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During this interview from April 2026, Dr. Michelle Conklin-Kusel, a Writing and Rhetoric PhD graduate, discusses her dissertation Viral Lies: Information Disorder and the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States, growing as an educator, navigating personal challenges, and the value of spending time in nature during graduate school.

Three-time English alum Jessica McCaughey—MA English '05, MFA '11, and PhD Writing and Rhetoric ’22—has a new book coming out from Routledge end of September.

In this interview, Dr. Jessie Wiggins discusses her dissertation, Post-pandemic Ethos: Reframing Medical Expertise in an Era of Distrust and how she decided to focus on the topic of vaccinated blood.

In this interview, Dr. Rosemary Pinney discusses her recently defended dissertation Professional Writing, Personal Stakes: Rhetorical Empathy in Feedback Giving on Analytic Writing in the Intelligence Community.

In this interview, James Savage, a Term Associate Professor of English and Writing and Rhetoric PhD candidate, discusses his dissertation I'll Be There: Stories, Collected Memories, Half-Truths, Counter Memories, and Somewhat Just Memories of James Foley. We also discuss teaching at GMU and writing support.

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.