Programs and Areas
Rhetoric, Composition and Literacy
Welcome New RCL Graduate Students!
Jess Clements grew up in a rural setting outside Newcomerstown, Ohio. She earned her BA in English Literature (minors in Creative Writing and Spanish) at Capital University (one of the "other" universities in Columbus, Ohio). She is beginning her MA in Rhet. Comp. with interests in digital media, disability studies, and composition pedagogy. When not negotiating her new life as graduate student and GTA, she likes spending time with her fiancé and two kitties. She also enjoys reading short story collections, crocheting, baking, and watching House.
Korinne King is a first year master's student focusing her study in Rhetoric and Composition. She earned her undergraduate degree in English (creative writing concentration) from Central Michigan University (which included a short course in Shakespeare at the University of Cambridge in England). She got married in March of 2006 and now travels to her hometown of Toledo "in between" working and studying at OSU. She enjoys reading, studying, web design, organizing things, playing cards and board games, singing in her church choir, and participating in her husband's hobby of musical theater.
Cate Sacchi is an incoming master's student concentrating in Rhetoric, Composition and Literacy Studies. She earned her bachelor's degree in English Literature at York College of Pennsylvania in 2006. Her professional interests include writing centers, visual rhetoric and anything and everything in between. She's very excited about meeting everyone in RCL and thanks them for the warm welcome thus far!
Erika Strandjord grew up in rural Wisconsin and graduated from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, with a BA in English this May. When she is not reading or writing, Erika enjoys hiking, knitting, and attempting to cook authentic Mexican dishes.
New Ph.D Students
Shawn is currently stalking an intersection of history, discipline, and technology in the late eighteenth century. He thinks that the transition between rhetorical and expressivist theories of authorship during this period might have something to do with the new economies of print publication that were emerging alongside the nascent French, English, and US democratic publics. Shawn sees himself as a historical scholar interested in the application of academic knowledge in the writing classroom. He therefore, perhaps foolishly, dreams of drawing meaningful connections between historical trends in literary practice and technological production and our contemporary efforts to conceptualize the role of changing technologies in the English and Composition classroom.
Kathryn Comer grew up in NJ, and has since lived in Bermuda, London, Florida, California, Dublin, and Colorado. She earned her BA in English (minor in philosophy) at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, FL, an M.Phil in Anglo-Irish literature at Trinity College Dublin, and an MA at CU Boulder. She’s interested in issues of gender, rhetoric, and narrative as well as composition pedagogies. When not overwhelmed by school, she loves to hike, snowshoe, and (obviously) read. Her first niece was born this summer!
Cormac Slevin came to the program at OSU after completing a B.A. in English and Film Studies at Wayne State University in Detroit. He has recently earned his M.A. from the Ohio State University in English with a focus on Rhetoric and digital media composition and he is continuing his studies in the program as a Ph.D. candidate. His scholarly interests include discourse theory, copyright law, digital media rhetoric, and multimodal composition pedagogy.
