Interpersonal, Digital, and Organizational
Dr. Iftekhar Ahmed
Research Interests: Group Communication, Organizational Communication, and Communication Technology
Recent Publication: "Understanding aggressive and non-aggressive individual behaviors in MMOPG" Social Interaction in Virtual Worlds
Dr. Karen Anderson-Lain
Research Interests: Pedagogy and Communication: Online and blended learning; service-learning and community engagement; assessment; instructor's identity negotiation of "otherness", Interpersonal Communication: Communication and Aging; Intergenerational communication; age-stereotypes; grandparent-grandchild relationships; media representations of aging; family communication
Recent Publication: "Assessing the student, faculty, and community partner in academic service-learning: An analysis of internet campus compact member surveys" Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement
Dr. Brian Richardson
Research Interests: Whistle-Blowing/Peer Reporting of Unethical Behavior and Disaster/Crisis Communication
Recent Publication: "We were all in the same boat:" An exploratory study of communal coping in disaster recovery' Southern Communication Journal
Dr. Zuoming Wang
Research Interests: Computer-Mediated Communication, Social Computing, Decision-Making in Virtual Groups, and the Effect of New Technology on Social Interactions and Interpersonal Relationships
Recent Publications: "Social identification and interpersonal perception in computer-mediated communication: Who you are versus what you do in virtual groups" Human Communication Research
Communication, Culture, and Public Discourse
Dr. Suzanne Enck
Research Interests: Domestic Violence, Critical/Cultural Rhetorical Frameworks, Media and Film Studies, Gender/Women's Studies, Critical Race Studies, American Studies, Ethnography/Performance Studies, Cultural Studies, and Critical Legal Studies
Recent Publication: "The Literacy of Pain: Narrating Identities in the Face of Death" Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, 2015
Dr. Mark Hlavacik
Research Interests: Public Address, Rhetorical Criticism, Educational Policy
Recent Publication: Assigning Blame: The Rhetoric of Education Reform in the United States (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press, forthcoming Fall 2016).
Dr. Brian Lain
Research Interests: 20th Century Rhetorical Criticism and Theory, Materialism and Poststructuralism, Japanese American Rhetorics
Recent Publication: "Kritiking as Argumentative Praxis" Speaker and Gavel
Megan Morrissey
Research Interests: Ways Language Constitutes/Influences Cultural Conditions
Recent Publication: "Playing the Race Card: Discourses of (Anti)racial Bordering and the Possibility of Alchemic Metaphors" Review of Communication
Performance
Dr. Jay Allison
Research Interests: Literary and Performance Theory and Criticism, Narrative Theory and the Narrative Structure of Everyday Life, Southern Culture and Fiction
Recent Publication: "It's all set in the stars": adapting and staging Lee Smith's "Intensive Care"Text and Performance Quarterly
Dr. Justin Trudeau
Research Interests: Genealogy and Cultural Literary History
Recent Publication: "Specters in the Rear-View: Haunting Whiteness in Jack Kerouac's On the Road" Text and Performance Quarterly
Dr. Holley Vaughn
Research Interests: Performance and Culture, Performance as Critical Praxis, Tourism, Historiography, Hauntology, Performance Art, Narrative Theory, Ethnography, Gender and Queer Studies, Rhetoric and Nationalism
Recent Publication: "Why Tourism Matters: Connecting Intercultural Communication and Performative Pedagogy in the Communication Classroom" Competitively Selected. World Communication Association.