The Ph.D. in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media brings together a diverse and accomplished faculty from across the university, both established senior faculty and younger faculty in new areas. Some will teach the required core courses in the program, and some will teach electives and special topics courses within their own departments. All will be available to serve on advisory committees for students. There are two categories of faculty associated with the doctoral program, Program Faculty and Affiliated Faculty.
Program Faculty
The Program Faculty are full and associate graduate faculty in the Departments of English and Communication who have an expressed interest, a record of research and scholarship in relevant areas, and the ability to teach core courses or courses in the disciplinary areas (see Curriculum). Program faculty will teach the core courses, direct dissertations, serve on advisory committees, and elect the Program Committee that governs the program.
Professor

- Beach, R., C. M. Anson, L. K. Breuch, & T. Swiss. (2009). Teaching writing using blogs, wikis, and other digital tools. Norwood, MA: Christopher-Gordon.
- Anson, C. M. (forthcoming) World wide composition: Virtual uncertainties." In D. Desser & D. Payne (eds.), Teaching writing in a globalized world: Remapping composition studies. Lanham, MD: Lexington.
- Anson, C. M., & Neely, S. (2010). The Army and the academy as textual communities: Exploring mismatches in the concepts of attribution, appropriation, and shared goals. Kairos 14.3.
- Assistant Chair, Conference on College Composition and Communication; Associate Chair, 2012; Chair, 2013
- See c.v. at www.ansonica.net for full list of pubs, etc.
- Amy Gaffney (member)
- Jon Burr (co-chair)
- Katie Fargo (member)
- Adam Gutschmidt (member)
- Chad O'Neill (member)

- Berube, David, Christopher Cummings, Michael Cacciatore, Dietram Scheufele, and Jason Kalin. "Characteristics and Classification of Nanoparticles: Expert Delphi Survey." Nanotoxicology 30 Sep. 2010: 1-10. Early Online.
- Berube, David, Eileen M. Searson, Timothy S. Morton, and Christopher L. Cummings. "Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies - Consumer Product Inventory Evaluated." Nanotechnology Law and Business Journal 7.2 (2010): 152-163. Print.
- Berube, David. "Researching Social Media in the 21st Century." NSF SBE White Paper, 2010.
- Christopher Cummings (Chair)
- Jordan Frith (Member)


- Dannels, D.P. (2011). Relational genre knowledge and the online design critique: Relational authenticity in preprofessional genre learning. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 25(1), 3-35.
- Dannels, D.P., Housley Gaffney, A.L. & Norris Martin, K. (2011). Students' talk about the climate of feedback interventions in the critique. Communication Education, 60(1), 95-114.
- Dannels, D.P. (2009). Features of success in engineering design presentations: A call for relational genre knowledge. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 23(4), 399-427.
- Amy Gaffney (chair)
- Adam Gutschmidt (chair)
- Anna Turnage (member)
- Freddie Hamilton (member)
- Jonathon Burr (member)
- Robin Oswald (member)

- Gallagher, Victoria J., Martin, Kelly & Ma, Magdy. "Visual well-being: Intersections of rhetorical theory and visual design," Design Issues, 2011.
- Gallagher, Victoria J. and LaWare, Margaret "Sparring with Public Memory: The Rhetorical Embodiment of Race, Power, and Conflict in the Monument to Joe Louis," in Dickson, G. Ott, B. and Blair, C. eds. Places of Public Memory: The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials, (University of Alabama Press) 2010.
- Zagacki, Kenneth S. and Gallagher, Victoria J. "Rhetoric and Materiality in the Museum Park at the North Carolina Museum of Art," Quarterly Journal of Speech, 95:2 May 2009, 171-191.
- Christopher Berg (chair)
- Anna Turnage (chair)
- Shaun Cashman (chair)
- Kelly Martin (chair)
- Jason Kalin (chair)
- Nick Temple (member)
- Kati Fargo (member)
- Glenda Burch (member)
- Jeff Swift (member)
- Josh Reeves (member)

- Johnson, M. A., & Sink, W. T. (in press). Ethnic museum public relations: Cultural diplomacy and cultural intermediaries in the Digital Age. Public Relations Inquiry.
- Johnson, M. A., & Martin, K. (in press). When navigation trumps visual dynamism: Hospital website usability. Journal of Promotion Management.
- Johnson, M. A. & Searson, E. (2011). Visual ethics in public relations: An analysis of Latin American government Web sites. Nicolaev, A. (Ed.) Ethical Issues in International Communication. Palgrave MacMillan, pp.183-198.
- Martin, K. N. & Johnson, M. (2010). Digital credibility and digital dynamism in public relations blogs. Visual Communication Quarterly, 17(3), 162-174.
- Johnson, M. A. (2010). Incorporating self-categorization concepts into ethnic media research. Communication Theory, 20, 105-124.
- Johnson, M. A. (2010). Good neighbor, no neighbor: Visual fidelity in U.S. network television’s portrayals of Mexico President Vicente Fox. Visual Communication Quarterly, 17, 18-30.
- Searson, E. M., & Johnson, M. A. (2010). Transparency laws and interactive public relations: An analysis of Latin American government Web sites. Public Relations Review, 36(2), 120-126.
- Kelly Norris Martin (member)
- Jennifer Ware (chair)
- Freddi Hamilton (member)
- Elizabeth Johnson Young (co-chair)


- "Should We Name the Tools? Concealing and Revealing the Art of Rhetoric." The Public Work of Rhetoric: Citizen-Scholars and Civic Engagement, ed. David Coogan and John Ackerman. University of South Carolina Press, 2010. 19-38.
- "Questions for Genre Theory from the Blogosphere," with Dawn Shepherd. Genres in the Internet: Issues in the Theory of Genre, ed. Janet Giltrow and Dieter Stein. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2009. 263-290.
- "Rhetoric, Disciplinarity, and Fields of Knowledge," second author, with John Lyne. The Sage Handbook of Rhetorical Studies, ed. Andrea A. Lunsford. Los Angeles: Sage, 2009. 167-174.
- Christian Casper (chair)
- Dawn Shepherd (co-chair)
- Matt Morain (chair)
- Zach Rash (chair)
- Jacob Dickerson (co-chair)
- Anna Turnage (member)
- Karla Lyles (member)
- Kelly Martin (member)
- Nick Temple (member)
- Christin Phelps (member)
- Kati Fargo (member)
- David Gruber (member)
- Jason Kalin (member)
- Penrose, A.M. (2012). Professional Identity in a Contingent-Labor Profession: Expertise, Autonomy, Community in Composition Teaching. Writing Program Administration: Journal of the Council of Writing Program Administrators, 35.2: 108-126.
- Penrose, A.M. and S.B. Katz (2010). Writing in the Sciences: Exploring Conventions of Scientific Discourse. 3rd ed. NY: Longman/The Allyn & Bacon Series in Technical Communication.
- Penrose, A.M. (2002). Academic literacy perceptions and performance: Comparing first-generation and continuing-generation college students. Research in the Teaching of English, 36, 437-461.
- Zachary Rash (member)
- Ashley Kelly (member)
- Meagan Kittle-Autry (member)


- Gallagher, V. J., Zagacki, K.S., & Norris, K.N. (in press). Materiality and urban communication: The rhetoric of communicative spaces. In J. Packer & S. Wiley (Ed.) Communication matters. Routledge Press, Abington: Oxon.
- Grano, D., & Zagacki, K.S., (in press). Cleansing the superdome: The paradox of purity and post-katrina guilt. Quarterly Journal of Speech.
- Zagacki, K.S. & Gallagher, V. (2008). Rhetoric and materiality in the museum park at the North Carolina Museum of Art. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 95, 171-191.
- Nick Temple (chair)
- Jacob Dickerson (member)
- Matt Morain (member)
- Zachary Rash (member)
- Jennifer Ware (member)
Associate Professor


- http://www.souzaesilva.com/pub.htm
- Jordan Frith (chair)
- Chad O'Neil (co-chair)
- Daniel Sutko (member)
- Matt Morain (member)
- Shaun Cashman (member)
- William Burger (member, Adult Education, NCSU)
- Derek Sollenberger (member, Computer Science, NCSU)
- Stine Ejsing-Dunn (member, Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark)
- Fernanda Duarte (chair)
- Nathan Hulsey (chair)


- Jameson, J. K., Bodtker, A. M., Porch, D., & Jordan, W. (2010). Exploring the role of emotion in conflict transformation. Conflict Resolution Quartery, 27(2) 167-192.
- Jameson, J. K.,Bodtker, A. M, & Linker, T. (2010). Facilitating conflict transformationthrough attention to emotion: Mediator strategies for eliciting emotionalappraisal and reappraisal. NegotiationJournal, 26(1), 25-48.
- Jameson, J. K. (2004). Negotiating autonomy and connection through politeness: A dialectical approach to organizational conflict management. Western Journal of Communication, 68(3), 257-277.
- Melinda Leonardo (Chair)
- Writing Now. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2009. (Lee Odell and Susan M. Katz)
- "Yes, a Tee Shirt!: Visual Literacy in the Writing Class." College Composition and Communication. September 2009. (Lee Odell and Susan M. Katz)
- "Creating Appropriate Graphics for Business Situations." Business Communication Quarterly 71:1 (March 2008): 71-75.
- Heidi von Ludewig (member)
- Melinda Leonardo (member)

- Kinsella, W. J., Kelly, A. R., & Kittle Autry, M. (2013). Risk, regulation, and rhetorical boundary work: Claims and challenges surrounding a purported nuclear renaissance. Communication Monographs, 80(3), in press.
- Kinsella, W. J. (Ed.) (2012). Forum: Communicative action in response to a nuclear crisis—Representations of Fukushima across communication contexts. Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, 6(2), 250-284.
- Kinsella, W. J. (2012). Environments, risks, and the limits of representation: Examples from nuclear energy. Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, 6(2), 251-259.
- Kinsella, W. J. (Ed.) (2011). Special issue: Learning from the 2008-09 global financial crisis. Electronic Journal of Communication, 21(no. 3-4).
- Kinsella, W. J. (2011). Research on nuclear energy in an international context: Challenges for empirical research design and preliminary findings. Technikfolgenabschätzung: Theorie und Praxis (Technology Assessment: Theory and Practice), 20(2), 84-89.
- Kinsella, W. J. (2010). Risk communication, phenomenology, and the limits of representation. Catalan Journal of Communication and Cultural Studies, 2(2), 267-276.
- President, Environmental Communication Division, National Communiucation Association, 2009-2010
- Christian Casper (member)
- Nick Temple (member)
- David Gruber (member)
- Ashley Kelly (member)
- Meagan Kittle Autry (member)
- Melinda Leonardo (member)
- Kate Maddalena (chair)
- Brian Bulla (Forestry & Natural Resources, member)
- Autumn Thoyre (Geography, UNC-Chapel Hill, member)


- Miller-Cochran, Susan and Dana Gierdowski. “Making Peace with the Rising Costs of Writing Technologies: Flexible Classroom Design as a Sustainable Solution.” Computers and Composition (forthcoming March 2013)
- Raimes, Ann, and Susan Miller-Cochran. Keys for Writers (7th Ed.). Wadsworth/Cengage Learning, 2013. Print.
- Miller-Cochran, Susan, and Rochelle Rodrigo. The Wadsworth Guide to Research (2nd Ed.). Wadsworth/Cengage Learning, 2013. Print.
- Jacobsen, Craig, Susan Miller-Cochran, and Rochelle Rodrigo. “The WPA Outcomes Statement and Disciplinary Authority.” In The Writing Program Administrators Outcomes Statement: A Decade Later. Eds. Nicholas Behm, Duane Roen, Ed White, Deb Holdstein, and Greg Glau. Anderson, SC: Parlor Press. 2012. Print.
- Miller-Cochran, Susan. “Beyond ‘ESL Writing’: Teaching Cross-Cultural Composition at a Community College.” Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 40.1 (2012): 20-30. Print.
- Miller-Cochran, Susan. "Language Diversity and the Responsibility of the WPA." In Cross-Language Relations in Composition. Eds. Bruce Horner, Min-Zhan Lu, and Paul Kei Matsuda. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2010. 212-220. Print.
- DePew, Kevin Eric, and Susan Miller-Cochran. "Social Networking in a Second Language: Engaging Multiple Literate Practices through Identity Composition." In Inventing Identities in Second Language Writing. Eds. Michelle Cox, Jay Jordan, Christina Ortmeier-Hooper, and Gwen Gray Schwartz. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2010. 273-295. Print.
- Miller-Cochran, Susan, and Rochelle Rodrigo, eds. Rhetorically Rethinking Usability. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2009. Print.
- Kati Fargo Ahern (chair)
- Jon Burr (co-chair)
- Dana Gierdowski (chair)
- Karla Lyles (co-chair)
- Robin Snead (chair)
- Kevin Brock (member)
- Freddi Hamilton Cobb (member)
- Adam Gutschmidt (member)
- Valeska Redmond (member)
- Dawn Shepherd (member)
- Wendi Sierra (member)
- Jennifer Ware (member)

- Packer, Jeremy and Steve Wiley, eds. (2012) Communication Matters: Materialist Approaches to Media, Networks, and Mobility. Routledge, New York. (297 p.)
- Packer, Jeremy ed. (2009) Secret Agents: Popular Icons Beyond James Bond. Peter Lang, New York. (212 p.)
- Packer, Jeremy. (2008) Mobility Without Mayhem: Cars, Safety and Citizenship. Duke University Press, Durham, NC. (360 p.)
- Dan Sutko (chair)
- Shayne Pepper (chair)
- Kathleen Oswald (chair)
- Ryan McGrady (chair)
- Ruffin Bailey (chair)
- Dawn Shepherd (co-chair)
- Seth Mulliken (co-chair)
- Josh Reeves (co-chair)
- Lauren Clark (member)
- Kate Maddalena (member)
- Fernanda Duarte (member)

- “Tunnel Vision: A Cybertextual Interpretation of Mark Strand’s The Tunnel.” With David Gruber. Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures. Forthcoming.
- emBody(text) {. With Kevin Brock. ID:ENTITY Self: Perception + Reality. Digital interactive work. Contemporary Art Museum (CAM) Raleigh. Emerging Artists Series #3. 18 Nov 2011 - 13 Feb 2012.
- "Typographia: A Hybrid, Alphabetic Exploration of Raleigh, NC. Kairos 14.2. 2010.
- "Snowballs and Other Numerate Acts of Textuality." Computers and Composition Online. 2010.
- Small Tech: The Culture of Digital Tools. W/Byron Hawk and Ollie Oviedo. Minnesota UP, 2008.
- Kevin Brock (chair)
- Lauren Clark (chair)
- Jamie Hogan (chair)
- Wendi Sierra (chair)
- Chris Berg (member)
- Fernanda Duarte (member)
- David Gruber (member)
- Jason Kalin (member)
- Chris Kempe (member)
- Meagan Kittle Autry (member)
- Kate Maddelena (member)
- Tariq Mahmoud (member)
- Daniel Sutko (member)
- Jeff Swift (member)


- Swarts, J. (2011). Technological Literacy as Network Building. Technical Communication Quarterly, mid 2011.
- Swarts, J. (2010). Recycled writing: Assembling actor-networks from reusable content. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 24(2), 127-163.
- Swarts, J. (2009). The collaborative construction of 'fact' on Wikipedia. In Proceedings of the Special Interest Group on Design of Communication (Bloomington, IN, October, 2009) SIGDOC '09. ACM Press, New York, NY.
- Christin Phelps (chair)
- Heidi Von Ludwig (chair)
- Glenda Burch (chair)
- David Gruber (chair)
- Chris Berg (member)
- Adam Gutschmidt (member)
- Amy Gaffney (member)
- Shaun Cashman (member)
- Jordan Frith (member)
- Matt Morain (member)
- Jennifer Ware (member)

- Packer, J., & Wiley, S.B.C. (Eds.) (2012). Communication Matters: Media, Mobility, and Networks. Routledge.
- Wiley, S.B.C., & Packer, J. (2010) Rethinking communication after the mobilities turn. The Communication Review 13(4), 263-268.
- Wiley, S.B.C., Sutko, D.M., and Moreno, T. (2010). Assembling Social Space, The Communication Review, 13(4), 340-372.
- Shaun Cashman (member)
- Dawn Shepherd (member)
- Shayne Pepper (member)
- Kathy Oswald (member)
- Dan Sutko (member)
- Jordan Frith (vice-chair)
- Jacob Dickerson (co-chair)
- Zach Rash (member)
- Seth Mulliken (co-chair)
- Tariq Mahmood (chair)
- Tabita Moreno (chair)
- Fernanda Duarte (member)
- Nathan Hulsey (member)
Assistant Professor

- Berube, D. M., Cummings, C. L., Frith, J. H., Binder, A. R., & Oldendick, R. (in press). Comparing nanoparticle risk perceptions to other known EHS risks. Journal of Nanoparticle Research.
- Binder, A. R., Cacciatore, M. A., Scheufele, D. A., Shaw, B. R., & Corley, E. A. (in press). Measuring risk/benefit perceptions of emerging technologies and their potential impact on communication of public opinion toward science. Public Understanding of Science. doi: 10.1177/096366251039015
- Binder, A. R., Scheufele, D. A., Brossard, D., & Gunther, A. C. (2011). Interpersonal amplification of risk? Citizen discussions and their influence on perceptions of risks and benefits of a biological research facility. Risk Analysis 31(2), 324-334.doi: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2010.01516.x

- Craig, E. A., & Johnson, A. J. (in press). Role strain and online social support for childless stepmothers. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.
- Moore, J. L., & Craig, E. A. (2010). Relationship development and maintenance in a mediated world. In J. Park (Ed.), Interpersonal relations and social patterns in communication technologies: Discourse norms, language structures, and cultural variables. IGI Global Publishing.
- Wright, K. B., & Craig, E. A. (2010). Aggressive communication: A life span perspective. In T. A. Avtgis & A. S. Rancer (Eds.), Arguments, aggression, and conflict: New directions in theory and research. Routledge.
- Heidi von Ludewig (member)
- “Orator-Machine: Autonomist Marxism and William D. 'Big Bill' Haywood’s Cooper Union Address." Philosophy and Rhetoric 45 (2012), in press.
- “Hobo Orator Union: Class Composition and the Spokane Free Speech Fight of the Industrial Workers of the World.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 97 (2011) 155-177.
- “Corruption and Empire: Notes on Wisconsin.” Journal of Communication Inquiry 35 (2011): 342-348. (with Ronald W. Greene)
- “Let us Be Realistic and Demand the Impossible: Defining Kairos in Contemporary Marxism.” in S. Jacobs, Ed. Concerning Argument (Washington, DC: National Communication Association and the American Forensic Association, 2009): 515-523.
- “Spinoza and Class Struggle.” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 6 (2009): 294-298.

- "Counting Sheep: Potential Applications of DNA Analysis to the Study of Medieval Parchment Production." Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age II. Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik: Norstedt, 2011. 191-207.
- "Makeres of the Mind: Authorial Intention, Editorial Practice, and The Siege of Jerusalem." Forthcoming. The Yearbook of Langland Studies 24.
- "Translating The Canterbury Tales into Contemporary Media" in Approaches to Teaching The Canterbury Tales, Revised Edition. Forthcoming. Modern Language Association.

- Walsh, R. (2011) Teaching Race in H.D.'s Work (107-113). In Annette Debo & Lara Vetter (Eds.) Approaches to Teaching H.D.'s Poetry and Prose. New York: Modern Language Association.
- Walsh, R. (2010) Sugar, Sex, and Empire: Gender Studies and Sarah Orne Jewett. In John Carlos Rowe (Ed.), A Concise Companion to American Studies (303-319). London: Wiley-Blackwell.
- Walsh, R., Coats L, Cohen, M., Miles, J. & Nishikawa, K. (2008) "Those we don't speak of": Indians in The Village. PMLA 123 (2), 438-451.
- Walsh, R. (2003) Introduction and Ed. "Global Diaporas" special issue. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 5(1)
- Walsh, R. (2002) Where Metaphor Meets Materiality: The Spatialized Subject and the Limits of Locational Feminism. In Brewer, Mary (Ed.) Exclusions in Feminist Thought: Challenging the Boundaries of Womanhood (182-202). Brighton: Sussex Academic Press.
- Nathan Husley (member)
- Kathleen Oswald (member)
Affiliated Faculty
Other graduate faculty in English, Communication, and other departments with allied interests may be appointed as Affiliated Faculty; they serve on advisory/dissertation committees and teach elective courses.
Agnes Bolonyai, Assistant Professor of English and Linguistics, College of Humanities and Social Sciences. [website]
Meredith Davis, Professor of Graphic Design, College of Design. [website]
Denis Gray, Professor of Psychology, College of Humanities and Social Sciences. [website]
Brad Mehlenbacher, Associate Professor of Training and Development, College of Education. [website]
Devin Orgeron, Associate Professor of English and Film Studies, College of Humanities and Social Sciences. [website]
Marsha Orgeron, Associate Professor of English and Film Studies, College of Humanities and Social Sciences. [website]
Maria Pramaggiore, Associate Professor of English and Film Studies, College of Humanities and Social Sciences. [website]
Michael Rappa, Alan T. Dickson Distinguished University Professor of Technology Management, College of Management. [website]
Robert St. Amant, Associate Professor of Computer Science, College of Engineering. [website]
Eric Wiebe, Associate Professor of Graphic Communications, College of Education. [website]
Michael Wogalter, Professor of Psychology and Director, Cognitive Ergonomics Laboratory, College of Humanities and Social Sciences. [website]
Walt Wolfram, William C. Friday Distinguished Professor of English and Linguistics, College of Humanities and Social Sciences. [website]
Michael Young, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, College of Engineering. [website]
"Digital technologies, tied to the Internet, could produce a vastly more competitive and vibrant market for building and cultivating culture; that market could include a much wider and more diverse range of creators; those creators could produce and distribute a much more vibrant range of creativity … all so long as the RCAs of our day don’t use the law to protect themselves against this competition."
—Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture
