Meet Our Students

Current Graduate Students

NameProgramResearch AreasContact
Anastasia GarciaPhD LiteratureGenocide Studies, Jewish Literature, and Native American Literature.Avery 382
anastasia.garcia1@wsu.edu
Blake Jordan MA LiteratureElectronic Literature, American Literature, and Shakespeare Studies.Avery 364
blake.jordan@wsu.edu
Blake LovePhD LiteratureAvery 348
blake.love@wsu.eduu
Brandon CochranPhD Rhetoric and Compositionbrandon.cochran@wsu.edu
Cecil DeckerMA LiteratureQueer and Trans Theory, Monster Theory, Film Studies, and 18th and 19th Century Literature.Avery 350
cecil.decker@wsu.edu
Chelsea KoppPhD Literature Contemporary U.S. and Global Literatures, Postcolonial Ecocriticism, Homelessness and Displacement, Neoliberalism, and Social and Environmental Justice.chelsea.kopp@wsu.edu
Corita FernandoPhD Rhetoric and CompositionPostcolonial and Decolonial theory, Aesthetics and Visual Culture, and Labor and Development.Avery 317
corita.fernando@wsu.edu
Curtis HartyPhD LiteratureGender Studies, Queer Theory, Cultural Studies, Popular Culture, Popular Fiction, and Sci-fi and Fantasy Fiction.curtis.harty@wsu.edu
Eloy TrujilloPhD Rhetoric and CompositionRhetoric, Decolonization, Deconstruction, Indigenous Rhetoric, Rhetorics of Racism, Political Analysis, and Social Conscious Intentionality. Avery 224
kevin.trujillo@wsu.edu
Frances WoodwardPhD LiteratureJapanese and English Literatures, Victorian Literatures, Early Psychoanalysis, and Literary Trauma Studies.Avery 211
frances.woodward@wsu.edu
Gavin DoylePhD Rhetoric and CompositionPrison Abolition Studies, Prison Pedagogy, Social Justice Pedagogy, Disability Studies, and Political Economy and Rhetoric.Avery 219
gavin.doyle@wsu.edu
Georgia TestaPhD Literature19th Century American Literature, American Literary Naturalism, and Gender and Women's Studies.
Ilana GarnicaPhD Rhetoric and CompositionPuerto Rican Studies, Protest Rhetoric, Decolonial Theory, Rhetorics of Racism, and Social Justice Pedagogy.
Jessie Padilla HeadshotJessie Padilla-FryPhD Rhetoric and CompositionEpistemology, Rhetorics, and Political Economy of Western Coloniality; Multimodality as Decolonial; and Existential Nature of Composing (Creating) Texts.Avery 381
jessie.padilla@wsu.edu
Josie Cohen-RodriguezPhD LiteratureMultiethnic Literature, Chicanx/Latinx Studies, Queer Theory, Transnational Solidarities, and Critical Archival Studies.CUB 401B
josie.rodriguez@wsu.edu
Keith DagsaanMA LiteratureFilm Studies, Psychoanalysis, and Women/Gender/Sexuality and Power Relations.Avery 360
keith.dagsaan@wsu.edu
Kestra EngstromMA LiteratureClass and Poverty, Young Adult and Children’s Literature, Feminist Literature, Early Literacy, and Children’s Civil Liberties.
Kurt GotchMSIS (interdisciplinary) in Music Composition and English Rhetoric and Composition
Prakash PaudelPhD Rhetoric and CompositionArt and Literature, Digital Rhetoric, Visual Rhetoric and Agency, Communication and Composition.Avery 383
prakash.paudel@wsu.edu
RJ Murphy PhD Literature Avery 465
rj.murphy@wsu.edu
Sami RobinsonMA Literature
Sara BrockPhD Rhetoric and CompositionDisability Studies and Rhetoric of Health and Medicine.Avery 367
sara.brock@wsu.edu
Sezin ZorluPhD LiteratureContemporary American Literature, Ecocriticism, and Environmental Justice.Avery 367
sezin.zorlu@wsu.edu
Sheila RichardsonPhD Rhetoric and Composition
Sumaiya Sarker SharminPhD Rhetoric and CompositionAvery 303
s.sharmin@wsu.edu
Valanci VillaPhD Rhetoric and CompositionLegal Rhetorics, Anti-Racist Pedagogy, Digital Humanities, and Cultural Rhetorics.Avery 211
valanci.villa@wsu.edu
Wyn AndrewsPhD Rhetoric and CompositionRhetorics of Racism, Anti-racist Pedagogy, and Writing Program Administration.Avery 494
wyn.richards@wsu.edu