Faculty and Staff

Adjunct Faculty, Dual Credit
Guyer High School
gcoleman@dentonisd.org

Adjunct Faculty
faith.dickerson@uta.edu

Spanish Adjunct Faculty, Dual Credit
Rockport-Fulton High School
tfoxsmith@rfisd.us

Spanish Adjunct Faculty
CFO 807A
efuentes9@twu.edu

Adjunct Faculty
mgravens@twu.edu

Port Neches Groves High Schoo, Dual Credit
ahightower@pngisd.org

Spanish Adjunct Faculty
online
nherrerapacheco@twu.edu

Adjunct Faculty
CFO 127
940-898-2410
ehoughtaling@twu.edu

Adjunct Instructor, Dual Credit
Argyle High School
akopp@twu.edu

Adjunct Instructor
CFO 127
AKerr1@twu.edu

Adjunct Faculty
hello@drsrichards.me

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Email: aberetta@twu.edu

Beretta enjoys working closely with students on their writing and engaging them in their work in innovative and beneficial ways. She is enrolled in TWU's PhD in Rhetoric program with goals of becoming a first-year writing program director and helping students and teachers with their learning and success. Beretta has a heavy interest in the intersection of transfer pedagogy, archival studies and student engagement and how they inform and fulfill one another. One of her favorite things to do as a teacher is create engaging and multimodal scaffolding discussions and activities to help make the writing process and skill development more tangible and effective for her students. Her areas of specialization are First-Year Writing, Transfer Pedagogy, WPA, Writing Studies, Archival Studies/Pedagogy

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Email: agrimley@twu.edu

Interests: Grimley is pursuing a PhD in Rhetoric at Texas Woman’s University. They hold a BA in Journalism and a Master of Professional Writing degree from the University of Oklahoma. They have previously worked as the assistant director of TWU’s Write Site and as a graduate reader at the University of Texas at Dallas. Assisting students with developing their skills, voice and confidence in their writing is a major passion. Their main areas of academic interest are pop culture, genre fiction (particularly horror), trauma-informed pedagogy and affect and embodiment theory. Their goal is to combine these research interests and apply them to multimodal pedagogical practices to cultivate a culture of empathy and growth in the classroom and beyond. Grimley has presented at conferences such as SWPACA, Computers & Writing, and CCTE about fandom, narrative, and myth. Grimley's areas of specialization are trauma-informed pedagogy, affect theory, embodiment theory and digital literacies.

Assistant Director of First-Year Composition; Graduate Teaching Assistant
Office: CFO 127
Email: jholder5@twu.edu

Interests: Holder is a teacher-scholar interested in feminist rhetorics, revision theory and popular culture studies. She has taught FYC for many years and currently serves as FYC assistant director. Her research focuses on feminist revision practices and the value of public revision, taking the work of Taylor Swift as a model. She has also written about the formation, promotion, and transformation of feminist messages in popular culture for both academic and public-facing audiences, including Ms. magazine and USA Today. She remains interested in thought leadership and emphasizes writing for multiple audiences and in varied forms in her FYC classrooms as part of a commitment to multimodal, embodied and accessible pedagogical practices.

English BA Advisor; Graduate Research Assistant, First-Year Experience
Email: jjudd1@twu.edu

Interests: Judd is a PhD candidate in rhetoric. Her research interests include theories of belonging, feminist embodied and contemplative writing pedagogies and disability rhetorics. As a teacher-scholar, Judd's research and pedagogy intersect in writing classrooms, including developing first-year composition courses on belonging and wellness. Judd also writes about feminist rhetorics and identity, with a focused interest in disability, religion, and mothers/motherhood. Judd's writing on disability justice has appeared in The Dallas Morning News, and  Her creative writing for children has appeared in various children’s magazines, poetry anthologies and picture books. She currently serves as the English BA Advisor and a research assistant for the First-Year Experience program. Judd's areas of specialization are feminist, contemplative, and embodied writing pedagogies, feminist rhetorics, disability studies and writing studies.

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Email: mkuehmichel@twu.edu

Interests: Kuehmichel moved to Texas to attend Texas Woman’s University from Boise, Idaho. She holds a BA in English Literature and an MA in Technical Communication from Boise State University. She gained teaching experience in Boise State’s Writing Center as an undergrad and as a writing tutor in the graduate college throughout her master’s program. Kuehmichel’s master’s research centered on racism through language perpetrated against Japanese-Americans during World War II with an emphasis on those incarcerated in U.S. concentration camps (known colloquially as Internment Camps). Her graduate research centers on cultural rhetorics by investigating racism through language and its effects on immigrant diasporas in Texas. Her areas of specialization are cultural rhetorics and antiracist language.

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Email: ckutev@twu.edu

Interests: Kutev has a deep commitment to advancing the field of semitic rhetoric, where her academic journey includes a strong foundation in media studies, speech communication and forensics. Kutev holds a Master of Arts in Mass Communication from Stephen F. Austin State University, where she focused on the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign and rhetorical analysis of 20th Century queer media. Her research interests, variables of anti-semitism, have garnered recognition through the Rhetoric Society of America. As an FYC instructor, Kutev’s teaching ethos rides on acute communication skills, media literacy and cultural literacy so that students understand the importance of writing and feeling empowered when creating their compositions, even after they leave the FYC classroom. Her areas of specialization are anti-semitic discourse, Middle Eastern discourse, information literacy and media studies.

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Office: CFO 127
Email: mkuyoth@twu.edu

Interests: Kuyoth’s research focuses on the intersection of literature and history. Her background is in secondary education where she taught advanced academics and on level students including English language learners and students with challenges. This gives her unique insights into the needs of incoming freshmen. Kuyoth holds a BA in Literature and a BA in Historical and Political Studies from Chaminade University of Honolulu. 

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Email: jnguyen111@twu.edu

Interests: Nguyen has a background in working in writing centers as a writing tutor. He is interested in pursuing research in writing center development and how student feedback can be used effectively in the classroom and writing center. Nguyen enjoys working with students to develop their academic voices while they incorporate their experiences and perspective as embodied writing. His areas of specialization are writing center theory, cultural rhetoric, digital/multimodal rhetoric and embodied writing.

Graduate Coordinator, Digital Composition Lab; Student Assistant IV, Research & Sponsored Programs
Email: squist@twu.edu

Interests: Quist (she/her) is a PhD student in Rhetoric at 欧美视频 and the author of Rose's Locket and Mirrors Made of Ink. She currently haunts her bespoke ghost kingdom and spends her days writing in practically every genre. She hopes to die someday in a library of her own words.

Professor Emeritus
PhD, University of Texas at Austin
Email: hburns@twu.edu

Interests: rhetoric, computers and writing, digital humanities

Professor Emeritus
Email: rgreer@twu.edu

Interests: Thomas Hardy, Anthony Trollope

Professor Emerita
PhD, Texas Christian University
Office: CFO 908
Phone: 940-898-2347
Email: Lthompson2@twu.edu

Interests: Documentary film, creative writing (fiction), disability studies, visual rhetoric

Director of Tutoring, The Write Site
Office: BHL 235
Phone: 940-898-2118
Email: rjohnston3@twu.edu

Interests: Johnston teaches courses in composition focused on global citizenship and wellness, and literature courses on domesticity, marriage, mobility, monsters and madness. Her research primarily explores the roles of women, marriage and failed marriage in early transatlantic novels, art and plays, expanding to motherhood and domesticity 1660-1860. Johnston is comparing several of Daniel Defoe's fiction and non-fiction writings which show Defoe's seemingly feminist opinions on mercenary marriage as well as employment opportunities and reproductive control for 18th-century women in Great Britain and America.

Senior Secretary
Office: CFO 131 & BHL
Phone: 940-898-2323
Email: nhernandez56@twu.edu

Administrative Assistant – Language, Culture, and Gender Studies
Office: CFO 905
Phone: 940-898-2326
Email: ajones168@twu.edu