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Alyssa

Alyssa O'Brien

Writing Specialist, Public Policy
Experience & Interests: cross-cultural rhetoric, rhetoric & leadership
aobrien@stanford.edu 

 

John Peterson

Course Coordinator, PWR 1
Experience & Interests: art & creativity, pop culture & consumerism, rhetoric of education
johnpete@stanford.edu 

 

Sarah Pittock

Associate Director, Hume Center
Experience & Interests: Writing Across the Curriculum / Writing In the Disciplines, tutoring pedagogy, rhetoric of children's culture, 18th-century studies
pittock@stanford.edu 

 
Ethan

Ethan Plaut

Experience & Interests: digital media, disconnection, silence, remix culture, transparency, propaganda, journalism, media ethics, humor
eplaut@stanford.edu

Emily Polk

Writing Specialist, Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences
Experience & Interests: rhetoric and social justice, human rights, new media, environmental communication, qualitative methods
empolk@stanford.edu

Rebecca Richardson

Experience and Interests: 19th century British literature and culture, rhetoric of self-help and inspiration, rhetoric of confessions, medicine and narrative, disability studies, class studies
beckyr@stanford.edu

Carolyn Ross

Experience & Interests: environmental rhetoric and literature, communicating science, community-based writing and service learning
cbross@stanford.edu 

Kin

Kim Savelson

Experience & Interests: design thinking, design studies, ethics, neurocognition of writing
savelson@stanford.edu

Susan Schuyler-Olmsted

Writing Specialist, English
Experience & Interests: fan culture, popular culture, mass audiences, nineteenth-century literature and culture, performance, english language learners
schuyler@stanford.edu 

Selby Schwartz

Experience & Interests: Gender & queer studies, social justice, performance studies
selby1@stanford.edu

Trisha

Trisha Stan

Experience & Interests: immunology, neuroscience, neurodegenerative disease, science communication, science grant writing, science podcasting, musical parody
trishas@stanford.edu

Ruth

Ruth Starkman

Writing Specialist, Computer Science
Experience & Interests: ethics, writing, political thought, technology, policy, Middle East, medicine
starkman@stanford.edu

Jim Steichen

Experience & Interests: musicology; history of the performing arts in the U.S.
steichen@stanford.edu

Robert

Robert Stephan

Experience & Interests: archaeology, Greek and Roman history, the ancient economy, digital humanities
rstephan@stanford.edu

Jennifer Stonaker

Coordinator, Notation in Science Communication
Experience & Interests: genetics; biotechnology, science communication, science education
jstonaker@stanford.edu 

Mary Stroud

Experience & Interests: environmental rhetoric, new media studies, rhetoric of humor, ELL education, technical writing
mestroud@stanford.edu

Natalya Sukhonos

Experience & Interests: aesthetics and play, 20th century Russian and Latin American literature, humor, childhood, mystical experience
sukhonos@stanford.edu

Kathleen Tarr

Experience & Interests: equal employment opportunity in the entertainment industry, the limits of human intelligence and morality, myth and behavior, the intersection of government, jurisprudence, social contract
ktarr@stanford.edu

Eric Vanden Bussche

Experience & Interests: globalization, visual rhetoric, race and ethnicity, history of cartography
evb0919@stanford.edu

Jake Warga

Experience & Interests: public radio, photography, writing, teaching, travel
jwarga@stanford.edu

Anne Watters

Ann Watters

Experience & Interests: clinical psychology, cross-cultural issues
watters@stanford.edu

Ben Wiebracht

Experience & Interests:
bwieb@stanford.edu

Irene Yamboliev

Experience & Interests:
irenay@stanford.edu