WAC Liaisons by College
To schedule a faculty consultation or workshop, contact the liaison for your college.
- College of Arts and Sciences (Maths and Sciences): Sarah Zurhellen and Kelly Terzaken
- College of Arts and Sciences (Humanities and Social Sciences): Kelly Terzaken and Sarah Zurhellen
- College of Business: Miles Britton and Beth Carroll
- College of Education: Beth Carroll and Julie Karaus
- College of Fine and Applied Arts (Art, Theatre & Dance): Sarah Zurhellen and Julie Karaus
- College of Fine and Applied Arts (Applied Design, Sustainable Development, and Sustainable Tech & the Built Environment): Beth Carroll and Julie Karaus
- College of Fine and Applied Arts (Communication): Miles Britton and Sarah Zurhellen
- College of Health Sciences: Julie Karaus and Beth Carroll
- Graduate School: Beth Carroll and Sarah Zurhellen
- Hayes School of Music: Sarah Zurhellen and Miles Britton
- Honors College: Beth Carroll and Sarah Zurhellen
- University College: Miles Britton and Julie Karaus
- Watauga Residential College: Julie Karaus and Miles Britton
Current WAC Consultants
Dylan Blankley
Dylan Blankley is a first year Public Administration graduate student at Appalachian State University, and he is excited to be the WAC 2021-2022 Graduate Research Assistant. He graduated from ASU in 2020 with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science with a concentration in Pre- Professional Legal studies and a minor in Criminal Justice. He plans to work in the court system or in the legal field in the future. He has interests in law, the connection between the law and writing, government, history, and politics.
Miles Britton
Miles Britton has been teaching Rhetoric and Composition courses at ASU since 2015. He holds a BA in English from Tulane University, an MA in Journalism from Temple University, and an MA in English from ASU. Before moving to Boone to teach, Miles was a journalist, editor, and freelance writer, and his fiction and nonfiction writings have appeared in a variety of publications, including MAGNET magazine, Philadelphia Weekly, Our State, and The Future Embodied anthology.
Beth Carroll
Beth Carroll is a Professor in University College and director of Writing Across the Curriculum (January 2020-present) and the University Writing Center (2002-present). Previously, she served on the faculty in English and in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies (2002-2019), and as Graduate Director of the Rhetoric & Composition program (2014-2017). Her research interests include writing program administration, feminist rhetorics, writing pedagogies, and the Grateful Dead. In 2009, she won the UNC Board of Governors Excellence in Teaching Award and, with Georgia Rhoades and Kim Gunter, Carroll led Appalachian’s vertical writing curriculum to win the 2012 CCCC Certificate of Excellence. She currently serves as a National Center for Developmental Education Associate and as treasurer of the Grateful Dead Studies Association.
Julie Karaus
Julie Karaus is a Boone native who, in addition to being a WAC consultant, serves as the Assistant Director of the University Writing Center. She received her MA in Higher Education with a concentration in Rhetoric and Composition in 2013 and an undergraduate degree in Anthropology in 2001. In between degrees she spent some time doing archaeology and lived for a stint in Charleston, SC working in the restaurant business and travelling the world.
Kelly Terzaken
Kelly Terzaken is a WAC Consultant and an English Lecturer in the Rhetoric and Composition Program. She earned her undergraduate degree from UNC-Wilmington and her MA from Appalachian State. Prior to returning to Boone, she spent nine years with Coastal Carolina Community College serving as an English Instructor and Division Chair. She is happy to be back in the classroom full-time teaching RC 2001: Introduction to Writing Across the Curriculum but also enjoys working with faculty across campus to support student writing.
Sarah Zurhellen
Sarah Zurhellen completed her BA, BS, and MA degrees at Appalachian State and her PhD at the University of Missouri. She rejoined the AppState community in 2014 as a faculty member and is now the Assistant Director of the Writing Across the Curriculum Program and a Professional Consultant in the University Writing Center. She studies the impact of digital computing on language and the form of the novel and enjoys teaching, talking, and thinking about writing in all of its forms and functions. She is also the primary WAC consultant for the following departments and colleges: Art, Biology, Chemistry & Fermentation Sciences, Computer Science, Geography & Planning, Geological & Environmental Sciences, Hayes College of Music, Mathematical Sciences, Physics & Astronomy, Theatre & Dance. Contact her at zurhellenss to schedule a consultation or course visit.
University WAC Committee
The University WAC Committee is composed of Appalachian faculty members from various disciplines who advise the WAC program and Gen Ed. Council about matters concerning Composition, WID, and other writing courses. If you're interested in joining the WAC Committee, please contact Elizabeth Carroll.
About WID Consultants
WID consultants offer support to the WAC Program and serve as liaisons between RC 2001 (Introduction to WAC) faculty and WID programs. WID consultants serve on panels discussing their writing and teaching and read scholarship on WID concerns, discussing their work with the WAC Program.
If you are interested in being a WID Consultant, please email Director Elizabeth Carroll (carrollel@appstate.edu).
Current WID Consultants
Volha Kananovich
Volha Kananovich (Ph.D., National Academy of Sciences of Belarus; Ph.D., University of Iowa) is an assistant professor of digital journalism in the Department of Communication, where she teaches journalism and multimedia storytelling. In her scholarly work, Dr. Kananovich examines the role of political and media discourse in (de)legitimizing various forms of politically meaningful citizen engagement with the state across authoritarian and democratic contexts. Her award-winning research has been published in The International Journal of Press/Politics, American Behavioral Scientist, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journalism Studies, Mass Communication and Society, New Media & Society, and International Journal of Communication, among other peer-reviewed publications. In 2023, she was recognized by The Appalachian as the "Best Professor" in its "Best of Boone" readers' choice issue.
Rebecca Lambert
Program Area or Teaching Focus
Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies Research Interests
Affect Theory; Feminist Coalitions; Feminist Anti-Racist Activism Education
Ph.D. in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Oregon State University
M.A. in Gender and Women's Studies, Minnesota State University, Mankato
B.S. in Public Affairs, Indiana University
Matthew Robinson
Dr. Matthew Robinson has been with the Department of Government and Justice Studies since 1997, after earning his PhD in Criminology and Criminal Justice from Florida State University. He is the author of 25 academic books, most recently, Lessons in Criminology and Criminal Justice (Cambridge Scholars Publishing), as well as more than 100 other publications in journal articles, books, encyclopedias, and newsletters. He has authored scores of op-eds in newspapers across the country and regularly appears in media stories of crime and criminal justice. Robinson was recently ranked the 19th most influential criminologist in the world by Academic Influence. When Dr. Robinson is not on campus, he is walking or hiking with his dog, Butterscotch, and wife, Briana, creating and brewing new beers as the Head Brewer at Ring Finger Craft Brews, or writing poetry. You can read his first novella, The Test (about a rookie police officer who aced every test in academy training and his field training placement but who is called back by superiors to "clarify an unresolved issue in his testing") as well as any of his 25 books of poetry, at Amazon.com! He also has a book of 120 poems published with Austin Macauley Publishing under the title, The Plunge.
Matt Rogatzki
Annkatrin Rose
I am interested in a group of plant proteins characterized by a "coiled-coil" structural motif. Coiled-coil proteins are typically involved in forming fibers and scaffolds in cells and help organize the shape, substructures, and movement of organelles within cells. In humans, mutations in coiled-coil proteins have been implemented in diseases such as cancer, muscular dystrophy, premature aging, and neurological defects. I am studying this group of proteins in plants to understand their role in an organism that does not possess muscle or nerve cells (where most long coiled-coil structures are found and studied in animals). The group of proteins that I am particularly interested in is the chloroplast coiled-coil proteins. Chloroplasts are photosynthetic organelles that are thought to have evolved from endosymbiotic prokaryotes. However, most prokaryotes do not contain long coiled-coil proteins of the type we find in eukaryotic cells. Therefore, their import into chloroplasts is intriguing and suggests that they may have played a crucial role in the evolution of early endosymbionts into the highly structured photosynthetic organelles we find today. The study of these proteins should provide further insight into chloroplast structure and function as well as the relationship between the organelle and the host cell.