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Cheryl Geisler Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University Writing in workplace and professional contexts; the intersection of text, technology, and design; methods of the analysis of verbal data; the...
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Professor
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Robert Krull Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison Electronic user interfaces and performance support; embodied illustrations and language; usability research design.
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Lee Odell Ph.D., University of Michigan Composition theory and research; integrating visual and verbal information; writing in nonacademic settings; writing in engineering; rethinking...
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Patricia Search M.A., Goddard College Visual design theory and practice; interaction design and multimedia art; computer animation and hypermedia interface design; indigenous knowledge and...
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James Watt Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison B.S., Electrical Engineering; M.S., Journalism, Ohio University Survey research via the Internet; marketing communication; media and web cognitive processes; web communication technologies; video games research...
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Merrill Whitburn Ph.D., University of Iowa History and teaching of technical communication; history of rhetoric; rhetoric bibliography; history of English studies.
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James P. Zappen Ph.D., University of Missouri Contemporary rhetorical theory; digital rhetoric; community networking; information design.
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Associate Professor
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Audrey Bennett M.F.A., Graphic Design, Yale University Design theory and research for cross-cultural communication and social change.
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June Deery D.Phil., Oxford University Media studies; television and new media; advertising and culture; popular culture; utopian literature; literature and science.
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Ellen Esrock Ph.D., New York University Cognitive/neuropsychological approaches to literature and visual art; theory of literature; theory and history of photography; modern literature...
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Tamar Gordon Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley Religion and media; ethnographic methods; discourse analysis; documentary theory; visual culture; themed environments; South Pacific and U.S.
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Ekaterina Haskins Ph.D., University of Iowa Rhetorical theory and history, visual rhetoric, and rhetorics of public memory and national identity.
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Katherine Isbister Ph.D., Stanford University Social psychological and affective approaches to HCI, with special attention to games and other leisure and social technologies; embodied...
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Clinical Associate Professor
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Lucien Gerber Ph.D., SUNY at Albany Scientific French; electronic media; computer-mediated communication in France: the concurrent development of the Minitel and Internet in France and...
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Roger Grice Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Information usability; human-computer interaction; communicating on the WWW; usability testing and evaluation; analysis of computer-games interfaces...
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Barbara Lewis Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute M.A. in English Literature, Syracuse University Composition theory and research; writing center theory and research; theory and practice of peer tutoring; the function of writing in specific...
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Paul Miyamoto M.F.A., Otis Art Institute Visual communication design theory and practice; exploration of paint-based medium as an expressive art form.
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Assistant Professor
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Janice Fernheimer Ph.D and M.A. in English, University of Texas at Austin B.A., English, University of Maryland, College Park Rhetorical theory; history of rhetoric; Jewish rhetorical theory and history; nineteenth-century African-American rhetoric; Holocaust representation...
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Nathan G. Freier Ph.D., University of Washington B.A., B.S., University of Washington Children's technology; value sensitive design; human-computer interaction; human-robot interaction; social and moral development; cross-cultural...
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Carlos Godoy Ph.D., U. of Southern California J.D., U. of California, Berkeley Socio-psychological consequences of human interaction with media; health communication; message framing; developmental factors in risk-taking...
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Clinical Assistant Professor
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Misa Dubrawski
Japanese pedagogy; instructional technology; computer-assisted language learning.
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Julie Gutmann D.A., SUNY at Albany Creative Writing (poetry and creative nonfiction); American poetry; digital storytelling.
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Michael Lynch Ph.D., University of Connecticut B.S., Electrical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Interactive storytelling; design of AI within computer games in support of social interaction and communication; cognitive processes for modeling...
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Tong Shen M.A., Chinese Academy of Social Sciences M.A., University of Massachusetts in Amherst Chinese linguistics, dialectology, phonology, and general linguistics.
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Professor Emeritus
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S. Michael Halloran Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Memory studies; the role of museums and historical artifacts in preserving collective memory; historical sites as sites of rhetorical education and...
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Adjunct Lecturer
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Timothy Coffey
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Ken Denberg D.A., Rhetoric and Composition, SUNY at Albany M.F.A., Creative Writing, University of Oregon Writing; literary studies; modern and contemporary literature; 19th century American Literature; small press publishing; Editor of Snail's Pace...
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Blaise Farina
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Jack Ishman Ph.D., Spanish Golden Age and Colonial Latin American Literature, SUNY at Albany M.A., Spanish Literature, SUNY at Albany Spanish Golden Age literature; Colonial Latin American literature; Classical literature; Medieval and Renaissance literature; Spanish language; Latin...
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Andreas Karatsolis
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David Seelow Ph.D., SUNY Stony Brook M.A., English, Columbia University Contemporary Literature and Thought, Postmodernism, Masculinity, Modernity, Studies in Sexuality, Psychoanalytic Theory, Cultural Studies...
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Alex Sela
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Sara Tack M.F.A., Electronic Arts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute B.F.A., Graphic Design, Purchase College Materiality of typography and the communication process; integration of spoken word and motion typography; visual poetry.
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