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Melody Denny

Melody Denny serves as the WORD Studio Director and teaches PCA 225: Peer Mentoring in Rhetoric and Communication. Melody has her master’s in English from Northeastern State University and her PhD in Composition and Rhetoric from Oklahoma State University. She has taught first-year writing classes for two decades as well as many other writing-related courses,…

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Learned in Translation

Vivian Susko ’20 spent the summer of 2018 engaged in an immersive journalism project in Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia. She interviewed nearly twenty people, spanning across varying generations and professions. The questions were tailored to the specific age range and career of each interviewee, but all encounters gathered information regarding the communist regime in Slovakia and the current…

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Digital London

Jürgen Habermas famously described the culture of the early 1700s London coffeehouses as the spark that kindled the advent of modern democracy. Indeed, the last licensing act in England expired in 1695 and with it also the censorship of press. Within the next decade, London was flooded with newspapers and pamphlets that openly scrutinized practically…

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