PWR People

Christine Alfano

PWR Advanced Lecturer
Phone: (650) 736-1422
ROOM: Sweet 310
Research interests: digital rhetoric, rhetoric of gaming, visual rhetoric, gender and technology, Writing Program Administration

Paul Bator

Lecturer
PHONE: (650) 321-6830 || ROOM: Sweet 328A

Angela Becerra Vidergar, PhD

Lecturer
PHONE: (650) 723-3750 || ROOM: Sweet 316
Radio and multimedia storytelling; humanities communication; 20th-21st c. literature and culture of the Americas; disaster fiction and survivalism; imaginations of the future; graphic narratives; theorizations of the collective imaginary; 19th and 20th-century philosophy; speculative fiction; and...

Shaleen Brawn

Lecturer
PHONE: (650) 723-5524 || ROOM: Sweet 324
rhetoric of science and technology, science communication, publishing as process and institution

Russ Carpenter

Lecturer
PHONE: (650) 721-6830 || ROOM: Sweet 328A
Currently I am engaged in research surrounding how scientists conceive, build and present scientific posters to discuss their work. In addition, I am very invested in researching effective techniques to help individuals in STEM fields find ways to translate their findings in meaningful ways to a...

Erica Cirillo-McCarthy

Lecturer
PHONE: (650) 723-4606 || ROOM: Sweet 320A
spatial rhetoric, composition pedagogy, feminist pedagogy, multi modal communication, digital media, ethics and rhetoric

Maxe Crandall

Lecturer
PHONE: (650) 723-2947 || ROOM: Sweet 325
Rhetoric of resistance, activist writing, Queer and Transgender Studies, experimental writing, poetics and performance, biography

Jesse Davie-Kessler

Lecturer
jdavie@stanford.edu || Room: Sweet 322A
Jesse's research interests include the development of religious identity, embodied Pentecostal experience, the politics of community service, and the use of ethnographic methods in writing classrooms...

Marvin Diogenes

Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education<br/>Director, Stanford Introductory Studies for the Program in Writing and Rhetoric<br/>Director, Writing in the Major
Associate VP, Co-Director of SIS for PWR
Phone: (650) 723-4642
Room: Sweet 311

Kevin DiPirro

Lecturer
Phone: (650) 723-4631
Room: Sweet 327

Erik Ellis

Lecturer
Phone: (650) 725-1218
Room: Sweet 328
multimodal composition, visual rhetoric, the essay, style, picture books

Norah Fahim

Lecturer
Phone: (650) 723-4606 || Room: Sweet 320A
Digital Rhetoric, Narrative Inquiry, Writing Program Administration, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, and Second Language Writing

Megan Formato

Lecturer
Phone: (650) 725-1218
Room: Sweet 328
History of Science and Technology; Rhetoric of Science; Literature and Science; Science and Technology Studies; Scientific Writing Practices; Women and Science; Revision Practices

Thomas Freeland

PWR Advanced Lecturer
Phone: (650) 736-2337
Room: Sweet 318

Wendy Goldberg

Lecturer
Phone: (650) 723-8244
Room: Sweet 326
rhetoric of performance (with special reference to musical theater); writing center studies; American literature

Arturo Heredia

Lecturer
Phone: (650) 723-4621 || Room: Sweet 317
Ethnic Studies, Narrative and Rhetorical Theory, Cultural Studies, Classical Rhetoric, and American Literature,

Shannon Hervey

Lecturer
Phone: (650) 721-6775 || Room: Sweet 328B
Cold War Literature and Culture, Popular American Literature and Culture, Young Adult Literature, Posthumanism, the Digital Humanities, Writing Pedagogy, and Multimodal Composition

Donna Hunter

Lecturer
Phone: (650) 725-1215
Room: Sweet 322

Sarah Ives

Lecturer
Room: Sweet 319A
Sarah is a broadly trained sociocultural anthropologist with a focus on the racial politics of climate change in Africa. Her dissertation addressed racial and environmental politics in South Africa’s tea industry. Her current research brings together work in the social and ecological sciences to...

Kiersten Jakobsen

Lecturer
Phone: (650) 723-2631
Room: Sweet 320C
Twentieth-century Russian and East European film; the intersection of aesthetics and politics; contemporary Scandinavian cinema; tropes of Silicon Valley

Hanna Janiszewska

Lecturer
hjan@stanford.edu || Room: Sweet 221A
British Romanticism, intellectual history, poetics and philosophy

Jennifer Johnson

Lecturer
jennj@stanford.edu || Room: Sweet 322A
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

Christopher Kamrath

Lecturer
Phone: (650) 723-4621
Room: Sweet 317
Citizenship and political dissent, media history, cultural memory, the role of cultural identity and self-fashioning in rhetoric

Valerie Kinsey

Lecturer
Room: Sweet 222A
Writing and Critical Thinking Instruction, Institutional Rhetorics, Rhetorics of Race and Gender, Creative Writing, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Historiography, American History and Literature

Hsiao-Shih Lee

Lecturer
raechell@stanford.edu || Room: Sweet 323C
20 - 21st century Latin American literatures and cultures, creative writing, translation, poetry

Clara S Lewis

Lecturer
Phone: (650) 725-8919 || Room: Sweet 321
critical and cultural criminology, hate crime studies, intra-family crime, extreme sports studies

Helen Lie, Ed.D.

Lecturer
Room: Sweet 323A

Lindsey Mantoan

Lecturer
lmantoan@stanford.edu || Room: Sweet 321B
Performance and war, law, and human rights; documentary and ethnodrama; Greek tragedy; musical theater.

Kimberly Rose Moekle

Lecturer
Phone: (650) 723-8245
Room: Sweet 320
Environmental Rhetoric; Rhetoric of Sustainability; Eco-Composition; Environmental Ethics; Ecohumanities Pedagogy

Gabrielle Moyer

Lecturer
Phone: (650) 723-5524 || Room: Sweet 324
poetics of Art History, the relation of ethics and aesthetics, analytic philosophy, essayism

Alyssa J. O'Brien

Lecturer
Phone: (650) 723-3802
Room: Sweet 319
My current research focuses the emotional layers of cross-cultural communication, the rhetoric of leadership, and the role of digital technologies in global citizenship.

John Peterson

Lecturer
Phone: (650) 723-1361
Room: Sweet 331
Inquiry into the role of improvisation in education, particularly how face-to-face education compares and contrasts with online learning. Improvisation as a learned activity that requires both practice and imagination. Working title: "Improvisation and Free Speech: The Danger and Beauty of...

Sarah Pittock

Lecturer
Phone: (650) 736-2954
Room: Hume 207
Writing Across the Curriculum / Writing In the Disciplines; Tutoring Pedagogy; Rhetoric of Children's Culture; 18th-century Studies...

Ethan Plaut

Lecturer
Room: Sweet 320B
Digital Media Disconnection & Silence Transparency Journalism Media Ethics Propaganda Remix culture Humor...

Emily Polk

Lecturer
Phone: (650) 721-6093 || Room: Sweet 323
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 resiliency; rhetoric of global and local development.

Rebecca Richardson

Lecturer
Phone: (650) 721-6775 || Room: Sweet 328B
The rhetoric of inspiration and self-help, nineteenth-century British literature, environmental studies, the medical humanities, expressive writing and self-reflection

Carolyn Ross

Lecturer
Phone: (650) 723-8244 || Room: Sweet 326

Kim Savelson

Lecturer
Phone: (650) 725-1215
Room: Sweet 322
Design Thinking for Writing & Research, Science and Health Communication, Storytelling, Creativity Studies, Innovation Across the Disciplines.

Susan Schuyler

Lecturer
Phone: (650) 723-1361 || Room: Sweet 331

Selby Wynn Schwartz

Lecturer
Phone: (650) 723-2947
Room: Sweet 325
Currently writing projects: a book manuscript on drag dance (forthcoming from University of Michigan Press), as well as ongoing projects in dance studies, performance studies, social justice, gender and queer studies, historiography, and early cinema. Current performance projects: dramaturg for...

Trisha Stan

Lecturer
Room: 322C

Ruth Starkman

Lecturer
Room: 319 Phone: 3-3802
Ethics, Computer Science, writing, privacy, technology, higher education, women in STEM

James Steichen

Lecturer
Phone: (650) 723-3495

Robert Stephan

Lecturer
Room: Sweet 323B
My research withing Classics and Archaeology focuses on economic prosperity and inequality in the ancient Roman world. Essentially, I aim to understand whether the formation and expansion of the Roman Empire improved the economic well-being of its constituent populations. Recently I have turned my...

Jennifer Stonaker

Lecturer
Phone: (650) 723-4606
Room: Sweet 320
electronic portfolios, science communication, science storytelling

Mary Stroud

Lecturer
Phone: (650) 721-6093
Room: Sweet 323
environmental rhetoric, new media studies, humor studies, ELL education, technical writing

Natalya Sukhonos

Lecturer
Room: Sweet 321A
play; childhood; 20th century literature and literary theory

Kathleen Tarr

Lecturer
Phone: (650) 725-8919 || Room: Sweet 321
jurisprudence, limits of human intelligence, strategic planning in international relations and governments, global economy, and Equal Employment Opportunity in the entertainment industry.

Eric Vanden Bussche

Lecturer
Room: Sweet 320D
Global and East Asian history, comparative colonialism, border studies, race and ethnicity, history of cartography

Jake Warga

Lecturer
Phone: (650) 723-3750 || Room: Sweet 316

Ann Watters

Lecturer
Phone: (650) 342-3843
Room: Sweet 327

Benjamin Wiebracht

Lecturer
Room: Sweet 318A
Victorian literature and culture; history of the novel; narratology, especially the love plot.