Current Graduate Students
| Name | Areas of Interest |
|---|---|
| Josh Beaty | Cinema and media studies, film exhibition, media audiences, sports talk radio |
| Tara Beichner | |
| Autumn Pearson Boyer | Rhetoric of science, health communication, public discourse on science and medicine |
| Eli Brennan | Philosophy of communication, rhetoric of science |
| Matthew Brigham | Rhetoric of Science, Persuasion and Argumentation, Public Address, and Public Debate. |
| Candi Carter-Olson | Print/online media, creative nonfiction/New Journalism, and verity in history and nonfiction texts |
| Kelly Congdon | Rhetoric of social movements, media activism, public understanding of science |
| Hugh Curnutt | Philosophy of communication, media and cultural studies, rhetorical theory and reality television |
| Deborah Dalton | Sophistical rhetoric in American Lyceum and Chautauqua |
| Brita Dooghan | |
| Thomas Dunn | Queer rhetorics, public memory, visual rhetoric, critical/cultural studies, rhetoric of human rights |
| Eric English | Rheorical theory, eristic and aesthetics |
| Christine J. Feldman | Audience and reception studies, visual and cross-cultural communication, new historicism, popular culture of the 1960s, new media & technology |
| Heather E. Fisher | Television, history of US game shows, cultural memory, political economy, feminist theory |
| Liangyu Fu | |
| Rachel Furman | Classical rhetoric, public argument, immigration rhetoric, political argumentation, forensics and small group communication. |
| Jessica Ghilani | Media and cultural studies, social movements, feminist theory, punk culture |
| Sound, music, communication and culture, critical theory | |
| Michelle Gibbons | History and theory of rhetoric, visual studies, rhetoric of science, science and culture |
| Octavia Graham | Visual rhetoric, cultural studies, comic books, and race, class, gender, and sexuality studies |
| Marcy Halpin | Aesthetics of rhetoric, history and theory of rhetoric, classical Greek theatre, spectacle |
| John Jasso | Classical and medieval rhetorics and philosophies, and their modern applications. |
| Michelle Kennerly | Classical rhetoric, rhetoric and poetics, rhetoric and religion, Irish cultural revival |
| Takuzo Konishi | Theory and history of argumentation, critical thinking, semiotics and rheotoric |
| David Landes | Rhetorical theory, digital environments, attention economics, SEO, jazz, performance, improvisation |
| Heather Liebling | Media effects studies, women in film and television, children's media |
| Stephen Llano | |
| Erika D. Molloseau | Media and gender studies, African American anti-lynching rhetoric and representation |
| Cate Morrison | Public argument and deliberation, political and economic rhetoric, philosophy of communication |
| Gabriela Nunez | Orality and literacy thoeries, media and cultural studies focused in Latin America |
| Katie Kavanagh O'Neill | Media studies, cultural studies, city culture, visual culture, oral history |
| Joe Packer | |
| Damien Pfister | Weblogs, deliberation, critical security studies, collective memory |
| Ian Reyes | Poststructuralism |
| John Rief | Burkean rhetorical theory, argumentation theory, public debate, rhetoric(s)of and about science, incommensurability, controversy studies, rhetoric(s) of sexual difference |
| Brent Saindon | Visual rhetoric |
| David Seitz | Communication and culture, visual rhetoric, military cemeteries and war memorials, race and media studies |
| Joseph Sery | First Amendment, rhetoric/philosophy of law, political philosophy, rhetoric of philosophy, communication ethics/moral philosophy, public sphere |
| John Silbert | Primary orality in homiletics, acoustic theology and the spoken word in oral performance |
| Michael Vicaro | Classical and contemporary rhetorical theory, psychoanalysis and culture, rhetoric’s of medicine, torture and human rights |
| Carly Woods | History of argumentation and debate, gender studies, public argument, body studies |
| Qian Zhang |
