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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

Carolyn R. Miller
Carolyn Miller
English Department
Ph.D. in Communication and Rhetoric, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1980
SAS Institute Distinguished Professor
crmiller@ncsu.edu
Tompkins Hall 131-F
919-515-4126
Website
Research Interests:
digital rhetoric, genre studies, rhetoric of science and technology, rhetorical theory, technical and professional writing, technology studies
Recent Publications:
NCSU Scholarly Publications Repository
  • "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)
Kenneth Zagacki
Kenneth Zagacki
Communication Department
Ph.D. in Communication Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 1986
Department Head
kszagack@ncsu.edu
Winston Hall 201E
919-515-9748
Website
Research Interests:
digital rhetoric, philosophy, rhetoric of public policy, visual culture, visual rhetoric
Recent Publications:
NCSU Scholarly Publications Repository
  • 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)
  • Jennifer Ware (member)

Associate Professor

David M Rieder
David M. Rieder
English Department
Ph.D. in Rhetoric, Writing, and Critical Theory, University of Texas at Arlington, 2002
david_rieder@ncsu.edu
Tompkins Hall 242A
919-515-0299 (office); 919-247-7506 (cell)
Website
Research Interests:
critical theory, cultural studies, digital humanities, digital media, digital rhetoric, humanities physical computing, persuasion, philosophy, rhetorical theory, writing pedagogy
Recent Publications:
  • “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.
Committees:
  • 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)

Assistant Professor

Matthew May
Communication
PhD, University of Minnesota, 2009
matthew.may@ncsu.edu
Winston 226
919-513-8089
Website
Research Interests:
cinema, critical media studies, critical theory, cultural studies, digital media, digital rhetoric, gender, mediation and conflict, methods, organizational communication, persuasion, philosophy, race, rhetoric and composition, rhetoric of place, rhetoric of public policy, rhetoric of science, rhetoric of science and technology, rhetorical theory, visual culture, visual rhetoric
Recent Publications:
  • “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.

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]

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