Graduate Stories

Discover the breadth of topics that graduate students are working on and have worked on in the past. What will your story be?

• Beyond dominant rhetorics of diversity and inclusion

  My research focuses on building spaces in higher education that welcome and validate the linguistic, cultural, and knowledge-making practices of traditionally marginalized and underrepresented students.
• Pedagogical films convince us we have control over the environment

  My field is cinema and media studies, and my work is dedicated to the rigorous exploration of our understanding of the environment, natural resources, energy, and the politics enmeshed in their mediations.
• Tracing survivance in transnational fiction

  In 1999, the Anishinaabe writer and critic Gerald Vizenor put forth the concept of survivance, which has been incredibly influential for the understanding of the lives, histories and creative literatures of Native American peoples.
• Short films complicate our view of Scottish national cinema

  My dissertation tells the story of Scottish national cinema through Scotland’s short fiction films from 1930 to the present.
• Native American novels model fairer forms of knowledge production

  My dissertation argues that Indigenous American literatures are acts of worldmaking with radical possibilities for achieving a just society.
• Crafting and DIY can make students better digital writers

  As a graduate student in Rhetoric and Composition, I study multimodal writing—how people compose with words, images, sounds, videos, textures, gestures, etc.
• Uncovering the rhetoric of an invisible and unspeakable disease

  My work explores the ways in which women with chronic illnesses discuss their diseases, bodies, and minds.
• New national monument normalizes an extreme political agenda

  The Basovizza Monument in northeast Italy was inaugurated as a national memorial in 2007.
• Novelist wrestles with history

  I am currently writing a novel (entitled Man of God) that explores the early settlement of the uppermost of the upper-midwestern United States and the clash of the Ojibway, Lakota, and European-American cultures
• Comics challenge our understanding of history

  We usually arrange American literature in historical categories from realism to modernism to postmodernism and beyond.
• Pixar films ask serious questions about technological change

  My teaching and research focus on the study of animation and film, modernization and technology, media theory, and globalization.
• Now more than ever, we need effective, ethical interaction between scientists and publics

  Riddled with geologic faults, Italy has a long history of earthquakes and other seismic activity.

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