Sarah Arroyo
2003 Spring | PhD
Advisor: Victor J. Vitanza
Title: Whole Writing: Moving Toward a Post-Critical Composition
Christa Barreras
2009 Summer II | BA
Current: I am a Graduate Admissions
Counselor for UTA and currently in the Master's program for Educational
Leadership and Policy Studies with emphasis in Higher Administration.
Email: christab@uta.edu
Sharmistha Basu
2005 Summer | MA
Lexey Bartlett
2005 Spring | PhD
Advisor: Tim Morris
Title: The Double Redux: Multiplying Identity in Postmodernist Fiction
Amber Bean
2006 Fall | MA
Teriann Blaisdell
2007 Fall | PhD
Jacquelyn Bolton
2005 | BA
Current Status: is an adjunct at Fayetteville
Technical Community College, Fayetteville, NC; received her Masters in
Curriculum and Instruction from the U of Phoenix Online; is married, and
has "a darling little girl."
Email: jshereice@yahoo.com
Michael Brittain
2006 Spring | MA
Joseph Brown
2006 | BA
Current Status: Now in the Grad School of Social Work
at UTA. Also is a Material Manager at Trinity Rail (a builder of
railcars), and travels regularly to India.
Email: joe.brown@trin.net
Laura Campbell
2005 | BA
Current Status: 7th grade English at de Zavala Middle School in the Irving ISD.
Email: lola1678@hotmail.com
Tonya Cambridge
2005 Spring | MA
Diane Carroll
2000 | PhD
Current Status: Painting fulltime; exhibits and sells
her work at galleries in Arlington (J. T. Martin’s Upstairs Gallery) and
Ft. Worth (TAC Galleries).
Email: dmtcarroll@sbcglobal.net
Susan Christensen
2008 | PhD
Advisor: Laurin Porter
Title: Selected Correspondence from the Horton Foote Collection, 1912-1991
Email: susan.christensen@uta.edu
Rebekah Clinkscale
2004 Fall | MA
Advisor: Laurin Porter
Title: Music of a Kind: The Songs of The Orphans' Home Cycle
Tracey Clough
2007 Spring | MA
Barbara Coots
2007 Spring | MA
Current Status: Now a freelance editor and writer,
retired early from American Airlines proper, then worked at AAP Custom
(custom publishing arm of AA Publishing) and for the American College of
Education in curriculum development.
Dianne Cumins (Clower)
2004 | BA
Current Status: Her and her husband own and operate a
full-service restaurant at Lake Whitney, TX and just celebrated their
first year in business.
Jennifer Demas
2004 | BA
Current Status: Received a MSLS from UNT in 2007. Currently a Children/Teen Librarian at Forth Worth Library
Tara Donalson
2005 Summer | MA
Amy Durham (Anderson)
2003 | BA
Current Status: Writes fulltime (freelance) for
magazines such as Luxe Texas, AirTran Go Magazine, and Cowboys &
Indians; is an associate editor for Texas Family Magazine; has written
two novels (seeking an agent), and is starting her third.
Christine Ebersbach
2002 | BA
Current Status: Teaches high-school English and
creative writing, confounds, challenges, and inspires her students with
Freud and feminism, writes humorous vignettes at home; hopes to enter UT
El Paso’s distance learning MFA program in Creative Writing.
Alisha Feitosa
2007 Spring | MA
Mary Fickel
2002 Fall | MA
Ricardo Garza
2004 Spring | BA
Current Status: MA, Higher Education Policy and
Administration, Columbia University. JD, Albany Law School. Currently, I
am on staff with the Office of Legal Counsel at SMU, and also advise
SMU's honors students.
Email: ricklgarza@gmail.com
Irshad Ali Gopang
2005
Current Status: Computer Instructor in Vocational Training Center Nasirabad
Email: aliiag@yahoo.com
Ken Hada
2000 | PhD
Current Status: Associate Professor at East Central
University in Ada, OK. He teaches American and ethnic literatures;
directs the annual Scissortail Creative Writing Festival
Email: khada@mailclerk.ecok.edu
Ronnie Hall
2004 | MA
Current Status: completed his juris doctor (JD) at Texas Wesleyan U School of Law in May 2007 and took the Texas Bar Exam in July 2007.
Email: rhall825@sbcglobal.net
Byron Hawk
2000 | PhD
Current Status: Associate Professor of English at
George Mason University; author of A Counter-History of
Composition: Toward Methodologies of Complexity and numerous scholarly
articles; and editor of the electronic journal Enculturation, of a book
series for Parlor Press (New Media Theory).
Email: bhawk@gmu.edu
Courtney Henderson
2007 Spring | MA
Sherry Hill
2003 Spring | MA
Kuo-Wei Hsu
2005 Summer | MA
Sandi Hubnik
2003 Spring | MA
Jason Huddleston
2004 Fall | PhD
Current Status: Assistant Professor at Tennessee Temple University in Chattanooga, TN.
Email: huddlej@tntemple.edu
Dorian Johnson
2004 Spring | MA
Janice Johnson
2009 | BA
Current Status: Regular freelance writer for NOW
Magazines, a group of local-interest publications serving eight
communities in and around Ellis County Texas.
Email:janjohnson77@gmail.com
Jeremy Johnson
2006 Fall | MA
Julie Jones
2005 Fall | MA
Advisor: Wendy Faris
Title: Polynesian Women in Herman Melville's Typee and Paul Gauguin's Noa Noa: Re-Imagining an Active Muse
April Kinkead
2006 Summer | MA
Joshua Kretchmar
2002 Fall | PhD
Advisor: Robert J. Reddick
Title: Professional Mapping: Epistemic Modes and Ideologies of Critique
Tonita Lang
2003 | MA
Current Status: English Department Chair at South Grand Prairie High School.
Email: tonita.lang@sbcglobal.net
Lindsey Lanzisero
2006 Fall | MA
Robert Leston
2007 Spring | PhD
Current Status: Assistant Professor of Writing at St.
John’s University, Queens, NY. He has also been appointed to run the
writing program at the University’s Staten Island campus.
Email: robert.leston@gmail.com
Matthew Levy
2005 Spring | PhD
Advisor: Victor J. Vitanza
Title: Comp and Circumstance: Cynicism and the Rhetorical Situation of College Composition
Current Status: Assistant Professor of English at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington; edits rhetcomp.com.
Email: levy.matt@gmail.com
Misty Mallory
2006 Fall | MA
Toni Manning
2002 Fall | MA
Advisor: Tim Morris
Title: The Middle Voice: A Doubling of Agency Within the Poetics of Larkin and Eliot
Rachael Mariboho
2007 Fall | MA
Melissa McGaughey
2005 | BA
Current Status: Is a Spanish linguist, and serves with
the Utah Air National Guard. With a year left in Utah, is working for
an online MA in Humanities from AMU and looks forward to doing an MFA.
Julie McManis
2005 Spring | MA
Tiffani Milton-Bell
2007 | MA
Current Status: Currently a 6th grade Language Arts teacher at DISD
Email: tiffanimilton@gmail.com
Jacob Moreno
2006 | BA
Current Status: Studying for his JD at Texas Wesleyan
School of Law in Fort Worth, looking forward to finishing in 2010 and
practicing law in the DFW area.
Email: spot9981@yahoo.com
Chris Murray
2006 | PhD
>Current Status: Director of the Writing Center at the New York Institute of Technology campus in Bahrain.
Email: cmurray88@yahoo.com
Christine Murray
2005 Summer | PhD
Advisor: Tim Morris
Title: "I Mustn't Speak for Two": Rhetorics of Address in Poetry by Women
Barbara Noyes
2006 Spring | MA
Roger Ornelas
2001 | BA
Current Status: Teaches English and/or English as a
Second Language; is currently at Turning Point High School, Arlington;
currently serving on the UTA’s Alumni Association’s Board of Directors.
Email: rogeruta@yahoo.com
Kevin Pajak
2004 Spring | MA
Current Status: Teaching as an adjunct in English at UT Arlington.
Email: pajak@uta.edu
Robb Pocklington
2000 | PhD
Current Status: Associate Dean for Student Advising: Dedman College, Southern Methodist University.
Email: rpocklin@mail.smu.edu
Meaghan Rand
2004 Spring | MA
Advisor: Kenneth Roemer
Title: Body Messengers: A Discussion of the Body and Clothing in Woman on the Edge of Time and The Dispossessed
Thomas Rickert
2000 | PhD
Current Status: Associate Professor at Purdue; author of Acts of Enjoyment: Rhetoric, Zizek, and the Return of the Subject.
Email: trickert@purdue.edu
Amy Riordan
2005 Fall | MA
Current Status: Copywriter for First Command Financial Planning’s Marketing Deparment
Email: amyriordan@hotmail.com
Jason Roberts
2004 Fall | MA
Sterling Robertson
2001 | BA
Current Status: Editor of the NeighborsGO sections of the Dallas Morning News.
Email: docspaceman@yahoo.com
Kristin Rozzell
2007 Fall | PhD
Michelle Sanders
2007 Spring | PhD
Kimberly Sasser
2006 Fall | MA
Current Status: Received a Postgraduate Research
Scholarship from the University of Edinburgh and is working there on her
Ph. D. in English with an emphasis on Transatlanticism.
Email: kimdsasser@hotmail.com
Elizabeth Self
2003 Fall | MA
Advisor: Kenneth Roemer
Title: Altered Perception: Sherman Alexie's Manipulation of Native American Stereotypes
Raheela Shaikh
2006 | BA
Current Status: Teaches Advanced Placement English
Literature at Lancaster High School, has written two short stories, and
is writing a novel on honor killings in the Sindh area of Pakistan.
Email: rallyali@yahoo.com
Sandra Sprott
2000 Spring | BA
Current Status: A practicing attorney with Suggs Law Firm, P.C. in Irving, Texas.
Email: sspr0tt@yahoo.com
Faith Stencel
2004 | BA
Current Status: Works with a theatre ensemble,
MoMentuM ProDucTioNs, that, on the basis of interviews with parents of
the victims wrote, and in 2007 staged a performance piece about, the
serial murders of the women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Email: faith@momentumdfw.com
Elizabeth Murray Stockstill
2008 Spring | BA
Current Status: I am currently working on my PhD in English at Georgia State University.
Email: ellen.justine@gmail.com
Stephanie Taitano
2006 Spring | MA
Advisor: Wendy Faris
Title: Ethnic Provincialism and Other Ironic Targets of the Humorous Mind
Current Status: Associate Professor of English at
Saddleback College, Mission Viejo, CA, is working with an agent on her
“first attempt at a novel,” Abhorrent Love Syndrome, researching a
second novel, gardening, and learning to maintain an old home.
Email: staitano@saddleback.edu
Heidi Tesch
2006 Fall | MA
Emily Thomas
2004 | BA
Current Status: After a year of teaching Developmental
Reading and Writing at Navarro College, now teaches 11th-grade English
at Corsicana High, and plans on Grad School at UTA.
Christy Tidwell
2003 Summer | MA
Melissa Trujillo
2006 | BA
Current Status: Performing Internal Communications for a Fortune 500, financial services company.
Email: Trujillo_m_a@yahoo.com
Gail Tunnell
2007 Spring | MA
Thomas Tutt
2005 Spring | MA
Advisor: Jacqueline Stodnick
Title: The Hall of Elegies: The Old English Elegiac Genre as Museum and Ruin
Kifah Al Umari
2006 Fall | PhD
Advisor: Neill Matheson
Title: Intertextuality, Language, and Rationality in the Detective Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe and Paul Auster
Terri Vaughn
2006 | MA
Current Status: Performing community service in Austin in 2007, and will be adjuncting in 2007-2008, while writing her dissertation.
Libia Velasquez
2002 Fall | PhD
Advisor: Martin A. Danahay
Title: Tracking the Sephardic Identity of the Converso-Antioquian Community in Colombia
Maristela Verastegui
2006 | BA
Current Status: Working toward her MA in the Liberal
Studies Program at CUNY, with a concentration in Translation Studies and
a goal of becoming a literary translator.
Email: marisverastegui@hotmail.com
Prisna Virasin
2004 Spring | MA
Advisor: Martin A. Danahay
Title: Between Bruce Lee and the Houseboy: The Creation of Chinese American Masculinities Through Literature
Consuelo Wallace
2004 Summer | PhD
Advisor: Carolyn A. Barros
Title: A Poet Too Long Neglected: A Critical Biography on Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
Melissa Ware (Patton)
2004 | BA
Current Status: Teaches developmental writing at Cedar Valley College.
Email: melissajazz@yahoo.com
Steven Watkins
2005 Fall | PhD
Jeanna White
2002 Fall | PhD
Advisor: Stacy Alaimo
Title: Imagining the Past: The Construction of History in the Narratives of American Slavery and the Vietnam War
Anne Wicks
2006 | BA
Current Status: Teaches sophomore English at Arlington High School.
Email: Wanne2001@hotmail.com
Lydia Wilmeth
2005 | MA
Current Status: Pursuing a PhD in English at UT Austin.
Email: lyver2002@yahoo.com
Kristi Wilson
2006 Summer | MA
Current Status: Has received a teaching assistantship
at Purdue and is working there on her English PhD, emphasizing Theory
and Cultural Studies.
Email: kristiw73@hotmail.com
Christian Witte
2006 | BA
Current Status: Took a tour of the Southeastern US after graduation, married, and looks forward to returning to academe.
Email: Christian.witte@gmail.com
Vahid Yamartino
2004 | BA
Current Status: Aftering attaining a Masters of
Education in Teaching from UTA and certification to teach Secondary
English and ESL in Texas , is currently employed at the Baha’i World
Centre.
Email: vahidyamartino@yahoo.com
Troy Yarbrough
2005 | MA
Current Status: Started Fish Man Aquarium Service,
Inc., which installs and services aquariums in the Fort Worth-Arlington
area; has designed and updated related websites, including
fishmangifts.com, fishmanservice.com and wedgwoodacademy.org.
Daisy al’Ahmad
1991 | BA
Current Status: Lives in Springfield, MO, has published short stories in Lynx Eye, Psychic Radio, and elsewhere; had two three-act plays produced(The Vaquero and the Dove and The Parable of the Lost Sheep).
Email: daisy.alahmad@gmail.com
Michelle Ballif
1994 | PhD
Current Status: Associate Professor of English at U of Georgia; is founder/director of its Writing-in-the-Disciplines program.
Email: mballif@uga.edu
Lynn Bauman
1990 | PhD
Current Status: Has published a new
translation of the “Gospel of Thomas” from the Nag Hammadi Library and
is working on an extensive commentary on it.
Email: bauman@netexas.net
Beth Brunk-Chavez
1999 | PhD
Current Status: Assistant Professor of English and Associate Director of Rhetoric and Writing at UT El Paso.
Email: blbrunk@utep.edu
Lisa Coleman
1997 | PhD
Current Status: Professsor of English and Director of the Honors Program at Southeastern Oklahoma State University.
Email: lcoleman@sosu.edu
Diane Davis
1995 | PhD
Current Status: Associate Professor at UT
Austin (English/Rhetoric), has done a second PhD at the European
Graduate School, where she has the Kenneth Burke Chair of Rhetoric.
Email: ddd@mail.utexas.edu
Phil Doss
1996 | PhD
Current Status: Assistant Director of the Office of Education Accountability with the Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury.
Email: Phillip.Doss@state.tn.us
Beth Fehlbaum
1998 | BA
Current Status: Teaches 5th grade English as a Second Language in Athens, Texas.
Email: mrsfehlbaum@yahoo.com
Melody Graves
1999 | MA
Current Status: Recently published a
gothic short story entitled “The Looking Glass” in the current issue of
Coach’s Midnight Diner (available at Amazon).
Email: melody_graves ~at ~ yahoo.com
Margaret Hamlin
1990 – PhD
Current Status: English Department Chair
at the Episcopal School of Dallas until she retired in 2003 after forty
years of teaching, received one of the ten Texas Excellence Awards for
High School Teachers, given by the University of Texas Exes in 1990.
Email: marghamlin@sbcglobal.net
Cynthia Haynes
1994 – PhD
Current Status: Director of First-Year
Composition/Associate Professorat Clemson University. Her “Writing
Offshore: The Disappearing Coastline of Composition Theory” won the 2003
James Kinneavy award from JAC journal.
Email: texcyn@clemson.edu
Kim Hochmeister
1999 – PhD
Current Status: Associate Professor of English at San Antonio College.
Email: khochmeister@gvtc.com
Ramona Holmes
1997 | BA
Current Status: Coordinator of Information
Organization & Preparation (i.e. cataloging). Also has 24 hrs
towards a Ph.D. in Information Science at UNT.
Email: holmes@uta.edu
Andrew Lloyd
1999 | BA
Current Status: Serves the DFW and Denton regions in two offices, practicing family and criminal law and doing credit collection defense.
Email: andrewmlloyd@msn.com
Patricia Munro
1990 | PhD
Current Status: Chair of the English
Department at MacArthur High School, Irving TX, sponsor of the National
Honor Society, and UIL Literary Criticism coach.
Email: PMUNRO@irvingisd.net
Raquel Perry
1995 | BA
Current Status: A labor and employment attorney for the U. S. Postal Service.
Email: raquelvperry@justice.com
Peregrina Ramos
1993 | MA
Current Status: Published a bilingual children’s book entitled The Little Clay Jar/La vasijita de barro.
Email: peregrina ~at ~ juno.com
Todd Reimer
1999 | PhD
Current Status: Teaches Math and Physics at Joshua High School; is an adjunct in English at Dallas Baptist University.
Email: tdreimer@juno.com
Rebecca Sabounchi
1994 | MA
Current Status: Lives in Paris and is
involved in theatre and documentary film-production since 2001; she has
translated four French dramas by the French playwright Sylvaine Hinglais
into English: Babel, Upside Down; Traveling Naked; Pure Madness; and
Being There Or Not.
Email: rebeccasabounchi ~at ~ yahoo.com
Rhonda Swanson-Hays
1990 | MA
Current Status: Lives in Lake Worth, TX. Working in Demand Supply Planning for the global planning team for Nokia.
Email: rhondalhays@gmail.com
Bruce Terry
1993 | PhD
Current Status: Professor of Bible and
Humanities Studies at Ohio Valley University, Vienna, WVA; Was selected
Professor of the Year in 2003-2004 and 2006-2007.
Email: bruce.terryu@ovu.edu
Eric Trapp
1990 | BA
Current Status: Is Secretary of and writes
for the 2 Million Dogs Foundation, a non-profit 501c3 dedicated to
comparative oncology and discovering the similarities between and causes
of cancers in companion animals and people. He also does extensive
freelance writing and editing.
Email: erich@2dogs2000miles.org
Tim Westmoreland
1992 | BA
Current Status: Visiting Assistant
Professor of Creative Writing at Indiana University. A prolific writer,
his collection of short stories, Good As Any, was selected by Amazon.com
as one of the top books of the year in 2002.
