Students in the Joint Program in English and Education
Shelly Alilunas
Steven Engel
Steve Engel studies the discourse surrounding plagiarism in high school English language arts, focusing in particular on how teachers' talk reveals ideological dilemmas about normative writing…Learn more »
Brett Griffiths
Liz Homan
Liz Homan is in the doctoral program in the Joint Program in English and Education. Her current research interests include teacher self-efficacy and teacher identity; more specifically, she is concerned…Learn more »
Elizabeth Hutton
Lizzie Hutton is interested in creative writing, and specifically poetry, as it relates to goals and values of composition in college writing classrooms. Her experiences both as a long time teacher…Learn more »
Danielle Lillge
Doctoral student Danielle Lillge is also an alumna, having earned her master of arts degree in English education at the school in 2005. After receiving that degree, she served in a series of positions…Learn more »
Rebecca Manery
Rebecca Manery is interested in creative writing pedagogy in higher education. She brings to her research a background as a poet, arts journalist, arts in education director, and teacher educator.…Learn more »
Justine Neiderhiser
Justine Neiderhiser’s research interests include rhetorical genre studies, corpus linguistics, composition theory and pedagogy, writing assessment, and the history of English. Recently, she has…Learn more »
Christopher Michael Parsons
Christopher Parsons’s research interests address the observations any teacher in an urban secondary school might make. These include gender perceptions in language arts, the role of standards…Learn more »
Anne Elizabeth Porter
Anne Porter is working on a project exploring environmental discourse and literacy sponsorship. In her course on argumentative writing, subtitled "The Ecology of An Argument," she is working…Learn more »
Melody Pugh
Currently in her third year of coursework, Melody Pugh is excited to be exploring questions about the role of religion in the writing classroom. She hopes to contribute to the field’s understanding…Learn more »
Ruth Anna Spooner
Given her background in teaching literature and writing, as well as her experience working with deaf students, Ruth Anna Spooner is interested in exploring literacy among deaf middle- and high-school…Learn more »
Sarah Swofford
Christina Toth
Christie Toth’s research focuses on composition pedagogy at tribal and community colleges. She also does work on community college writing placement and basic/developmental writing. Christie…Learn more »
Chinyere Florence Uzogara
Chinyere Florence Uzogara is interested in topics around identity, literacy development, and the postsecondary transition. She is especially curious about literacy interventions for diverse urban students…Learn more »
Joanna Want
Joanna Lin Want is a thirdiyear student in the doctoral program in the Joint Program in English and Education and has taught first-year, argumentative, and creative writing courses here at U-M. She…Learn more »
