CDD People

Directors | Graduate Fellows | Researchers | Affiliates

Directors

Cheryl Glenn is Liberal Arts Research Professor of English and Women’s Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. Before moving to Penn State, she taught at Oregon State University, where she earned a number of research and teaching awards and established the Center for Teaching Excellence. She also teaches at the Bread Loaf School of English, a summer graduate program for secondary teachers held in Vermont and New Mexico.

Professor Glenn’s scholarly work focuses on contexts and processes for the teaching of writing, histories of women’s rhetorics and writing practices, and inclusionary rhetorical practices and theories. Her many scholarly publications include Rhetoric Retold: Regendering the Tradition from Antiquity Through the Renaissance; Unspoken: A Rhetoric of Silence; Rhetorical Education in America; The St. Martin’s Guide to Teaching Writing; The Writer’s Harbrace Handbook; Making Sense: A Real-World Rhetorical Reader; and The Harbrace Guide for College Writers. With Shirley Wilson Logan, she co-edits the Southern Illinois University Press series, “Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms.” Glenn’s rhetorical scholarship has earned her three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), book awards from Choice and from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, a Best Article of the Year Award from College Composition and Communication, and an Outstanding Article Award from Rhetoric Review. She also has won four teaching awards. At present, she is Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), the largest professional organization of writing teachers in the world. She also serves in a variety of other leadership roles at Penn State and for the National Council of Teachers of English, the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, the Modern Language Association, the Rhetoric Society of America, and NEH.

J. Michael Hogan is Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at the Pennsylvania State University. His research and teaching focus on political campaigns and social movements, foreign policy debates, presidential rhetoric, and public opinion and polling.

Hogan is the author or editor of five scholarly books: Woodrow Wilson’s Western Tour (2006), Rhetoric and Reform in the Progressive Era (2003), Rhetoric and Community (1998), The Nuclear Freeze Campaign (1994), and The Panama Canal in American Politics (1986). He also has published some fifty articles, book chapters, and reviews, and he has directed more than thirty M.A. theses and Ph.D. dissertations. He has won a number of scholarly awards, including the National Communication Association’s Golden Anniversary Prize Book Award and the Winans-Wichelns Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address. In 2008, he won the Class of 1933 Award for Distinction in the Humanities from the Penn State Liberal Arts Alumni Society. He has served on the editorial board of the Quarterly Journal of Speech under four different editors, and he currently serves on the editorial board of Rhetoric and Public Affairs. He is co-director of a major undergraduate educational initiative funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and co-sponsored by the CDD, “Voices of America: The U.S. Oratory Project." He also is the lead author of a new public speaking textbook with an emphasis on engaged citizenship and democratic deliberation, Public Speaking and Civic Engagement (Allyn & Bacon, 2008).

Hogan graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Wisconsin, and he earned his Ph.D. from the same institution. Before moving to Penn State in 1997, he taught at Indiana University and at the University of Virginia.

Graduate Fellows

David Green is a Ph.D candidate in English, with an emphasis in Rhetoric and Composition. He received a BA in English from Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia and a MA in English from Penn State University in Pennsylvania. His scholarly interests include Ethnic Rhetorics, Political Theory, Performance studies, Cultural Studies, Composition Theory, Writing instruction, Hip Hop, and Publics Sphere Theory. His dissertation focuses on the discursive influences of Hip Hop culture on student writing practices and classroom instruction, drawing on this relationship to propose and theorize a more general connection between Hip Hop rhetoric and composition theory.

Una Kimokeo-Goes is a PhD Candidate in Communication Arts and Sciences and specializes in rhetoric, identity, and culture. Her dissertation examines the imperialist debates at the turn of the twentieth century and explores how notions of U.S. identity were used to confirm the American duty to expand but were also invoked to combat imperialist policies. Una received her BA from Willamette University in Salem Oregon in 2003 and her MA from Penn State in 2007.

Sara Ann Mehltretter is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences. Her scholarship focuses on the rhetorical criticism of U.S. political discourse. In her dissertation, she analyzes the rhetoric of national security in the presidency during the Cold War. She earned her B.A. in Communication and Political Science from Boston College in 2005 and her M.A. from the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences at Penn State in 2007.

Past recipients of the CDD Graduate Fellowship

Researchers

Research Associate

Veena Raman is a post doctoral Research Associate with the Center. Her research focuses on uses of emerging information technologies in democratic practice and civic action. Her research is centered on political impacts of communication technologies, digital governance, participatory and deliberative democracy, and civic engagement in the context of globalization. Her book, E-Government in India’s Silicon Valley: Case Studies in Digital Government (Jwalamukhi Press), based on a multi-method research involving surveys, ethnography and interviews, will be published December 2008.

Research Assistant (Fall 2009)

Jessica Sheffield is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences. She studies rhetoric, technology, and community, particularly as they intersect in online communities. Her dissertation focuses on weblogs as sites of social activism. Jessica earned her M.A. in Communication Arts and Sciences from Penn State and her B.A. in Communication Arts from the University of Alabama in Huntsville. She currently handles publicity and outreach for the Center as well as managing the website.

Affiliates

CDD Affiliates are members of the intellectual community whose research, teaching, and service interests coincide with those of the Center. The CDD maintains a low-traffic mailing list which we use mainly to invite our affiliates to upcoming events and Center activities. To join the Center as an affiliate, please send us an email including your name, email address, departmental affiliation, and Penn State campus if not University Park (or institution if not Penn State).

Affiliated Faculty

Lori Bedell, Communication Arts and Sciences, University Park
Thomas Benson, Communication Arts and Sciences, University Park
Michael Berkman, Political Science, University Park
Michael Berube, English, University Park
Christian Brady, Dean, Schreyer Honors College
Steven Browne, Communication Arts and Sciences, University Park
Guoray Kai, Geography and Information Sciences and Technology, University Park
Suresh Canagarajah, Linguistics, University Park
Davin Carr-Chellman, Communication Arts and Science, University Park
Jack Carroll, Information Science and Technology, University Park
Chris Castiglia, English, University Park
John Christman, Philosophy, University Park
Rosa Eberly, Communications Arts and Sciences, University Park
Jeremy Engels, Communication Arts and Sciences, University Park
Eric Fuchs, Communication Arts and Science, University Park
Keith Gilyard, English, University Park
Nichola Gutgold, Communication Arts and Sciences, Lehigh Valley
Lisa Hogan, Communication Arts and Sciences, University Park
Heather Holleman, English, University Park
Philip Jenkins, History, University Park
Christopher Johnstone, Communication Arts and Sciences, University Park
Janet Lyon, English, University Park
Jonathan Marks, Bioethics, Humanities, and Law, University Park
Matt McAllister, Communications, University Park
Danielle Mitchell, English, Fayette
Alfred Mueller II, Communication Arts and Sciences, Mt. Alto
Jeff Nealon, English, University Park
Jessica O'Hara, Center for Excellence in Writing, University Park
Mary Beth Oliver, Communications, University Park
Jon Olson, Center for Excellence in Writing, University Park
Eric Plutzer, Political Science, University Park
Veena Raman, Communication Arts and Sciences
Stuart Selber, English, University Park
Jack Selzer, English, University Park
Graham Spanier, President, Pennsylvania State University
Susan Squier, English, University Park
Jane Sutton, Communication Arts and Sciences, York
Molly Wertheimer, Communication Arts and Sciences, Hazelton
Xiaoye You, English, University Park

Affiliated Graduate Students

Heather Adams, English, University Park
Jessica Bargar, Communication Arts and Sciences, University Park
Mia Briceño, Communication Arts and Sciences, University Park
Michael Faris, English, University Park
Holly Gates, Communication Arts and Sciences, University Park
Mary Haman, Communication Arts and Sciences, University Park
Anne Harries, Communication Arts and Sciences, University Park
Mark Hlavacik, Communication Arts and Sciences, University Park
Hillary Jones, Communication Arts and Sciences, University Park
Una Kimokeo-Goes, Communication Arts and Sciences, University Park
Rebecca Wilson Lundin, English, University Park
Kristin Mathe, Communication Arts and Sciences, University Park
Sara Ann Mehltretter, Communication Arts and Sciences, University Park
Eric Miller, Communication Arts and Sciences, University Park
Ersula Ore, English, University Park
Adam Perry, Communication Arts and Sciences, University Park
Brandy Scalise, English, University Park
William Schraufnagel, English, University Park
Jessica Sheffield, Communication Arts and Sciences, University Park
Stacey Sheriff, English, University Park
Bonnie Sierlecki, Communication Arts and Sciences, University Park
Frank Stec, Communication Arts and Sciences, University Park
Matt Weiss, English, University Park