Graduate Student Profiles: S to Z

Name and Profile

Robert Schafer is a PhD student in TCR, studying intercultural communication, particularly heuristics of cultural dimensions in audience analysis. His most recent article is "Introducing Heuristics of Cultural Dimensions into the Service-Level Technical Communication Classroom" in "Journal of Technical Writing & Communication" 39.3 (2009). TCR

Justin Schumaker is an MA student in English, with specialization in Film and Media Studies.  He is interested in interactive narratives, visual narratology, and new media theory.

Chris Shaw is a PhD student, studying Literature and Science, with a specific focus on American and ecocritical literature.  He is also a professional engineer with a focus on water.

Lesley Howell Shelton is a PhD student in English with an emphasis in Film & Media Studies. She is particularly interested in narrative structures and the various ways these are presented in film & other media.  FMS

Rabbia Shoukat

Brandon Shuler is a PhD student in Literature, Social Justice, and the Environment. He specializes in Texas literature and the outdoors experience in American literature. His book, Glory of the Silver King, is forthcoming from Texas A&M Press.

Trampas Smith

Rhonda Stanton is a PhD student in the TCR program. Her research interests are studies in multicultural audiences, which include multi-national, generational and gender cultures. TCR

Ashley Stovall is an MA student in English, specializing in Creative Non-Fiction Writing. She is the project manager for the Letterpress Laboratory in the English department.

Jennifer Sunseri  is an MA student based in Eugene, Oregon. She expects to complete her degree in spring of 2010.

Rebecca Surovik is a Ph.D. candidate in English specializing in science fiction and fantasy literature. Her dissertation explores posthuman metaphors in three contemporary American text and film series. She has presented papers at the conferences of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts and the Popular Culture/American Culture Association.

Megan Hansen Tamminga

Alyssa Tanhueco is an MA student in English, with specialization in contemporary American literature.  Her interests include ethnic studies and environmental justice.

Nathan Timmons is an MA student in English, studying Comparative Literature.  His research interests include the construction of identity and the use of religious and mythological themes in fiction.

Charity Tran

Erin Trauth

Michael Trice

Scott Uptmore

Kellyanne Ure is a PhD student in English, specializing in nineteenth-century British literature and book history, specifically Victorian periodicals and print culture. She is the project manager of the Nineteenth-Century Manuscripts Project, part of the Digital Humanities Laboratory.  NCS BH

Ronja Vieth is a PhD candidate focusing on American Gothic Literature from the nation's beginnings to contemporary works. Her latest publication is "A Frontier Myth Turns Gothic - Blood Meridian, Or the Evening Redness in the West" in The Cormac McCarthy Journal (fall 2010) and is available online. Research interests include Feminist Studies, African American Studies, and the legend of Sweeney Todd.

Jessicca Daigle Vidrine is a PhD student in English, specializing in Creative Writing (poetry) and Women's Studies. She has published creative works in such journals as So to Speak, CALYX: A Feminist Journal, ReDivider, Yemassee, Rattle, and many others, and her article on Louisa May Alcott's unfinished novel, Diana and Persis, and short story, "Happy Women," is forthcoming in Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal.

Melody Wainscott is an MATC student in TCR, specializing in science writing and dissemination networking models for science education programs. She has published several papers as second author in scientific journals, including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, and is currently finishing her thesis on HPV, the lack of medical diagnosis for men, and the health and social political issues surrounding the topic. TCR

Kelli Wallen

Xiling Wang is a PhD student in Technical Communication. Her research interests are writing and technical communication pedagogy and practice. TCR

Cary Waterhouse is an MA student in the Technical Communication program. His career in the aerospace industry leads his research interests in engineering rhetoric, knowledge studies, and digital writing environments. TCR

Paul Watson is a PhD student in TCR studying the rhetoric of mathematics and the market meltdown as a topic for his dissertation. His research interests include Economics, Finance, History and Rhetoric of Science.

Darla-Jean Weatherford is a PhD student studying technical communication with an emphasis on technical reports in engineering. TCR

Hannah Weems is an MA student in English, with a BA from Baylor University. Her interests include the modern British novel and Asian postcolonial literature.

Ronda Wery is a PhD student in the Technical Communication and Rhetoric program. Her research interests include pedagogy, online education, rhetoric, composition, and new media. TCR

Monica Wesley is a PhD student in the Technical Communication and Rhetoric program, studying visual communication and new media. Her research interests include visual rhetoric, the rhetoric of intellectual property law and issues of ownership and access, new media, visual metaphor, and questions of power in mass media.

Joseph Williams is a PhD student in Technical Communication & Rhetoric.  He is particularly interested in intercultural technical communication, rhetoric, and protocol. TCR

Melanie Wilson is a PhD student in English, studying nineteenth-century British literature, particularly Gothic fiction.  She is also interested in Medieval literature and the ways it is re-imagined in other periods. NCS

Stephanie Wilson

Julie Wiseman, an MATC student, has a BA in English from Hardin-Simmons University.  Her interest is in pedagogy, business writing, and the Internet’s transformation of the newspaper business. TCR