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
Communication Department
Ph.D. in Mass Communication Research, UNC - Chapel Hill, 1993
melissa_johnson@ncsu.edu
Winston Hall 206
Research Interests:
Recent Publications:
- 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.
Committees:
- Kelly Norris Martin (member)
- Jennifer Ware (chair)
- Freddi Hamilton (member)
- Elizabeth Johnson Young (co-chair)
Associate Professor
Communication Department
PhD in Communications and Culture, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 2004.
souzaesilva@ncsu.edu
Winston Hall 104
Research Interests:
Recent Publications:
- http://www.souzaesilva.com/pub.htm
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)
- Fernanda Duarte (chair)
- Nathan Hulsey (chair)
English Department
Ph.D. in Rhetoric, Composition, and Linguistics, Arizona State University, 2002
Director, First-Year Writing Program
susan_miller@ncsu.edu
Tompkins Hall 242-A
919-515-4160
Research Interests:
Recent Publications:
- 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.
Committees:
- 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)
Communication Department
PhD in Speech Communication, University of Illinois, 2001
jpacker@ncsu.edu
Winston Hall 106
Research Interests:
Recent Publications:
- 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.)
Committees:
- 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)
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)
Research Interests:
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)
Communication Department
Ph.D. in Communications, University of Illinois, 1999
wiley@ncsu.edu
Winston Hall 202
919-515-9736
Research Interests:
Recent Publications:
- 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.
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 (chair)
- Tabita Moreno (chair)
- Fernanda Duarte (member)
- Nathan Hulsey (member)
Assistant Professor
Communication
PhD, University of Minnesota, 2009
matthew.may@ncsu.edu
Winston 226
919-513-8089
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.
"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
