In this interview, Kelby Gibson, a Writing and Rhetoric PhD student, discusses her dissertation “And it Really Has Changed My Perspective on Language as a Whole”: Students’ Perceptions of Linguistic Justice in the First-Year Writing Classroom.

In this interview, Dr. Emily Sok, a Writing and Rhetoric PhD student who recently defended her dissertation Reading Identity in Composition Scholarship: A Content Analysis on Reading, discusses her dissertation and defense process.

Kerry Smith defends her dissertation, The Effect of Affect: Hostile Rhetoric in Abortion Discourses, in Spring 2026.