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Faculty in the Department of Language, Literature, and Communication do theoretical, empirical, and applied work on wide-ranging topics including visual communication; text design; user interface design; usability research design, testing, and evaluation; electronic information design; marketing communication; computer games design, analysis, and modeling; the history and theory of rhetoric (including the rhetoric of science and visual rhetoric); media studies; interaction design and multimedia art; computer animation and hypermedia interface design; computer-supported collaborative learning; communication on the Internet; social, psychological, and affective approaches to HCI; HCI interfaces for the visually impaired; activity theory; cultural studies and intercultural communication; composition theory and pedagogy; literature and science; literacy; communication in organizations; and writing in the professions.

Many of our faculty consult in business and government, where they use their knowledge of theory and research to solve specific problems in written, spoken, and computer-mediated communication. LL&C faculty are active in professional organizations, having served as national or regional officers of such organizations as the National and International Communication Associations (NCA, ICA), Conference on College Composition and Communication, the Society for Technical Communication (STC), the IEEE Professional Communication Society, the Rhetoric Society of America (RSA), the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group in Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI), the IGDA (International Game Developers Association), and the Academy of Management. LL&C faculty routinely travel to conferences and would be happy to talk with prospective graduate students who may be in the area.

Finally, LL&C faculty serve on editorial boards of major presses (such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the State University of New York) and are associated with a number of professional journals. In fact, The Journal of Technical Writing and Communication and The Electronic Journal of Communication were established at Rensselaer.



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Professor / Department Head

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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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

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

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

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

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

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

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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