People Type: Composition and Rhetoric

Atkins, Grace “Gina”

Biography Interests Interests: racial literacy, writing across the curriculum, cultural rhetorics, antiracist composition pedagogy as universal design, critical mixed race studies Degree and Institution BA, North Carolina State University MA, North Carolina State University

Avery, Nick

Biography Year Admitted: 2020 Bio: Nick is a PhD Candidate studying how rhetoric constructs ideas of “the body” through shared affective investments. He is currently writing about the student body as a concept held together by university investments in student-athletes and sporting entertainment in the U.S. Interests: Affect, composition pedagogy, rhetorics of the body Degree(s) …

Carter, Gabriel Lake

Biography Year Admitted: 2020 Bio Gabriel Lake Carter is a PhD Candidate in English with a concentration in Composition & Rhetoric and a minor in Science & Technology Studies. Carter’s dissertation project considers the ways in which anti-drug rhetoric inculcates drug stigma and how such stigmatization contributes to the prohibitionist ideology of the ongoing drug …

Chakov, Alexandra

Biography Year Admitted: 2022 Interests Jewish culture and rhetorics, Rhetorics of memory, Holocaust studies

Chang, Tom

Covey, Henry

Biography Bio Henry joined the Composition & Rhetoric program at UW–Madison after two decades of editing and writing in multiple roles and modalities, including as adjunct writing professor and researcher at Portland State University, technical writer for Resource Data, copyeditor for the Simons Foundation, senior editor at Cogitate Editing, managing editor for an imprint of …

Dickson, Taylor

Biography Year Admitted: 2022 Bio Taylor is a second-year PhD student in Composition and Rhetoric and the Assistant Director of English 100. Interests Writing program administration, Community engaged learning, Public memory and memorial Degree and Institution AA, Diablo Valley College BA, Sonoma State University MA, Sonoma State University

Goggins , Sydney

Gonzales, Alec

Biography Year Admitted: 2025 Bio I received my BA from UC Riverside in 2022 and my MA from Cal State Long Beach in 2025. Research Interests Pedagogy, Political Rhetoric, and Queer Theory Selected Publications or Research Three of my poems will be published in the fall 2025 edition of Entre: Magazine of the Arts

Harris , Nora

Biography Year Admitted: 2021 Bio Nora Harris (she/her) is a PhD student in English, in the Composition & Rhetoric program at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Her current research explores the intersection of emotion and one-on-one writing pedagogy foregrounding relationality and a Feminist ethics of care. When she is not nerding out about writing, …