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  • Christine Alfano

    Christine Alfano

    Senior Lecturer in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Digital Rhetoric, Rhetoric of Gaming, Visual Rhetoric, Gender and Technology, Writing Program Administration

  • Mutallip Anwar

    Mutallip Anwar

    Lecturer

    BioMutallip Anwar completed his PhD in Language & Rhetoric at the University of Washington. Prior to joining PWR, he taught college writing courses at the University of Washington and Highline College. His primary teaching and research interests include rhetoric and composition studies, language education, discourse analysis, and translation.

  • Bruce H Bean

    Bruce H Bean

    Lecturer

    BioRelevant Experience

    20 years: Co-Teaching Public Speaking at Stanford with James Wagstaffe COM 01 & COM 118

    Business Experience

    ​​​​​​​Founder and Sole Owner of The Trafton Group, San Mateo CA
    Previously with TRI and Cushman & Wakefield, San Mateo CA
    Directing, managing, marketing, selling, leasing, and property management for commercial real estate.

    Architectural Design

    President: Beavers, Bean and Hale Associates Boulder CO Merged with Oz Architecture
    Directing, Managing design and planning for financial institutions, corporations and non-profits.

    Prior Board Membership

    San Mateo Rotary Club - Previous Board Member & Past President
    Board President Crystal Springs Uplands School, Hillsborough CA

    HIP Housing

    HIP Housing San Mateo, CA​​​​​​​
    Previous Board Member and Board President, Head of Housing Committee: Managing HIP’s property purchases.

    Affordable Housing Ventures

    Founder
    Purchasing naturally occurring affordable housing (NOAH) non-profit housing developers.

    Education

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Boston MA Graduate Studies in Urban and Regional Planning
    University of Colorado Boulder CO Bachelor of Arts
    East Asian Studies Foreign Studies: Art and Religion, Kyoto, Japan

    References

    James Wagstaffe, Kerr & Wagstaffe, San Francisco CA
    Kate Comfort Harr, ED HIP Housing, San Mateo CA
    Amy Richards, Retired Head, Crystal Springs Uplands School, Hillsborough CA

  • Shaleen Brawn

    Shaleen Brawn

    PWR Advanced Lecturer

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Rhetoric of Science and Technology, Science Communication, Publishing as Process and Institution

  • Nissa Ren Cannon

    Nissa Ren Cannon

    Lecturer

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research focuses on transatlantic modernism, citizenship, and print culture. My book project, which was chosen for the 2019 Penn State First Book Institute, argues that the bureaucratic and literary documents of interwar itinerancy–including passports, travel ephemera, and newspapers–shape expatriation as a distinct mode of national belonging.

  • Laura Joyce Davis

    Laura Joyce Davis

    Lecturer

    BioLaura Joyce Davis teaches podcasting at Stanford University, where she helps students turn climate change research into planet-saving stories, and manages production for the award-winning State of the Human. She is the CEO and cofounder of Narrative Podcasts, the Executive Producer of Shelter in Place, and a Podcast Magazine Top Influencer in Podcasting. Her work has been recognized with a Social Impact Award for Mentoring and DEI initiatives, a Fulbright scholarship, a Poet & Writers Exchange Award, and the International Women’s Podcasting Award for “Changing the World One Moment at a Time.”

  • Tara Dosumu Diener

    Tara Dosumu Diener

    PWR Lecturer

    BioTara received a Ph.D. in Anthropology and History from the University of Michigan in 2016 and a Graduate Certificate in Science, Technology, and Society in 2014. Prior to graduate studies at Michigan, she practiced as a Registered Nurse in obstetrics and pediatrics while earning an M.A. in Bioethics, Humanities, and Society from the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences (CEHLS) at Michigan State University. She has taught courses in creative non-fiction writing, medical, biological, and sociocultural anthropology, international and African studies, global health, political science, and the history of medicine in the US, Western Europe, and sub-Saharan Africa. She is an anthropologist and historian of medicine, maternal and infant health and mortality, global health (non)systems, and nursing ethics and practice. She is proficient in both archival and ethnographic methods and her previous projects have focused on the United Kingdom and Sierra Leone.

  • Kevin DiPirro

    Kevin DiPirro

    PWR Advanced Lecturer

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Rhetoric of Performance; Multimodal Presentation; Devised Theatre; Art and Technology

  • Erik Ellis

    Erik Ellis

    PWR Advanced Lecturer

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Multimodal Composition, Visual Rhetoric, The Essay, Style, Picture Books

  • Norah Fahim

    Norah Fahim

    PWR Advanced Lecturer

    Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Digital Rhetoric, Narrative Inquiry, Writing Program Administration, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, and Second Language Writing