Rhetoric & Composition Students

Rachel Bloom

Rachel Bloom is a doctoral student in the 5-year M.A./Ph.D. program in Rhetoric& Composition. She received a B.A. in English and Spanish from Creighton University and spends her summers working with the Creighton-ILAC summer program in the Dominican Republic. Her research interests include transnational rhetoric, public sphere theory, service-learning, and multilingual communication.

Kit Frankenfield

Kit Frankenfield is a part-time Ph.D. student in Composition and Rhetoric. She has taught English at Johnson County Community College as an adjunct professor for ten years. This love for being in the college classroom has led to her earning two master's degrees--one in English Education and the second in English, both completed at the University of Kansas. Kit's research interests include bringing technology into the classroom, service-learning, pedagogy, material culture and Harry Potter. Her goals for the future, in addition to graduating from her doctoral program, are to publish both books and articles in her areas of interest and to teach Composition full-time. She considers herself a life-long learner.

Kendra Fullwood

Kendra Fullwood is a lecturer and doctoral student in rhetoric and composition. Kendra earned her B.A. from Shaw University, and M.A. from the University of Akron. Her areas of Interest include writing theory & pedagogy, rhetorical invention, and African American rhetoric& literacy.Publications include “Pro Christo etHumanitate: Making Lives Through Literacy and Community Partnerships at Shaw University,” which appeared in Reflections: A Journal of Writing, Service-Learning, and Community Literacy 10 (2011): 136-51.

Erin Murray

Erin Murray is a doctoral student in the five-year B.A. to Ph.D. program in rhetoric and composition. Erin earned a dual B.A. in English Writing & Rhetoric and Graphic Design from St. Edward’s University in Austin, TX. Her interests are within the subjects of multimodal rhetoric, visual rhetoric, and new media studies.

Jennifer Nish

Jennifer Nish is a doctoral Student in Rhetoric and Composition, with a B.A. in English & Psychology from the University of Nebraska. Her major areas of interest include feminist theory and digital communication. 

Lisa Stockton

Lisa Stockton is a first year student in Rhetoric and Composition, a teaching assistant in the First-Year Composition Program. Lisa graduated from William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri, with a B.A. in English and a Missouri lifetime teaching certificate, 7-12. Lisa will give a presentation at the 2010 CCC Convention entitled Enacting Berthoff: The Prophetic Spirit in Critical Pedagogy. She is interested in print culture and the history of the book. In her free time, Lisa co-owns The Raven Book Store, an independent bookstore in Lawrence, Kansas. Lisa's favors contemporary fiction from the United Kingdom and the United States.

Meaghan Varieur

Meaghan Varieur completed her undergraduate degree at Manhattan College in New York. She's pursuing a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition, with research interests in political rhetoric and Internet communities. “If there is any logic or reason to the weather in Kansas,” Meaghan says, “I have not yet determined what it is.”