Faculty

Teaching/Research Assignments: RSQ Editorial Assistant, ENG 323 - "Writing in the Rhetorical Tradition," ENG 101

Research Interests: Rhetoric & Digital Politics, Critical Theory, Composition Theory & Technology

Home Town: Charleston, WV

Publications/Presentations: http://culture-cast.org/ - ongoing - designer and editor.
"The Rhetor Behind the Curtain: The Visual Rhetor in Digital Parody" SSCA, Louisville, 2007
"The Writer as Remixer: An Argument for the Interscriptor" CCCC, New York, 2007.

Teaching/Research Assignments: ENG 101

Research Interests: Online and ''spontaneous'' communication and composition; authorial persona management; open source development communities

Home Town: Greenville, NC

Publications/Presentations:

Brock, K. (2009). Paul Virilio and the electronic zombie apocalypse. Presented at the New Voices: Literature and Rhetoric of the Apocalypse conference, Atlanta GA.

Brock, K. (2008). Sir Thomas Wyatt''s "My mother''s maids" and Stoic introspection. Presented at the Shifting Paradigms: All Things English symposium, Cookeville, TN.

Brock, K. (2006). The gentylest knyght of lote: Ideal and realistic chivalry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Presented at the North Carolina Medieval and Renaissance Colloquium, Chapel Hill, NC.

Research Interests: telepresence and corporeality; usability; trust in CMC

Publications/Presentations: First commentary on "XML and the new design regime". ACM Journal of Computer Documentation 26(2): 43-44 (2002)

Book Review: Opening Spaces: Critical Pedagogy and Resistance Theory in Composition. Journal of Business and Technical Communication 19: 121-125 (2005)

Teaching/Research Assignments: ENG 101, COM 110, ENG 323

Research Interests: The History of Composition Studies, Archival Research, Pedagogy, Composition Theory

Home Town: Concord, NC

Publications/Presentations:
J. Burr and K. Lyles. Access to Art Offline and Online: Who Looks at Art, Where, and Why, 2009 NCSU Graduate Research Symposium.

J. Burr. The Snowsuit Effort: A Digital Representation of an Urban Space, 2008 NCSU Graduate Research Symposium.

J. Burr, L. de Hertogh, and K. Warner. From Tutoring to Teaching and Back: How Writing Center Work Helps First Year Teachers of Composition. Southeastern Writing Center Association (SWCA), Nashville, 2007.

J. Burr and K. Warner. Consultant Consultant Collaboration in the Writing Center. Southeastern Writing Center Association (SWCA), Chapel Hill, 2006.

Teaching/Research Assignments: COM 110

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

Home Town: Charlotte, NC

Publications/Presentations: "Spells and Spellcraft," "Path of Faith," "Path of Magic," "Traps and Treachery II," and "Path of the Sword."

Teaching/Research Assignments: Teaching various courses in technical and scientific communication; research assistantships with Dr. Carolyn R. Miller and Dr. Brenton Faber

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

Home Town: Canton, MI

Publications/Presentations:
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.

Teaching/Research Assignments: Eng 101

Research Interests: Communication and identity construction in online social networks; power, agency, and subjectivity in digital technologies.

Home Town: Vancouver, WA

Teaching/Research Assignments: RA with Dr. David Berube, Director of the Public Communication of Science & Technology (PCOST) project

Research Interests: Organizational & Institutional Trust, Public Engagement, Public Communication of science and technology.

Home Town: Santa Rosa, CA

Publications/Presentations: Berube, D.M., and Faber, B., Scheufele, D.A., with Cummings, C.L., Gardner, G.E., Martin, K.N., and Temple, N.M. (2009) White Paper: Communicating Risk in the 21st Century. Sponsored by NSF NIRT #0809470 – Applied Nanoscience: Public Perception of Risk 2007-2011 and the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office; “Nano: Risk and Deliberation: A critique of current public engagement models” A paper presented at the Society of Risk Analysis Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, December 10, 2008; “FROM TAXES TO AXIS: An Exploration of the Linguistic Intergroup Bias in the State of the Union Addresses of President George W. Bush” A paper presented at the Invitational Masters Student Institute, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, October 18, 2008;

Teaching/Research Assignments: Public Speaking, Interpersonal Communication, Editorial Assistant: Rhetoric Society Quarterly

Research Interests: Media studies, Rhetoric or Popular culture, film and television, with a little bit of critical/cultural studies.

Home Town: Little Genesee, NY

Publications/Presentations: Dickerson, J.A. (2009, November). A Framework for the Rhetorical Examination of Digital Technologies. Paper to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association, Chicago, IL. Dickerson, J. (2007, November). Heroes, transformers, and the emerging world of immersive marketing. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association, Chicago, IL. Dickerson, J.A. (2005, May). Utopian and dystopian master narratives in a posthuman world. Paper selected for the Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association, New York, NY.

Teaching/Research Assignments: English 101, Fiction 288

Research Interests: Auditory rhetoric, auditory literacy, recuperating a study of sound in composition and rhetoric

Home Town: Fairfax, Virginia

Publications/Presentations: Fargo, K. M. (2008). Using First Year Composition Blogs to Create Space for Collaborative Ownership. Panel paper presented at the Watson Conference, Louisville, KY, October 2008. Fargo, K.M. (2010) I Hear Ya!: Teaching Listening Practices and Auditory Rhetoric in a Musical Ethnography. Panel paper to be presented at CCCC in Louisville, KY, March 2010.

Teaching/Research Assignments: English 331: Communication for Engineers

Research Interests: Mobile technologies, politics of technology, mobilities, social space

Teaching/Research Assignments: Campus Writing and Speaking Program Graduate Consultant

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

Home Town: Mogadore, Ohio

Publications/Presentations: 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

Teaching/Research Assignments: First Year Writing Program ENG 101

Research Interests: Rhetoric of place/space; composition theory & pedagogy; stylistics.

Home Town: Hapeville, GA

Teaching/Research Assignments: Assistant Director of the First Year Writing Program

Research Interests: digital rhetoric & writing studies, the technologized body

Home Town: Los Angeles

Publications/Presentations: Gruber, David. April 2009. Book Review: “Dorsality” by David Wills. Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies.

Teaching/Research Assignments: COM 257, COM 202, COM 110

Research Interests: Research in the rhetoric of new media technologies

Home Town: Brook Park, Ohio

Publications/Presentations: Thompson, T.L, Robinson, J.D., & Gutschmidt, A.M. (2003). Willingness to donate organs and family communication about organ donation: A test of the applicability of the Transtheoretical Model. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Nation Communication Association, San Diego, May.

Gutschmidt, A.M. (2005). Examining Collaboration in the Classroom Through the Use of Weblogs. (Masters Thesis)

Gutschmidt, A. "A Perpetual State of Arrested Development: The Communicative Implications of Fantasy Theme Usage." SSCA conference. Louisville. 30 Mar. 2007.

Teaching/Research Assignments: COM 267

Research Interests: Public broadcasting, HD Radio(R) broadcast technology adoption, use of communication technologies to improve adult education and adult literacy.

Home Town: Washington, D.C.

Publications/Presentations: Hamilton, Fredessa (1988). "Utilization of Telecommunications Technologies to Promote Minority Higher Education in Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)". Presented at the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) annual conference.

Teaching/Research Assignments: TA - Communication for Engineering & Technology RA with Dr. David Berube

Research Interests: Rhetorical theory & criticism; rhetorics of science and technology; digital rhetoric

Home Town: Painesville, OH

Publications/Presentations: Kalin, J. Synthesizing Experience: Public Memory and the Rhetorical Circulation of Digital Images. Paper to be presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Louisville, KY: March 2010. Kalin, J. Synthetic or (Sin)thetic Biology: Rhetoric, Religion, and Emeriging Technology. Paper presented at the National Communication Association conference. Chicago, IL: November 2009. Nominated for the Joanna Ploeger Award for Best Student Paper in the Rhetoric of Science. Kalin, J. Religiosity and Emerging Technologies: Engaging Religious Publics. Paper presented at the National Communication Association conference. Chicago, IL: November 2009. Kalin, J. Toward a Rhetoric of Hybrid-Space Walking. Paper presented at Media Ecology Association conference. St. Louis, MO: June 2009. The Linda Elson Scholar Award for Top Student Paper. Kalin, J. Multiliteracy and the Workplace: Blogging the Technical Communication Classroom. Paper presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication. New Orleans, LA: April 2008.

Teaching/Research Assignments: Organizational Communication COM 456 (GTA); NSF Grant (RA with Stein)

Research Interests: Film theory, history, and criticism; reconceptualizing authorship and genre studies; phenomenology, intersubjectivity, and ethical theories in cinematic spectatorship

Home Town: Plymouth, MN

Publications/Presentations: Larson, S. (2008, November). A sociocultural and neo-formalist analysis of "Kansas": Towards a rhetoric of the 1980s farm debt crisis & new Depression film. Paper presented at the conference of the National Communication Association, San Diego, CA. Larson, S. (2009, April). Pan Nalin''s "Samsara" as revisionist update of Hermann Hesse''s novel "Siddhartha" (1922). Paper accepted at the conference of the Eastern Communication Association, Philadelphia, PA.

Teaching/Research Assignments: English 101, English 323, Campus Writing & Speaking Program Graduate Consultant

Research Interests: Identity construction, power, and digital media; Multimodal composition and multiliteracies; Visual rhetoric

Home Town: Florence, SC

Teaching/Research Assignments: Film Making and Editing

Research Interests: Media and Politics

Teaching/Research Assignments: COM 257 Media History & Theory, Communication in Design Research initiative, COM 110 Public Speaking

Research Interests: Visual rhetoric, visual culture, communication across the curriculum, collaborative virtual environments

Home Town: Cleveland, Ohio

Publications/Presentations:
Dannels, D. & Martin, K. (2008) Critiquing Critiques: A Genre Analysis of Feedback Across Novice to Expert Design Studios. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 22, 135-159.

Dannels, D. P., Housley Gaffney, A. L., Martin, K. (2008). Beyond content, deeper than delivery: What critique feedback reflects about communication expectations in design education. International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2(2).

Visual rhetoric and Targets Design for All Campaign. Paper to be presented at the Popular Culture Association Conference, San Francisco, March, 2008.

Approaches to Analyzing the Visual in Organizational Communication. Scholar to Scholar presentation at the National Communication Association, Chicago, Illinois, November 16, 2007.

Teaching/Research Assignments: ENG 216: Technologies for Texts; RA w/ Dr. Miller

Research Interests: Digital rhetoric; Internet memes; philosophy/rhetoric of technology; social media; Internet culture; digital identity; rhetorical criticism

Home Town: Jefferson, IA

Publications/Presentations: Morain, Matthew E. Yellow Lights Ahead: Technological Determinism, Digital Natives and the Composition Classroom. Presented at CCCC, San Francisco: March, 2009.

Morain, Matthew E. Cleaving Meaning from the Ether: Virtual Identity as CyberPlace. Presented at SWTXPCAACA, Albuquerque, NM: February, 2009.

Morain, Matthew E. Digital Dispositio? Information Architecture, Arrangement, and Argument on the WWW. Presented at 9th Annual EGSA Conference, Charlotte, NC: January, 2009.

Research Interests: Digital culture, new media and social change.

Home Town: Concepción, Chile

Teaching/Research Assignments: COM 367

Research Interests: Aural Subjectivity, Critical Race Theory, Sound Studies, Identity

Home Town: Kingston, MA

Publications/Presentations:
“Ambient Reverberations: Diegetic Music, Science Fiction, and Otherness.” in Light-Years From Home, Music in Science-Fiction Cinema, McFarland, Winter 2009.

November 2008
National Communication Association Conference, San Diego, CA
Award Paper, ‘Top Paper in Semiotics and Communication’:
“We’re the Paran Maum: Linda Linda Linda, Aural Semiotics, and Sonic Identity."

August 2008
University Film and Video Conference, Colorado Springs, CO
Invited presenter. Presented two papers:
“Teaching ‘Audio Culture’ in Film Studies”
and
“Joe Strummer and the Transgressive Power of Aural Subjectivity.”

Teaching/Research Assignments:
COM226: Introduction to Public Relations
COM327: Critical Analysis of Communication Media
COM456: Organizational Communication

Research Interests: Space and mobility, infrastructure, power, hackers, cultural studies.

Home Town: West Chester, PA

Publications/Presentations:
Packer, J. & Oswald, K. F. (2009, November). Public Air and Private Lines: An Analysis of Auto-mobile Privatization. Presented at the 95th Annual Conference of the National Communication Association, Chicago, IL.

Oswald, K. F. & Packer, J. (2009, September). Broadband on the Run: Mobile Privatization 2.0. Presented at Materializing Communication and Rhetoric: Technologies, Infrastructures, Flows, Raleigh NC.

Oswald, K. F. (2009, May). Re-representing space: Critical junctures in the production of early radio and broadband. Presented at the 59th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Chicago IL.

Oswald, K. (2008). Setting the scene for tiered service: A Pentadic analysis of the broadband debate. Presented at the 7th Triennial Conference for the Kenneth Burke Society, Villanova, PA.

Teaching/Research Assignments: ENG 282: Intro to Film; COM 267: Electronic Media Writing; COM 110: Public Speaking

Research Interests: Film history & theory, Television studies, HBO, Popular representations of activism

Home Town: Houma, Louisiana

Publications/Presentations:
"HBO and the AIDS Epidemic: Subscribing to a Neoliberal Solution," National Communication Association Conference (Chicago, 2009)

"Invisible Children and the Cyberactivist Spectator," National Communication Association Conference (Chicago, 2009)

"'If PBS Doesn't Do It, Who Will?': HBO and the Negotiation of Profit and Public Service," Unthinking Television: 6th Annual Visual Cultures Symposium (George Mason University, 2009)

"A Love Unspecified: Scrubs and Network Television's Recoding of Masculinity," National Popular Culture Association Conference (New Orleans, 2009)

"The Importance of the Image: Visual Rhetoric and Oliver Stone's JFK," National Communication Association Conference (San Diego, 2008)

Teaching/Research Assignments: ENG 331: Communication for Engineering and Technology; ENG 317: Designing Web Communication

Research Interests: Rhetoric of A.I., Online Information Design, Space in digital environments, Rhetorical Criticism, Rhetorical Theory, Game Design and Development, Mobile Technologies

Home Town: Raleigh, NC

Publications/Presentations: Phelps, C. G. (2008). "The New Optimized Article Genre". Presented at the Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Seattle, WA.

Cashman, S. & Phelps, C. G. (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, NY: Peter Lang Publishing.

Phelps, C. G. (2009). "Advancing Online Community: The Internet, Artificial Intelligence, and Religion". Presented at the National Communication Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.

Teaching/Research Assignments: ENG 333; ENG 101

Research Interests: Rhetoric of Science and Social Science; Interdisciplinary Communication; Rhetoric of Popular Culture

Home Town: Englewood, Ohio

Publications/Presentations: Rash, Z. (2009). One conflict, two stories: Practitioners’ and scientists’ incommensurable narratives about APA’s history. Presented at the National Communication Association 95th Annual Convention, Chicago IL. November 13, 2008. Rash, Z. (2009). Football fan blogs as recipes for presence. Presented at the 30th Annual Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM. February 27, 2009.

Teaching/Research Assignments: Graduate Assistant Director, First-Year Writing Program; ENG 101; ENG 323; TA for COM/ENG 321; University Outstanding TA Award recipient

Research Interests: media, culture, and construction of individual identity; technologies of matching

Home Town: Gibsonville, NC

Publications/Presentations: "Questions for Genre Theory from the Blogosphere." C.R. Miller and D. Shepherd. Theories of Genre and Their Application to Internet Communication. Eds. Janet Giltrow and Dieter Stein. John Benjamins Publishing. Forthcoming.

"Teaching Writing in Blending Learning/Space(s)." D. Shepherd. Conference on College Composition and Communication in Louisville, KY. March 2010.

"Is There a Space in this Class? Designing Effective and Efficient Learning Environments with New Technologies." D. Shepherd (1 of 9 presenters). Conference on College Composition and Communication in Louisville, KY. March 2010.

"Matchmaking and the Problem of Being Single." D. Shepherd. NCA 95th Annual Convention in Chicago, IL. November 2009.

"Making Lemonade: Budget Crises as Opportunities for Positive Change." S. Miller-Cochran and D. Shepherd. Carolinas Writing Program Administrators Conference. September 2009.

"'The Closet and the House-Tops': Communication Technologies, Interiority, and the Paradox of Privacy." D. Shepherd. The Future is Prologue: New Media, New Histories?, An ICA Pre-Conference Organized by New Media & Society in Chicago, IL. May 2009.

"Match.com, Genre, and the Construction of Self." D. Shepherd. 13th Biennial Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America in Seattle, WA. May 2008.

"Toward A New Understanding of Appropriateness in the Digital Rhetorical Situation." D. Shepherd. Triennial Conference of the Kenneth Burke Society in Villanova, PA. June 2008.

"Blogging as Social Action: A Genre Analysis of the Weblog." C.R. Miller and D. Shepherd. Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblog. 2004.

"Brunettes Get Better Grades: Consubstantiation and the Girls' Screen Tee." D. Shepherd. Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Conference in Atlanta, GA. April 2006. (Accepted but not presented.)

"'In the plus column': The Timeliness of Faith." D. Shepherd. Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer in Nashville, TN. May, 2004.

"'A real girl for once': Containment in 'Halloween.'" D. Shepherd. Northeast Modern Language Association Conference in Pittsburgh, PA. March, 2004.

Research Interests: Impact of digital environments on language, cognition, and written composition, secondary literacy

Home Town: Laurinburg, NC

Publications/Presentations: Oswald, R. It's the End of the World as We Know It, Composition in the 21st Century. Presented at the 9th Annual EGSA Conference, Charlotte, NC: January 2009.

Teaching/Research Assignments:
COM456 - Organizational Communication; COM201 - Intro to persuasion theory; and COM110 - Public Speaking; RA for Dr. Carolyn R. Miller

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

Home Town: Greensboro, N.C.

Publications/Presentations:

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.

Casuistic stretching and misidentification in the rhetoric of Intelligent Design, to be presented at the 94th Annual National Communication Association annual convention, San Diego, Calif., Nov. 22, 2008.

Compliance-gaining strategies in student e-mails to GTAs vs. full faculty, to be presented at the 94th Annual National Communication Association annual convention, San Diego, Calif., Nov. 23, 2008.

Research Interests: Digital media influences on innovation, entrepreneurship, and creativity

Home Town: Sand Lake, NY

Publications/Presentations: Nanotechnology, Society and Literature conference panel presenter, Dec 6-7, 2007, Lowell MA

Teaching/Research Assignments: COM 110

Research Interests: Digital Rhetoric, Historical Studies of Technology, Posthumanism

Home Town: Milwaukee, WI

Research Interests: International non-profit management, philanthropy,fundraising, marketing, public relations, cross-cultural communication and volunteerism.

Home Town: Heilbronn, Germany

Publications/Presentations: “Take Stock of Your Assets: Assessing Motivational Experiences and Behaviors of Museum Volunteers and Members” published by Dr. Müller Verlag, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2008. Presenter, 2008 Center for Nonprofit Success, Winston-Salem, NC Presenter, 2007 Southeast Administrative Conference of Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Atlanta, GA