R@R Member Bios:
Brady Edwards
Current Program:
PhD in Rhetoric and Composition
Background:
- MA in American Studies, Utah State
- BA in English, Utah State
Research Interest:
I am interested in research ways to improve writing on the sentence level, using the work of Graff and Birkenstein, Robert Connors, and Don Killgallon as models.
Erin Goldin
Current Program:
PhD in Rhetoric and Composition
Background:
- MA in Rhetoric and Composition, Colorado State University
- BA in English, Creative Writing, Sonoma State University
Research Interest:
Dispositions of successful student writers, theories of knowledge transfer, writing program administration, and writing centers.
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leslie anglesey
Current Program:
PhD in Rhetoric and Composition
Background:
- MA in English (Composition), Sacramento State University
- BA in English, Sacramento State University
Research Interest:
The rhetoric of basic writing, student self efficacy, and writing about writing (WAW) pedagogy
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Phillip Goodwin
Current Program:
PhD in Rhetoric and Composition
Background:
- MA in English, SUNY Oswego
- BA in English (Creative Writing concentration), SUNY New Paltz
Research Interest:
Phil's research interests include publics theory, citizenship, and the University, their points of intersection and how they are influenced by neoliberal capitalism in the 21st Century.
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Luke Kingery
Current Program:
PhD in Rhetoric and Composition
Background:
- MA in English, Eastern Illinois University
- BA in English, Eastern Illinois University
Research Interest:
The rhetoric of political campaigns and media hype.
Kathryn Lambrecht
Current Program:
PhD in Rhetoric and Composition
Background:
- MA in Writing, University of Nevada, Reno
- BA in English (Linguistics focus), University of Nevada, Reno
- BS in Political Science, University of Nevada, Reno
Research Interest:
The intersection of linguistic, rhetorical, and pedagogical theory and the ways they shape the language and goals of institutions.
Phillip Lovas
Current Program:
MA in Writing
Background:
- Secondary Education Teaching Credential, English and Business, California State University, San Marcos
- BS in Business Administration, Human Resource Management; Minor in English, Sonoma State University
Research Interest:
Professional communication, social connections between academic writing and workplace writing, and related composition pedagogies.
Jason Ludden
Current Program:
PhD in Rhetoric and Composition
Background:
- MFA in fiction, Oregon State University
- BA in English, Oregon State University
- BS in Forestry, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Research Interest:
The ways environmental policy decisions are made and communicated, with specific emphasis to the U.S. Forest Service and the uses of narrative.
Merrilyne Lundahl
Current Program:
PhD in Rhetoric and Composition
Background:
- MS in Environmental Writing, University of Montana
- BS in American Studies & Biology, Utah State University
Research Interest:
The roles of place, risk, and novelty in outdoor and literacy education; rhetorical training in environmental education programming; pedagogies for saving the world.
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Matt McKinney
Current Program:
PhD in Rhetoric and Composition
Background:
- MA in English and American Literature at the University of Houston
- BA in Corporate Communications and Creative Writing at the University of Houston
Research Interest:
the role of empathy in the composition classroom, critical pedagogy, enthymematic argumentation, social and environmental justice, taboos.
Katie Miller
Current Program:
PhD in Rhetoric and Composition
Background:
- MA in English (Composition), Sacramento State University
- BA in English, Sacramento State University
Research Interest:
My dissertation research focuses on the rhetoric of writing assessment, which unites my interests in critical studies of writing assessment, rhetorical theory, and writing program administration.
Contact email:
Amanda Pratt
Current Program:
MA in Writing
Background:
- BA in Writing, 2nd Major Physical Geography, Minor Environmental Science, SUNY Buffalo State
Research Interest:
Consciousness of the environment as a source of peace, and how relative closeness to nature affects societies over time.
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Current Program:
PhD in Rhetoric and Composition
Background:
- MA in Writing, University of Nevada, Reno
- BA in English Literature, Millsaps College
Research Interests:
Design & Composition, The Rhetoric of Science and Technology, Narrative, Object-oriented Rhetorics, and Animal Rhetorics.
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Mailing Address:
University of Nevada, Reno
MS 098
1664 N. Virginia Street
Reno, NV 89557
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14 April, 2016