Writing, Rhetoric & Digital Studies

Picture	Name	Contact
	Shannon Branfield PhD Candidate	shannon.branfield@uky.edu 1306 Patterson Office Tower
	Eli Coomer Graduate Student , WRD Teaching Assistant Morphology, Syntax, Sino-Tibetan Linguistics, Japanese Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Historical Sociolinguistics, Computational Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics	seco247@uky.edu 1622 Patterson Office Tower
	Craig Crowder PhD Candidate, Graduate Intern, Division of Writing, Rhetoric, & Digital Media, Graduate Instructor	craig.crowder@uky.edu
	Emily DeHaven PhD Candidate	emily.dehaven@uky.edu
	Jake Ferrington PhD Student, English; Instructor, Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies nineteenth-century American literature, naturalism, science and time studies, Cognitive Literary Studies	jacob.ferrington@uky.edu 1302 POT
	Tess J Given MA Candidate 18th Century Transatlantic Literature, Embodiment and Reproduction, cultural and critical theory
	Catherine D. Gooch PhD Candidate African American Literature, African American history, Economics of Slavery, Black Feminist Thought, The Mississippi River and Black Artistic Production	catherine.gooch@uky.edu POT 1218
	Zach Griffith PhD Candidate, Graduate Instructor 20th & 21st Century American Culture and Literature, Film, Television	zcgrif2@uky.edu 1306 POT
	Emily Handy PhD Candidate, Graduate Instructor Victorian Novel, 19th Century British Literature, critical pedagogy, Science and Literature, Science Fiction	e.handy@uky.edu 1318 Patterson Office Tower
	Drew Heverin PhD Candidate, English Literature, MA - TESL early modern drama, Public Sphere Theory, Apprenticeship, Early Stuart Literature	drewheverin@uky.edu 1318 Patterson Office Tower (859) 257-7055
	Margaret Frymire Kelly PhD Student, Graduate Instructor 20 and 21st Century American Literature, Post-45 American Literature, African American Literature	margaret.frymire@uky.edu POT 1206
	Claire E. Lenviel PhD Candidate, Teaching and Research Assistant 20th-Century American Literature and Culture, Black Literature, Gender studies, Sexuality Studies	Claire.Lenviel@uky.edu 1418 POT
	Kathryn McClain PhD Candidate	1306 Patterson Office Tower
	Deirdre Mikolajcik PhD Candidate, Graduate Teaching Assistant 19th Century British Literature, Victorian Novel, Gender and Women's Studies, Economic Criticism, Labor and Working Class, Industrialization, Romanticism, poetry	deirdre.mikolajcik@uky.edu 1222 Patterson Office Tower 859-257-6988
	Chinwe Morah PhD Candidate	chinwe.morah@uky.edu 1206 Patterson Office Tower
	Richard Parmer Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate Instructor Early American Literature and Culture, Environmental Humanities, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies	richard.parmer@uky.edu 1218 Patterson Office Tower (859) 257-6990
	Jannell McConnell Parsons PhD Candidate 20th and 21st Century Irish and British Literature, 20th and 21st Century American Southern Literature, poetry	jmcconnellparsons@uky.edu 1218 Patterson Office Tower
	Nathan R. Petrie MA Candidate, Graduate Teaching Assistant 19th Century British Literature, 20th Century British and Irish Literature, Comics and Graphic Novels, Film	nathan.petrie@uky.edu Robert E. Hemenway Writing Center
	Delmar Reffett PhD Candidate, Graduate Instructor Modernism (British, Literary Theory, Psychoanalysis, The Novel, Critical Social Theory	delmar.reffett@uky.edu 1322 Patterson Office Tower (859) 257-6993
	Justin J. Roberts PhD Candidate, Graduate Instructor Film, Television, Popular Culture, music, Twentieth century literature, Twenty-first century literature	justin.j.roberts@uky.edu 1306 Patterson Office Tower
	Ashley Ruderman GWS PhD Candidate 20th & 21st Century American Culture and Literature, Lesbian Representation, Criminalization, surveillance, Queer Theory, Critical Prison Studies	ashley.ruderman@uky.edu 111 Breckinridge Hall
	Krystin Santos MFA candidate Gender and Women's Studies, Gender Performance, Composition and communication pedagogy, Creative Nonfiction, Gonzo Journalism	k.santos@uky.edu 1322 Patterson Office Tower 859-257-6993
	Valerie L. Stevens PhD Candidate, Graduate Instructor Victorian Novel, Gender and Women's Studies, 19th-century British Women Writers, Animal Studies	vst225 1318 Patterson Office Tower (859)-257-7055
	Gokce Tekeli PhD Candidate, Graduate Instructor 19th-century American Women Writers, Gender and Sexuality, late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century literature, Spatiality	gokce.tekeli@uky.edu 1218 Patterson Office Tower
	Jonathan G. Tinnin PhD Candidate 19th Century British Literature, 19th Century Medicine, Periodical Studies, Digital Humanities, Detective Fiction, Service Learning, Digital Pedagogy	jti225 1222 Patterson Office Tower (859)-257-6988
	Nicole Trobaugh Atkinson PhD Candidate 20th Century British and Irish Poetry, Trauma Literature and Trauma Studies, World War I Poetry, Social Theory, Cultural Theory, British modernism, Pastoral	nmtr223@uky.edu 1222 Patterson Office Tower (859) 257-6988
	Brenton Watts Graduate Student, WRD Teaching Assistant, Vice President of the Linguistics Graduate Student Association, YALL Corpus Researcher Appalachian Englishes, Sociophonetics, Sociolinguistics, Syntax, Language and Identity, Hispanic Linguistics, Lavender Linguistics, Language Planning and Policy, Onomastics, Phonetics, Language Documentation and Revitalization, Austronesian Languages, Language in Theatre, Language in Popular Culture	brenton.watts@uky.edu W.T. Young Library, West Wing Basement, Room B108B
	Logan West MA Candidate, Graduate Instructor 19th Century U.S. Literature, Death and Dying, Slavery	1302 Patterson Office Tower
	Katherine Whaley PhD Candidate, Graduate Instructor Law and Literature, Post-45 American Literature, Television, Film, Disability Studies	kwhaleyuky@gmail.com 1322 Patterson Office Tower
	Benjamin J. Wilson PhD Candidate, Graduate Instructor Literature of the U.S. South, Transatlantic Modernism, Global Modernism, African-American Literature, Hermeneutic Theory, Theories of Violence and Apocalypse, Religion and Culture in the U.S.	benjamin.wilson@uky.edu 1322 Patterson Office Tower
	Jillian Q. Winter PhD Candidate	jillian.winter@uky.edu 1322 Patterson Office Tower, Office Hours: Mon. 11:15-1:15pm/Weds. 11:15-12:15pm 859-257-6993
	Melissa Wiser PhD Candidate Appalachian literature and culture, Childhood studies, 19th and 20th century American literature, Southern literature	m.wiser@uky.edu 1202 Patterson Office Tower (859) 257-6976

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