Graduate | 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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Laura Asbury: Audience and Filmic reaction to econimic crisis, protrayals of gender, starlets in hollywood studio syste, development and evolution of entertainment for children
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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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
Daniel Betsill: Media institutions and the production of culture; media convergence; masculinity on FX (e.g., The Shield); the industry subculture of African safari films in relation to race, and capitalism.
Shelley-Jean Bradfield: Contemporary Hollywood film, gender studies, television studies, South African television, genre, feminism
Shana Bridges: US political rhetoric, especially discourses of democracy, citizenship, presidential leadership, and international relations
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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Josh Carney: Representations of US politics in Turkish news media, experience in Turkey
Allison Chelloew: Rhetoric and cultural studies, orgins of rhetoric, contemporary application, rhetoric and public culture (not specific)
Aleena Chia: New media; digital media technologies and forms of selfhood
Kasia Chmielewska: Media, gender, class and ethnicity
David Church: Disability Studies, horror, and extreme (or 'sick') films
Robert Clift: Media, rhetorical and ethnographic theory, documentary film, race, identity negotiations
Joshua Coonrod: Violent genres and children, within the larger question of how film has visualized children; trauma studies; horror films; stigma
Allene Cottier: Intersections between international, national, and indigenous legal systems
Byron Craig: Rap, rhetoric, race
Emily Cram: Rhetoric of social movements, feminist activism
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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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Danielle Fernandez: Metaphors that govern public attitudes to immigrants, media respresentations of immigrants, immigrations enforcement justice, immigrants as threat to national security, need for immigrant voices, linking social action and scholarship
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
Christopher Gilbert: Truth of judgement in mass mediated world, performance of democracy, celebrity, visual rhetoric, constitution of citizenship, Burke.
Antonio Golan: Creation of Galician national identity through the media. Relationship between Marxist and ararchist theory, nationalism and popular culture, national/regional cinemas and diasporas
Rachel Gollay: Underground "indie" feminist music. Filmmaker, poet, musician
Jeremy Gordon: Rhetoric, peace and conflict, visual culture, journalism/photojournalism, digital culture, theatre arts, social justice, pedagogy/service learning
Matthew Guschwan: Italian soccer fans
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William "Mack" Hagood: Chinese punk and indie music
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
Philip Handke: Narrative and metaphor theory, rhetoric of social movements, war, new technologies
Aaron Harmon: Politics of food, interconnected perspectives on the political aspects of the production and distribution of food, food studies
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
Jennifer Heusel: Critical race theory; Black Power; rhetoric
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Laura Ivins-Hulley: Czech animation: narrative, video production experience
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Julie Johnson Searcy: Cultural performance, bounding, entexualizing, and circulation of performance, ideology in performance, mediation, audience reception, audience identity and affiliation, reception studies.
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
Amanda Keeler: Silent cinema history, educational media, historiography, contemporary television, history of broadcasting, film and video production
Andrea Kelley: Critical theory, history of media, popular culture, narrative studies
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
Bilal Maanaki: Prayer and Islamic prayer in its form, poetics, and ritualism. Prayer as theatre
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
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"
Lori Morimoto: Japanese female fans of Hong Kong movies, East Asian cinema (Hong Kong and Japan), media spectatorship, media globalization, transnational cinema
Korryn Mozisek: Rhetoric of sport and citizenship
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David Naze: rhetorical studies, social protest rhetoric, rhetoric of race in sport
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James Paasche: Medicated performances of "reality", rockumentary
Lorrie Palmer: Movie masculinity, global cinema, space/place/urbantheory, hypermedia, and American movie genres/history
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Jason Qualls: Camp's role in Todd Haynes's films, in queer cinema more generally, and in the mainstream forms; female performance
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Stephen Rahko: Myth in American public culture, especially rhetoric of US foreign policy and economics, engaged pedagogy
Javier Ramirez: Spectatorship; spectator "pleasure" as distinct from entertainment, identity construction in cinema and popular culture, Chicano literature, cinema and multiculturalism, spectator identification in Latin American films
Justin Rawlins: Reception studies, film history, miscasting, disease and stigma
Natasha Ritsma: Memory, war, documentary photograpy, films and filmmaker
Jessica Rivers: Ethnographic research ion slam poetry clubs in Manhattan.
Jonathan Rossing: Critical race theory and critical theory; the role of comedy in navigating/addressing race and racism
Margaret Rossman: Viral marketing and its relation to fandom; neew media (imax, ipod, etc.) and changing audiences; the film and media industry
Jessica Rudy: Presentation and constructions of gender and queer identity in reality television and popular culture
Brian Ruh: Japanese comics and animation
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Ozan Say: Oral History and Folklore, performance of multi-culturalism in and between societies. Balkan and Middle Eastern Cultures and Languages
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
Leonard "Will" Scheibel: Film history and narrative and genre theory, auteurs from classical hollywood, authorship during the hollywood new wave
April Smith: Rhetoric and media, global capitalism, American empire, dissent, and progressive activism in the 21st century
Courtney Smith: Rhetoric in legal history, especially censorship in schools, and rhetoric and discrimination, CRM
Jason Sperb: Affect theory, Cinephilia, Kubrick, modernity/postmodernity, Hollywood films, Disney
Brittany Starr: Frames as rhetoric in mediated communication, narrative in film and other media, media rhetoric, globalization
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Miranda Tedholm: Documentary and educational films. social-conscious documentary and filmmakers and filmmaking ideaology, values andmethodolgy
Kay Terrell: Vampire narrative and horror film, particularly intensive investigation of the funcion of the redemptive vampire narrative in relation to social stigmas and fears
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Joshua Vasquez: Genre Studies, particular focus on the horror genre and the cinematic and cultural presence of Orson Welles
Travis Vogan: Critical theory, documentary studies, American cultural history of music and sports
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Bryan Walsh: Visual rhetoric, civic engagement, dissent images of body in pain, scholarship as engagement
Valerie Wieskamp: Gender, race, and ethnic representations in public discourse
Christopher Wilkins: Questions of race, civil rights, and the mobility of the term "blackness" in a global context: political resistance in American black power, exploitation films, Caribbean and post-colonial African media; silent cinema
Katie Williams: Narrative identity, theory and advertising
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Zepnep Yasar: Media theory and its culture implications, feminist film theory, women directors and representation of love and sexuality, critical reviews, film festivals, and the auteur tradition, media intergration and its effects of viewing practices in Turkey
Bryan-Mitchell Young: Videogames, race, gender, and sexuality within the gamer subculture
