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Graduate students and facuty in Language and Rhetoric at the University of Washington work in a variety of fields.

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Language and Rhetoric Students

Chris Featherman

Interests: Language and Globalization, Critical Discourse Analysis, Global Englishes, Second Language Writing.

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Rachel Goldberg

Interests: Composition Theory, Discourse Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis, Genre Theory, Public Sphere Theory, Relationship between Academic Humanities and Public(s), Discursive Representations of Radicals.

Dissertation title: "Counter(ing) Publics and Media Policing: Atheism and the Challenge to Public Sphere Boundaries."

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Heather Hill

Interests: Composition Theory, Discourse Analysis, Classical Rhetoric

MA Essay: "Beijing Welcomes the World: Nationalism and the Media's Representation of the 2008 Olympics."

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Hee Seung Kang

Interests: Second Language Writing, Second Language Acquisition, Language and Identity, Discourse Analysis, Qualitative Research/Methods

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Megan J. Kelly

Interests: Composition Theory, Critical Discourse Analysis, Information Literacy and the Role of Research in Composition, The Role of Public and Academic Libraries in Literacy Development, The Rhetoric of Illness

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Michelle LaFrance

Interests: Writing in the Disciplines/Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Intensive Courses, Composition Theory, Critical Pedagogy, Critical Race Studies, Public Humanities.

Current position: Research Assistant to the Director of Writing, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Washington

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Jennifer LeMesurier

Interests: Composition, Pedagogy and Digital Technologies, Online/Virtual Discourse, Discourse Analysis

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Raymond Oenbring

Interests: Rhetorical Theory, Linguistics, Writing in the Disciplines, Rhetoric of Science, Computers and Composition, Discourse Analysis

Dissertation title: "Scientific Rhetoric and Disciplinary Identity: A Critical Rhetorical History of Generative Grammar"

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Vincent Oliveri

Interests: Rhetorical Theory (with an emphasis on Argument), Qualitative Research/Methodology, Epistemology, Public Sphere Theory, Theories of Democracy, Humor, Irony, Satire

Dissertation project: The Role of Satire in the Public Sphere

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Sarah Read

Interests: Composition/Rhetoric, Rhetorics of the Disciplines, Writing in the Disciplines and Writing Across the Curriculum, Technical and Professional Communication

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Shawna Shapiro

Interests: ESL in secondary schools, language immersion methods and programs, content area sheltered English, professional discourse used in public schools regarding language acquisition, L1 versus L2 techniques of pedagogy, and composition.
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Christian Stuart

Interests: Composition Studies, Second Language Writing, Second Language Education, Language and Identity

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Former Language and Rhetoric Students

Terri Major

Interests: Medieval Lit, 20th Century Fantasy, Genre Studies, Composition Pedagogy, Tutoring, WID/WAC, ESL Instruction.

MA Essay: "Editorial Interventions in Piers Plowman"

Current position: Teaching full-time at Pierce College

Catherine McDonald, Ph.D.

Interests: Composition and Rhetoric, Genre and Disciplinarity, Cultural Studies; Ethnography of Literacy; Alternative Discourses and Epistemologies

MA Essay: "Returning Women Writers"

Dissertation research: "Ways to Teach College Writing"

Current position: Western Washington University
Assistant Director of Composition

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Riki Thompson, Ph.D.

Interests: Discourse Analysis-Theory, Ideology, Narrative, and Identity; Composition Studies- Theory, Pedagogy & Politics, Personal Writing; Survivor Narratives and Self-Help Literature: Discourses of Trauma, Healing, and Recovery."

Dissertation: "Virtual Recovery: Governing Mental Health and Self-Improvement Online"

Current position: University of Washington at Tacoma,
Interdisciplinary Arts and Science
Assistant Professor, Composition/Rhetoric

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Language and Rhetoric Faculty

Anis Bawarshi
Associate Professor;
Director of the Expository Writing Program

Interests: Rhetorical theory, genre theory, composition studies.

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George L. Dillon
Professor

Interests: Rhetoric and composition, linguistics, discourse analysis.

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Juan Guerra
Associate Professor;
Associate Dean and Director of the Graduate Opportunities and Minority Achievement Program

Interests: Ethnography of literacy, composition, Chicano studies.

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Colette Moore
Assistant Professor

Interests: English language studies, history of the English language, late medieval literature

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Suhanthie Motha
Assistant Professor

Interests: Critical applied linguistics, race and racialization, linguistic minority identity, teacher knowledge, and anticolonial epistemologies in English language teaching.

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Candice Rai
Assistant Professor

Interests: Rhetorical studies, public rhetorics, ethnography, rhetoric and composition, service learning and engaged scholarship

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Sandra Silberstein
Professor

Interests: Discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, language acquisition, social theory.

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Robert Stevick
Professor Emeritus

Interests: Old English language/literature, Middle English language/literature, English language history

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Gail Stygall
Professor

Interests: Composition theory, discourse analysis and stylistics, the rhetoric of the law, rhetorics of the disciplines, gender and language issues.

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John Webster
Associate Professor

Interests: Composition/Rhetoric Interests: Renaissance literature, literary theory, linguistics, rhetoric.

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