Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
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Nora Kassner
Lecturer
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, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Grad Writing Tutor, Hume CenterBioSuchismito Khatua works on figurations of negativity, antisociality, and postrevolutionary despair in South Asian poetry, performance, and cinema from the late twentieth into the twenty-first century. His doctoral dissertation, titled "The Uses of Despair: Modernism at the End of the World," emerges at the intersections of New Modernist Studies, Feminist and Queer Theory, and Critical Caste Studies. Before coming to Stanford, he studied English and Cinema Studies at the University of Calcutta, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and the Freie Universität Berlin. He writes in – and translates between – Bangla and English.
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Valerie Kinsey
PWR Advanced Lecturer
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
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Communication Pedagogy; Visual Communication; Presentation Skills
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Sangeeta Mediratta
PWR Lecturer
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
Lecturer
BioKevin C. Moore is a 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, Writing on the Edge, African American Review, Composition Studies, MAKE, Souciant, and the Santa Barbara Independent, as well as collections such as 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
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
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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John Peterson
PWR Advanced Lecturer
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATIONS: Social Media and Changes to Mass Media; Art Versus Commerce; Liberal Arts Education & Public Schools; Social/Racial Justice; Consumer Culture; Music & Film; Technology & Learning; Public Policy
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Emily Polk
PWR Advanced Lecturer
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
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
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
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Design Thinking for Writing & Research; Science and Health Communication; Storytelling; Creativity Studies; Innovation Across the Disciplines
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Jennifer Stonaker
PWR Advanced Lecturer
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Electronic Portfolios; Science Communication; Science Storytelling
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Lisa Marie Swan
PWR Advanced Lecturer
BioLisa Swan teaches writing courses. She has served as the PWR 1 Coordinator supporting the curricular, pedagogical, and professional development of the first year writing requirement and developed a summer bridge writing course and a support workshop for students who are first generation college students, from low-income backgrounds, or attended underresourced schools. She holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with a specialization in English Education from the University of Maryland, College Park. Previously, she taught at the University of Maryland and Northern Virginia Community College. At Stanford, her writing class themes have focused on educational equity, comics and graphic novels, the future of cities, and student voice. Her research interests include writing studies, composition and reading pedagogies, curriculum design, and qualitative research methods.
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Kathleen Tarr
PWR Advanced Lecturer
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Jurisprudence; Rhetoric and Climate Catastrophe; Strategic Planning in International Relations and Governments; Rhetoric and Global Economy; and Equal Employment Opportunity in the Entertainment Industry
