School of Communication Graduate Faculty Research Areas
Faculty
Daniel Faltesek, Associate Professor: cultural analytics, augmented reality, platform studies, television, social media, media production
Trischa Goodnow, Professor: visual rhetoric, pop culture
Kristen D. Herring, Instructor: rhetoric, feminist theory, rhetorical field methods, musical rhetoric, Gender, social movements, popular culture
Colin Hesse, Associate Professor: interpersonal communication, health communication, family communication
Todd Kesterson, Senior Instructor: 3D modeling & animation, virtual world design & development, narrative space, X-Reality history & trends
William E. Loges, Associate Professor: media effects, ethics, human values, diffusion of innovations, survey methods
Xuerong Lu, Assistant Professor: public relations, crisis communication, social media, misinformation, experiment methods
Yanni Ma, Assistant Professor: environmental/science/risk communication, organizational communication, research methods
Alina Padilla-Miller, Instructor: viral content, content creation, media innovation and entrepreneurship, digital media, social media, gender theory, 3D immersive environments
Mark Porrovecchio, Associate Professor: rhetoric, history of speech communication, pragmatism, film, speech and debate.
Joshua Reeves, Associate Professor: digital media, surveillance studies, rhetorical theory
Elizabeth Root, Associate Professor: intercultural communication, qualitative research methods, autoethnography, critical communication pedagogy