Disseminar is nerds a research group of PhD candidates, early-career faculty, and senior faculty who engage in networked, horizontal mentoring through the various parts of academic life.
Jess Berchtold
Jess is a visiting assistant professor at Oberlin College.
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Adrianna Deptula
Adrianna (she/her) is a Lecturer at Case Western University.
Research and teaching areas: Technical and Professional Communication, Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, Patient Experience Design (PXD) rural healthcare communication, artificial intelligence, social justice pedagogy
Selected publications:
Deptula, A. (2025). One Size Does Not Fit All: How Clinical Pain Assessment Scales and Tools Mask Crip Narratives of Chronicity. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00472816251325229
Deptula, A., Hunter, P. T., & Johnson-Sheehan, R. (2024). Rhetorics of Authenticity: Ethics, Ethos, and Artificial Intelligence. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 39(1), 51-74. https://doi.org/10.1177/10506519241280639 (Original work published 2025)
Weblinks: adriannadeptula.com
Danielle Giles
Danielle is assistant professor of English at University of Tennessee–Martin.
Research and teaching areas: Public and Cultural rhetoric, Political rhetoric, Public Speaking, Digital rhetoric, and undergraduate mentorship.
Selected publications:
Rogers, K. S., Yerace, M., Giles, D., Deptula, A., Berchtold, J., Smith, A. W., Weech, S., & Dilger, B. (2025). Recursive, horizontal, distributed, networked: Iterating transdisciplinary models of mentorship in the humanities. In Symposium on Intergenerational Graduate Mentorship, Gaillet, L. L., Ridolfo, J., Micciche, L., & Young, M. (Eds.), Rhetoric Review, vol. 44, no. 3, 18-27. https://doi.org/10.1080/07350198.2025.2526870
Mark Griffin
Mark is a third-year graduate student at Purdue University.
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Juan Carlos Montoya López
Juan Carlos is a third-year graduate student at Purdue University.
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Nasiba Norova
Nasiba is an Assistant Professor at Metropolitan State University.
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Kailyn Shartel Rogers
Kailyn (she/her) is an Assistant Professor and the First-Year Composition Coordinator at the University of Tennessee-Martin.
Research and teaching areas: basic writing, first-year composition, writing program administration, writing pedagogy, mentorship and student success, institutional ethnography
Selected publications:
Rogers, K. S., Yerace, M., Giles, D., Deptula, A., Berchtold, J., Smith, A. W., Weech, S., & Dilger, B. (2025). Recursive, horizontal, distributed, networked: Iterating transdisciplinary models of mentorship in the humanities. In Symposium on Intergenerational Graduate Mentorship, Gaillet, L. L., Ridolfo, J., Micciche, L., & Young, M. (Eds.), Rhetoric Review, vol. 44, no. 3, 18-27. https://doi.org/10.1080/07350198.2025.2526870
Weaver, M. E., Hall, K. S., & Glaessgen, T. A. (2022). Challenging assumptions about basic writers and corequisites at four-year institutions. Journal of Basic Writing, 41(1-2), pp. 76–105. https://doi.org/10.37514/JBW-J.2022.41.1.04
Weblinks: kshartelhall.com & Google Scholar
Ghada Seifeddine
Ghada recently earned her PhD from Purdue University.
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Weblinks: seifeddineghada.com
Allegra W. Smith
Allegra (she/her/hers) is an Assistant Professor of Technical Communication at Georgia Tech.
Research and teaching areas: technical and professional communication, design of communication, user experience (UX), accessibility and usability, digital rhetoric, feminist research methodologies, curriculum design, internships, online writing instruction, age studies
Selected publications: See CV or Google Scholar.
Weblinks: allegra-w-smith.com
Shelton Weech
Shelton (he/him/his) is an Assistant Professor of technical communication at Utah Valley University.
Research and teaching areas: Technical & science communication, social media, collaborative communication
Selected publications: Check out his webpage!
Weblinks: sheltonweech.com
Marisa Yerace
Marisa (she/her/hers) is an Assistant Professor of Composition, Rhetoric, and Technical Writing and the Director of Composition at Weber State University.
Research and teaching areas: undergraduate and graduate courses in composition, digital writing technologies, professional writing, and pedagogy. Her research focuses on agile writing program administration.
Selected publications:
Writing Elevated, an Open Educational Resource for Weber State University’s Composition program.
Yerace, M. (2023). Agile writing programs. In J. Borgman & C. McArdle, PARS in charge: Resources and strategies for online writing program leaders, pp. 86-99. WAC Clearinghouse.
Weblinks: myerace.com | Google Scholar link
Bradley Dilger
Bradley (he/his/Dilger) is a Professor and the Director of Writing at Purdue University.
Research and teaching areas: qualitative research methods, networked mentoring, and writing transfer.
Selected publications: see brief CV or Google Scholar.
Weblinks: dtext.org