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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

Victoria Gallagher
Victoria Gallagher
Communication Department
Ph.D. in Communication Studies, Northwestern University, 1990
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
vgallagh@ncsu.edu
Caldwell Hall 106
919-515-3490
Website
Research Interests:
rhetorical theory, visual rhetoric
Recent Publications:
NCSU Scholarly Publications Repository
  • Gallagher, Victoria J., Martin, Kelly & Ma, Magdy. "Visual well-being: Intersections of rhetorical theory and visual design," Design Issues, 2011.
  • Gallagher, Victoria J. and LaWare, Margaret "Sparring with Public Memory: The Rhetorical Embodiment of Race, Power, and Conflict in the Monument to Joe Louis," in Dickson, G. Ott, B. and Blair, C. eds. Places of Public Memory: The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials, (University of Alabama Press) 2010.
  • Zagacki, Kenneth S. and Gallagher, Victoria J. "Rhetoric and Materiality in the Museum Park at the North Carolina Museum of Art," Quarterly Journal of Speech, 95:2 May 2009, 171-191.
Committees:
  • Christopher Berg (chair)
  • Anna Turnage (chair)
  • Shaun Cashman (chair)
  • Kelly Martin (chair)
  • Jason Kalin (chair)
  • Nick Temple (member)
  • Kati Fargo (member)
  • Glenda Burch (member)
  • Jeff Swift (member)
  • Josh Reeves (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

Susan Katz
English Department
Ph.D. in Communication and Rhetoric, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1996
Internship Coordinator
susan_katz@ncsu.edu
Tompkins Hall 131D
919-515-4117
Website
Research Interests:
multimodal assessment, multimodal composition, persuasion, visual rhetoric
Recent Publications:
NCSU Scholarly Publications Repository
  • Writing Now. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2009. (Lee Odell and Susan M. Katz)
  • "Yes, a Tee Shirt!: Visual Literacy in the Writing Class." College Composition and Communication. September 2009. (Lee Odell and Susan M. Katz)
  • "Creating Appropriate Graphics for Business Situations." Business Communication Quarterly 71:1 (March 2008): 71-75.
Committees:
  • Heidi von Ludewig (member)
  • Melinda Leonardo (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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