Robert Schafer is a fourth-year PhD student, 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
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Chris Shaw is a second-year 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.
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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
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Rhonda Stanton is a first year PhD student in the TCR program. Her research interests are studies in multicultural audiences, which include multi-national, generational and gender cultures. TCR
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Jennifer Sunseri is a second year MA student based in Eugene, Oregon. She expects to complete her degree in spring of 2010.
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Rebecca Surovik is a third-year PhD student, studying contemporary American literature, particularly science fiction and fantasy. She has presented papers at the conferences of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts and the Popular Culture Association
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Nathan Timmons is a first-year MA student, studying Comparative Literature. His research interests include the construction of identity and the use of religious and mythological themes in fiction.
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Kellyanne Ure is first-year PhD student in English, studying nineteenth-century British literature and book history, specifically Victorian periodicals. She recently presented an excerpt from her master’s thesis on the Tractarian Penny Post magazine at the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals conference. NCS BH
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Ronja Vieth is a third-year Ph.D. student specializing in American Gothic Literature. Her essay "Assembled Virgin / Hidden Venus – Modern Women in Willa Cather's My Antonia" is published in "Presentations of the 29th Annual SW/Texas Regional Meeting of the Popular Culture and American Culture Association: Gender" (2009) while other essays have appeared in international publications.
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Jessicca Daigle Vidrine is a third-year PhD student 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.
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Jada Von Tungeln is a second-year MA student, studying British and American literature generally. Although she does not have an official specialization, she is interested in the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Xiling Wang is a third-year PhD student in Technical Communication. Her research interests are writing and technical communication pedagogy and practice. TCR
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Melody Wainscott is an MATC student 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
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Cary Waterhouse is a first-year 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
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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.
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Darla-Jean Weatherford is a third-year PhD student studying technical communication with an emphasis on technical reports in engineering. TCR
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Monica Wesley is a second-year PhD student in the online 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.
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Tyler Whitby is a second year MA student in Technical Communication. Tyler has worked as a layout editor, technical editor, and software documentation writer and is interested in visual rhetoric and new media rhetoric, among other things. TCR
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Melanie Wilson is a first-year PhD student 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
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Julie Wiseman, a first year MATC online 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
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Gregory Zobel is a PhD student in Technical Communication & Rhetoric. He is interested in the intersections of genetic engineering, knowledge management and creation, corporate intelligence, rhetoric, protocol, and technical communication. TCR
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