<div dir="ltr">


















<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">In the PhD in Rhetoric, Writing, and Professional Communication
at East Carolina, students engage a variety of sub-fields and cutting-edge
topics, including rhetorics of health and medicine and protest communication,
as just some examples. Some of our recent graduates and their dissertation
titles include:<span></span></span></font></p>

<ul><li><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Dr. Cecilia Shelton, assistant professor at the University
of Maryland, “On Edge: A Techne of Marginality”<span></span></span></font></li><li><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Dr. Carleigh Davis, assistant professor at Missouri
University of Science and Technology, “Mimetic Rhetorical Theory in Technical
Communication: Re-Constructing Ethos in the Post-Fact Era”<span></span></span></font></li><li><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Dr. Temptaous McKoy, assistant professor at Bowie State
University, “Y’all Call it Technical and Professional Communication, We Call it
#ForTheCulture: The Use of Amplification Rhetorics in Black Communities and
their Implications for Technical and Professional Communication Studies”<span></span></span></font></li><li><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Dr. Janine Butler, assistant professor at the Rochester
Institute of Technology, “Integral Captions and Subtitles: Designing a Space
for Embodied Rhetorics and Visual Access”<span></span></span></font></li><li><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Dr. Stephanie West-Puckett, assistant professor at
University of Rhode Island, “Materializing Makerspaces: Queerly Composing
Space, Time, and (What) Matters” <span></span></span></font></li></ul>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Since we revised our program in 2012, we are proud of a 100%
placement rate for our alumni in the year after their graduation. All graduates
of our program are working in academia, in positions ranging from assistant
writing center director to Georgia Institute of Technology’s Brittain
Postdoctoral Fellow. Of our graduates, 62% are in tenure-line positions.<span></span></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"> <span></span></span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">The preferred application deadline (to be fully considered
for funding) is Jan. 15. You can learn more at
<a href="https://english.ecu.edu/graduate-programs/phd-in-rhetoric-writing-professional-communication/" target="_blank">https://english.ecu.edu/graduate-programs/phd-in-rhetoric-writing-professional-communication/ <br></a></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></font></p><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">--</span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Dr. Erin A. Frost<br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Associate Professor & PhD Program Coordinator<br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Department of English, East Carolina University</span></font></div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">& <br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;display:inline;float:none">Dr. Matt Cox</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;display:inline;float:none">Associate Professor </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;display:inline;float:none">& Director of Graduate Studies</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;display:inline;float:none">Department of English, East Carolina University</span></span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br><span></span></span></font></p>





</div>