Hanna Varilek is a PhD student specializing in Composition and Rhetoric. She graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in December of 2019 with a B.A. in English and Education Studies, as well as in 2024 with a Master's in English Specializing in Composition and Rhetoric. She was a recipient of the 2023 Center for Digital Research in the Humanities Fellowship. Her research interests include Digital Literacy, Composition, Indigenous Literature, Popular Culture, Education, Ecocriticism. Hanna currently works as a Graduate Teaching Assistant here at UNL.