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Writing and Rhetoric Faculty Directory


Jennifer Andrus

Jennifer Andrus

Professor

Department Chair

Writing and Rhetoric

Interests Include:

  • Legal rhetorics
  • Rhetorics of domestic violence
  • Discourse analysis

Brandy Bippes

Brandy Bippes

Assistant Professor (Lecturer)

Director, UAC English Language Lab

Writing and Rhetoric

Interests Include:

  • International education
  • Applied linguistics
  • Technical communication
  • Pedagogy
  • Interdisciplinary tech-language studies
  • Corporate training
  • Simplifying complex communication.

Nona young Brown

Nona young Brown

Assistant Professor (Lecturer)

Writing and Rhetoric

Interests Include:

  • Popular Culture Rhetorics
  • Online Rhetoric
  • Multi-Modal Rhetoric

Rachel Bryson

Rachel Bryson

Assistant Professor (Lecturer)

Writing and Rhetoric

Interests Include:

  • Her goals as a teacher and researcher are to create more broadly inclusive and accessible classroom learning communities where students can share in the challenges and joys of higher education.

Zachariah Chatterley

Zachariah Chatterley

Assistant Professor (Lecturer)

Writing and Rhetoric

 801-581-8733

Interests Include:

  • First-year writing

Trace Daniels

Trace Daniels

Associate Professor (Lecturer)

University Teaching Committee

Writing and Rhetoric

Interests Include:

  • Feminist & Gendered Rhetorics
  • Embodied Rhetorics
  • Indigenous Studies
  • Animal and Environmental Studies
  • American Literature & Film Studies

Samah Elbelazi

Samah Elbelazi

Assistant Professor (Lecturer)

Writing and Rhetoric

Interests Include:

  • Cultural rhetoric
  • Arts-based research
  • Poetic ethnography
  • Muslim rhetoric
  • Multilingual studies

Romeo García

Romeo García

Assistant Professor

Writing and Rhetoric

Interests Include:

  • Critical Theory 
  • Cultural Studies 
  • Latino/a and Latin American Studies 
  • Decolonial Studies 
  • Indigenous Studies 
  • Settler Colonial Studies 
  • Rhetorical Theory and Cultural Rhetorics 
  • Writing Center Studies 

Kendall Gerdes

Kendall Gerdes

Associate Professor

Writing and Rhetoric

Interests Include:

  • Student activism
  • Rhetorical theory
  • Queer & feminist rhetorics
  • Digital rhetorics
  • Video games

Jacquie Hebert

Jacquie Hebert

Assistant Professor (Lecturer)

Writing and Rhetoric

Interests Include:

  • Learner motivation
  • Learning technologies
  • Experiential learning
  • TESL training
  • EAP instruction
  • International education
  • English language pedagogy.

Jay Jordan

Jay Jordan

Professor

Director of Graduate Studies

Writing and Rhetoric

Interests Include:

  • Disciplinary writing of multilingual/international students
  • Intersections of contemporary rhetorical theory and multilingual composition
  • Transnational Education

Matt Lerberg

Matt Lerberg

Assistant Professor (Lecturer)

Writing and Rhetoric

Interests Include:

  • Rhetoric and Composition
  • Environmental Studies, and Critical Theory
  • The intersections of rhetoric, posthumanism, environmental studies, science fiction, popular culture, and critical theory.  

Amy Mallory-kani

Amy Mallory-kani

Assistant Professor (Lecturer)

Writing and Rhetoric

Interests Include:

  • First-year writing, writing in the disciplines, and 18th-century and Romantic British literature
  • Critical reading practice in the writing classroom

Luming Mao

Luming Mao

Professor

(On Leave)

Writing and Rhetoric

Interests Include:

  • Comparative/Cultural Rhetorics
  • Rhetorical Historiography
  • Asian/Asian American Rhetorics
  • Chinese Rhetorics
  • Translingualism
  • Critical Discourse Analysis

Maureen a. Mathison

Maureen a. Mathison

Associate Professor

Writing and Rhetoric

Interests Include:

  • Rhetoric in the Disciplines
  • Critical Science Studies
  • WAC/WID
  • Research Methods
  • Literacy Studies

Anne Mcmurtrey

Anne Mcmurtrey

Director of the University Writing Center

Writing and Rhetoric

 801-585-9126

Interests Include:

Improving on and further expanding the writing center's service to support our students across the campus and to meet their varying needs.

Nathan Meyer

Nathan Meyer

Associate Professor (Lecturer)

Writing and Rhetoric

Interests Include:

  • Hybrid course design
  • Sports science pedagogy
  • Narrative-based learning
  • Curriculum development
  • Teacher training
  • Media literacy
  • International education.

Hugh Schuckman

Hugh Schuckman

Associate Professor (Lecturer)

Writing and Rhetoric

Allison Segal

Allison Segal

Assistant Professor (Lecturer)

Writing and Rhetoric

Interests Include:

  • Teaching writing and English
  • ESL/EFL studies
  • Curriculum development
  • Shakespeare
  • Pop culture
  • English immersion program design

Natalie Stillman-webb

Natalie Stillman-webb

Professor (Lecturer)

Department Coordinator for online teaching/pedagogy

Writing and Rhetoric

Interests Include:

  • Writing in Disciplines
  • Writing for Multimedia
  • Visual Communication
  • Technical or Business Writing
  • Scientific Writing
  • Online Education

Jonathan Stone

Jonathan Stone

Associate Professor

Director of First-Year Writing

Writing and Rhetoric

Interests Include:

  • Sensory Rhetorics
  • Environmental Rhetorics 
  • Rhetorical Historiography 
  • Multimodal Composition 

Christie Toth

Christie Toth

Associate Professor

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Writing and Rhetoric

Interests Include:

  • Two-year college writing studies
  • Writing assessment
  • Indigenous rhetorics
  • Settler colonial studies

Alex Way

Alex Way

Assistant Professor (Lecturer)

Writing and Rhetoric

Interests Include:

  • Translingualism
  • Transnational Writing
  • Multimodality
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Second Language Writing
  • Translation and Localization

Maximilian s. Werner

Maximilian s. Werner

Professor (Lecturer)

Writing and Rhetoric

Interests Include:

  • First-year writing
  • Veteran Studies
  • Investigative Environmental Writing

Hua Zhu

Hua Zhu

Assistant Professor

Writing and Rhetoric

Interests Include:

  • Comparative global rhetorics
  • Non-Eurocentric history of rhetoric
  • Transnational writing pedagogy
  • Chinese rhetoric

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Last Updated: 10/22/25