Specializations: Rhetorics of science, visual design,
film music, and religion; multicultural pedagogy; the Presocratics;
personal scholarship (poetry).
Dissertation: The Art of Rhetoric as Self-Discipline:
Inquiries into Spirit, Sight, Sound. (link
to abstract)
Graduate Work: Earned 3.95 GPA in major. Completed 16
Ph.D.-level courses in classical through contemporary rhetorics,
feminist rhetorics, hypertext, musical rhetoric, cultural studies,
pragmatics, visual rhetoric, the rhetoric of science, and curricular
technologies. Attended graduate workshops in poetry, fiction,
and nonfiction writing.
