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


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Edwin [Burt] Aycock

eba1119@ecu.edu

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

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Bob Buchko

buchko1@yahoo.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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Caroline Brooks

csb1105@ecu.edu

BA: Psychology and Art History, University of North Carolina
MS: Technical Communication, North Carolina State University

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Trisha Capansky

tck0925@ecu.edu

MPA: Public Administration, East Carolina University

Research Interests: Historical Technical Communication, Declaration of Independence.

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Michael A. Cavanagh

cavanaghm@ecu.edu

MA: Speech Communication, Colorado State
JD: University of Denver College of Law  

Research Interests: The study of rhetoric in appellate opinions.

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Mary-Lynn Chambers

Mc0812@ecu.edu

MA: English, East Carolina University

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

 
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Christine Cranford

cranfordc@ecu.edu

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

Research Interests: Visual Discourse, Visual Rhetoric, E-leaning, Document Design.

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Alexis Poe Davis

apd0816@ecu.edu

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J.A. Dawson

dawsonj03@students.ecu.edu

MA: English-Technical & Professional Communication, East Carolina University

Research Interests: Professional Communication in Global Contexts, Public Policy, Web Design, Critical Discourse Analysis

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Elizabeth Dennis

ehd1229@ecu.edu

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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Carolyn K. Dunn

dunnca@ecu.edu

BS: Clarion University of Pennsylvania
MA: East Carolina University
PhD: East Carolina University

Research Interests: crisis communication, organizational communication, cultural discourse.

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Kimberly Harper

kch0804@ecu.edu

BA: English, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
MS: Technical and Scientific Communication, Miami of Ohio

Research Interests: Critical Discourse Analysis, Africana Studies, African-American Women's Rhetoric, Cultural Discourse focusing on textbook production.

KatrinaHinson

Katrina L. Hinson

klh0707@ecu.edu

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, anything to do with literacy education and technology.

R. Chad Holt

 

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Pamela D. Hopkins

hopkinsp@ecu.edu

BA: English, Clemson University
MA: Speech Communication, Penn State University

Research Interests: Public Speaking anxiety, the discourse of sermons, female preachers in the 19th century.

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Frank Hurley

fph0223@ecu.edu

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

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

 

Sue Jefferson

 

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Myleah Kerns

myk0427@ecu.edu

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

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Justin Kingery

jck0928@ecu.edu

BS: Professional Writing and minor in Creative Writing, Missouri State University
MA: Professional Writing, Missouri State University

Research Interests: I am interested in writing and the teaching of writing. I have both a creative writing and technical writing background, so I am interested in the ways these two genres often overlap in practice yet are disassociated in most university English departments. I would like to formulate ideas to reassess and reconstruct the genre boundaries to benefit all students of writing.

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Whitney Larrimore

wdl1011@ecu.edu

BA: Communications, Methodist University

MA: English and Literature, Fayetteville State University

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

 

 

Randy Marfield

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Tabitha Miller

trs1205@ecu.edu

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

Research Interests: Cultural Discourses and Developmental Studies Curriculums.

 

JeanetteMorris

Jeanette W. Morris

jwm0608@ecu.edu

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 [Cliff] Nelson

wcn1220@ecu.edu

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

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

 

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Melissa Place

placem@ecu.edu

BA: English-Creative Writing and Philosophy, East Carolina University
MA: English-Technical and Professional Communication, East Carolina University

Research Interests: Health-related discourses, cultural factors when creating breastfeeding advocacy discourses, social presence and community in TPC distance education courses and programs.

 

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Amber Rach

afr0304@ecu.edu

BS: Arts Management, Shenandoah University
MA: English-Technical & Professional Communication, East Carolina University

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Christine Russell

russellc@ecu.edu

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Doug Solomon

gds0111@ecu.edu

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

Research Interests: Rhetoric, peer review, advertising, and altruism.

 

KarenSummey

Karen P. Summey

karen@karensummey.com

BA: Psychology, Lenoir-Rhyne College
MA: Educational Media, Appalachian State University

Research Interests: Health communication, health literacy, public policy.

Courtney Strickland

 

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Deborah Welsh

dmw0429@ecu.edu

BA: Political Science, East Carolina University
MPA: Public Administration, East Carolina University

Research Interests: Using methods associated with civic rhetoric [Foucault, Katz, and others] to advocate for elderly victims of nursing home abuse, improving attorneys' ability to communicate with jurors, professional writing, and examining the rhetoric of "tort reform".