{"id":12242,"date":"2023-04-12T15:46:16","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T20:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/english\/?page_id=12242"},"modified":"2025-08-01T11:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T16:24:10","slug":"graduate-stories","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/english\/students\/graduate\/graduate-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"lead-in\">Discover the breadth of topics that graduate students are working on and have worked on in the past. What will your story be?<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"uwm-p-posts uwm-c-list--cleanlist uwm-l-grid uwm-l-grid--3\"><li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/english\/beyond-dominant-rhetorics-of-diversity-and-inclusion\/\">Beyond dominant rhetorics of diversity and inclusion<\/a><div class=\"post-excerpt\">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.<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/english\/pedagogical-films-convince-us-we-have-control-over-the-environment\/\">Pedagogical films convince us we have control over the environment<\/a><div class=\"post-excerpt\">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.<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/english\/tracing-survivance-in-transnational-fiction\/\">Tracing survivance in transnational fiction<\/a><div class=\"post-excerpt\">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.<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/english\/short-films-complicate-our-view-of-scottish-national-cinema\/\">Short films complicate our view of Scottish national cinema<\/a><div class=\"post-excerpt\">My dissertation tells the story of Scottish national cinema through Scotland\u2019s short fiction films from 1930 to the present.<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/english\/native-american-novels-model-fairer-forms-of-knowledge-production\/\">Native American novels model fairer forms of knowledge production<\/a><div class=\"post-excerpt\">My dissertation argues that Indigenous American literatures are acts of worldmaking with radical possibilities for achieving a just society.<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/english\/crafting-and-diy-can-make-students-better-digital-writers\/\">Crafting and DIY can make students better digital writers<\/a><div class=\"post-excerpt\">As a graduate student in Rhetoric and Composition, I study multimodal writing\u2014how people compose with words, images, sounds, videos, textures, gestures, etc.<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/english\/uncovering-the-rhetoric-of-an-invisible-and-unspeakable-disease\/\">Uncovering the rhetoric of an invisible and 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class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/english\/comics-challenge-our-understanding-of-history\/\">Comics challenge our understanding of history<\/a><div class=\"post-excerpt\">We usually arrange American literature in historical categories from realism to modernism to postmodernism and beyond.<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/english\/pixar-films-ask-serious-questions-about-technological-change\/\">Pixar films ask serious questions about technological change<\/a><div class=\"post-excerpt\">My teaching and research focus on the study of animation and film, modernization and technology, media theory, and globalization.<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/english\/now-more-than-ever-we-need-effective-ethical-interaction-between-scientists-and-publics\/\">Now more than ever, we need effective, ethical interaction between scientists and publics<\/a><div class=\"post-excerpt\">Riddled with geologic faults, Italy has a long history of earthquakes and other seismic activity.<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"size-p-md uwm-c-link--arrow\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/english\/category\/graduate-stories\">View all Graduate Stories<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discover the breadth of topics that graduate students are working on and have worked on in the past. 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