Faculty and Staff

Barry Jason Mauer

Director, Associate Professor

bmauer@ucf.edu

Interests: Film and Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Rhetoric and Composition, Literary Theory, M...

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

Interests: Classical and Contemporary Rhetoric Technical Communication for students across UCF in all...

Jonathan Beever

Assistant Professor

Jonathan.Beever@ucf.edu

Interests: Environmental Bioethics; Simulation and Representation; Soundscape Ecology; Ethics and Sci...

Rosalind Beiler

Associate Professor

rosalind.beiler@ucf.edu

Interests: Early American History, Atlantic History, Migration, Early Modern German History, Public H...

Melody Bowdon

Associate Professor

melody.bowdon@ucf.edu

Interests: Faculty DevelopmentTechnical and Professional CommunicationGender and TechnologyService-Le...

Martha Catherine Brenckle

Professor

Martha.Brenckle@ucf.edu

Interests: Queer Theory and FYW Gender Studies and Feminist TheoriesSOTL in Information Literacy and...

James Campbell

Associate Professor

james.campbell@ucf.edu

Interests: British and Irish Literature since 1885, War and Literature, Sexuality Theory, Science Fic...

Robert Cassanello

Associate Professor

Robert.Cassanello@ucf.edu

Interests: Social History, Southern History, Race, Gender, Historiography, Museum Studies, Exhibition...

Dustin W. Edwards

Assistant Professor

Dustin.Edwards@ucf.edu

Interests: digital rhetoricscirculation studies the politics of writing infrastructures, especially ...

Joseph Fanfarelli

Assistant Professor

joseph.fanfarelli@ucf.edu

Interests: Educational Games; Gamification; Video Game Design; Learning & Pedagogy; Research Methods...

Scot A. French

Associate Professor

Scot.French@ucf.edu

Interests: Digital and Public HistoryCommunity Studies/Local KnowledgeSites of MemorySouthern History...

Anthony Grajeda

Associate Professor

anthony.grajeda@ucf.edu

Maria C. R. Harrington

Assistant Professor

Maria.Harrington@ucf.edu

Interests: Art and technology, both AR and VR as an aesthetic mediumVirtual nature, in AR and V...

Bruce B. Janz

Professor

bruce.janz@ucf.edu

Interests: Contemporary African Philosophy; Postcolonial Thought Theories of Place/Space; Urban Stud...

Natasha N. Jones

Associate Professor

Natasha.Jones@ucf.edu

Interests: technical and professional communicationnarrativegenresocial justice and activism in techn...

Mark L. Kamrath

Professor

mark.kamrath@ucf.edu

Interests: Brown and the Early Republic, 1771-1810 Eighteenth-Century Periodicals and Print Culture N...

Peter Larson

Associate Professor

Peter.Larson@ucf.edu

Interests: Medieval & Early Modern England; social and economic history; legal history....

Connie L. Lester

Associate Professor

Connie.Lester@ucf.edu

Interests: Modern South, agricultural, environmental and economic history...

Julia Listengarten

Professor

julia.listengarten@ucf.edu

Eddie Lohmeyer

Assistant Professor

Edwin.Lohmeyer@ucf.edu

Rudy McDaniel

Professor

rudy@ucf.edu

Interests: Digital badgesInteractive narrativeKnowledge managementInformation architectureVideo game ...

Phil Peters

Professor

Philip.Peters@ucf.edu

Tison Pugh

Professor

Tison.Pugh@ucf.edu

Interests: Medieval English Literature; Queer and Gender Studies; Pedagogy; Film; Children's Literatu...

Christian Ravela

Assistant Professor

christian.ravela@ucf.edu

Interests: 20th Century Multi-Ethnic Cultural Production, Comparative Racialization, Critical Ethnic ...

Angela R. Rounsaville

Associate Professor

Angela.Rounsaville@ucf.edu

Interests: Transnational/Transcultural LiteracyLiteracy StudiesRhetorical Genre Theory TransferResear...

Anastasia Salter

Assistant Professor

anastasia@ucf.edu

Interests: digital narrativeelectronic literaturegame studiessocial mediadigital humanitiesgender & m...

Blake Scott

Professor

bscott@ucf.edu

Interests: Rhetoric of Health & MedicineRhetorical History, Theory, & TechneProfessional & Technical ...

Peter Smith

Assistant Professor

Peter.Smith@ucf.edu

Interests: Game Design, Serious Games, Integrating Wearables and Sensors in Games, Alternate Contro...

Mel Stanfill

Assistant Professor

mel.stanfill@ucf.edu

Interests: Digital Labor; Media Industry Studies; Interfaces; Fan Studies; Queer Theory; Race and Gen...

Sonia H. Stephens

Assistant Professor

Sonia.Stephens@ucf.edu

Interests: Scientific and Technical Communication in Digital and visual Media; Narrative Information ...

Natalie Underberg-Goode

Associate Professor

Natalie.Underberg-Goode@ucf.edu

Interests: Digital folkloreDigital ethnographyDigital storytellingVisual anthropologyParticipatory di...

Stephanie Vie

Professor

Stephanie.Vie@ucf.edu

Interests: Social media and social networking theorySocial media and pedagogyCritical technological l...

Keri Watson

Assistant Professor

Keri.Watson@ucf.edu

Interests: Modern and Contemporary ArtHistory of Photography and FilmAmerican StudiesPrison Education...

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

Interests: International Technical CommunicationVirtual TeamsVisual CommunicationDocument Design and ...

Kevin Meehan

Associate Professor

kevin.meehan@ucf.edu

Interests: Caribbean Literature and CultureAfrican American Literature and CultureClimate Change Educ...

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

Interests: Creative writing; scholarship of teaching; horror fiction; horror film; speculative poetry...

Sarah Barber

Associate Professor

SarahStacy.Barber@ucf.edu

Interests: Archaeology of Mesoamerica, archaeology of the Greater Southwest, poststructural social th...

Syd Bauman

XML Programmer-Analyst

s.bauman@neu.edu

Interests: Markup languages; digital humanities; XML; representation of overlap; document constraint;...

Jeffrey S. Bedwell

Associate Professor

Jeffrey.Bedwell@ucf.edu

Interests: Psychophysiological aspects of a broad range of mental health disorders thought to relate ...

Clint Bowers

Professor

Clint.Bowers@ucf.edu

Interests: Study of games and other technology as training tools, and the use of games and other tech...

Rebecca Dingo

Associate Professor

dingor@missouri.edu

Interests: Twentieth-century rhetorical theory, transnational feminist theory, girl studies, disabili...

Stacey Dunn

Associate Professor

stdunn@rollins.edu

Interests: Body image, eating behavior, interpersonal relationships and influences and women’s issu...

Terri Fine

Professor

Terri.Fine@ucf.edu

Interests: Women and politics, public opinion and voting behavior, and political methodology...

Stephen M. Fiore

Professor

sfiore@ist.ucf.edu

Interests: Shared Cognition; Technology as External Cognition; Collaborative Problem Solving; Narrati...

Elizabeth Grauerholz

Professor

Elizabeth.Grauerholz@ucf.edu

Interests: Gender Consumption Media Childhood the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) An...

Richard Hartshorne

Associate Professor

Richard.Hartshorne@ucf.edu

Interests: Technology and teacher education, the integration of emerging technology into the k-post-s...

Charles E. Hughes

Professor

Charles.Hughes@ucf.edu

Interests: Avatar-mediated interaction, digital puppetry, human surrogates, human-technology interact...

Kenneth Jurkiewicz

Associate Professor

Jurki1kz@cmich.edu

Interests: Film theory and criticism; science fiction; horror...

Darl Larsen

Professor

darl@byu.edu

Interests: Film genres, film history, animation, screenwriting, and popular culture...

Kendall Leon

Assistant Professor

kleon1@csuchico.edu

Interests: Research methodologies for studying rhetoric and writing; community and cultural rhetorics...

Ty Matejowsky

Associate Professor

Ty.Matejowsky@ucf.edu

Interests: Cultural anthropology, economic anthropology, globalization, fast food, disasters, culture...

Timothy Oleksiak

Assistant Professor

toleksia@bloomu.edu

Interests: Listening as a rhetorical act and online interaction in academic and public spaces; critic...

Leonardo Oliveira

Associate Professor

Leonardo.Oliveira@ucf.edu

Interests: Hypertension in adults and athletes, cardiovascular disease prevention and wellness strate...

Shelley M Park

Professor

Shelley.Park@ucf.edu

Interests: Kinship studies, ethics of care, philosophy of love, queer theory, feminist theory, postco...

Elizabeth Scanlon

Adjunct

Elizabeth.scanlon@ocps.net

Interests: Adolescent literacy, teacher education, digital writing, gamification, ESOL...

Mark Schafer

Professor

Mark.Schafer@ucf.edu

Interests: Political psychology in general, with particular interests in groupthink, the operational ...

Evan Selinger

Associate Professor

eselinger@mail.rit.edu

Interests: Ethical issues concerning technology, science, the law, expertise, and sustainability, and...

Robert D. Taylor

Associate Professor

RDTaylor@asu.edu

Interests: Leadership of the acquisition, digital archiving, museum/gallery presentation of historica...

Kimberly Voss

Associate Professor

Kimberly.Voss@ucf.edu

Interests: Journalism history, food journalism, advertising history, culinary history, women's studie...