Graduate Assistants

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  • Ezekiel Anane Acheampong

    Ezekiel Anane Acheampong

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Rachel Allison

    Rachel Allison

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Literature: Monstrosity, Queerness, The Supernatural, Supernatural Encounters, Gender, Medieval Literature, Poetry, Science Fiction, and Gothic Literature

  • Betty Aquino

    Betty Aquino

    Graduate Research Assistant

    Folklore: contemporary legend, working class narratives

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  • Keene Keene Carter

    Keene Keene Carter

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Celia Causey

    Celia Causey

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Bri Chapman

    Bri Chapman

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Noa Rae Cohen

    Noa Rae Cohen

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Michelle Conklin-Kusel

    Michelle Conklin-Kusel

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Writing and Rhetoric: Academic, baseline, civic, and information literacies; news media's role in the public sphere; propaganda and fake news; first-year composition; writing program administration; applying Stasis Theory to teaching research and writing; critical thinking and logical fallacies; Kenneth Burke's theory on identification and division in relation to political power and influence.

  • Kale Beaton Connerty

    Kale Beaton Connerty

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Austin Miles Cowley

    Austin Miles Cowley

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Adam A Cutter

    Adam A Cutter

    Graduate Research Assistant

    Phonetics, Speech Processing, Speech Perception, Psycholinguistics, Language and Cognition

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  • Gracie A Davidson

    Gracie A Davidson

    Graduate Professional Assistant

    Literature

  • Olivia Deardoff

    Olivia Deardoff

    Graduate Research Assistant

    Folklore: Appalachian music and folk art , migration, Cajun and Creole folklore, New Orleans music and folk art, Celtic migration and folklore, contemporary folk music and art, Northern Michigan folklore and folklife.

  • Grace Donovan

    Grace Donovan

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Creative Writing

  • Lyz Duesterhoeft

    Lyz Duesterhoeft

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Creative Writing: Literary criticism through the lenses of the liminal and folklore; approaching fandom through folklore & ethnography; creative writing pedagogy through the fantasy genre

  • Gemmalee DyerMok

    Gemmalee DyerMok

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

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  • ARAM HANSON

    ARAM HANSON

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Linguistics: Second Language acquisition, EFL, Comparative linguistics, Morphology, Syntax, Corpus Linguistics, Language Documentation.

  • Griffin Hamstead

    Griffin Hamstead

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Connor Alexander Harding

    Connor Alexander Harding

    Graduate Research Assistant

  • Kayla Diane Hare

    Kayla Diane Hare

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Ronada Hewitt

    Ronada Hewitt

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Writing and Rhetoric: Millennial Protest/Rhetoric of Confrontation

  • Alexander Holcomb

    Alexander Holcomb

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Creative Writing: Autofiction, Southern Narratives

  • Scott Hovdey

    Scott Hovdey

    Graduate Research Assistant

    Creative Writing

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  • Klara Kalu

    Klara Kalu

    Graduate Professional Assistant

    Creative Writing: Fiction. Poetry. Essay Writing.

  • Arlee Jade Kastner

    Arlee Jade Kastner

    Graduate Research Assistant

    Language Documentation and Revitalization, Morphosyntax, Syntax, Pragmatics, and Applied Linguistics

  • Nikki Kazimova

    Nikki Kazimova

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Susan Kelly

    Susan Kelly

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Jordan Akane Kidd

    Jordan Akane Kidd

    Graduate Research Assistant

    Computational Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, and Phonetics

  • Yoon Ji Kim

    Yoon Ji Kim

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Kristen Zory King

    Kristen Zory King

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Creative Writing

  • Aysan Kolahdouzipour

    Aysan Kolahdouzipour

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Writing and Rhetoric: Second Language Writing. Writing with Artificial Intelligence. Multilingualism. Linguistic Justice

  • Lee Krauss

    Lee Krauss

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

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  • Ruth Renee Nesbitt

    Ruth Renee Nesbitt

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Writing Pedagogy, Liguistic & Social Justice, Antiestablishment Teaching Methodologies, Late 20th Century and Early 21st Century Literature, Apocalyptic Literature, Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction, American Gothic, Film, Graphic Novels, Cultural Studies, Critical Race Theory, Feminist Theory, Queer Theory, Dis/ability Theory, Intellectual Self Defense, Propaganda & Hypercapitalism in Media & Art, Gen Z phenomena, Neurodivergence, History

  • Isabella Isabella Newman

    Isabella Isabella Newman

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Nic Nusbaumer

    Nic Nusbaumer

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Institutional Rhetorics, Institutional Ethnography, Composition Pedagogy

  • Isaac Newton Nyatuame

    Isaac Newton Nyatuame

    Graduate Research Assistant

    Writing and Rhetoric: Social justice, user experience, tactical technical communication, rhetoric of health and medicine, digital rhetoric, border and peace rhetoric, ethnographic practice and infrastructural storytelling and decolonial research

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  • Trisha Reese

    Trisha Reese

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Hunter Riley

    Hunter Riley

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Writing and Rhetoric: Technical Communications, User Experience, and Professional Writing

  • Ezra Pilar Rodriguez

    Ezra Pilar Rodriguez

    Graduate Professional Assistant

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  • Brailey Marie Vine

    Brailey Marie Vine

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Anastasia Pestova von Esken

    Anastasia Pestova von Esken

    Graduate Research Assistant

    Technical Writing, Generative AI, Cognitive Justice, Instruction of Rhetoric across Technical Disciplines, Technical Communication, Large Language Models (LLMs) and Translation, Bias in AI Systems

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