student (with plans to continue at the PhD level), and specializes in nineteenth-century British and German Romantic poetry, particularly that of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Goethe, Schelling, and Tieck. NCS

Nathan Jahnke is a second-year PhD student in TCR with a background in linguistics. He has presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America as well as CCCC, C&W, and the IEEE IPCC; he has one co-authored article on the use of "utterance-final even" under consideration and is writing a chapter for an upcoming edited collection on complexity and usability. TCR

Becky Johnston is a PhD candidate in Technical Communication, writing her dissertation on the relationship between technology and culture. She has published on Internet metaphors in First Monday and has an article forthcoming on Samoan rhetoric in the Journal of Intercultural Communication. TCR

Frances Johnson is a first-year PhD student in Technical Communication. She co-authored an article on writing centers published in the Journal of College Reading and Learning and has presented her work at both national and international conferences. TCR



Rachel Kennedy is a second year Master's student, studying literature in conjunction with film and media studies. Her research interests include the Gothic as a lens for contemporary films, as well as analyzing patterns of gender roles and displacement within contemporary cinema. FMS

Khouloud Khammassi is a first-year MA student, studying rhetoric. Her main research interest is the  learning and teaching of writing.

Andrew Kibelbek is a second-year MA student in the TCR program. His research interests include media accessibility, ethics of technical communication, and rhetoric in multiple media. TCR



Joel Kline is a Doctoral Candidate in Technical Communication and Rhetoric with a dissertation that examines knowledge exchange between academics and practitioners. He has presented at IEEE/PCS, STC, and IdMAA conferences. He is a board member of the International Digital Arts Association (IdMAA) with research interests in digital media, knowledge management, and usability. TCR