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Students Teaching Students

In coordination with an undergraduate-run organization called Students Teaching Students, CAS department faculty members mentor exemplary students who develop and teach 1-credit courses on a variety of subjects that advance expertise in communication and its role in public life. This semester, Associate Teaching Professor Lori Bedell is supporting undergraduates Kara Miller (who was in Lori’s RCL course a few years back) and Jess Strait as they teach a course titled “Period Talk: The Impact of Stigma on the Menstrual Equity Movement.”
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Luke Brekhus

Graduate Assistant in Communication Arts and Sciences
Brekhus@psu.edu
316 Sparks Building University Park, PA 16802

Education

B.A., University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2025
M.A., Penn State, anticipated 2028

Professional Bio

Luke Brekhus's research applies rhetorical theory to online discourse, exploring how irony and ambiguity emerge as content circulates across interpretive communities shaped by algorithms.