Faculty

Research Interests: writing across the curriculum; rhetoric and composition; language and literacy; writing program administration

Recent Publications:

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• 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.

Committees:

• Amy Gaffney (member)
• Jon Burr (co-chair)
• Katie Fargo(member)
• Karla Lyles (member)
• Adam Gutschmidt (member)
• Chad O'Neill (member)

Research Interests: social media, risk and risk communication, persuasion, science and technology communication, emerging science (nanotechnology and synthetic biology)

Recent Publications:

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• 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.

Committees:

• Christopher Cummings (Chair)
• Jordan Frith (Member)

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Research Interests: rhetorical theory/criticism, visual rhetoric, public memory

Recent Publications:

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• 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

Committees:

• Christopher Berg (chair)
• Anna Turnage (chair)
• Shaun Cashman (chair)
• Kelly Martin (chair)
• Jason Kalin (chair)
• Nick Temple (member)
• Kati Fargo (member)
• Glenda Burch (member)

Recent Publications:

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Research Interests: digital rhetoric, genre studies, rhetorical theory, rhetoric of science and technology, technical and professional writing

Recent Publications:

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• "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.

Committees:

• 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)

Research Interests: writing pedagogy, writing program administration, cognitive processes in writing and reading, socialization in disciplinary communities, rhetoric of science

Recent Publications:

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• 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.

Committees:

• Zachary Rash (member)

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Research Interests: rhetoric, philosophy, foreign policy, environmental, science, visual culture

Recent Publications:

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• 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.

Committees:

• Nick Temple (chair)
• Jacob Dickerson (member)
• Matt Morain (member)
• Zachary Rash (member)

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Research Interests: instructional communication, communication education, communication across the curriculum, teacher training

Recent Publications:

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• 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.

Committees:

• Amy Gaffney (chair)
• Adam Gutschmidt (chair)
• Anna Turnage (member)
• Freddie Hamilton (member)
• Jonathon Burr (member)
• Robin Oswald (member)

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Research Interests: Organizations, conflict, mediation, nonprofit leadership, emotion

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• 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.

Committees:

• Melinda Leonardo (Chair)

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Research Interests: integration of verbal and visual rhetorics, scholarship of teaching and learning, multimodal assessment, role of narrative in persuasion, socialization processes

Recent Publications:

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• 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.

Committees:

• Heidi von Ludewig (member)

Research Interests: organizational communication, environmental communication, rhetoric of science & technology, rhetoric of public policy, energy and environmental controversies, communication theory

Recent Publications:

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• Kinsella, W. J. (2010). Risk communication, phenomenology, and the limits of representation. Catalan Journal of Communication and Cultural Studies, 2(2), 267-276.
• Kinsella, W. J., Temple, N., & Shields, J. M. (2009). A social movement success story? Assessing a self-identified movement for climate action. In D. Endres, L. Sprain, T. R. Peterson (Eds.), Social movement to address climate change: Local steps for global action (pp. 211-241). Amherst, NY: Cambria Press.
• Kinsella, W. J., & Mullen, J. (2007, 2008). Becoming Hanford downwinders: Producing community and challenging discursive containment. In Taylor, B. C., Kinsella, W. J., Depoe, S. P., & Metzler, M. S. (Eds.), Nuclear legacies: Communication, controversy, and the U.S. nuclear weapons complex (pp. 73-107). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• President, Environmental Communication Division, National Communiucation Association, 2009-2010

Committees:

• Christian Casper (member)
• David Gruber (member)
• Tariq Mahmood (member)

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Research Interests: rhetoric and composition, writing pedagogy, instructional technology, second language writing, writing and new media

Recent Publications:

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• Miller-Cochran, Susan, and Rochelle Rodrigo, eds. Rhetorically Rethinking Usability. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2009. Print.
• Anson, Chris M., and Susan Miller-Cochran. "Contrails of Learning: Using New Technologies for Vertical Knowledge-Building." Computers and Composition, 26.1 (2009): 38-48. 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. "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.

Committees:

• Adam Gutschmidt (member)
• Freddi Hamilton (member)
• Jon Burr (co-chair)
• Karla Lyles (co-chair)
• Dawn Shepherd (member)
• Kati Fargo (chair)
• Dana Gierdowski (chair)

Recent Publications:

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Research Interests: digital rhetoric, experimental writing, digital humanities, humanities physical computing, critical theory

Recent Publications:

• "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.
• "ScriptedWriting() { Exploring Generative Dimensions of Writing in Flash Actionscript." In Small Tech.

Committees:

• Chris Berg (member)
• Kevin Brock (chair)
• Lauren Clark (chair)
• David Gruber (member)
• Jason Kalin (member)
• Wendi Sierra (chair)
• Daniel Sutko (member)

Recent Publications:

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Research Interests: technology studies, mobile technology, technical communication, computer-supported cooperative work

Recent Publications:

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• Swarts, J. (forthcoming 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.

Committees:

• 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)

Research Interests: social networks and social space; communication, transportation, and mobility; media infrastructure, media technologies, and media ecologies; communication and globalization in Latin America

Recent Publications:

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• Packer, J., & Wiley, S.B.C. (Eds.) (forthcoming). 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.

Committees:

• 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 (member)

Research Interests: public opinion, media effects, public understanding of science, media use

Recent Publications:

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• 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

Research Interests: Interpersonal communication; relational maintenance; family communication; computer-mediated communication; online social support

Recent Publications:

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• 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.

Committees:

• Heidi von Ludewig (member)

Research Interests: digital media, mobile technologies, location-based,social networks, mobile communication

Recent Publications:

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• Gordon, E., & de Souza e Silva, A. Net Locality: Why Location Matters in a Networked World. Boston: Blackwell-Wiley.
• de Souza e Silva, A., Sutko, D. M., Salis, F., & de Souza e Silva, C. (2011). Mobile phone appropriation in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. New Media & Society, 1461444810393901, first published on March 24, 2011 as doi:10.1177/1461444810393901.
• de Souza e Silva, A., & Sutko, D. M. (2011). Theorizing locative media through philosophies of the virtual". Communication Theory, 21 (1), 23-42.
• Sutko, D. M., & de Souza e Silva, A. (in press). Location aware mobile media and urban sociability. New Media & Society. 1461444810385202, first published on March 11, 2011 as doi:10.1177/1461444810385202.

Committees:

• 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)

Research Interests: relationship development & maintenance, new technology, interpersonal influence

Recent Publications:

• Moore, J.L. (2011). Psychology of social networks. In G. Barnett & J.G. Golson (Eds.). Encyclopedia of social networking. New York: Sage.
• Turner, M., Banas, J., Jang, S., Rains, S., Moore, J.L., Morrison, D. (2010). Actions speak louder than words: Self-report and behavioral measures of compliance using the lost letter technique. Communication Reports.
• Moore, J.L., & Craig, E.A. (2009). Relationship development and maintenance in a wired world. In J. Park & E. Abels (Eds.), Interpersonal relations and social patterns in communication technologies:

Committees:

• Christin Phelps (member)

Research Interests: Medieval Studies, Digital Humanities, Book History

Recent Publications:

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• "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.