Faculty and Staff

Barry Jason Mauer
Director
Associate Professor
bmauer@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Film and Media Studies; Cultural Studies; Rhetoric and Composition; Literary Theory; Memory and Monu......

Patty Hurter
Assistant Director
Phurter@ucf.edu

Core Faculty teach core T&T courses, supervise doctoral work and candidacy exams, and do research related to Texts and Technology. Core faculty members serve as chairs and members on T&T dissertation committees and take an active role in student advising.

J.D. Applen
Associate Professor
jd.applen@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Classical and Contemporary Rhetoric; Technical Communication for students across UCF in all majors; ......

Jonathan Beever
Assistant Professor
Jonathan.Beever@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Environmental Bioethics; Simulation and Representation; Soundscape Ecology; Ethics and Science; Anim......

Rosalind Beiler
Associate Professor
rosalind.beiler@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Early American History, Atlantic History, Migration, Early Modern German History, Public History ......

Melody Bowdon
Associate Professor
melody.bowdon@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Faculty Development; Technical and Professional Communication; Gender and Technology; Service-Learni......

Martha Catherine Brenckle
Professor
Martha.Brenckle@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Queer Theory and FYW; Gender Studies and Feminist Theories; SOTL in Information Literacy and Underg......

James Campbell
Associate Professor
james.campbell@ucf.edu
Research Interests: British and Irish Literature since 1885, War and Literature, Sexuality Theory, Science Fiction......

Robert Cassanello
Associate Professor
Robert.Cassanello@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Social History, Southern History, Race, Gender, Historiography......

Paul M. Dombrowski
Professor
pdombrow@mail.ucf.edu
Research Interests: Rhetoric theory, history, and practice, classical to contemporary; Texts and Technology, rhetorical ......

Dustin W. Edwards
Assistant Professor
Dustin.Edwards@ucf.edu
Research Interests: digital rhetorics; circulation studies ; the politics of writing infrastructures, especially social......

Joseph Fanfarelli
Assistant Professor
joseph.fanfarelli@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Educational Games; Gamification; Video Game Design; Learning & Pedagogy; Research Methods......

Scot A. French
Associate Professor
Scot.French@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Digital and Public History; Community Studies/Local Knowledge; Sites of Memory; Southern History; Af......

Anthony Grajeda
Associate Professor
anthony.grajeda@ucf.edu

Maria C. R. Harrington
Assistant Professor
Maria.Harrington@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Virtual reality, simulations, and human-computer interaction for learning and creating; Virtual envi......

Bruce B. Janz
Professor
bruce.janz@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Contemporary African Philosophy; Postcolonial Thought ; Theories of Place/Space; Urban Studies......

Dan Jones
Professor
Dan.Jones@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Technical communication, plain English and plain language, science and literature, writing and desig......

Natasha N. Jones
Assistant Professor
Natasha.Jones@ucf.edu
Research Interests: technical and professional communication; narrative; genre; social justice and activism in technical......

Mark L. Kamrath
Professor
mark.kamrath@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Brown and the Early Republic, 1771-1810; Eighteenth-Century Periodicals and Print Culture; Native Am......

Peter Larson
Associate Professor
Peter.Larson@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Medieval & Early Modern England; social and economic history; legal history.......

Connie L. Lester
Associate Professor
Connie.Lester@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Modern South, agricultural, environmental and economic history......

Rudy McDaniel
Professor
rudy@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Digital badges; Interactive narrative; Knowledge management; Information architecture; Video game st......

Shelley M Park
Professor
Shelley.Park@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Kinship studies, ethics of care, philosophy of love, queer theory, feminist theory, postcolonial the......

Phil Peters
Professor
Philip.Peters@ucf.edu

Tison Pugh
Professor
Tison.Pugh@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Medieval English Literature; Queer and Gender Studies; Pedagogy; Film; Children's Literature; Southe......

Christian Ravela
Assistant Professor
christian.ravela@ucf.edu
Research Interests: 20th Century Multi-Ethnic Cultural Production, Comparative Racialization, Critical Ethnic Studies, A......

Angela R. Rounsaville
Assistant Professor
Angela.Rounsaville@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Transnational/Transcultural Literacy; Literacy Studies; Rhetorical Genre Theory; Transfer; Research ......

Anastasia Salter
Assistant Professor
anastasia@ucf.edu
Research Interests: digital narrative; electronic literature; game studies; social media; digital hu......

Blake Scott
Professor
bscott@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Rhetoric of Health & Medicine; Rhetorical History, Theory, & Techne; Professional & Techni......

Peter Smith
Assistant Professor
Peter.Smith@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Game Design, Serious Games, Integrating Wearables and Sensors in Games, Alternate Controllers for ......

Mel Stanfill
Assistant Professor
mel.stanfill@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Digital Labor; Media Industry Studies; Interfaces; Fan Studies; Queer Theory; Race and Gender Studie......

Sonia H. Stephens
Assistant Professor
Sonia.Stephens@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Scientific and Technical Communication in Digital and visual Media; Narrative Information Visualizat......

Natalie Underberg-Goode
Associate Professor
Natalie.Underberg-Goode@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Digital folklore; Digital ethnography; Digital storytelling; Visual anthropology; Participatory digi......

Stephanie Vie
Associate Professor
Stephanie.Vie@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Composing in social media, particularly social networks; Critical technological literacy; Computer g......

Keri Watson
Assistant Professor
Keri.Watson@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Modern and Contemporary Art; History of Photography and Film; American Studies; Prison Education......

Pavel Zemliansky
Professor
pavel.zemliansky@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Professional communication, especially in international contexts; writing across the curriculum and ......

Associated Faculty attend meetings and events, and serve as dissertation and exam committee members for students in the program. They also play a role in student advising and mentorship.

Madelyn Flammia
Professor
Madelyn.Flammia@ucf.edu
Research Interests: International Technical Communication; Virtual Teams; Visual Communication; Document Design and Layo......

Kevin Meehan
Associate Professor
kevin.meehan@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Caribbean Literature and Culture; African American Literature and Culture; Climate Change Education ......

Affiliated Faculty participate as non-voting members of the T&T Faculty Committee. Affiliated faculty are those who do not play a direct role in the governance or administration of the program but who have other expertise or skills deemed essential to the ongoing goals of the program. Many affiliated faculty serve as external members on dissertation committees.

Michael Arnzen
Professor
arnzen@setonhill.edu
Research Interests: Creative writing; scholarship of teaching; horror fiction; horror film; speculative poetry; literary......

Sarah Barber
Associate Professor
SarahStacy.Barber@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Archaeology of Mesoamerica, archaeology of the Greater Southwest, poststructural social theory, orig......

Syd Bauman
XML Programmer-Analyst
s.bauman@neu.edu
Research Interests: Markup languages; digital humanities; XML; representation of overlap; document constraint; document ......

Jeffrey S. Bedwell
Associate Professor
Jeffrey.Bedwell@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Psychophysiological aspects of a broad range of mental health disorders thought to relate to schizop......

Clint Bowers
Professor
Clint.Bowers@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Study of games and other technology as training tools, and the use of games and other technology in ......

Rebecca Dingo
Associate Professor
dingor@missouri.edu
Research Interests: Twentieth-century rhetorical theory, transnational feminist theory, girl studies, disability studies......

Stacey Dunn
Associate Professor
stdunn@rollins.edu
Research Interests: Body image, eating behavior, interpersonal relationships and influences and women’s issues......

Terri Fine
Professor
Terri.Fine@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Women and politics, public opinion and voting behavior, and political methodology......

Stephen M. Fiore
Professor
sfiore@ist.ucf.edu
Research Interests: Shared Cognition; Technology as External Cognition; Collaborative Problem Solving; Narrative and Tra......

Elizabeth Grauerholz
Professor
Elizabeth.Grauerholz@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Gender; Consumption; Media; Childhood; the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL); Animals and ......

Richard Hartshorne
Associate Professor
Richard.Hartshorne@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Technology and teacher education, the integration of emerging technology into the k-post-secondary c......

Charles E. Hughes
Professor
Charles.Hughes@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Avatar-mediated interaction, digital puppetry, human surrogates, human-technology interaction, mixed......

Kenneth Jurkiewicz
Associate Professor
Jurki1kz@cmich.edu
Research Interests: Film theory and criticism; science fiction; horror......

Darl Larsen
Professor
darl@byu.edu
Research Interests: Film genres, film history, animation, screenwriting, and popular culture......

Kendall Leon
Assistant Professor
kleon1@csuchico.edu
Research Interests: Research methodologies for studying rhetoric and writing; community and cultural rhetorics; service ......

Ty Matejowsky
Associate Professor
Ty.Matejowsky@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Cultural anthropology, economic anthropology, globalization, fast food, disasters, culture change an......

Timothy Oleksiak
Assistant Professor
toleksia@bloomu.edu
Research Interests: Listening as a rhetorical act and online interaction in academic and public spaces; critical writing......

Leonardo Oliveira
Associate Professor
Leonardo.Oliveira@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Hypertension in adults and athletes, cardiovascular disease prevention and wellness strategies, exer......

Elizabeth Scanlon
Adjunct
Elizabeth.scanlon@ocps.net
Research Interests: Adolescent literacy, teacher education, digital writing, gamification, ESOL......

Mark Schafer
Professor
Mark.Schafer@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Political psychology in general, with particular interests in groupthink, the operational code, and ......

Evan Selinger
Associate Professor
eselinger@mail.rit.edu
Research Interests: Ethical issues concerning technology, science, the law, expertise, and sustainability, and public en......

Robert D. Taylor
Associate Professor
RDTaylor@asu.edu
Research Interests: Leadership of the acquisition, digital archiving, museum/gallery presentation of historical material......

Kimberly Voss
Associate Professor
Kimberly.Voss@ucf.edu
Research Interests: Journalism history, food journalism, advertising history, culinary history, women's studies, 1950s &......