East Carolina University
 
Department of English
PhD in Technical and Professional Discourse


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Edwin [Burt] Aycock

BA: English, Appalachian State University
MA: Technical Communication, East Carolina University
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Bob Buchko

buchko1@gmail.com

BS: Technical Writing, Carnegie Mellon University
MA: Professional Writing, Carnegie Mellon University

Research Interests: Workplace communication in a software development environment; software usability testing
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Patrick Carr

carrp@ecu.edu

BA: English, St. Bonaventure University
MA: English, University of Rochester
MS: Library Science, Clarion University of Pennsylvania

Research interests: Representations of organizational identity and legitimacy in discourse; evolutions in these representations; discourses of preservation; discourses concerning the roles and functions of academic and research libraries

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Mary-Lynn Chambers

BA: Sociology/English, University of Western Ontario
MA: English, East Carolina University

Research Interests: Barriers experienced by African American college students in their online educational experiences.

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Christine Cranford

BA: English, East Carolina University
MA: English, East Carolina University

Research Interests: Visual discourse, visual rhetoric, e-learning, document design

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J.A. Dawson

dawsonj03@students.ecu.edu

BA: English, East Carolina University
MA: English, (Technical & Professional Communication), East Carolina University

Research Interests: Professional communication and social change in global contexts

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Elizabeth Dennis

BA: Communications, Gardner-Webb University
MA: Professional Communication, Clemson University

Research Interests: Teaching pedagogy in college composition and rhetoric, visual rhetoric, digital identities, rhetorical theory.

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Guyla Evans

evansg09@students.ecu.edu

BSMT, Medical Technology (Clinical Laboratory Science), East Carolina University
MAEd, Adult Education, East Carolina University

Research Interests:  Construction of patients and discourses encouraged/suppressed by electronic health records

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Kerri Flinchbaugh

flinchbaughk@ecu.edu

BS: English, East Carolina University
MAEd: English, East Carolina University

Research Interests:  writing pedagogy, writing centers, WAC and WID, reading and writing as social activities

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Kimberly Harper

BA: English, North Carolina A&T State University
MS: Technical and Scientific Communication, Miami University of Ohio
ABD

Research Interests: Critical discourse analysis, Africana studies, African-American women's rhetoric, cultural discourse focusing on textbook production.

Assistant Professor, Albany State University

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Katrina L. Hinson

BA: English, East Carolina University
MA: English, East Carolina University

Research Interests: Discourse and cultures, digital learning environments, gender and identity issues, the role of women in chick-lit discourse,  literacy education and technology.

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R. Chad Holt

 

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Frank Hurley

BA: Sociology & Political Science,
Chapman University
MA: English, East Carolina University

Research Interests: Visual rhetoric, semiotics, tourism discourse, ESL studies, teaching and rhetorical theory

 

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Myleah Kerns

BA: English & Women's Studies, Salem College
MA: English-African American Literature, North Carolina A&T University

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Whitney Larrimore

BA: Communications, Methodist University
MA: English and Literature, Fayetteville State University

Research interests: Rhetoric and pedagogy studies, teaching theory and practice

 

 
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Randy Bernard Marfield

marfieldr04@students.ecu.edu

BA: English, Postcolonial Literature, University of Belize
MA: English, Multicultural Literature, East Carolina University

Research Interests: how language, culture and social identity are altered or affected by adopting cultural, discursive and rhetorical practices of dominant cultures in a global society

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Tabitha Miller

BA: Education, The Ohio State University
MA: English-Multicultural Literature, East Carolina University

Research Interests: Cultural discourses and developmental studies curriculums

 

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Jeanette W. Morris

BA: English, Elizabeth City State University
MA: English, East Carolina University

Research Interests: Visual and cultural rhetoric[s], social activist writing by African American women, composition and pedagogy theories, oral histories, research ethics, and community activism

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William Clifton ("Cliff") Nelson

BA: English, East Carolina University
MA: Journalism, UNC-Chapel Hill

Research Interests: Message design and public policy, public warning dissemination

 

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Gregory J. Orme

ormeg11@students.ecu.edu

BS: Graphic Design, University of Cincinnati
BA: Journalism, Thomas Edison State College
MPA: Public Administration, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Certificate: Nonprofit Management, Duke University
 
Research Interests: Communication in organizations and education, public policy, popular culture, and visual rhetoric

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Therese Pennell

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Guy Douglas Solomon

solomond@ecu.edu

BS: Georgia Tech
MBA: Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Research Interests: Blood donation, altruism, activity theory, genre, writing, technical writing, rhetoric and advertising

 

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Kimberly Denise Thompson

thompsonk01@students.ecu.edu

BA: Anthropology, East Carolina University
MA: English, (Literature), East Carolina University

Research Interests: Japanese media, gender studies, multicultural literature, technology and identity, visual and bodily rhetoric

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Deborah Welsh

welshd00@students.ecu.edu

AA: Legal Science, Saddleback College, CA
BA: Political Science, East Carolina University
MPA: Public Administration, East Carolina University

Research Interests: Rhetoric used in the courtroom in felony criminal and complex civil cases; jury decision-making; teaching writing to adult students, Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) and/or Writing Across the Disciplines (WID)

 

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Stephanie West-Puckett

westpucketts@ecu.edu

BA: English, North Carolina Wesleyan College
MA: English, East Carolina University

Research Interests:  Digital media and composition, teacher inquiry, service-learning and community engagement, writing program administration