People

Who Are We?


 

Faculty of WRL

Person  Research Interests 
Katie Braun, Marion Campus
    • Digital media studies  
    • composition studies  
    • literacy studies  
    • professional writing  
    • writing across the curriculum 
    • writing centers 
    • film 

Jonathan Buehl, Columbus Campus 
    • Rhetoric 
    • Professional writing 
    • Rhetoric of science 
    • Research methods 

Scott Lloyd DeWitt, Columbus Campus 

Director, Writing and Information Literacy 

    • Digital media studies 
    • Composition studies 
    • Writing Program and Curriculum Development 
    • Writing analytics 

Jim Fredal, Columbus Campus 
    • History of rhetoric 
    • Ancient rhetorics 
    • Legal rhetoric 
    • Rhetoric and narrative 
    • Rhetorical theory and criticism 

Kay Halasek, Columbus Campus 
    • Composition theory 
    • History and pedagogy 
    • Writing program administration 

Wendy S. Hesford, Columbus Campus 

Director, Global Arts + Humanities

    • Rhetoric 
    • Human rights 
    • Critical pedagogy 
    • Critical literacy 
    • Critical race studies 
    • Women, gender and sexuality studies 

John Jones, Columbus Campus 

Director, Digital Media Studies 

    • Digital media studies 
    • Digital rhetoric 
    • Professional and technical communication 
    • Visual rhetoric 

Dan Keller, Newark Campus 

 

    • Literacy studies 
    • Digital media studies 
    • Composition studies 
    • Reading pedagogy 
    • Writing center studies 

Susan Lang, Columbus Campus 

Director, Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing 

    • Writing program administration 
    • Data and text mining 
    • Composition studies 
    • Technical communication 

Ben McCorkle, Marion Campus 
    • Digital media studies 
    • Research methods 
    • Discourse analysis 
    • Digital media studies 

Beverly Moss, Columbus Campus 

Director, Second-Year Writing 

    • Literacy studies 
    • Composition 
    • Community literacy 

Margaret Price, Columbus Campus 

Director, Disability Studies 

    • Disability Studies 
    • Research methods 
    • Discourse analysis 
    • Digital media studies 

Carolyn Skinner, Mansfield Campus 
    • History and theory of rhetoric 
    • Women’s rhetoric 
    • Rhetoric of medicine, rhetoric of professionalism 
    • Writing centers 

Lauren Squires, Columbus Campus 
    • Linguistics 
    • Digital media studies 

Christa Teston, Columbus Campus 

Vice Chair, Writing, Rhetoric, and Literacy

Director, Business, Professional, and Technical Writing 

    • Contemporary rhetorical theory 
    • Professional writing 
    • Rhetorics of science and medicine 
    • Research methods 
    • Digital media studies 
    • Medical humanities 

Elizabeth Weiser, Newark Campus 
    • History and theory of rhetoric 
    • Kenneth Burke 
    • Museum studies 

Kelly Whitney, Mansfield Campus 
    • Rhetorics of health and medicine 
    • Writing across the curriculum 
    • professional and technical writing