1.11 Graduate Faculty Members

Listed are members of the ISU Graduate College Graduate Faculty from the English Department. The English Department majors listed for each faculty member are the majors they can represent on POS committees. The major professor must be a member of the Graduate Faculty in the student’s declared major. If an associate member of the Graduate Faculty is chosen as major professor for a POS committee, a co-major professor who is a full member of the Graduate Faculty must also be identified.

• ALT = PhD in Applied Linguistics and Technology
• ENGL = MA in English (Literature or Literature and the Teaching of Reading specializations)
• CWE = MFA in Creative Writing and Environment
• RCPC = MA in Rhetoric, Composition, and Professional Communication
• RPC = PhD in Rhetoric and Professional Communication
• TESL = MA in TESL/Applied Linguistics
• LING = Minor in Linguistics (graduate minor only)
• SP CM = Minor in Speech Communication (graduate minor only)

The online Graduate Faculty Database can be used by faculty and staff to obtain information on graduate student POS committee work for all faculty.

*Associate member
**Affiliated associate member

Name	Research and Teaching Areas	Majors
Anders, Abram	rhetoric and composition theory; business and professional communication; creative collaboration and human-centered design; innovation and entrpreneurship; technology-enhanced learning	RCPC RPC
Aune, Jennifer*	development of collaborative English links for Learning Communities; communication research regarding the (mis)understanding of science affects scientists’ communication with the general public; literary research on the silence in the Icelandic sagas	ENGL RCPC RPC
Bartlett, Lesley	composition theory and pedagogy; rhetoric and performance, feminist rhetorics and pedagogies; teacher identity; writing across the curriculum	RCPC RPC
Beckett, Gulbahar	sociolinguistics; language socialization; content-based language teaching/learning; project-based language teaching/learning; sociocultural approaches to language teaching/learning; qualitative research methodology; language policy	TESL ALT LING
Betcher, Gloria*	early British drama through the time of Shakespeare; Arthurian legend; medieval British literature and culture; multimedia design; digital humanities; and multimodal communication	ENGL RCPC RPC
Chapelle, Carol	computers in applied linguistics; second language acquisition and testing; computer-assisted instruction	TESL ALT LING
Chukharev, Evgeny	human language production and comprehension; computational modeling of human memory, learning, and forgetting; semantics-driven machine understanding of natural language; automated text generation from knowledge bases	TESL ALT LING
Coffelt, Tina	interpersonal and family communication; sexual communication; quantitative and qualitative research methods	RCPC RPC
Cook, K L	creative writing (fiction, nonfiction); classic and contemporary short story; short story cycle; forms of fiction, sudden fiction; American West in film and literature; literature of the American Dream; family systems in film and literature; Shakespeare	CWE
Cotos, Elena	automated writing evaluation; intelligent/computer-assisted language learning and assessment; genre analysis; learner corpora	TESL ALT LING
Dubisar, Abby	gendered/feminist rhetorics; activist rhetorics/pedagogy; rhetorics of peace/war; digital and multimodal writing; writing across the curriculum/writing in the disciplines; rhetorical history and theory; disability studies	RCPC RPC SP CM
Egbert, Jesse**	corpus linguistics; language teaching; grammar foundations; sociolinguistics	ALT
Gilchrist, KJ*	20th-century literature in English; literature of WWI and modernism; interdisciplinary, collaborative, and international education	ENGL
Gray, Bethany	corpus linguistics; register variation; English for Academic Purposes; English grammar and lexico-grammar; disciplinary writing; teaching academic writing; programming for linguistic analysis	TESL ALT LING
Hegelheimer, Volker	computer-assisted language learning; language testing; educational technology	TESL ALT LING
Huffman, Sarah*	genre and discourse analysis; academic writing instruction; systemic functional linguistic approaches to language learning and analysis; graduate writing tutor training	TESL ALT LING
Kostelnick, Charles	visual communication in professional writing; literature and visual art	RCPC RPC
Langenberg, Christiana*	creative writing (fiction, nonfiction, poetry; multicultural and women's fiction and nonfiction; experimental fiction, 2nd person point of view); contemporary fiction; women's fiction; nonfiction, the lyric essay	CWE
LaWare, Maggie	interpersonal and rhetorical communication; women's communication; visual communication	RCPC RPC SP CM
Levis, John	linguistics; oral discourse analysis	TESL ALT LING
Mackiewicz, Jo	business communication; discourse analysis (especially evaluative texts such as product reviews); technical and professional editing; English and global English grammar; politeness; publications management; research methods in technical and professional communication	RCPC RPC TESL ALT
Marquart, Debra	writing poetry, nonfiction, fiction; intermedia arts	CWE
Menefee, Charissa	writing for stage and screen, dramatic literature, historical drama, comedy, new play development, performance of literature	CWE ENGL
Ockey, Gary	language assessment; quantitative research methodology; second language acquisition	TESL ALT LING
Ranalli, James	computer-assisted language learning; self-regulated learning; technology-mediated strategy instruction and strategy use; automated writing evaluation; teaching academic writing; introductory linguistics and linguistic analysis	TESL ALT LING
Remes, Justin	literature; film studies; experimental cinema; intermedia; aesthetics	ENGL
Rood, Craig	rhetorical criticism; rhetorical theory; rhetorical education; public address; deliberation; rhetoric and violence; public memory	RCPC RPC SP CM
Sams, Brandon	English and writing teacher education; curriculum studies; teacher identity; activist, social-justice oriented pedagogies; professional development	ENGL
Shenk, Linda	Elizabethan court poetry; early modern drama; Shakespeare; international politics and diplomatic culture; Queen Elizabeth I; rhetoric and performance	ENGL
Sivils, Matthew	19th-century American literature; environmental literature; ecocriticism; textual studies; literature of the American South	ENGL
Slagell, Amy	speech communication; public address; 19th-century women's oratory	RCPC RPC SP CM
Sonsaat-Hegelheimer, Sinem	oral communication skills; L2 pronunciation teaching and learning; computer-assisted language learning; linguistics; ESL/EFL	TESL ALT LING
Torrance, Mark**	combining biometric technology (including eye-tracking and keystroke logging) in writing research; cognitive psychology	ALT
Tye-Williams, Stacy	organizational communication, workplace dignity, work-life negotiation, gender and communication, narrative, hope, sustainability, community organizing, workplace bullying and harassment. and qualitative methodology	RCPC RPC
White, Casey*	technical communication theory and pedagogy; writing program curriculum development; interdisciplinary collaboration	RCPC RPC
Withers, Jeremy	science fiction; literary theory; nature, ecology, and literature; criticism; medieval literature; film studies	ENGL
Zuck, Rochelle	early American literature and culture; transnational literatures and cultures; African American literature; Native American literature; print culture and periodical literature; writings of James Fenimore Cooper	ENGL