NC State UniversityCHASSNC State Graduate SchoolDepartment of CommunicationsDepartment of English

CRDM alumni have an exceptionally high job placement rate. Most graduates remain in academia, working as professors or lecturers in English, Communication, Cultural Studies, or Public Relations. Others have found work on e-learning projects, while still others have pursued careers in private industry or with the government. The interdisciplinary nature of the CRDM program has been appealing to hirers and the types of employment available for CRDM graduates has proven to be very diverse.

 

Shaun Cashman

Research Interests: Online communities, fan studies, film studies, identity expression

Home Town: Charlotte, NC

Committee:

  • Victoria Gallagher (chair)
  • Stephen Wiley (member)
  • Jason Swarts (member)
  • Adriana de Souza e Silva (member)

Dissertation:


Recent Publications:

  • Cashman, S. (2009). Review of the Frodo Franchise by Kristin Thompson. The Communication review. 12(2). 187-190.
  • Cashman, S. & Philips, C. S. (2009). The Role of role-play in pervasive location-based mobile games. In A. de Souza e Silva & D. M. Sutko (Eds.). Digital cityscapes: Merging digital and urban playspaces. New York: Peter Lang.
  • Stein, S. & Cashman, S. (2009). Documentaries, motion pictures. In C. H. Sterling (Ed). Encyclopedia of journalism. George Washing University: Sage publications.

Christian Casper

  • cfcasper@umich.edu
  • University of Michigan
  • Lecturer, College of Engineering
  • Ph.D. Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media, 2009

Research Interests: Rhetorics of science, technology, and the environment; technical and professional communication; electronic communication in science; genre

Home Town: Canton, MI

Committee:

  • Carolyn Miller (chair)
  • William Kinsella (member)
  • Kenneth Zagacki (member)
  • Jason Swarts (member)

Dissertation:


Recent Publications:

  • Casper, C. F. (2008). New genre ecologies in science: Post-publication review in online journals. Rhetoric Society of America, Seattle, WA, May 2008.
  • Casper, C. F. (2007). In praise of carbon, in praise of science: The epideictic rhetoric of the 1996 Nobel lectures in chemistry. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 21(3), 303-323.

Amy L. H. Gaffney

  • Amy.Gaffney@uky.edu
  • University of Kentucky
  • Assistant Professor, Communication
  • Ph.D. Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media, 2010
  • [website]

Research Interests: Instructional communication, communication across the curriculum, participation as communication

Home Town: Mogadore, OH

Committee:

  • Deanna Dannels (chair)
  • William Jordan (member)
  • Jason Swarts (member)
  • Chris Anson (member)

Dissertation:

  • Communicationg about, in, and through Design: a Study Exploring Communication Instruction and Design Students' Critique Performance [available via NCSU Libraries]

Recent Publications:

  • Dannels, D. P., & Housley Gaffney, A. L. (2009). Communication across the curriculum and in the disciplines: A call for scholarly cross-curricular advocacy. Communication Education, 58, 124-153.
  • Dannels, D. P., Housley Gaffney, A. L., & Norris Martin, K. (2008). Beyond content, deeper than delivery: What critique feedback reveals about communication expectations in design education. International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2. http://academics.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl/v2n2.html

Anna Turnage

  • aturnage@bloomu.edu
  • Bloomberg University
  • Assistant Professor, Communication Studies
  • Ph.D. Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media, 2010
  • [website]

Research Interests: Rhetorical theory and criticism, organizational communication and computer-mediated communication

Home Town: Greensboro, NC

Committee:

  • Victoria Gallagher (chair)
  • Carolyn Miller (member)
  • Deanna Dannels (member)
  • Dennis Mumby (member)
  • Joanna Keyton (member)

Dissertation:

  • Identification and Disidentification in Organizational Discourse: A Metaphor Analysis of E-Mail Communication at Enron [available via NCSU Libraries]

Recent Publications:

  • Turnage, A.K. & Keyton, J. Ethical contradictions and email communication at Enron Corp. In Case Studies in Organizational Communication: Ethical Perspectives and Practices. 2nd ed, S.K. May (ed.) Forthcoming.
  • Turnage, A.K. (2009). Scene, Act and the Tragic Frame in the Duke Rape Case. Southern Communication Journal, 74(2), 141-156.
  • Turnage, A.K. (2007). E-mail flaming behaviors and organizational conflict. The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1), 43-59.
  • Book Review: Turnage, A.K. (2007). Public surveillance and the illusion of security. The Communication Review, 10(4), 391-396.

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