Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture
Jacquelyn Franz
She/Her
Jacquelyn Franz loves exploring all things writing, but especially social justice rhetoric, food writing, interfaith rhetoric, and writing pedagogy. When she’s not working, Jacquelyn is usually drinking coffee, hiking, or hanging out with her cat Goose.
Katie McKinney
They/She
Katie is a second-year in the Literature track, writing on hunger, consumerism, and self-consumption in Shakespeare's Coriolanus and Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games series. In their rare moments of free time, they can be found consuming ungodly amounts of espresso, sailing with OSU’s sailing club, and obsessing over Tudor history. They’re currently working on publishing the first novel in their YA fantasy series about gods, monsters, and political corruption.
Charlie Meza
They/She
Hi! I'm a second year MA candidate earning their degree in Rhetoric and Composition. I'm in love with teaching WR121, helping my students with critical thinking, rhetorical analysis, and engaging in the dialectic and deep conversation! My research focuses on the way a more flexible, conceptual, and critical understanding of language, facilitated by the convergence of Buddhist philosophy and Critical pedagogy, can inspire understanding and empathy through awareness of discursively constructed truths.
Literature and Culture
Sydney Goodpasture
They/Them
Sydney Goodpasture is a first-year grad student in the MA Literature and Culture track. Raised locally in Salem, Oregon, they received their BA in Theatre Arts and Writing from Western Oregon University. Syd’s research interests involve Victorian hellenism in homoerotic literature, and it’s influence on the contemporary Queer identity.
Risako Nomura
She/Her
Risako Nomura is a second-year master’s student in English. Her research interests include long eighteenth-century medical literature and botany during the Romantic period. She has presented her research at several conferences including the British Association for Romantic Studies ECR & PGR Conference and the International Conference on Romanticism.
Chloe Hansen
She/Her
Chloe Hansen (she/her) came to Oregon State University primarily to indulge her lifelong passion for 19th c. English literature. In fact, she’s so excited to be in the MA program that she often forgets her assignments are assignments at all! Whether it’s the fifth hour of a late-night library stint researching meter, taboo, and psychosexual power dynamics in 19th c. poetry, or simply going for a scenic campus walk (London fog in hand), Chloe is thrilled to be fully immersed in Postgraduate study—and surrounded by those who are too!
Film and Visual Studies
Alexander Green
He/Him
Alex is a second-year MA student on the Film and Visual Studies track. He has an affinity for silent-era film, and his thesis work concerns German Expressionist film and its subversive legacies, particularly through the lens of national cultural histories. When he's busy procrastinating, you might find him at Newberg's 99W Drive-In with his partner and his dog Buster (pictured; named after Buster Keaton) or sipping on an Americano while browsing the aisles of The Book Bin.