PhD Career Outcomes

Name	Dissertation	Supervisor(s)	First Position	Current Position
Tiristin Hooker	Solidifying strangeness: making and maintaining rare diseases	S. Scott Graham	Writing Center Administrator, The University of Texas at Austin
Tristan Hanson	Resurfacing rhetoric: identity, storying, and invention in place	Annie Hill	Lecturer, The University of Texas at Austin

 

Name	Dissertation	Supervisor(s)	First Position	Current Position
Martha Karnes Seago	Unlucky ducks and tenacious yeast: stigma and agency in reproductive health	S. Scott Graham and Clay Spinuzzi	Assistant Director of Writing, Curry College	Assistant Professor, Department of English, Unviersity of Arkansas, Little Rock
Mac Scott	Manufacturing crisis: rhetorical new materialism, political discourse, and the 'crisis' at the U.S.-Mexico border	Casey Boyle	Assistant Professor, Department of English, Rocky Mountain College
Kiara Walker	"Undoing progress:" reactionary rhetoric and appeals to rhetorical liberalism	Patricia-Roberts Miller	Lecturer, CUNY Long Island
Sierra Mendez	With love from San Antonio: souvenir postal cards & colonized/ing (re)productions of Mexicans	Diane Davis	Assistant Professor of English, Texas Women's University

 

Name	Dissertation	Supervisor(s)	First Position	Current Position
Matt Breece	Outraged Speech: Digital Publics, Networked Trolling, and Rhetorical Ethics	Casey Boyle and Mark Longaker	Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgia Tech	Lecturer, Writing Program, University of California, Santa Barbara
Jamie Garner	Rhetorical Ethics	Mark Garrett Longaker and John P. Rumrich	Postdoctoral Fellowship, Fordham University	Instructor, Augusta University

 

Name	Dissertation	Supervisor(s)	First Position	Current Position
Sarah Welsh	Technologies of Forgetting: Techniques, Rights, and Ethics of Digital Media.	Clay Spinuzzi	Project Manager, Public Interest Technology Career Fair (PIT-UN)	Program Director, All Tech is Human
Stephen Dadugblor	Deliberating About elections: democracy, cultural imaginaries, and rhetorical practices in Ghana	Patricia Roberts-Miller and Clay Spinuzzi	Assistant Professor of Writing Studies in the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media, University of British Columbia

 

Name	Dissertation	Supervisor(s)	First Position	Current Position
Zachary Sharp	Rhetoric, poetics, and the devotional in early modern England	Davida H. Charney and Wayne Rehborn	Postdoctoral Fellowship, International Society for the History of Rhetoric
Justin Hatch	Inclusivity and the (un)civil paradox: critiquing and needing civility in the public sphere	Patricia Roberts-Miller	Assistant Professor of English, Brigham Young University-Idaho
Jazmine Wells	Writing their way through motherhood : an investigation of writing's role in the methods incarcerated mothers use to mother while behind bars	Patricia Roberts-Miller	Assistant Professor, Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies, University of Kentucky
Sarah Riddick	Following the Followers: New Methods for Rhetorical Audience Studies on Social Media	Casey Boyle	Assistant Professor of Professional Communication, Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Associate Professor of Professional Communication, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Jake Cowan	New Methods for Rhetorical Audience Studies on Social Media	Diane Davis	Assistant Professor of Business Communication with the School of Economics and Business Administration, Saint Mary's College of California

 

Name	Dissertation	Supervisor(s)	First Position	Current Position
Rhiannon Goad	Founding Fathers: constitutive rhetoric and discourses of masculinity	Patricia Roberts-Miller	Visiting Assistant Professor, University of New Orleans	Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Virginia

 

Name	Dissertation	Supervisor(s)	First Position	Current Position
Jeremy Smyczek	Pragmatism and popular science : rhetoric, refutation, and rationalism in contemporary science outreach	Patricia Roberts-Miller and Scott Stroud	Assistant Professor, St. Bonaventure University
Steven Lemieux	Rhetorical Parasites, Parasitic Rhetoric: A Proliferation of Thirds	Diane Davis	Lecturer, English, University of Pittsburgh	Assistant Professor of Teaching

 

Name	Dissertation	Supervisor(s)	First Position	Current Position
Noble Frank	Suicide notes on Paul de Man's Wartime Journalism	Diane Davis	Postdoctoral Lecturer, University of Texas at Austin	Director of Communications at Minnesota Freedom Fund
Beck Wise	Transparent manipulation: the public arguments of medical imaging	Diane Davis	Lecturer (Assistant Professor), University of Queensland

 

Name	Dissertation	Supervisor(s)	First Position	Current Position
Richard Nelson	Begging for Money : Technology Commercialization and Business Pitches	Clay Spinuzzi	Instructional/Graphic Designer and Technical/Content Writer, Home Depot Corporate	Senior Instructional Designer at EPAM Systems
Megan Gianfagna	Rhetorical spacemaking and inventive ecologies	Clay Spinuzzi and Justin Hodgson	Senior Manager, Marketing, OneSight	Head of Insights at IX (a strategy consultancy); Principal, Paper Mirror Brand Partners
Connie Steel	If stones could argue : the rhetoric of Covenanter memory, media and monuments	Mark Garrett Longaker	Senior Course Coordinator and Instructor, Texas OnRamps	Humanities Education Evaluator, Yale University
Kendall Gerdes	Habit-forming reading Infinite jest as a rhetoric of humility	Diane Davis	Assistant Professor of Technical Communication and Rhetoric, English Department, Texas Tech University	Associate Professor, Department of Writing & Rhetoric Studies, University of Utah
Eric Detweiler	Student-teacher relations in rhetoric and writing classrooms : pedagogy, history, theory	Diane Davis	Assistant Professor, Rhetoric, Middle Tennessee State University	Director of the Public Writing and Rhetoric program, Associate Professor, English Department, Middle Tennessee State University

 

Name	Dissertation	Supervisor(s)	First Position	Current Position
Amanda Wall	Click-through rhetoric : genre and networks in content marketing	Clay Spinuzzi and Davida Charney	UX Researcher, Facebook, Inc.
William Burdette	Eating and repeating : mimesis in food rhetorics	Diane Davis	Coordinator, Digital Writing & Research Lab, The University of Texas at Austin	Senior Administrative Associate, Department of Nutritional Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin
Mary Hedengren	Disciplining the muse : evaluating creative writing studies' effort to establish itself as an academic discipline	Davida Charney	Writing Center Faculty, University of Houston, Clear Lake
Tekla Ann Hawkins	Fanfiction as playable media	Patricia Roberts-Miller and Justin Hodgson	Assistant Professor, Writing & Language Studies, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley
Catherine Blouke	Laughter and consequence: rhetoric and the trouble with intention in humor and identity politics	Diane Davis	Assistant Professor of English & Director of Digital Pedagogy, Wofford College	Director of Digital Pedagogy, Center for Innovation and Learning, Wofford College

 

Name	Dissertation	Supervisor(s)	First Position	Current Position
Megan Eatman	Identification and interpretive rights in the rhetoric of violent spectacle	Patricia Roberts-Miller	Assistant Professor, Clemson University	Associate Professor; Associate Chair, Clemson University
Todd Battistelli	Appeals to reason : negotiating rhetorical responsibility and dialectical constraints in church-state separation discourse	Patricia Roberts-Miller	Adjunct Professor, Colorado Heights University
Hugh Clevenger Wiese	Playing around the real : games, play, and the declamation dynamic in ancient and modern rhetorical pedagogy	Jeffrey Walker	Assistant Professor, English, Worcester State University
Andrew Rechnitz	Unsettling rhetorical patterns and the fate of democracy	Jeffrey Walker	Director of Teaching Engagement, Texas State University

 

Name	Dissertation	Supervisor(s)	First Position	Current Position
Megan Little	Role-play work and contested authority in policy and legal writing : a case study of domestic partner benefit advocacy	Clay Spinuzzi and Davida Charney	Professor of Practice and Assistant Writing Program Director, University of San Diego
Eric Dieter	Enduring character : the problem with authenticity and the persistence of ethos	Patricia Roberts-Miller	Executive Director, Pre-College Academic Readiness Programs, University of Texas at Austin	Executive Director in the Longhorn Center for Academic Equity, University of Texas at Austin
Stephanie Odom	Literature in first-year composition: a mixed methods analysis	Patricia Roberts-Miller	Assistant Prof of Rhetoric, University of Texas at Tyler
Trevor Hoag	Occupying memory : rhetorical studies for the 99%	Diane Davis
Douglas Coulson	"The white man's burden" rhetorical constructions of race and identity in U.S. naturalization cases from India, 1914-1926	Patricia Roberts-Miller	Assistant Professor, English, Carnegie Mellon University	Associate Professor, English, Carnegie Mellon University

 

Name	Dissertation	Supervisor(s)	First Position	Current Position
Susan Mendelsohn	Rhetorical possibilities: reimagining multiliteracy work in writing centers	Lester Faigley and Joan Mullin	Associate Director, Undergraduate Writing Program and Director, Writing Center, Columbia University	Director of Writing Center, Associate Director of First Year Writing, Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of English, Columbia University
Sean McCarthy	Relational reinvention: writing, engagement, and mapping as wicked response	Margaret Syverson	Assistant Professor, School of Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication, James Madison University	Professor, Writing Studies, Montclair State, University
Matt King	Identification beyond the symbolic frame Don DeLillo, David Foster Wallace, and the rhetorical logics of objects	Jeffrey Walker	Assistant Professor, Director of Composition, & Director of the Plassmann Writing Center, St. Bonaventure University	Associate Professor of English, St. Bonaventure University

 

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