Comp/Rhet Faculty
Gabriele Bechtel
PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2009
Associate Teaching Professor
Chief Department Adviser and Assistant Chair
Patricia Chambers
M.P.W. (Master of Professional Writing), University of Southern California
J.D., Case Western Reserve University
Visiting Assistant Instructor
Areas: Business and professional communication, technical writing/communication, marketing communication/strategy, legal writing/business law, grant writing/non-profit development, composition/rhetoric, and creative writing
Tony Cimasko
PhD, Purdue University, 2009
Senior Lecturer in English and ESL Composition Coordinator
Areas: Second-language writing, participation by second language learners in mixed L1/L2 classrooms, multimodal composing, and mismatches between student expectations and writing program standards
Linh Dich
PhD, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2012
Assistant Professor of English (Middletown Campus)
Areas: Language practices, representation, race, Asian-American rhetoric, community and public theories in digital environment
Theresa (Tess) Evans
PhD, Ball State University, 2012
Assistant Teaching Professor
Lizzie Hutton
PhD, University of Michigan, 2018
Assistant Professor of English, Director of the Howe Writing Center
Areas: Writing Studies, literacy studies, reading-writing connection, disciplinary history of English studies, writing center studies, transfer studies
Emily Legg
PhD, Purdue University, 2016
Assistant Professor of English
Areas: Indigenous rhetorics, cultural rhetorics, digital rhetoric, new media and composition, professional writing
Tim Lockridge
PhD, Virginia Tech, 2012
Associate Professor of English, Director of Professional Writing
Areas: Digital rhetoric, writing technologies, composition theory and history, digital publishing, web standards and markup languages, publics and counterpublics
Heidi McKee
PhD, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2005
Professor, English Department
Affiliate Faculty, Armstrong Interactive Media Studies
Areas: Business and professional communication; digital writing and rhetoric, writing center and program administration, research ethics and methodologies.
Jason Palmeri
PhD, Ohio State University, 2007
Associate Professor of English and Co-Director of Ohio Writing Project
Areas: Composition history and theory, digital and multimodal writing pedagogies, digital humanities, English Education, queer pedagogies and rhetorics
James Porter
PhD, University of Detroit, 1982
Professor of English and Emerging Technology in Business & Design
Areas: Rhetoric theory and history, professional communication, digital rhetoric, rhetorical ethics, intellectual property, online writing instruction
Michele Simmons
PhD, Purdue University, 2000
Associate Professor of English
Areas: Public rhetorics and civic engagement, research methodologies, visual and digital rhetoric, community-based research, environmental rhetoric, professional communication
Adam Strantz
PhD, Purdue University
Assistant Professor, English and Emerging Technology in Business
and Design
Areas: Digital rhetoric, data visualization, accessibility, graphic design, computer code, professional writing
John Tassoni
PhD, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 1992
Professor of English (Middletown Campus)
Areas: Composition and rhetoric, open-access issues
Peter Joseph Torres
PhD, Linguistics, University of California, Davis, 2022
Visiting Assistant Professor and Heanon Wilkins Faculty Fellow
Elizabeth Wardle
PhD, Iowa State University, 2003
Roger and Joyce Howe Distinguished Professor of Written Communication
Director, Howe Center for Writing Excellence
Areas: Transfer, threshold concepts, FYC as writing studies, writing program administration, composition theory, genre theory, activity theory
Sara Webb-Sunderhaus
PhD, The Ohio State University, 2006
Associate Professor of English, Director of Composition
Areas: Composition theories, histories, and pedagogies; literacy studies, Appalachian studies, retention and writing studies; feminist methodologies and pedagogies