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 Communication Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 1986
Department Head
kszagack@ncsu.edu
Winston Hall 201E
919-515-9748
Research Interests:
Recent Publications:
- 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
Communication Department
Ph.D. in Communication & Information Studies, Rutgers University, 1997
Interdisciplinary Program Director-Science, Technology & Society
wjkinsel@ncsu.edu
Winston Hall 221
Research Interests:
Recent Publications:
- 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
Committees:
- 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)
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
