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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)

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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"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."

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Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media