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RCL Welcomes New Graduate Students
This year RCL is happy to welcome seven new graduate students: three MA students and four PhD students.MA Students
Jen Herman
Jen Herman is a first-year M.A. student studying Rhetoric, Composition and Literacy. She earned her undergraduate degree in English and Evolution and Ecology from OSU in 2006. Her interests include environmental and sustainable rhetoric, as well as literacy. She enjoys reading, running, music, and travel.
Emily Hooper
Emily Hooper is an incoming master's student in Rhetoric, Composition and Literacy Studies with interests (many of which, surely, are yet to be discovered...) in writing centers, women's and gender studies, trauma studies, and composition pedagogy. In 2005, she earned her undergraduate degree in English from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and then moved back home to Nashville, TN. Very much enjoying her time in "Nashvegas," Emily spent the past two years working as the studio manager of Vanderbilt University's Writing Studio and as a crisis intervention advocate at the local YWCA's Domestic Violence Center. When not reading and writing, she enjoys jogging, singing, and spending time with her two kittens, Anais and Jasper.
Julia Voss
Julia Voss comes to OSU from the sunny city of Seattle, where she completed her bachelor's degree in English and History. After spending a year working as an office slave, she returns to school in pursuit of a master's degree in rhet/comp. So far, she has worked with writing centers, composition pedagogy, and rhetorical practices, but she looks forward to encountering more of the field in graduate school. Her other interests include movie-watching, bike riding, reading trashy books, swimming, and talking too loudly in public places.
PhD Students
Genevieve Critel
Genevieve Critel grew up in the country near Lincoln, Nebraska. She has a B.A. in English with a minor in Women's Studies from the University of Nebraska, an M.Ed. in Secondary English Education from East Central University, and an M.A. in English with a focus in composition and rhetoric from the University of Oklahoma. She is beginning a Ph.D. in composition and rhetoric and is interested in various facets surrounding teaching composition with technologies. In her copious spare time she loves a friendly game of racquetball, a leisurely bike ride, cooking with friends, and playing with anything Apple makes.
Ryan Omizo
Paige VanOsdol
Melanie Yergeau
Born and raised in Manchester, New Hampshire, Melanie Yergeau says things like "soda" and "American chop suey." She began her studies at New Hampshire Technical Institute as a computer science major, only to switch to liberal arts her sophomore year. After earning her AA, she completed a BA in Writing at Geneva College, followed by an MA in Writing at DePaul University. Her academic interests include multimodal composition, the blogosphere, disability studies, and Calvinist rhetoric. Outside of class, Melanie obsesses over Jeff Lynne and the Electric Light Orchestra.
