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dr. victoria braegger: game studies, UX/UI, accessibility, visual and digital rhetoric, online gaming communities, representation and identity, social media, and hardware design and development

Dr. Ryan Cheek: political communication technologies, apocalyptic rhetoric, and disaster communication

Dr. Kathy Northcut: rhetoric of science, visual theory, and technical communication pedagogy

Dr. David Wright: smart home technology-augmented reality, technology diffusion, communication networks, and rhetoric of science

Dr. Trent Brown: cultural history and literature of the twentieth-century United States, with special attention to race and gender in the recent South

Dr. Eric Bryan: Scandinavian folklore, medieval language and literature, medieval Scandinavian and Germanic conversion narratives, and pragmatic linguistic analyses of medieval texts

Dr. K.C. Dolan: nineteenth-century U.S. literature, food studies, global studies, and environmental criticism

Dr. Kris Swenson: 19th century literature and culture, science and literature, women's cultural history, and the novel

Dr. Sarah Hercula: English language variation, language attitudes and ideologies, English grammar, linguistics pedagogy, and interdisciplinary collaboration

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Faculty Research

Our faculty members are constantly working on research projects and publications. Their expertise ranges from Southern literature and culture, to video game narratives, to the role of communication in technology diffusion.

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Student Research

Our students are actively engaged in research across a wide range of topics, often collaborating with faculty mentors.

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