School of Communication Faculty Articles
Submissions from 2026
AI Competencies in Technical Communication: A Study of Hiring Trends and Educational Implications, Emily Braun, Leslie E. Seawright, and Rhonda J. Stanton
Fostering Critical Dialogue and Advocacy Through Online School-Based Teams: A Model for Multilingual Education Professional Development, Andrea B. Hellman, Ximena Uribe-Zarain, Angela B. Bell, and Heather M. Lecureux
“Is This Ethical?” New Data on the Ethical Principles and Practices of Document Design, Leslie E. Seawright, Amy Hodges, and Timothy Ponce
Submissions from 2025
Fostering Inclusive Partnerships: An Inventory of Practices for Engaging Multilingual Families in School Communities, Angela B. Bell, Andrea B. Hellman, and Ximena Uribe-Zarain
Body poetic: uncovering an educational panopticon, Sara J. Burge, Josh Montgomery, Elizabeth Roumell, and Sunshine Dempsey
Class, Race, and the Complications of Women's Leadership in Superstore, Holly W. Holladay
Preservice Teachers’ Twisting Path to Developing a Concept of Equitable Teaching, Amy E. Knowles and Heidi Lyn Hadley
A Post-Emancipation Fiction of Black Imperial Masculinity: John Briggs’s The History of Jim Crow (1839), Lanya M. Lamouria
Assessment and global citizenship, Gordana Lazic
Rhetoric of social conflict, Gordana Lazic
Introduction: intercollegiate policy debate, a decade in review, Nathan A. Rothenbaum and Jyleesa Hampton
AI-Assisted Qualitative Coding: Comparing Human to Machine Outputs, Leslie E. Seawright, Amy Hodges, and Timothy Ponce
The “Default Space” of English: Sociolinguistic Perspectives from the United Arab Emirates, Suneeta Thomas
Submissions from 2024
Digital Video as a Discussion Board: A Case Study and Collaborative Autoethnography of Experiences, Tiffany Avery, Jessica Cody, Katherine Griffiths, Kristina Khodai, Ashley Lenahan, Maria Meluso, Yudai Sanada, Kayla Seabaugh, Rhonda J. Stanton, and Emily Woodall
The Poetics of a Fractalized Profession: “Shhh, Teaching as Labor”, Sara J. Burge, Joshua Montgomery, and Terry A. Belew
Writing the Ecology of the Ozarks, Cathie English
Oh my God, that pool party: Shrill and fat femininity in a postfeminist media culture, Holly W. Holladay
Introduction: Humor and/in Crisis, Holly W. Holladay and Chandler L. Classen
Kinship at the End of the World: Apocalyptic Media and The Last Man on Earth as a Manifesto for Life in Eco-Crisis, Holly W. Holladay and Chandler L. Classen
Television Sitcom and Cultural Crisis, Holly W. Holladay and Chandler L. Classen
From Subjects to Assemblages: Insights from Oldboy, Gordana Lazic
Rhetoric of Heroism, Gordana Lazic
You Accepted What?: The Impact of Location, Education, and Negotiation on Technical Communication Graduates’ Salaries, Leslie E. Seawright and Rhonda J. Stanton
Submissions from 2023
Intercultural Competence: from the Classroom to the “Real World” and Back Again, Randy K. Dillon, Mindy Shelton, Christopher Dixon, Kurtis Lane, and Marlo Hamilton
Understanding Rural Communities: Crafting Local Inquiries as Praxis for Pre-Service and Early Career/Inservice ELA Teachers, Cathie English
Charles Dickens, Charles Babbage, Richard Babley: Material Memory in David Copperfield, Lanya M. Lamouria
Children’s Librarians’ Conceptualizations of School Readiness, Gordana Lazic, Renee LeFebvre, and Maria Cahill
Emotion and the History of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages by Rita Copeland (review), Jonathan M. Newman
Venus, Jonathan M. Newman
Transnational Technical Communication: English as a Business Lingua Franca in Engineering Workplaces, Leslie E. Seawright and Amy Hodges
“I don’t even know who I am”: Identity reconstruction after the loss of a spouse, Erin C. Wehrman
Military Family Socialization: An Examination of New U.S. Military Families in Online Forums, Erin C. Wehrman
Integrating relational turbulence theory and the theory of resilience and relational load to investigate the relationships of couples with chronic illness, Erin C. Wehrman, Kelly G. McAninch, Erin D. Basinger, and Amy L. Delaney
Submissions from 2022
Dream Time With Dad: Autoethnography as Ritual in the Time of COVID-19, Christopher Collins
Democracy, Terror, and Utopia in Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities, Lanya M. Lamouria
Preparing the Next Generation of Teachers Inappropriately: When Introductory Course Directors Engage in Misbehaviors, Gordana Lazic, Luke LeFebvre, Leah E. LeFebvre, and Heather J. Carmack
Defending the Pride Lands and Marginalized Subjects: The Lion Guard as Progressive Pedagogy, Gordana Lazic and Renee LeFebvre
Grief/Bereavement, Erin C. Wehrman
Communication Theory of Identity, Erin C. Wehrman and Bryan Abendschein
Pandemic pedagogy from both sides of the screen: A Teacher/Scholar/Parent's reflections on online time, Shannon R. Wooden
Submissions from 2021
Struggling Together: Examining the Narratives of Interdependence and Healing Within Romantic Relationships After Stroke, Bryan Abendschein, Erin D. Basinger, and Erin C. Wehrman
Negotiating Normality: Using Digital Media to Combat the Stigma and Perceptions of Islam in the West, Ahmet Aksoy and Nihar S. Sreepada
Couples managing chronic illness: A test of the extended theoretical model of communal coping, Erin D. Basinger, Erin C. Wehrman, Amy L. Delaney, and Kelly G. McAninch
Life-Writing in an Age of Postmodernism: A Corderian Rhetoric of Creative Nonfiction, James S. Baumlin
Black Power and Black Arts, Matthew S. Calihman
Race talk, fandom, and the legacy of plantation culture in the NFL player protests, Melissa A. Click, Amanda Nell Edgar, and Holly W. Holladay
Trajectories of relational turbulence and affectionate communication across the post-deployment transition, Leanne K. Knobloch, Lynne M. Knobloch-Fedders, Jeremy B. Yorgason, Erin C. Wehrman, and J. Kale Monk
Villette, Female Political Agency, and the French Revolution of 1848, Lanya Lamouria
From English Language Arts Teacher to Literacy Expert: Reimagining Our Roles, Amy Lannin, Angela M. Kohnen, Katie Kline, Nancy Singer, Valorie Stokes, and Amy E. Knowles
Exploring students’ perceptions of identity and helper heuristics in the online classroom discussion board, Xialing Lin, Renee Kaufmann, Stephen A. Spates, Kenneth A. Lachlan, and Patric R. Spence
Five letters to Georgia O'Keeffe: Or, meditations on dying in southwestern landscapes, D. Jake Simmons
Do objects perform?: anthrolithic performance in Chaco Canyon, Jake Simmons
The Bear Cave: Using gamification to teach organizational communication, Stephen A. Spates
Code-Switching in Spoken Indian English: A Case Study of Sociopolitical Talk, Suneeta Thomas
English in the United Arab Emirates, Suneeta Thomas
Redefining a Secondary Education Program Through the Use of Service-Learning Field Experiences, Alan Tinkler, Barri E. Tinkler, Jennifer Prue, and Lia Cravedi
Rhetorically Speaking: On White Preservice Teachers’ Failure to Imagine an Anti-Racist English Education, S. R. Toliver and Heidi Hadley
Submissions from 2020
Is the Pencil Mightier than the Keyboard? A Meta-Analysis Comparing the Method of Notetaking Outcomes, Mike Allen, Luke LeFebvre, Leah LeFebvre, and John Bourhis
From Postmodernism to Posthumanism: Theorizing Ethos in an Age of Pandemic, James S. Baumlin
King Lear, Mandel’s Station Eleven, and the Shakespearean Apocalypse: Meditations on Pandemic and Posthumanism, James S. Baumlin
Black Aesthetic, The, Matthew S. Calihman
The Sympoiesis of Clouds, Christopher C. Collins
Thank You for Sharing: Developing Students Social Skills to Improve Peer Writing Conferences, Keri Franklin
In Search of Authentic Argument, Angela M. Kohnen and Catherine M. English
Effects of taboo conversation topics on impression formation and task performance evaluation, Hye Eun Lee, Catherine Kingsley Westerman, Emi Hashi, Kyle B. Heuett, Stephen A. Spates, Katie M. Reno, and Erica W. Jenkins
You did what?!: graduate teaching assistant misbehaviors in multi-section introductory communication courses, Luke LeFebvre, Leah E. LeFebvre, and Gordana Lazić
Sticking points: Sites for developing capacity to enact socially just instruction, Danielle Lillge and Amy Knowles
Future Visions at Villaggio Verde, Etta Madden
Gentle nudges and poignant pushes: Plasticity and generous scholarship, Etta Madden
The Twitter Presidency: How Donald Trump's Tweets Undermine Democracy and Threaten Us All, Brian L. Ott and Greg Dickinson
Performance studies in communication, Jake Simmons and Travis Brisini
I don’t care about who you are, but what you are doing for me? Examining perceptions of helpful comments and identity in user-generated content, Stephen A. Spates, Renee Kaufmann, Xialing Lin, Kenneth A. Lachlan, and Patric R. Spence
Exploring Challenges of Hospital Chaplains in Transdisciplinary Teams, Stephen A. Spates, Catherine Y.Kingsley Westerman, Leslie A. Laam, and Ryan Goke
“No, We Should Do It”: Youth Training Youth in Activist Research Methods, William Terrell Wright, Heidi Lyn Hadley, and Kevin J. Burke
Submissions from 2019
A cross-cultural comparison of expectations in romantic relationships: India and the United States, Ioana A. Cionea, Bobbi J. Van Gilder, Carrisa S. Hoelscher, and Deepa Anagondahalli
Kinky Friedman and His Influence on Jewish American Music, Mara W. Cohen-Ioannides
Judaism and Extraterrestrials: Theological Lessons from Science Fiction, Mara Wendy Cohen-Ioannides
On posthuman materiality: art-making as rhizomatic rehearsal, Christopher C. Collins
“Everybody’s hard times are different”: country as a political investment in white masculine precarity, Amanda Nell Edgar and Holly Willson Holladay
Creating Pathways to Improve First-Generation Student Success, Tracey A. Glaessgen, Kelly S. Wood, Mark M. Biggs, and Rachelle L. Darabi
Opening spaces of restoration for youth through community-engaged critical literacy practices, Heidi Lyn Hadley, Kevin J. Burke, and William Terrell Wright
Writing in Transnational Workplaces: Teaching Strategies for Multilingual Engineers, Amy Hodges and Leslie Seawright
Collaboration for Strategic Change: Examining Dialectical Tensions in an Interorganizational Change Effort, Carrisa S. Hoelscher
Back on the Porch: Southern Working-Class Whiteness and the Liberal Redneck Revolution, Holly Willson Holladay
The drip, drip, drip of dystopia: The Handmaid’s Tale, temporal boundaries, and affective investment, Holly Willson Holladay and Chandler L. Classen
Leadership in an interorganizational collaboration: A qualitative study of a statewide interagency taskforce, Michael W. Kramer, Eric Anthony Day, Christopher Nguyen, Carrisa S. Hoelscher, and Olivia D. Cooper
Competition, Narrative, and Literary Copia in the Works of Boncompagno da Signa and Guido Faba, Jonathan M. Newman
Redefining Rhetoric: Why Matter Matters, Brian L. Ott
Children and Unhealthy Food Consumption: An Application of the Theory of Normative Social Behavior, Kira Varava
“I was their worst nightmare”: The identity challenges of military widows, Erin C. Wehrman
Sender preferences for delivering feedback: channels, privacy, and synchronicity, Catherine Y .Kingsley Westerman, Katie M. Reno-Rich, Kyle B. Heuett, Stephen A. Spates, and David K. Westerman
Submissions from 2018
Positioning Ethos in/for the Twenty-First Century: An Introduction to Histories of Ethos, James S. Baumlin and Craig A. Meyer
Staring at the future, Lanette Cadle
Is Civility Contagious? Examining the Impact of Modeling in Online Political Discussions, Soo Hye Han, LeAnn M. Brazeal, and Natalie Pennington
Reckoning with the ”Redneck”: Duck Dynasty and the Boundaries of Morally Appropriate Whiteness, Holly Willson Holladay
The Authenticity Spectrum: The Case of a Science Journalism Writing Project, Angela M. Kohnen
Identifying sequences of advice-giving in online military discussion forums, Kelly G. McAninch, Erin C. Wehrman, and Bryan Abendschein
Class size for the basic communication course: A recommendation for the dean, Brian L. Ott
Representations of Interpersonal Interaction and Race/Ethnicity: An Examination of Prime-Time Network Television Programs, Julius Matthew Riles, Kira Varava, Andrew Pilny, and David Tewksbury
