Stanford University
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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
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Mutallip Anwar
PWR Advanced Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
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, translation, and AI in education.
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Bruce H Bean
Lecturer, Oral Communication
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
Affordable Housing Ventures; Founder
Purchasing naturally occurring affordable housing (NOAH) for non-profits
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, AMMCG Law, San Francisco CA
Kate Comfort Harr, ED HIP Housing, San Mateo CA
Amy Richards, Retired Head, Crystal Springs Uplands School, Hillsborough CA -
Shaleen Brawn
PWR Advanced Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Rhetoric of Science and Technology, Science Communication, Publishing as Process and Institution
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Brandi Cannon
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2021
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2021
Graduate Program Assistant, Ctr. Sup. Exc. in Teaching
DBC Monitor, Hume CenterCurrent Role at StanfordPhD Candidate
Teaching Assistant
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Nissa Ren Cannon
Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
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.
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Catie Connolly
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2020
Graduate Teaching Consultant, Digital Learning Strategy
Copyeditor, Hume Center
Grad Writing Tutor, Hume Center
Proofreader, Hume CenterBioAs a PhD candidate in Developmental and Psychological Sciences at Stanford, I study how early childhood experience, cultural background, and education shape children's social-emotional development. I use a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, including surveys, interviews, and experimental tasks, to understand the development of core social-emotional skills like emotion regulation and executive functioning in ethnically-, culturally-, and socioeconomically-diverse child populations.
I am passionate about applying developmental science to inform educational policy and practice. My goal is to contribute to the advancement of knowledge and practice in early childhood education by working with students, parents, and teachers to create evidence-based and culturally-responsive curricula and interventions that will improve students' social-emotional outcomes and well-being. -
Melody Dailey
Undergraduate, Human Biology
Ug Wim Writing Consultant, Writing in the MajorBioMelody is currently a candidate for a Bachelor of Science degree in Human Biology with a concentration in Neuroengineering and Computation. She intends to pursue graduate studies culminating in a Master’s and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, alongside a Doctor of Medicine degree specializing in Neurology. Her academic and research interests lie at the intersection of biology, engineering, and clinical neuroscience, with a focus on advancing translational innovations to address neurological disorders.
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Ana De Almeida Amaral
Senior Producer, Contingent
Staff, Stanford Storytelling ProjectBioAna De Almeida Amaral (she/her) is an award-winning journalist, audio producer, and storyteller from San Diego, California. She's long been passionate about using storytelling as a liberatory tool to document the experiences of queer and Latino communities. Ana graduated from Stanford with a B.A. in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.
Ana produced KQED’s first Latino culture podcast, Hyphenación, and has worked telling stories about the US-Mexico borderlands on Cruzando Líneas. As a journalist, Ana has reported on the oldest lesbian bar in San Francisco, the history of queer policing in the Bay Area, and on state violence in Chile.
Ana is a Senior Producer at the Stanford Storytelling Project where she oversees production of the State of the Human podcast. She also trains and supports students building audio production and storytelling skills. -
Tara Dosumu Diener
Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
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.
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Marvin Diogenes
Associate VP, Director of PWR, Writing and Rhetoric Operations
Current Role at StanfordAssociate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
Director, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
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Kevin DiPirro
PWR Advanced Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Rhetoric of Performance; Multimodal Presentation; Devised Theatre; Art and Technology
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Erik Ellis
PWR Advanced Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: the essay, style, multimodal composition, visual rhetoric, picture books
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Norah Fahim
PWR Advanced Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Digital Rhetoric, Narrative Inquiry, Writing Program Administration, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, and Second Language Writing
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Lindsey Felt
PWR Advanced Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: 20th and 21st Century American Literature, Disability Studies, Media Culture, Science and Technology Studies, Critical Access Studies, Accessible Arts Curation
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Stephanie Fischer
Ph.D. Student in Earth System Science, admitted Autumn 2022
Ph.D. Minor, Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity
Grad OCT, Hume CenterBioStephanie Fischer (she/her) is a Ph.D. Candidate with the Behavioral Decisions and the Environment group with Dr. Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, and is a Ph.D. minor with the Center for Comparative Studies of Race and Ethnicity. She is largely interested in community-led solutions that bolster adaptive capacity in the face of acute disasters and chronic climate hazards, and the ways culture and identity play a pivotal role in achieving holistic well-being and transformative climate justice.
Stephanie also holds a B.A. in Music Composition and a B.A. in Earth Systems (Human Environmental Systems) from Stanford University. -
Megan Formato
PWR Advanced Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: History of Science and Technology; Literature and Science; Science and Technology Studies; Scientific Writing Practices; Women and Science; Revision Practices; Learning Portfolios; Science Communication
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Thomas Freeland
PWR Advanced Lecturer, Oral Communication
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Theatre (Shakespeare, German Theatre, Shakespeare in German); Critical Theory, Literature in Translation, German Literature, History of the American West, European History, Political Science
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Mark Gardiner
Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Social and Cultural Anthropology, Data Studies, African Studies, Environmental Justice, Race, Critical Science and Technology Studies, Politics, Institutions, International Development
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Alexander Greenhough
Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSpecialization: Film Theory; Film History; Postwar European and American Cinema; Contemporary New Zealand Cinema
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Shannon Hervey-Lentz
PWR Advanced Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Rhetoric and Composition Pedagogy, the study of psychology & wellness in rhetorical study, the role of rhetoric in constituting, policing, and navigating bodies.
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Harriett Virginia-Ann Jernigan
Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly Interestssecond language acquisition, learner autonomy; task-, literacy-, and project-based instruction; storytelling, critical race theory (CRT); cultural rhetorics; large language models
Writing across the disciplines; Humanities 2.0; diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in pedagogy; social geography; presentation culture; podcasting and public speaking -
Jennifer Johnson
PWR Advanced Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Intersections of Language, Identity and Culture, Sociocultural Studies in Education, Second Language Acquisition Theory and Bilingualism, Multimodal Communication and Theories of Embodiment, Deaf Studies
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Zandra L. Jordan
Director, Hume Center for Writing and Speaking, Writing and Rhetoric Operations
BioRev. Dr. Zandra L. Jordan is Director of the Hume Center for Writing and Speaking. A trained rhetorician and ordained Baptist minister, she holds a B.A. in English from Spelman College, a M.A.T in English from Brown University, a MDiv with Certification in Black Church Studies from Emory University, and a PhD in English and Education from the University of Michigan. Her current scholarship focuses on womanist ethics, racial justice, and writing center administration. At Stanford, she also serves as a Chaplain Affiliate with the Office for Religious and Spiritual Life. Beyond Stanford, she serves on the ministerial team at UAMEZ Church in Palo Alto. Dr. Jordan is a proud member of the San Francisco-Peninsula Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated and the San Jose (CA) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated.
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Christopher Kamrath
PWR Advanced Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Citizenship and Political Dissent, Media History, Cultural Memory, andWriting technologies
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Hayden Kantor
PWR Advanced Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsFood and agriculture; ethnographic writing; rhetorics of capitalism; ethics of care; culture and history of India and South Asia
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Nora Kassner
Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsNora Kassner's current book project, Hard to Place: Homosexuality, Foster Care, and the Remaking of the American Family, places gay and lesbian foster parents at the heart of the transformation of American family policy in the late twentieth century. Between the 1970s and the 1990s, gay and lesbian foster parents won the right to care for 'homosexual' teens, then children with HIV-AIDS, and then laid the groundwork for the legalization of gay parenthood across the United States.
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Suchismito Khatua
Ph.D. Student in Modern Thought and Literature, admitted Autumn 2023
Ph.D. Minor, Art History
Ph.D. Minor, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Copyeditor, Hume Center
Grad Writing Tutor, Hume Center
SHI Discussion Leader, Stanford Pre-Collegiate StudiesBioSuchismito Khatua is a scholar of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literary and visual cultures from South Asia and its diasporas. His doctoral work traces figurations of negativity and discontent across post-revolutionary avant-gardes, including poetry, fiction, cinema, and computational media, moving between Postcolonial Studies, Feminist and Queer Theory, Critical Caste Studies, and Translation. He was previously affiliated with the University of Calcutta, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and the Freie Universität Berlin. He writes in both Bangla and English.
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Valerie Kinsey
Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Writing and Critical Thinking Instruction; Institutional Rhetorics; Rhetorics of Race and Gender; Creative Writing; Philosophy and Rhetoric; Historiography; American History and Literature
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Helen Lie
PWR Advanced Lecturer, Oral Communication
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Communication Pedagogy; Visual Communication; Presentation Skills
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Leslie Patricia Luqueño
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2020
Ph.D. Minor, Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity
Graduate Student Worker, Ctr for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE)
DBC Monitor, Hume CenterCurrent Research and Scholarly InterestsMy current research lies at the intersection of higher education, immigration, and family studies, with an emphasis on how the children of Latinx immigrants make sense of their higher education trajectories and aspirations. I am particularly interested in the role of families within college choice decision-making and employ both qualitative and data science methods to investigate how familial values and knowledge is employed throughout the college application process for Latinx students.
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Sangeeta Mediratta
Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
BioSangeeta Mediratta teaches classes on rhetoric and writing, literature and film. Her PWR classes currently focus on maps, borders, networks, objects, and objectification. She loves learning about and helping her students develop their research interests and projects and takes great joy in fostering strong class communities centered around writing and research.
She completed her Ph.D. from University of California, San Diego in English Literature. Her dissertation :Bazaars, Cannibals, and Sepoys: Sensationalism and Transnational Cultures of Empire" studied at the ways texts, objects, and spectacles in the U.S. and Britain drew upon imperial stories and objects to critique contemporary social formations. She has also written on world cinema, popular culture, disability studies, as well as gender and race studies.
Her current research focuses on the materiality of writing and on how students use culture as a way to build campus communities. She is also interested in empathy as a mode of living, connecting, writing, and being. -
Kevin C. Moore
PWR Advanced Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
BioKevin C. Moore is an Advanced Lecturer in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric (PWR), and the Coordinator of PWR's Notation in Science Communication. He holds a PhD in English from UCLA (2013). Prior to arriving at Stanford, he taught in the Writing Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara (2013-2019). His research interests include science and rhetoric, propaganda studies, Ralph Ellison, and writer's block. Dr. Moore's work has appeared in Arizona Quarterly, Arts, ContraSTS, Writing on the Edge, African American Review, Composition Studies, MAKE, Souciant, and the Santa Barbara Independent, as well as collections such as Trigger Warnings: Teaching through Trauma (Lever Press 2026), Ralph Ellison in Context (Cambridge University Press 2021), and Creative Ways of Knowing in Engineering (Springer 2017). He also writes fiction and creative nonfiction.
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Gabrielle Moyer
PWR Advanced Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Poetics of Art History; The Relation of Ethics and Aesthetics; Analytic Philosophy; Essayism
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Eldon Pei
Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSpecialisation: world cinema; documentary film; post-war visual cultures; East and Southeast Asian studies; propaganda; media, technology and society; critical theory; postcolonialism
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Emily Polk
PWR Advanced Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Facilitation and Mobilization of Social Movements in the Digital and Public Spheres; Communication of Community-Led Responses to Climate Change; the Role and Impact of Scholar Activism; Participatory Research; Rhetoric of Sustainability and Environmental Humanities; Rhetoric of Global and Local Development
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Lisa Moore Ramee
Assistant Director, Student Services PWR, Writing and Rhetoric Operations
Current Role at StanfordAssistant Director of Student Services, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
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Rebecca Richardson
PWR Advanced Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: The Rhetoric of Inspiration and Self-Help; Nineteenth-Century Literature; Environmental Studies; History of Political Economy; The Medical Humanities; Expressive Writing and Self-Reflection
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Katherine Rothschild
Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsFourth wave feminism has offered many opportunities for activism from anonymous or covert places, such as X and Tiktok. How effective are these new forms of linguistic activism?
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Kim Savelson
PWR Advanced Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Design Thinking for Writing & Research; Science and Health Communication; Storytelling; Creativity Studies; Innovation Across the Disciplines
