Current Graduate Students
Our current graduate students research and teach a diverse range of topics. They may be contacted through email.
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Roger Almendarez: Film studies, US Latinos/as and films
Brian Amsden: Adolescence in 20th century U.S. culture, rhetorical interrogations of intellectual property
Maria Fernanda Arias:
Cinema, B-movies, experimental video and cinema
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Josh Carney: Representations of US politics in Turkish news media, experiene in Turkey
Chad Beck: Media and culture in the U.S. and Latin America, Mexican and U.S. Spanish-language television, cultural industries, globalization
Mark Benedetti: Underground cinema
Shelley-JeanBradfield: Contemporary Hollywood film, gender studies, television studies, South African television, genre, feminism
Cara Buckley-Ott (Colorado State University): Rhetoric and queer theory with a particular interest in queer kinship and queer identity; the resistive potential of mediated representations of fag hags
Konrad Budziszewski: Media, particularly film and videogame studies, with emphasis on issues of gender and sexuality
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Jonathan Cavallero: The intersection of Italian American film culture, with interest in how Italian ethnicity manifests itself in the films of American directors of Italian descent
Kasia Chmielewska: Media, gender, class and ethnicity
Robert Clift: Media, rhetorical and ethnographic theory, documentary film, race, identity negotiations
David Cochran (Oklahoma Wesleyan University): American public discourse, American Christianity, American pragmatists, political theory, rhetorical theory
David Coon: Media, non-traditional gender performance, architecture, suburbia
Erica Cooper (Roanoke College)
Byron Craig: Rap, rhetoric, race
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Aneliya Dimitrova: Native American culture, Bulgarian talk shows, cultural studies
Jeremiah Donovan: Media theory, Television Studies
Emily Downing: Relationship between rhetoric and philanthropy through studying the language, visual images, and body rhetoric that non-profit organizations use to contrain and construct the identity of their audiences
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Tonia Edwards (Georgia State University): Race, gender, class; comparative analysis of French banlieue and American new ghettocentric film genres
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Danielle Fernandez: Advocacy, social justice, human rights, and higher education
Amanda Fleming:
Sarah Florini: Performance studies
Seth Friedman: The "Misdirection" film, New Zealand cinema, genre theory, film exhibition, film spectatorship, narratology, and media intertextualities
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Yuliyana Gencheva: Bulgarian TV, Chinese film
Whitney Gent:
Rhetoric and social policy, issues of poverty, popular music studies, music fans and digital music distribution, web-based fan agency
Traci Gibboney: Experimental film, avant-garde cinema, underground film texts, horror, representations of the body
Matthew Guschwan: Italian soccer fans
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Mark Hain: Lost films and cultural memory; queer theory; camp; images of masculinity; cononicity; horror films
Lori Hall-Araujo: Identity construction and performance through dress and costume
Eric Harvey: Documentary film theory and production, Western popular music, film scores and soundtracks
Shana Heinricy: Rhetorical theory, television studies, gender and ethnicity studies, American studies, consumer culture
Jonathan Hertzberg: Media, film studies, western as dominant hollywood genre, 1960's-1970's street westerns
Jennifer Heusel:
Critical race theory; Black Power; rhetoric
Dixon Hollis: Rhetoric constructions and intersections of citizenship, education and food
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Laura Ivins-Hulley: Czech animation: narrative, video production experience
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Jennifer Jones: Film studies, documentary, cultural studies, historiography, gender studies, stardom, background in documentary production
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Yesim Kaptan: Performance studies, folk culture, popular culture, cultural studies, television genre, globalization
Vanessa Kearney: Ethnographic examinations of professional reproductive rights activists in Washington, DC
Amanda Keeler: Silent cinema history, educational media, historiography, contemporary television, history of broadcasting, film and video production
Suncem Kocer: Ethnography and performance studies, identity, ethnicity, media
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Michael Lahey: Docu-drama narrative films and their relationship to nonfiction cinema
Eran Livni: Performance studies, ethnography of reception, pop-folk music genres in the Balkas and the Middle East
Melanie Loehwing: Themes of rhetoric, law, homelessness, and citizenship, legal policies passed on local, state, and national levels as they characterize and criminalize the homeless; competing notions of the home as a primary site for cultivating citizenship
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Scott Makstenieks: Domestic and international foreign policy rhetoric with a focus on Middle Eastern political dynamics surrounding articulations of democracy and the influence of nationalistic and Islamic cultural traditions
Peter MacFadden: The transformation of the original religious notion of being chosen among the Puritans to a secular modern American Exceptionalism
Dave McAvoy: The relationshp between British early modern (Renaissance) and contemporary media formations, theories of violence and excess, theories of social networks/articulations and the so-called "public sphere"
Kathleen McConnell: Rhetoric and public culture, schools and schooling, communication technologies, technologies of the self
Kelly McDorman (Wabash College)
Dionne McKaskle: Race, the prison industrial complex, media theory, postcolonial theory, psychic violence, mental health issues
Lori Morimoto: Japanese female fans of Hong Kong movies, East Asian cinema (Hong Kong and Japan), media spectatorship, media globalization, transnational cinema
Jeffrey Motter: U.S. domestic and foreign policy discourse as it relates to issues of American Empire, democratic practice and globalization, the relationship between US interests and its democratic practice in times of war and possibilities for dissent
Korryn Mozisek: Rhetoric of sport and citizenship
Sandra Myers: Performance and ethnography; rhetoric and public culture
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David Naze: rhetorical studies, social protest rhetoric, rhetoric of race in sport
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Vernon O'Donnell: Racial identity, religon, and rhetoric
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James Paasche: Medicated performances of "reality", rockumentary
Lorrie Palmer: Film studies, film history, genre theory
Kara Patterson: The intersection of rhetoric and media and how the fields impact/deal with teen pregnancy and single motherhood; metaphors representing sexuality in movies that deal with sexually active teen/college age people
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Stephen Rahko: Economic rhetoric, discourses of wealth formation, foreign policy and normative values
Justin Rawlins: Reception studies, film history, miscasting, disease and stigma
Andrea Ringenberg: Critical theory, history of media, popular culture, narrative studies
Natasha Ritsma: Memory, war, documentary photograpy, films and filmmaker
Anne
Rohlman: Rhetoric, the female athlete; gender performance
Jonathan Rossing: Critical race theory and critical theory; the role of comedy in navigating/addressing race and racism
Jessica Rudy: Advocacy, feminism and GLBT issues, diversity
Brian Ruh: Japanese comics and animation
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George Sartiano:
Julie Searcy:
Cassandra Secrease: Performance studies with emphasis on Native American discourses, analyses of the 1969-1971 Native American occupation of Alcatraz
Shira Segal: Pregnancy and Childbirth, Avant-garde and Experimental Film, Photography and Identity, Cultural memory
Jeeyoung Shin: New Korean Cinema, media regionalism
Lisa Silvestri: Communication and culture
April Smith: Rhetoric and media, global capitalism, American empire, dissent, and progressive activism in the 21st century
Jason Sperb: Affect theory, Cinephilia, Kubrick, modernity/postmodernity, Hollywood films, Disney
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Margie Thorpe: Media studies, performance theory, filmmaking
Jasmine Trice: Reception study of Hollywood media in a global context using the Philippines as a case study
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Margaret E. Van Blaricom: Critical discourse analysis that considers how the ideology of the American family is manifested in everyday discourse and helps to perpetuate the inequitable distribution of privilege in the U.S.
Travis Vogan: Critical theory, documentary studies, American cultural history of music and sports
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Isaac West: Rhetoric, performance, queer theory and the law, transsexuals and their everyday experiences with/in law
Valerie Wieskamp: Gender, race, and ethnic representations in public discourse
Katie Williams: Narrative identity, theory and advertising
Kelly Wilz : War rhetoric, media studies, religious studies
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Bryan-Mithell Young: Videogames, race, gender, and sexuality within the gamer subculture
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Peter Zhang: Rhetorical/comic model of entrepreneurship; rhetorical and critical cultural studies of entrepreneurial discursive fragments in transitional China; entrepreneurial styles; rhetorical moments in pop media
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