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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

Dr. Melissa Johnson
Melissa A. Johnson
Communication Department
Ph.D. in Mass Communication Research, UNC - Chapel Hill, 1993
melissa_johnson@ncsu.edu
Winston Hall 206
Website
Research Interests:
digital media, ethnic media, mass media and social influence, media effects, methods, public relations, race, social media, visual communication
Recent Publications:
NCSU Scholarly Publications Repository
  • 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)

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.
Rebecca Walsh
English Department
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, English (Twentieth-Century Literature)
rawalsh@ncsu.edu
Tompkins Hall, 104A
919 515-4142
Research Interests:
critical theory, cultural studies, film studies, gender, race, rhetoric of place
Recent Publications:
  • Walsh, R. (2011) Teaching Race in H.D.'s Work (107-113). In Annette Debo & Lara Vetter (Eds.) Approaches to Teaching H.D.'s Poetry and Prose. New York: Modern Language Association.
  • Walsh, R. (2010) Sugar, Sex, and Empire: Gender Studies and Sarah Orne Jewett. In John Carlos Rowe (Ed.), A Concise Companion to American Studies (303-319). London: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Walsh, R., Coats L, Cohen, M., Miles, J. & Nishikawa, K. (2008) "Those we don't speak of": Indians in The Village. PMLA 123 (2), 438-451.
  • Walsh, R. (2003) Introduction and Ed. "Global Diaporas" special issue. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 5(1)
  • Walsh, R. (2002) Where Metaphor Meets Materiality: The Spatialized Subject and the Limits of Locational Feminism. In Brewer, Mary (Ed.) Exclusions in Feminist Thought: Challenging the Boundaries of Womanhood (182-202). Brighton: Sussex Academic Press.
Committees:
  • Nathan Husley (member)
  • Kathleen Oswald (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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