Instructor Profiles A-M

Christine Alfano

Associate Director, PWR
Experience & Interests: digital rhetoric, rhetoric of gaming, visual rhetoric, gender and technology
alfano@stanford.edu

Adam Banks

Faculty Director, PWR
Experience & Interests:
ajbanks@stanford.edu

Paul Bator

Experience & Interests: legal argument, political photography, communication, political issues, humanities and literary topics, presentation practice and delivery
pbator@stanford.edu

Angela Becerra Vidergar

Experience & Interests: radio and multimedia storytelling; humanities communication; 20th-21st c. literature and culture of the Americas; imaginations of the future; disaster fiction and survivalism; graphic narratives; questions of science, technology and society
becerra@stanford.edu

Julia Bleakney

Director, Hume Center
Experience & Interests: writing center theory and practice, writing and writing center assessment
bleakney@stanford.edu

Shay Brawn

Writing Specialist, Human Biology
Experience & Interests: rhetoric of science and technology, science communication, publishing as process and institution
brawn@stanford.edu

Russ E. Carpenter

Writing Specialist, Biology 
Experience & Interests: neuroscience, stress, science education, oral communication, science communication, multimodal communication
russ1@stanford.edu

Erica Cirillo-McCarthy

Experience & Interests: spatial rhetoric, multimodal communication, research statements, digital media, ethics and rhetoric, writing pedagogy
ecirillo@stanford.edu

Maxe Crandall

Experience & Interests:
maxec@stanford.edu

Jesse Davie-Kessler

Experience & Interests: Anthropological writing and representation,  religion, performance, cross-cultural  translation, community-based scholarship
jdavie@stanford.edu

Marvin Diogenes

PWR Interim Director
Experience & Interests: writing pedagogy, comic rhetoric, writing program administration
marvind@stanford.edu

Kevin DiPirro

Writing Specialist, Science, Technology and Society
Experience & Interests: performance; devised theater; technology and human values; the feature article
kdipirro@stanford.edu

Erik Ellis

Experience & Interests: multimodal composition, visual rhetoric, the essay, style
ellise@stanford.edu

Norah Fahim

Experience & Interests: Language and Rhetoric, Digital Rhetoric, Second Language Writing, TESOL, Collaborative Writing, Narrative Inquiry
nfahim@stanford.edu

Meg Formato

Experience & Interests: rhetoric of science and technology, science and literature, gender and science, writing practices in the sciences.
mformato@stanford.edu

Wendy Goldberg

Experience & Interests: rhetoric of performance (with special reference to musical theater); writing center studies; American literature
wendyfay@stanford.edu

Arturo Heredia

Experience & Interests: multiculturalism, rhetoric & identity
art_here@yahoo.com

Shannon Hervey

Experience & Interests: Cold War Literature and Culture, Popular American Literature and Culture, Young Adult Literature, Posthumanism, the Digital Humanities, Writing Pedagogy, and Multimodal Composition
shervey@stanford.edu

Donna Hunter

Course Coordinator, PWR 2
Experience & Interests: ambient rhetoric, criminality, rhetoric & identity, scholar-activism
dhunter@stanford.edu

Sarah Ives

Experience & Interests: anthropology, environmental rhetoric, comparative studies in race and ethnicity
sives@stanford.edu

Kiersten Jakobsen

Experience & Interests: yoga, pilates, photography, 20th century russian and east european art/film/contemporary cinema(Romanian, Russian, and etc.)
kiersten@stanford.edu

Hanna Janiszewska

Experience & Interests: 18th and 19th century literature and philosophy, politics
hjan@stanford.edu

Jennifer Johnson

Experience & Interests: intersections of language, identity and culture, sociocultural studies in education, second language acquisition theory and bilingualism, multimodal communication and theories of embodiment, D/deaf studies
jennj@stanford.edu

Christopher Kamrath

Experience & Interests: citizenship and political dissent, media history, the role of cultural memory and self-fashioning in rhetorical invention
kamrath@stanford.edu

Valerie Kinsey Hasseltine

Experience & Interests:
valeriekinsey@stanford.edu

Raechel Lee

Experience & Interests: creative writing, translation, Latin American literature
raechell@stanford.edu

Clara Lewis

Writing Specialist, History
Experience & Interests: American studies, social and cultural theory, qualitative research methods, hate crime, extreme sports visual culture
cslewis@stanford.edu

Helen Lie

Experience & Interests:

hlie@stanford.edu

Lindsey Mantoan

Experience & Interests: theater and performance, 21st century US politics, activism, human rights
lmantoan@stanford.edu

Kimberly Moekle

Experience & Interests: environmental rhetoric, rhetoric of sustainability, ecohumanities pedagogy, environmental ethics
krmoekle@stanford.edu 

Gabrielle Moyer

Writing Specialist, Art & Art History
Experience & Interests: wild writing, dialogic rhetoric, relation between ethics and aesthetics, heuristic pedagogies
Gabrielle.Moyer@stanford.edu