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Budor Al-Zahrani, PhD Student

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Previous Schools

  • MA, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), King Abdulaziz University
  • BA, English, King Abdulaziz University

Areas of Scholarship

  • Educational Policy and Applied Linguistics, with research interests in the areas of:
    • language use
    • L2 aquisition
    • language learning and teaching

Tiffany Barney, PhD Student

Tiffany Barney

Previous Schools

  • MA, Theoretical Linguistics, University of Utah
  • BA, English Major and Linguistics Minor, University of Utah
  • AS, General Studies, Salt Lake Community College

Areas of Scholarship

  • Assessment & Placement
  • Student Trajectory & Transfer
  • Digital Modes & Integrated Research

Sabita Bastakoti, MA Student

Sabita Bastakoti, MA Student

Previous Schools

  • BA, Writing and Rhetoric Studies, University of Utah
  • BA, Art History, University of Utah

Areas of Scholarship

  • Decolonial/Postcolonial Studies
  • Autoethnography
  • Food Rhetoric  

Mitzi Ceballos, PhD Student

Mitzi Ceballos

Previous Schools

  • MA, English, Washington State University
  • BA, English, Boise State University

Areas of Scholarship

  • Decolonial/Postcolonial studies 
  • Archival studies 
  • (Im)Migration Rhetorics 

Nicole Clawson, PhD Candidate

Nicole Clawson, PhD Student

Previous Schools

  • MA, English Literature, Brigham Young University 
  • BS, Public Health Education, Brigham Young University

Areas of Scholarship

  • Discourse Analysis
  • Law Enforcement Rhetorics
  • Writing Program Administration

Estée Crenshaw, PhD Candidate

Estée Crenshaw, PhD Student

Previous Schools

  • MFA, Creative Writing, Brigham Young University
  • BA, English, Brigham Young University

Areas of Scholarship

  • Comparative/Cultural Rhetorics
  • Japanese Rhetorics
  • Premodern Japanese Poetry

Aubrey Fochs, PhD Student

Aubrey Fochs

Previous School

  • MSE, Higher Education Leadership, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater 

  • BA, English Professional Writing & Publishing, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater 

  • BA, Religious & Rhetoric Studies, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater 

Areas of Scholarship

  • Legal Rhetoric
  • Literacy
  • Religious Rhetoric

Pietera Fraser, PhD Candidate

Pietera Fraser

Previous School

  • MA, Rhetoric and Writing, San Diego State University
  • BA, English, Brigham Young University-Idaho

Areas of Scholarship

  • Contemplative Pedagogy
  • First-Year Writing
  • Multilingual Writing

John Gordon, PhD Student

John Gordon

Previous School

  • MS, Information Systems & Business Analytics, University of Utah
  • BA, English, University of Utah
  • BS, Computer Science, Weber State University

Areas of Scholarship

  • Code Studies
  • Natural Language Processing (NLP)
  • Data Analytics & Visualization

Lisa Harris, PhD Student

Lisa Harris

Previous School

  • MA American Literature, Brigham Young University

  • BA English, Brigham Young University 

Areas of Scholarship

  • Female Rhetoric

  • Rhetoric in the Disciplines

  • Narrative 

Adrianna Hunsaker, MS Student

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Previous School

  • BA, Education, University of Utah

Areas of Scholarship

  • STEM Writing
  • Critical Science Studies
  • Microaggressions in Scientific Practice

Chaille Kitchen, MA Student

Chaille Kitchen, MA Student

Previous Schools

  • MS, American Studies, Utah State University
  • BS, Sociology, Utah State University

Areas of Scholarship

  • Two-Year College Writing
  • Pedagogy
  • Student-Teacher Relationships

Alice Lopez-Haute, PhD Student

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Previous Schools

  • MA, English, University of Utah
  • BA, English, University of Utah

Areas of Scholarship

  • Digital Rhetorics

Keith McDonald, MA Student

Keith McDonald

Previous School

  • AA, General Studies, SLCC
  • BA, Mass Communication, University of Utah

Nkenna Onwuzuruoha, PhD Candidate

Nkenna Onzuwuhuaora, PhD Candidate

Previous Schools

  • MA, European Literatures, University of Bristol
  • BA, Comparative Literature, University of Chicago
  • BA, Romance Languages and Literatures (French), University of Chicago

Areas of Scholarship

  • Black Discourse and Rhetorics
  • Revisionist Historiography
  • Student Activism 

Donald Penner, PhD Candidate

Donald Penner, PhD Student

Previous Schools

  • MA, English, University of Texas at Tyler
  • BA, International Relations, University of Colorado at Boulder

Areas of Scholarship

  • Two-Year College Composition Studies
  • Class Rhetorics
  • Ecology in Writing Studies

Muath Qadous, PhD Student

Muath Qadous

Previous Schools

  • MA, English, Western Carolina University
  • BA, English, An-Najah National University

Areas of Scholarship

  • Place-based rhetoric
  • Decolonial rhetoric
  • Comparative rhetoric

Mat Sillito, PhD Student

Mat Sillito

 

Previous Schools

  • MA, English, University of Utah
  • BA, English, Utah Valley University

Areas of Scholarship

  • Drug rhetorics
  • Epideictic rhetorics
  • Care-based pedagogies

Olivia Young, MA Student

Olivia Young

Previous Schools

  • Linguistics with minor in Writing and Rhetoric, University of Utah
  • AS, Salt Lake Community College 

Areas of Scholarship

  • Discourse Analysis 
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Blame Rhetorics
 
Last Updated: 1/24/23