Biography Year Admitted: 2025 Bio I am a first-year PhD student at UW–Madison. I completed my BA and MA at the University of Louisville. I’m especially interested in the ways that digital and online technologies shape the ways we read, write, persuade, and communicate with one another. Research Interests Digital Rhetoric, Digital Communities, Conspiracy, and …
Biography Year Admitted: 2024 Bio Elizabeth was admitted to UW–Madison as a PhD student in Rhetoric and Composition in Fall of 2024 after receiving her Masters in Technical and Professional and Communications from Auburn University where she worked as an instructor of record for Freshman Composition as well as a Research Assistant for Dr. Derek …
Biography Year Admitted: 2023 Bio Matthew Louie is a third-year PhD student in Composition and Rhetoric and is currently an Assistant Director of English 100. His background as a Cantonese-CHamoru scholar informs his research as he engages in discussions surrounding linguistic justice, cultural and indigenous rhetorics, and writing assessment with the goal of empowering his …
Biography Year Admitted: 2021 Bio Erin Miller is a PhD student at UW–Madison researching literacy studies, migration studies, and institutional rhetoric. She’s interested in understanding how governmental institutions use physical and digital resources to dictate the lives of migrants, what literacy and rhetorical practices enable this relationship, and the material consequences of this relationship. Erin …
Biography Year Admitted: 2022 Interests: immigration rhetorics, literacy and affect, teaching writing with AI Bio: Originally from Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sujash received his BA in English and MA in Education (Truman State University) and an MA in English (Missouri State University). Now he is pursuing a PhD in Composition and Rhetoric in the Department of English …
Biography Year Admitted: 2020 Bio: My research explores the transformative impact of digital cancer support groups on self-advocacy and empowerment. I examine how online platforms encourage participants to blend personal experiences with medical information, fostering mutual understanding and respect without the pressure to persuade. Using invitational rhetoric as a framework, I analyze how these communities …
Biography Year Admitted: 2024 Bio: Javier is a PhD student in Composition and Rhetoric telling stories about crisis, movement, and home. Interests: Migration, political legitimacy, ecology
Biography Year Admitted: 2023 Bio Aurora Shimshak is from southwestern Wisconsin. Currently a PhD student in Rhetoric and Composition, her first academic interests were in creative writing. Her poems and essays have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Shenandoah, and The Offing, among others. She holds an MFA in poetry from UW–Madison and an MFA in creative …
Biography Year Admitted: 2024 Bio My research focuses on decolonizing education, critical language awareness, and how technology is influencing education. I have presented on these topics at conferences, discussing the integration of AI in African classrooms and the importance of context-specific technological solutions. I emphasize community-rooted work to help educators, and researchers thrive. My experiences …
Biography Year Admitted: 2021 Bio: Nathan Wood is a PhD Candidate in composition-rhetoric who positions his research and pedagogy at the intersection of rhetorical theory, religion, and ecology. His dissertation provides an account for why a mystic or quasi-religious strand pervades many contemporary environmental activisms in Utah since 1990. He has also written on topics …