Graduate Student Profiles: D to K

Name and Profile

Lauren Danhof is an MA student in English, studying early British Literature and especially interested in scribal culture and early print.

Julie M. Davis is a 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

Debbie Davy is a PhD student in Technical Communication and Rhetoric. A Senior Member of the IEEE Professional Communication Society, she works as an incorporated consultant to provide innovation, critical thinking, and business analysis to companies in the private and publicsectors. She is the co-author of a literature review of qualitative research in technical communication from 2003 to 2007 in Technical Communication: Perspectives and Techniques (James Conklin and George Hayhoe, eds. New York: Taylor and Francis, 2010).TCR

Marco A. Dominguez is a PhD student in English 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 in English, 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 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 PhD student in TCR, 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 PhD student in English, 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

Nimi Finnigan is a PhD student in English, specializing in Creative Writing with an emphasis on Caribbean Literature and Creative Nonfiction. She has published creative works (poems) in such journals as The Journal of Caribbean Literature. Her dissertation project involves a collection of memoir style essays about rural life in the South of Haiti.

Deborah Fontaine is a 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, specializing in 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 PhD student in English, specializing in Creative Writing with an emphasis in fiction.  She is a winner of Sycamore Review’s Wabash Prize for Fiction and her work has also appeared in Chicken Soup for the Soul, Freight Stories, Women's Basketball Magazine, Terrain, Waccamaw Journal, Hunger Mountain, The Adirondack Review, Squid Quarterly, and elsewhere.

Linda Gilmore

Henrietta Goodman is a 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 an 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

Emily Grover is a PhD student in English, with specialization in 18th Century British Literature. She has taught Neoclassic to Romantic British literature at the university level for two years, and she has been teaching composition courses since 2003.

Sarah Gunning is a Ph.D. candidate in Technical Communication & Rhetoric. Her dissertation investigates knowledge management factors involved in nonprofit proposal development. Her research has been presented at Association of Fundraising Professionals and has been accepted for presentation at the Americas Conference on Information Systems and the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action conference.  TCR

Quan Manh Ha is a PhD candidate in English 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).

Megan Hansen is a PhD student in English, specializing in 19th Century American literature. Her specific interests include the shifting socioeconomic conditions of the mid-nineteenth century and the resulting literary representations of middle-class gender roles.

Letitia Harding is a PhD student in the TCR program. Her dissertation involves an exploration of the political uses of visual and textual rhetoric in environmental issues. She has a book chapter, entitled Digital Connections and Learning Styles, co-written with Julie Davis and Deanna Mascle pending Spring 2010 publication in "The Handbook of Research and Virtual Environments for Corporate Education and Employee Learning Solutions. TCR

Micah Heatwole is an MA student in English, studying Creative Writing/poetry. He is interested in reading and writing contemporary poetry.

JuanJuan Henderson is an MA student in English specializing in creative writing. Her works of poetry and fiction have been published in Palo Alto Review, The Sagebrush Review, The Dreamcatcher, and Etches in Time. One of her recent poems is forthcoming in Concho River Review. Her memoire, Silk Moth, is being reviewed for publication. She also holds a Ph.D in biomedical science and has published her research widely in national journals and book chapters.

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 PhD student in English, specializing in Creative Writing. His focus is contemporary American poetry, and his poetry have appeared or will soon in MARGIE, Agni online, and Linebreak.

Landon Houle is a PhD student in English. Her specialization is  with an emphasis on fiction. Her work has been published in descant, and she has presented both fiction and critical articles at various conferences including the Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers (TACWT) and the Association of Graduate English Students conferences at the University of North Texas and Texas Tech.

William Hrusovsky is an MA student in English with a focus in Renaissance drama and book history. His special interests include what used to be called Shakespeare's "bad" quartos.

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

Ryan Huff

Andrew Husband is a PhD student in English specializing in 19th and 20th century American and Anglophone Literature, Ecocriticism, and Critical Theory. He has presented papers at several international conferences and published articles in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment and Texas Theatre Journal. LSJE

Jeremy Huston

Luke Iantorno is a PhD student in English, specializing in nineteenth-century British Romantic literature. His research interests include women writers, imperialism and gender, and consumer culture during the French Revolution.   NCS | BH

Arianne Jaco is a second year Master's student in English, with specialization in American Literature.

Nathan Jahnke is a 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; his co-authored article, "The Meaning of Utterance-final EVEN," is to appear in the Journal of English Linguistics, while his book chapter on "Language Complexity and Usability" is to appear in Usability of Complex Information Systems: Evaluation of User Interaction, an edited collection. TCR

Seongeun Jin is a PhD student in English, studying 20th century British and American literature, particularly interested in Christianity and literature.

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 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

Johnnie Jones

Tana Juko is an MA student in English, studying British and American literature, with an emphasis on twentieth-century African American literature.

Andrew Keese is a PhD student in English literature. His research interests include 20th century British literature, including D. H. Lawrence, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Graham Greene, and the role of politics in literature. He wrote reviews for and served as editor of the Journal of South Texas English Studies and presented at several conferences, including the national College English Association, the South Central Modern Language Association, and the Conference on Christianity in Literature.

Khouloud Khammassi is an MA student in TCR, studying rhetoric. Her main research interest is the  learning and teaching of writing.

Russell Kirkscey

Christine Kitano is a PhD student in English with a concentration in Creative Writing. Her first book of poems will be published in Spring 2011 by Lynx House Press.

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

Melissa Kreindel