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Graduate Student Profiles: L to R

Carie Lambert is a PhD student in TCR specializing in medical and scientific rhetoric. She is researching several interests to determine her emphasis, and in 2008-2009, she presented a paper at UNT on blogging as therapy for breast-cancer patients and attended a meeting in Salzburg, Austria, where she presented a paper suggesting a patient-communication method using Aristotle's theories of rhetoric, a paper that is in press in an eBook published by Interdisciplinary.net. TCR

Eunjeong Lee is a second-year MA student in Comparative Literature. She has research interests in Japanese literature, Asian American literature, and postmodern American literature.

Carrie Line is a 2nd year MA English student sepcializing in 19th century Literature. My research interests focus on Comparative/Romantic 19th century as well as film representations of literature. NCS

Emily Loader is an online TCR PhD student with a special interest in mental health writing and assessment tools. She recently presented her research and writing on the relationality mental model at the Enthnographic and Qualitative Research Conference. Emily's previous work entitled "The Relationship Between Innovation and Professional Communication in the Creative Economy" will be published in The Journal of Technical Writing and Communication. TCR

Keisha McKenzie is a 4th-yr TCR doctoral candidate whose dissertation focuses on the structure, values, users, and discourse of British executive government. Her research interests include public policy communication, national intelligence dissemination, political discourse analysis, democracy and user theory, organizational communication, and systems sciences. TCR

Melonie (Lonie) McMichael is a PhD candidate in TCR with an emphasis in research methods, cultural studies, feminist theories, and medical rhetoric. She published an article with Amy Koerber in JBTC on qualitative sampling methods and is currently writing her dissertation on the medical rhetoric surrounding the obesity epidemic. TCR

Deanna Mascle is a PhD student in the fourth cohort of the online PhD TCR program. Her cohort's article "The Need for Rules: Determining the Usability of Adding Audio to the MOO" has been accepted pending revision by Computers and Composition; a book chapter, Digital Connections and Learning Styles, written with Julie Davis and Letitia Harding is pending publication in The Handbook of Research and Virtual Environments for Corporate Education and Employee Learning Solutions. TCR

Bonnie May is a second year MA student, in English Literature with a research emphasis on late nineteenth and early twentieth century American nature writing and poetry. NCS LSJE

Sarah Mellon is a second-year PhD student in Technical Communication & Rhetoric, studying information management collaboration and presentation in nonprofit organizations. TCR

Bailey Miller is a 2nd year student in the MA Technical Communication and Rhetoric program specializing in the publishing certification program. TCR

Scott A. Mogull is a PhD candidate in Technical Communication, with a dissertation focus on direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising and online pharmaceutical marketing. Scott has published recently in the AMWA Journal, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, and Technical Communication (a special issue on qualitative research). TCR

Landon Moore is a second-year PhD student in English. Her specialization is creative writing 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.

Steve Morrison is a first year Ph.D. student in the TCR program.  His fiction has appeared in The Portland Review, and now he is exploring the rhetoric of composition and the nature of science writing directed to non-scientific audiences. TCR

Brent Newsom is a third-year PhD student in Creative Writing, focusing primarily on poetry. His poems have appeared in The Southern Review, America, and New Delta Review, and he has received a Fulbright grant to work on a novel in China.

Brett Oppegaard is a second-year PhD student in Technical Communication and Rhetoric, specializing in new media, with an emphasis on mobile communication and nonfiction narrative. This year, his research includes working on mobile content production at the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, where the Oregon Trail ended for most of the western settlers, as well as smaller projects on the campus where he teaches, Washington State University - Vancouver. TCR

Jen Osborne is a fourth-year PhD student in TCR who focuses on trauma narratives, trauma composition, and building sustainable peace through trauma and reconciliation human rights research. She conducts field research through trauma writing workshops in Rwanda where she partners with the Rwandan non-governmental organization "Never Again Rwanda." TCR

Arthur Pare is working towards MA in TCR. TCR

Rick Pierce is fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in creative writing, poetry.  Winner of an AT&T Chancellor's Fellowship, Pierce has had work in "Tar River Poetry", "Birmingham Poetry Review", and "New South".

Liz Pohland is a second-year PhD student in Technical Communication and Rhetoric and the editor of _Intercom_. Her research interests include publication management, editing, document design, technologies of writing, games, graphic novels and comics, pop cultures, social media, and children's culture. TCR

K.Danielle Pritchard is a first-year M.A. student studying British and American literature generally. She focuses on British and American literature in general, and she is considering specializing in Comparative Literature.

Richard Rabil, Jr. is a third-year MA student pursuing a degree in Technical Communication. His research interests include content management, ethics in proposal writing, and the rhetoric of video games. TCR

William Randall is a first-year MA student in Technical Communication studying user interface design and multi-lingual documentation. He has published more than 30 user manuals and contributed to "Lost in Translation: Applications of Simplified English in Academia," presented by N. Scheuermann at the IEEE’s 2009 International Professional Communication Conference. TCR

Todd Rasberry is a PhD candidate in the Technical Communication and Rhetoric program, writing his dissertation on the rhetorical practices of major gift fund raisers during face-to-face visits with donors. He has published an article in Intercom (“The Buck Stops Here,” 52.9 November 2005) and a book review in the Journal of Business Communication (The Rhetoric of risk: Technical Documentation in Hazardous Environments, 44.3 June 2007). TCR

Jake Ricafrente is a poet and second-year Ph.D.student in the creative writing program.

Sara Richardson is a fourth-year PhD student in Creative Writing with an emphasis on nonfiction. Her essay "How Goats Find Love" was recently published in Fast Forward: Volume Two, a collection of flash fiction. BH

Alyssa Ryan is a second-year MA student, studying Contemporary American Literature but transitioning into American Film and Media. She is currently working on publishing a paper on 20th Century American author Albert Murray, and is also researching the connections between politics and war films - particularly the Vietnam War and the war in Iraq.