Meet Our Presenters
Rome MorganRome Morgan is a teacher, creative writer, and editor. She writes in various genres, including literary translation, and has been published in Blackbird, Copper Nickel, and The New Ohio Review, among others.
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Shane LanningShane is a second-year PhD student in the Rhetoric and Composition program at Ball State University. They also work full-time as the Director of International Student Success in the Rinker Center for Global Affairs. Shane does research on the rhetoric of higher education, queer rhetoric, and queer pedagogy.
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Sara Abdelrahman
My name is Sara Abdelrahman. I am a first year PhD student in English Rhetoric and Composition at Ohio University (OU). I also did my MA in Applied Linguistics at OU 2021-2023. I am originally from Egypt, and I first came to the US during 2019-2020 to do my Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant program at Colby College, ME.
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Courtney CrispCourtney Crisp (They/She) is a Ball State University PhD student in the English department’s rhetoric and composition program. They currently act as the graduate assistant director of the writing center and teach first-year composition. Their research interests include writing across curriculum (WAC) programming, the intersections of WAC and writing center pedagogies, as well as community activism in the first-year composition classroom. When they aren’t on campus, they are often hiding away in their apartment, playing Baldur’s Gate 3 (or Dungeons and Dragons), and listening to horror audiobooks.
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Christine Ochs-Naderer
Christine Ochs-Naderer is a PhD student in English Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Cincinnati. Her research interests include the rhetoric of relationships and grief, rhetoric of sport, and critical study of popular culture and media.
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Samantha MartinSamantha J. Martin (she/her/hers) is a current senior at Gettysburg College, where she studies Political Science, Public Policy, and Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies. Since the early days of her academic career, Martin’s research has focused on women’s participation in right-wing extremist movements. In 2021, she received Gettysburg’s Kolbe Summer Fellowship for the Arts and Humanities, through which she studied the impact of American Catholic religious culture on women’s participation in anti-feminist activism. She interned with the Public Religion Research Institute during her Spring 2023 semester and was a credited contributor to their report “A Christian Nation? Understanding the Threat of Christian Nationalism to American Democracy and Culture”. This project is Martin’s senior capstone; after receiving her bachelor’s degree in May, she plans to attend graduate school with the intention of continuing her research and receiving her Ph.D.
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Darcy AllredYahšęnęhaǫʔ/Darcy Allred is a fourth year PhD English Studies student at Illinois State University. She specializes in literary and cultural studies, creative writing, and rhetoric and composition with concentrations in Indigenous language reclamation, queer cultures and theories, as well as interdisciplinary community research/education in and beyond academia. A citizen of the Wyandotte Nation (Oklahoma), she serves as a language facilitator for her tribal community among other engagements in heritage projects.
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Farhat AfzalFarhat Afzal is an architect and writer, currently pursuing an MS in Architecture degree at the University of Cincinnati. She has over six years’ experience in academic research, publications and large- scale exhibitions. Between 2016 and 2023, Farhat coordinated the academic program at Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscapes and Settlements, based in Dhaka. She also worked as the associate editor of its annual publication, Vas. Farhat likes to engage in discussions involving colonialism in South Asia and postcolonial inquiry about architecture in Dhaka, and present her views through expository writings, which have been published in The Daily Star and New Age. Her primary research interests are in architectural history of the Indian subcontinent and the colonial origins of western ethnological museums.
In her spare time, Farhat enjoys photographing old buildings, documenting her reading habits on Instagram and maintaining her blog at http://farhatafzal.com |
Kara StogsdillKARA STOGSDILL is an Illinois State University senior majoring in English Studies with minors in Classical Studies and Linguistics. After graduation, she plans on pursuing a PhD focusing on Educational Linguistics. Her research interests in education include language diversity, disrupting white linguistic superiority, and creating and fostering diverse spaces. She is also a mother of two children whom she homeschools. Homeschooling her children led to her research interests in linguistic diversity in education and creating equitable educational spaces. She is typically lost in a fantasy novel when she isn't studying or teaching her children. She can be reached at [email protected].
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