Graduate Assistants
PhD Graduate Teaching Assistant
English
His research explores the intersections of media, rhetoric, and public discourse, with a current focus on the representation of Palestinians in U.S. media and the role of public storytelling in social justice movements.
MA Graduate Research Assistant
English
My research and writing interests center on the people, places, and memory of the American West and the narratives that shape labor, community, and economic vitality.
MFA Graduate Teaching Assistant
English
Sophia Carroll (she/they) is a nonfiction MFA student primarily interested in illness, disability, and gender.
PhD Graduate Research Assistant
English
Research interests: Secondary education and storytelling practices in educational settings, rhetoric, public humanities, community collaboration, and the impact of place on personal narratives.
MFA Graduate Teaching Assistant
English
Kaylee's interests pursue the strange, the mystic, and the sacred; her research engages with etymology, sociology, and the hybrid poetic form.
MFA Graduate Teaching Assistant
English
Research interests: Birth, rupture, ritual, fragments, food, clothes, memory, embodied knowing, matrescence, and women’s work.
MFA Graduate Teaching Assistant
English
Taylor is a second-year Fiction MFA with writing interests in liminality, absurdism, the working class, the supernatural and magical, and the individual’s relationship with community.
MA Graduate Teaching Assistant
English
Virginia is a second-year MA student researching young adult (YA) literature, cultural staying power, and adaptation theory. She is interested in fan responses to casting choices for adaptations, particularly when those responses are negative.
MA Graduate Assistant
English
My research interests include screenwriting, narrative theory, and the origins of storytelling. I am particularly interested in the idea that all stories emerge from a finite set of narrative patterns and how those patterns continue to shape literature and film.
PhD Graduate Teaching Assistant
English
Her research interests include South Asian literature, decolonization, feminist theory, and critical theory.
PhD Graduate Teaching Assistant
English
Research Interests: Rhetoric and literature, Feminist and Identity-centered Discourse, Political Ideologies in South Asian Postcolonial Narratives, and Translation Studies.
MA Graduate Teaching Assistant
English
Marissa's research involving literary criticism, poetry, and science fiction novels, using frameworks like gender and sexuality studies, ecocriticism, and postcolonial studies.
PhD Graduate Teaching Assistant
English
I am interested in oral history, stories of women and marginalized communities, feminism, and digital humanities.
MFA Graduate Teaching Assistant
English
My research interests include creative fiction writing, short stories, and novels.
MA Graduate Teaching Assistant
English
Ashley is a second-year MA student studying dragons and power reclamation in fantasy literature. She primarily uses feminist frameworks such as intersectionality, and her research interests include power dynamics in stories and how fiction mirrors sociocultural phenomena.
PhD Graduate Teaching Assistant
English
Temitope’s current research focuses on gender inequalities affecting the female child, particularly in Northern Nigeria, examining how poverty, cultural traditions, and systemic barriers shape their lived experiences.
PhD Graduate Research Assistant
English
Jess's research explores capacity-building for individual and collective change through embodied practice, narrative, healing, and community-based public humanities.
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MA Graduate Teaching Assistant
English
My research interests include composition pedagogy, multilingual composition, multimodal composition, writing across the curriculum, computer supported composition, environmental rhetoric, and responsible AI use.
MA Graduate Teaching Assistant
English
John is a second-year MA student exploring the theoretical, philosophical, and anthropological underpinnings of the idea of Gift and its role in American culture.
PhD Graduate Research Assistant
English
Research Interests: the way that stories can be recipes for resistance, protest performance, foodways and feminized labor, the Politics of Small Things, gender asymmetry in former Soviet republics, and San cultural preservation.
PhD Graduate Teaching Assistant
English
Dawn Stagner is a writer in Indigenous Affairs, and her research focuses on the Tribal importance of water and Buffalo.
MFA Graduate Teaching Assistant
English
I am interested in writing fiction that dissects morality and ethics from a feminine perspective, with commentary on the domestic and institutional structures that shape our expectations for women’s behavior.
English MA Online Students
Part Time Graduate Students
Maggie Bourque
Senior Lecturer
English PhD Program
Haub School of Environmental and Natural Resources
Nichole Lumadue
Senior Project Coordinator
English PhD Program
High Plains American Indian Research Institute
Connor Short
Office Associate, Senior
English MA Program
Chemical & Biomedical Engineering
Regan Walford
Office Associate
English MA Program
Politics, Public Affairs & International Studies
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