Faculty

Education:
B.A. and M.A. at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia
Ph.D. at The University of Tulsa

During her time at TU, Melissa worked as a graduate assistant in the English Department and in the department of Special Collections in McFarlin Library; she was also a member of the editorial staff of the journal Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature. Melissa has served as co-chair of the Graduate Student Caucus for the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) and is co-founder of the Junior Scholars’ Caucus for the Society of Early Americanists (SEA). In additions, she recently completed a one-year postdoctoral appointment teaching Freshman Composition and American literature courses at TU.

In 2014, Melissa received the Bellwether Fellowship to complete her dissertation, “Reluctant Adventurers: The Risky Business of Female Travel in Stories by Anglophone Women, 1767-1830.” Her research concerns women’s transnational mobility within the early Atlantic world and offers a new context for thinking about the ways in which texts centered on female mobility participate in reorienting women as adventurers in their own right. Currently, she is at work on an essay for a collected volume on trauma in early American literature wherein she explores the interconnectedness between trauma that results from exile, embedded social and cultural values of geographical environments, and the reconstitution of home as they merge within imagined early British Atlantic landscapes.

Contact:
Office: Cate 2
Email: melissa-antonucci@ou.edu

Education 
M.A., Native American Studies. University of Oklahoma, 2017

Antoinette Bridgers-Smith’s background is in studying the representation of Native Americans in popular culture and the impact on Native youth. She has also explored writing prose and poetry as ways to confront trauma through community workshops focused on Native American assault survivors. Her interests extend into Native American literature as well as the discourse surrounding identity, community, and representation for Native peoples. 
 

Publications
“She is Music” Red Ink Volume 18.2

Contact
Office: Cate Center 2, room 206
Email: annieb@ou.edu

Curriculum Vitae 

Education:
M.A., Rhetoric and Writing Studies at the University of Oklahoma

Education:
PhD, University of Oklahoma
MA, University of Oklahoma
MAT, University of Alaska Anchorage
BA, University of Oklahoma

Research/Teaching Interests:
American Indian literature and critical theories, contemporary American literature more broadly, working class studies, gender studies, writing pedagogy, logic, and rhetoric.

Publications:

Review of Cherokee National Treasures: In Their Own Words, edited by Shawn Morton-Cain and Pamela Jumper Thurman. Great Plains Quarterly. Vol. 39, No. 3, Summer 2019, p. 312.

Review of Cold War Oklahoma, by Landry Brewer. The Oklahoman. “'Cold War Oklahoma' Examines State's Role in Urgent Period of History.” Oklahoman.com, Oklahoman, 23 June 2019, oklahoman.com/article/5634599/cold-war-oklahoma-examines-states-role-in-urgent-period-of-history.

Review of Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City, by Tanya Talaga. Transmotion. Vol. 4, No. 1, 2018, pp.171-2.

Native Stories: American Indian Representation and Self-Representation in Rhetoric and Literature. 2018. University of Oklahoma, PhD dissertation. ShareOK, https://hdl.handle.net/11244/299816.

Review of flesh to bone by Ire’ne Lara Silva. Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social. Vol. 15, No. 1. Fall 2015, pp. 178-80.

Review of Literacy and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 1820-1906, by James W. Parins. Chronicles of Oklahoma. Vol. XCII, No. 3, Fall 2015, pp.354-5.

Review of The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story, by Tiya Miles. Crosstimbers: A Multicultural, Interdisciplinary Journal. Vol. 11, No. 1, Spring/Summer 2011:14, pp.14-15.

Conference Presentations:

ire’ne lara silva’s Cuicacalli: House of Song, A Celebration and Exploration of Indigenous Bodies Simultaneously Inhabiting and Transcending the Liminality of Communal and Conflicted Spaces, Many Voices, One Center: The Native American Literature Symposium, Minneapolis, MN, April 2, 2020. Proposal accepted, but conference cancelled due to Covid.

The Living Among the Dead: Mythic Realism in Ire’ne Lara Silva’s flesh to bone, Many Voices, One Center: The Native American Literature Symposium, Minneapolis, MN, March 23, 2018.

Going to the Water: Cultural and Spiritual Resilience in Volatile Landscapes and Liminal Spaces, Returning the Gift: Native American Literary Festival, Norman, OK, October 10, 2017.

More Than Blood Brothers: Homosociality and the Traumas of an Unstable National Identity and the Erasure of Native American Culture in the Cold War Era Comic Book Series White Indian, Many Voices, One Center: The Native American Literature Symposium, Albuquerque, NM, March 13, 2015.

More Than Blood Brothers: Homosociality and the Traumas of an Unstable National Identity and the Erasure of Native American Culture in the Cold War Era Comic Book Series White Indian, 2014 University of Florida Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels, University of Florida, April 5, 2014.

Celebrating the Feminine Body in the Poetry of nila northSun, Many Voices, One Center: The Native American Literature Symposium, Minneapolis, MN, March 28, 2014.

Magical Realism and the Power of Language: An Examination of The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich and Drowning in Fire by Craig Womack, Dissonant Discourses: An Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Oklahoma, January 25, 2013.

Illustrating White Over Red: Examining Issues of Appropriation and Othering in Frank Frazetta’s Comic Book Series White Indian, Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 8, 2012.

Beyond the Reservation: Understanding the Call to Action in the Writing of Sherman Alexie, Savagism and Civilization Conference, University of Oklahoma, October 14, 2011.

Movement Toward Literacy and Art as Answer in Selected Works by Sherman Alexie, 16th Annual Pacific Rim Conference on Literature and Rhetoric, University of Alaska Anchorage, February 25, 2011.

Blood, Skin, and Bones: Skeletal Imagery and Ethnic Identity in the Poetry of Wendy Rose, First Meeting of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, University of Minnesota, May 21, 2009.

Awards and Scholarships:
Dr. Edward Murray Clark Memorial Scholarship, University of Oklahoma, 2017.
English Department Honors PhD Fellowship, University of Oklahoma, 2016.
Dean’s Outstanding Academic Advisor Award, University of Oklahoma, 2016
Barbara Anne Scheffer Award in Literature, University of Oklahoma, 2013

Contact:
Office: Cate Center 2, Room 215
Email: brett.burkhart@ou.edu

Education:
M.A., New York University; Ph.D., The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Jennifer Chancellor is a veteran instructor in the First-Year Composition program at OU, where she teaches Composition I and II and Technical Writing courses. Her current teaching and research interests are in service learning, as she recently co-developed versions of FYC courses in which students complete service hours with local community partner organizations as part of their coursework. While she is presently focused on pedagogy, her earlier work is in the field of literary and cultural studies; her dissertation examines the relationship between shifting notions of masculinity and the exploding promotions industries in mid-twentieth-century America through the writings of four novelists who worked in advertising and public relations during the 1950s and early 1960s.

Research/Teaching Interests:
Service learning, writing pedagogy, the post-1945 American novel, masculinity studies, cultural/media studies, Writing Across the Curriculum, and multimodal composition

Publications:
Chancellor, Jennifer, and Svetlana Jović, eds. Writing Across the Curriculum Resource Book: Humanities Edition. 2nd ed., Bronx Community College, 2015, http://tinyurl.com/WAC-Resource-Humanities.

Chancellor, Jennifer, and Svetlana Jović, eds. Writing Across the Curriculum Resource Book: Social Sciences Edition. 2nd ed., Bronx Community College, 2015, http://tinyurl.com/WAC-Resource-Social.

Contact:
Office: Cate 2, 210
Email: jennifer.chancellor@ou.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Education:
M.A. Literary & Cultural Studies, University of Oklahoma, 2017

Research Interests:
Lamanda Conrad's research examines how religion and politics, during the European Reformation, influenced literature and social norms. Particularly, her work focuses on the written works of John Donne, John Milton, and William Shakespeare. Her thesis explores relious casuistry in 16th and 17th centuries England and how "silence" in Shakespeare's Hamlet represents the religious and political climate of the period. Currently, Lamanda is focused on teaching writing for the English Department.

Presentations:
2017: “But Break My Heart for I Must Hold My Tongue: Silence, Casuistry & Diplomacy in Shakespeare’s Hamlet.” Presented at the Multidisciplinary Renaissance Conference at The Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies, Chicago, Illinois.

2015: “Let Not Thine Hearts Be Troubled: Body & Soul in John Donne’s Devotions.” Presented at the Seventeenth-Annual Shakespeare Conference at The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-Upon-Avon, England.

Contact Information: 
lamandaconrad@ou.edu

Education: 
MA from Loyola Marymount University and a Ph.D. in Literary Theory from Purdue University

Her research interests intersect between Jewish Studies, Early Modern Literature, and Mimetic theory.  Her latest project focuses on scapegoating and the ability to map those occurrences through literature. This concept first came to fruition in her dissertation, The Lesser of Two Evils: The Misidentification of the Jew in Elizabethan Literature. She loves her research and passion is a great motivator. This is the same idea she tries to convey to her students – study what they love and enjoy every second of it.

Contact:
Email: kfeiner1@ou.edu 

Education:
Ph.D. in Rhetoric, Theory, and Culture from Michigan Technological University

Biography:
Silke has experience in teaching first-year composition, technical communication, developmental writing, ESL, and German. Her current research interests focus on food ethics and projects in pedagogy. Since 2020, Silke has been organizing the StreetKnits maker space, a service learning project for undergraduate students and a humanitarian knitting charity for everybody interested in creating knitwear for the homeless.

Website:
https://animaliq.org/

Education:
M.A.T Northwestern University, M.A. University College Dublin, PhD. Southern Illinois University 

My dissertation research examines the intersection of two themes: cultural appropriation and the re-imagination of Northern Irish identity in the works of three contemporary poets writing during and after the Troubles (1968-1998). This comparative study traces how each of the writers, Seamus Heaney, Ciaran Carson, and Sinead Morrissey, constructs a distinctive postnational space for envisioning Northern Irish identity through incorporation of Japanese religio-aesthetic elements in their verse. Collectively, their works help shift the focus from a national to a postnational identity that enables both a regional and a transnational notion of Northern Irish identity to coexist.

Research Interests:
Twentieth-century American literature; twentieth-century British and Irish literature; rhetoric and composition.

Publications:
“Translation as A Profound Act: A Reading Of Seamus Heaney’s The Cure At Troy.”   Tokyo Junshin Women’s College Bulletin (1994):55-61. 

“An Irish Dialectic: A Reading of Seamus Heaney’s Seeing Things.”  Tokyo Junshin Women’s College Bulletin (1995):21-31. 

“Byways: An Irish Perspective.”  Tokyo Junshin Women’s College Bulletin (1996):27-42. 

“Reading Contrapuntally.”  Tokyo Junshin Women’s College Bulletin (1997):47-55. 

“Paralysis and Efflorescence in James Joyce’s ‘Eveline’.”  Tokyo Junshin Women’s College Bulletin (1998):97-111. 

“Overlooking and Overlooked: Anglo-Irish Angles of Vision.”  Tokyo Junshin Women’s College Bulletin (2000):7-19.

Teaching Interests:
Literary perspectives on the modern world; analytical writing; first-year composition.

Most Recent Project:
Collaborated with Ronda Leathers Dively on developing exercises for an instructor's manual supporting her textbook, Invention and Craft A Guide to College Writing.

Contact:
Office: Cate 2, Room 212
Email: David.Kelly-1@ou.edu

Education:
Ph.D., University of Oklahoma

Amanda Klinger specializes in literature of the Romantic period with a broader interest in British literature of the long 18th and 19th centuries. She particularly studies representations of urban life, spectacle, consumer culture, empire, and cultures of sensibility. Amanda is currently working on a project that considers connections between urban walking, spectacle, and nervous sensibility in early nineteenth-century London. She is also working with other FYC Assistant Teaching Professors on articles related to writing program administration. 

Amanda teaches Principles of Composition I and II, Writing for the Health Professions, and Technical Writing for the First-Year Composition program. She also serves as the Associate Director of First-Year Composition. 

Publication: “The Violence of Enlightenment in William Blake’s Visions of the Daughters of Albion,” Nineteenth Century Studies, Volume 28, 2018.

Education:
Ph.D., University of Oklahoma

Jason Lubinski received his M.A. in English from the University of Toledo and is currently working on his Ph.D. at the University of Oklahoma. Jason specializes in Medieval literature. The primary focus of his dissertation investigates how medieval authors, like Chaucer, understood and represented compositions of gender characteristics in their literary works. 

Contact:
Office: Cate 2, 214
Email: jason.d.lubinski-1@ou.edu

Education:

B.A. Texas Christian University (English) 

M.A. Loyola Marymount University (English)  

M.A. City University of London, UK (international journalism) 

Ph.D. Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi (English, fiction writing emphasis) 

Dr. Malone is a fiction writer, essayist and journalist. He has taught at the University of Oklahoma since 2015, and his courses include ENG 1113 and 1213: Principles of Composition I and II; ENG 2123: Introduction to Creative Writing; and ENG 3123: Introduction to Fiction Writing. His writing has appeared in various magazines and literary journals. His research interests include contemporary fiction and narrative nonfiction, military history, the Holocaust, war literature, modernism and post-modernism, and American literature of the twentieth century.  

Contact:

Office: Cate 2, Room 212
Email: eddie.malone@ou.edu

Education:
M.A., University of Texas at San Antonio, 2010

Annemarie Mulkey’s background is in queer rhetoric and how “texts” are queered to challenge heteronormativity in popular culture. Her current research interests center on game design and using gaming as a framework for curricula that encourages students to seek out and participate in social change through gaming and design thinking. Additionally, she has a background in student and academic support services, so her research also includes current practices of incorporating learning strategies and healthy time management habits into the writing process. 

Contact: 
Office: Cate 2, Room 214
Email:  annemarie.mulkey@ou.edu

Research and Teaching Interests: 
Writing in the disciplines, Critical pedagogy, Visual rhetoric, Game theory, Popular culture, and Queer theory.

Education:
Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Writing Studies, University of Oklahoma

Kalyn Prince received her doctorate in Rhetoric and Writing Studies from the University of Oklahoma in 2022. Her research interests include public writing and ethical argumentation, rhetorics of nostalgia, rhetorical theory and criticism, and political discourse. Kalyn is passionate about her teaching and is a recipient of the 2023 FYC Faculty Teaching Award. Additonally, she serves as an Assistant Director of the First-Year Composition program.

Selected Recent Publications:

• "Nostalgia in the Archives," Unsettling Archival Research, eds. Gesa Kirsch and Romeo Garcia, 2023. 
• “Writing with the Working Class: The Future of Public Rhetoricians,” Composition and Rhetoric in Contentious Times, eds. Jennifer Juszkiewicz and Rachel McCabe, 2023.

Contact:
Cate Center 2, Room 434
kalyn.prince@ou.edu

Education
MA, University of Oklahoma

Research Interests and Biography
Rance Weryackwe’s research interests are Race, Rhetoric, and Representation; American Indian rhetorics and composition; and Cultural Rhetorics. He is a tribal member of the Comanche Nation. Having begun his post-secondary education at Haskell Indian Nations University, Mr. Weryackwe received his bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in Native American Studies (NAS) at the University of Oklahoma and worked as a teaching assistant and an instructor for NAS's Introduction to Native American Studies while pursuing his graduate degree. He is actively involved in ceremonial, social, cultural, and political matters that affect Comanche tribal members and other communities throughout Oklahoma and Indian Country. His thesis research focused on recovering Indigenous aspects of OU through a place-based study, examining the Native history of the land as well the effects of race relations on Indians’ higher educational experiences in this space.

Since then, Mr. Weryackwe worked both as an adjunct instructor for OU’s English Department and as a Media Production Assistant for the First Americans Museum of Oklahoma (FAM) in downtown Oklahoma City prior to joining OU’s FYC team as an Assistant Teaching Professor. His writing appears throughout the museum, having been a part of the curatorial team which included working on numerous media projects and exhibits, including directing short-films and media interactive games, building maps, databases, timelines, and educational programs and tools, along with interior designs and the overall aesthetics within the museum. This work involved doing both primary (field) and secondary research as well as organizing data for projects across a range of media, creating structure and visual design for interactive games, and extensive writing of exhibit labels and extended labels as well as media content/storylines. While working on these projects, he was personally responsible for consulting with tribal nations, tribal members, and tribal historians to mediate between them and production crews and media design firms while coordinating and directing the productions.

Mr. Weryackwe has also produced a couple short-films as a co-founder of NDN Image Productions and worked as a featured background actor playing a Comanche on the AMC television series The Son.

Publications:
Article in Native Max Magazine and on Native News Network, “Savages, Settlers, and Slaves: Red, White, and Black: Symbolism of Oklahoma Sooner Football and the University of Oklahoma”

Contact:
Office: Cate Center 2, 215 Email: rance@ou.edu

Education 
M.A. in Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy, University of Oklahoma, 2017

Education and Research Interests:
Kasey Woody received her M.A. from the University of Oklahoma in Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy. Her research interests include feminist rhetorics, postmodern and feminist writing program administration, rhetorical theory, and composition studies. Her area of focus is currently housed within first-year composition, a place she believes the field’s theories come into contact with a diverse student body. She is a co-author of the OU FYC curriculum, called the Oklahoma Model, and was a major contributor to the notion of “slow argument” that guides the curricular goals and writing and research processes.

Publication:
“Re-Engaging Rhetorical Education through Procedural Feminism: Designing First-Year Writing Curricula That Listen” College Composition and Communication; Urbana Vol. 71, Iss. 3, (Feb 2020): 481-507.