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Rhetoric and Professional Communication
Graduate faculty members serving for the M.A. in Rhetoric, Composition, and Professional Communication and the Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Professional Communication.
Note: Faculty listed with an asterisk (*) by their name are listed under more than one major and can only serve as an outside POS committee member for the majors that do not list them. For example, if a faculty member is listed under RCPC/RPC and English (CW; Lit), then this faculty member can only serve as an outside POS committee member for TESL/Applied Linguistics majors.
| Name | Research and Teaching Areas |
|---|---|
| Blakely, Barb | composition theory, research, and pedagogy; critical and multiple literacies; qualitative research methodology |
| Consigny, Scott | modern and contemporary fiction; literary criticism and theory; rhetoric and rhetorical theory |
| Dearin, Ray | rhetorical theory; public address |
| Ewald, Helen | rhetorical theory; gender/race/class in composition studies; alternative pedagogies; organizational culture and discourse |
| Freed, Richard | theory and practice of organizational communication |
| Goodwin, Jean | rhetorical theory; argumentation theory; classical and contemporary oratory; scholarship of teaching and learning argument |
| Graham, Margaret * | feminist pedagogy and research; professional communication; political nature of discourse; American society and culture |
| Herndl, Carl | rhetoric; critical theory; cultural studies |
| Honeycutt, Lee | computer pedagogy; communication and rhetoric |
| Kienzler, Donna | professional writing; pedagogy; ethics; science fiction |
| Kostelnick, Charles | visual communication in professional writing; literature and visual art |
| LaWare, Maggie | interpersonal and rhetorical communication; women's communication; visual communication |
| Mendelson, Michael * | history of rhetoric; 19th-century British fiction; children's literature; fairy tale and fantasy; prose style; argumentation |
| Payne, Don | hypertext; computer-mediated communication; rhetorical history and theory; electronic editing |
| Price Herndl, Diane * | American literatures; feminist theory and rhetoric; disability studies; theories of the body; cultural studies; medical rhetoric |
| Roberts, Dave | visual rhetoric; proposal writing; pedagogy in professional communication |
| Russell, David | writing across the curriculum; international writing instruction; multi-media online case study pedagogy; history of rhetoric in education |
| Sauer, Geoffrey | rhetorical theory; new media studies; history of publishing; cultural studies and critical theory |
| Slagell, Amy | speech communication; public address; 19th-century women's oratory |
