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About Us
Pearl Brilmyer is a Ph.D candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. She is writing a dissertation on 19th-century European vitalism and literature. Her interests include queer theory, the 19th-century British novel, the history of German philosophy and science, and 21st-century digital literacies.
Kristine Kotecki is a PhD candidate in the English department at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include Ethnic and Third World Literatures. Southeastern European Literature and Film, narrative form and poetics, film and media studies, and studies of cultural memory. She is currently working on a dissertation titled “After the Archive: Place and Memory in Post-Yugoslav Collections
Tekla Schell is a PhD student in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on digital rhetoric, popular culture, and multi-modal composition. She has taught courses on introductory rhetoric and writing and transformative works in the Digital Writing and Research Lab, where she formerly served in the Rhetorical Peaks research group.
Dustin D. Stewart is a PhD candidate in English at UT-Austin. His research focuses on poetics and theology in 18th-century England, and he has taught courses at Texas on poetry, expository writing, and the rhetoric of religious dissent. For the DWRL he has served on the editorial staff of Currents (2009-2010), has worked on the Marlin project for the Engaged Networks group, and has contributed to a history of the lab.
Amanda Wall is a PhD student and Assistant Instructor in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing and is a member of the Engaged Networks Project Group in the Digital Writing and Research Lab. Her research interests include online writing and argumentation, fan studies, and media studies.
Megan Varelmann is a PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing's Digital Literacies and Literatures track. Her research interests include digital narratives, environmental rhetoric, and rhetorics of space and place.