Full-Time Faculty
Anastasia Salter
Director, Assistant Professor
Interests: digital narrativeelectronic literaturegame studiessocial mediadigital humanitiesgender & m...
Core Faculty
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
Interests: Classical and Contemporary Rhetoric Technical Communication for students across UCF in all...
Jonathan Beever
Assistant Professor
Interests: Environmental Bioethics; Simulation and Representation; Soundscape Ecology; Ethics and Sci...
Rosalind Beiler
Associate Professor
Interests: Early American History, Atlantic History, Migration, Early Modern German History, Public H...
Melody Bowdon
Associate Professor
Interests: Faculty DevelopmentTechnical and Professional CommunicationGender and TechnologyService-Le...
Martha Catherine Brenckle
Professor
Interests: Queer Theory and FYW Gender Studies and Feminist TheoriesSOTL in Information Literacy and...
James Campbell
Associate Professor
Interests: British and Irish Literature since 1885, War and Literature, Sexuality Theory, Science Fic...
Robert Cassanello
Associate Professor
Interests: Social History, Southern History, Race, Gender, Historiography, Museum Studies, Exhibition...
Dustin W. Edwards
Assistant Professor
Interests: digital rhetoricscirculation studies the politics of writing infrastructures, especially ...
Scot A. French
Associate Professor
Interests: Digital and Public HistoryCommunity Studies/Local KnowledgeSites of MemorySouthern History...
Maria C. R. Harrington
Assistant Professor
Interests: Art and technology, both AR and VR as an aesthetic
mediumVirtual nature, in AR and V...
Bruce B. Janz
Professor
Interests: Contemporary African Philosophy; Postcolonial Thought Theories of Place/Space; Urban Stud...
Mark L. Kamrath
Professor
Interests: Brown and the Early Republic, 1771-1810 Eighteenth-Century Periodicals and Print Culture N...
Peter Larson
Associate Professor
Interests: Medieval & Early Modern England; social and economic history; legal history....
Connie L. Lester
Associate Professor
Interests: Modern South, agricultural, environmental and economic history...
Barry Jason Mauer
Associate Professor
Interests: Film and Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Rhetoric and Composition, Literary Theory, M...
Rudy McDaniel
Professor
Interests: Digital badgesInteractive narrativeKnowledge managementInformation architectureVideo game ...
Tison Pugh
Professor
Interests: Medieval English Literature; Queer and Gender Studies; Pedagogy; Film; Children's Literatu...
Christian Ravela
Assistant Professor
Interests: 20th Century Multi-Ethnic Cultural Production, Comparative Racialization, Critical Ethnic ...
Lisa Roney
Associate Professor
Interests: Fiction, memoir, and personal essay; medical humanities, disability studies, representatio...
Angela R. Rounsaville
Associate Professor
Interests: Transnational/Transcultural LiteracyLiteracy StudiesRhetorical Genre Theory TransferResear...
Blake Scott
Professor
Interests: Rhetoric of Health & MedicineRhetorical History, Theory, & TechneProfessional & Technical ...
Peter Smith
Assistant Professor
Interests: Game Design, Serious Games, Integrating Wearables and Sensors in Games, Alternate Contro...
Mel Stanfill
Assistant Professor
Interests: Digital Labor; Media Industry Studies; Interfaces; Fan Studies; Queer Theory; Race and Gen...
Sonia H. Stephens
Assistant Professor
Interests: Scientific and Technical Communication in Digital and visual Media; Narrative Information ...
Natalie Underberg-Goode
Associate Professor
Interests: Digital folkloreDigital ethnographyDigital storytellingVisual anthropologyParticipatory di...
Stephanie Vie
Professor
Interests: Social media and social networking theorySocial media and pedagogyCritical technological l...
Keri Watson
Assistant Professor
Interests: Modern and Contemporary ArtAmerican StudiesMuseum StudiesHigher Education in Prisons...
Associated Faculty
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
Interests: International Technical CommunicationVirtual TeamsVisual CommunicationDocument Design and ...
Kevin Meehan
Associate Professor
Interests: Caribbean Literature and CultureAfrican American Literature and CultureClimate Change Educ...
Affiliated Faculty
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
Interests: Creative writing; scholarship of teaching; horror fiction; horror film; speculative poetry...
Sarah Barber
Associate Professor
Interests: Archaeology of Mesoamerica, archaeology of the Greater Southwest, poststructural social th...
Syd Bauman
XML Programmer-Analyst
Interests: Markup languages; digital humanities; XML; representation of overlap; document constraint;...
Jeffrey S. Bedwell
Associate Professor
Interests: Psychophysiological aspects of a broad range of mental health disorders thought to relate ...
Clint Bowers
Professor
Interests: Study of games and other technology as training tools, and the use of games and other tech...
Rebecca Dingo
Associate Professor
Interests: Twentieth-century rhetorical theory, transnational feminist theory, girl studies, disabili...
Stacey Dunn
Associate Professor
Interests: Body image, eating behavior, interpersonal relationships and influences and women’s issu...
Terri Fine
Professor
Interests: Women and politics, public opinion and voting behavior, and political methodology...
Stephen M. Fiore
Professor
Interests: Shared Cognition; Technology as External Cognition; Collaborative Problem Solving; Narrati...
Elizabeth Grauerholz
Professor
Interests: Gender
Consumption
Media
Childhood
the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
An...
Richard Hartshorne
Associate Professor
Interests: Technology and teacher education, the integration of emerging technology into the k-post-s...
Charles E. Hughes
Professor
Interests: Avatar-mediated interaction, digital puppetry, human surrogates, human-technology interact...
Kenneth Jurkiewicz
Associate Professor
Interests: Film theory and criticism; science fiction; horror...
Darl Larsen
Professor
Interests: Film genres, film history, animation, screenwriting, and popular culture...
Kendall Leon
Assistant Professor
Interests: Research methodologies for studying rhetoric and writing; community and cultural rhetorics...
Ty Matejowsky
Associate Professor
Interests: Cultural anthropology, economic anthropology, globalization, fast food, disasters, culture...
Timothy Oleksiak
Assistant Professor
Interests: Listening as a rhetorical act and online interaction in academic and public spaces; critic...
Leonardo Oliveira
Associate Professor
Interests: Hypertension in adults and athletes, cardiovascular disease prevention and wellness strate...
Shelley M Park
Professor
Interests: Kinship studies, ethics of care, philosophy of love, queer theory, feminist theory, postco...
Elizabeth Scanlon
Adjunct
Interests: Adolescent literacy, teacher education, digital writing, gamification, ESOL...
Mark Schafer
Professor
Interests: Political psychology in general, with particular interests in groupthink, the operational ...
Evan Selinger
Associate Professor
Interests: Ethical issues concerning technology, science, the law, expertise, and sustainability, and...
Robert D. Taylor
Associate Professor
Interests: Leadership of the acquisition, digital archiving, museum/gallery presentation of historica...
Kimberly Voss
Associate Professor
Interests: Journalism history, food journalism, advertising history, culinary history, women's studie...