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Communication Studies
Kenneth R. Albone
B.S. Lake Superior State University
M.A. Miami University
Ph.D. Bowling Green State University
Dr. Albone (website) teaches Small Group Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Research Methods, Intro to Communication Studies, and Senior Seminar.
His research interests include quantitative methodology, interpersonal communication, instructional practices and assessment methods.
Recent related work:
Albone, Kenneth R. Assessment of Progress for Undergraduate Majors in Small Departments: A Faculty-Student Assembly. Assessment Update Journal. September-October 2008, Volume 20, Number 5.
Lorin Basden Arnold
B.A. Purdue University
M.A. Purdue University
Ph.D. Purdue University
Dr. Arnold teaches Interpersonal Communication, Family Communication, Communication Theory, Public Speaking, Public Speaking for Reticent Students, and Seminar in Communication Studies.
Her research interests are family communication and sex roles. In recent years, she has studied the topics sex role narratives, communication about pregnancy, cross-sex and same-sex friendship, and family size. She is currently working on a of mothers’ understandings of gender socialization, and a follow-up study of online mothering groups.
Recent related work:
Arnold, Lorin B. (2008). Social Support and Empowerment for Mothers on a Pregnancy Bulletin Board. In L. B. Arnold (Ed.) Family Communication: Theories and Research. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
Arnold, Lorin B. (2008). Empowered Self. In A. E. Kinser (Ed.) Feminism and Mothering in the Third Wave: Contemporary Feminist Journeys. Toronto: Demeter Press.
Arnold, Lorin B. (2007). “But That’s Not How My Family Does It!:” Reducing the “Weird!” of Cultural Difference in Family Communication. In J. Branche, E. R. Cohn, and J. Mullennix (Eds.) Diversity Across the Curriculum (pp. 253-258). Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing Company.
Arnold, Lorin B., & Doran, E. (2007). Stop before you hurt the kids: Communicating self-control and self-negation in femininity, mothering, and eating disorders. Women’s Studies in Communication, 30 (1), 310-319.
Joy M. Cypher
B.A. Loyola University Chicago
M.A. Purdue University
Ph.D. Purdue University
Dr. Cypher teaches Seminar in Communication Studies, Communication Theory, Public Speaking, Health Communication, and Ethical Issues in Human Communication.
Her interests in research include communicative construction of health, philosophies of embodiment and disability studies.
Recent related work:
Cypher, J.M. (2007). Universal access for audiences: Adapting the public speaking experience. In B.S. Hugenberg & L.W. Hugenberg (Eds.) Teaching ideas for the basic course: Vol.11 (pp. 73-76). Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt.
Cypher, J.M. (2008). Disability and parenting: Representations of Consequence. In L.B. Arnold (Ed.), Family communication theories and research. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
Cypher, J. M. and Martin, D. (2008) The mobius strip: Team teachers reflectingon disability studies and critical thinking. Disability Studies Quarterly 28(4). www.dsq-sds.org
Julie Haynes
B.A. University of Richmond
M.A. Texas A& M
Ph.D Penn State University
Dr. Haynes teaches Images of Gender in Popular Culture, Mass Media and Their Influences, Rhetorical Criticism, and the Seminar in Communication Studies. She also teaches Public Speaking and Public Speaking for Engineering students.
Her research interests include: rhetorical dimensions of media and popular culture, rhetorical constructions of gender and feminist resistance rhetoric, rhetoric of social protest, and rhetoric of regional identity.
Recent related work:
Haynes, Julie. “Strategies for Exposing Domestic Violence in Country Music Videos,” in Local Violence, Global Media: Feminist Analyses of Gendered Representations, ed. by Lisa Cuklanz and Sujata Moorti (New York: Peter Lang, 2009), 201–221.
Maccamas Ikpah
B.A. Eastern Washington University
M.E. Gonzaga University
Ed.D. Oklahoma State University
Dr. Ikpah teaches Mass Media and Their Influences, Communication Studies Seminar, International Communication and Intercultural Communication. He has made extensive medial travels to China, the United Kingdom, Holland, Cameroon and Ghana.
Clara L. Popa
B.A. University of Bucharest
M.A. Kent State University
Ph.D. Kent State University
Dr. Popa teaches Organizational Communication, Communication Theory, Communication Research Methods, Intercultural Communication, and Public Speaking.
Her research interests are organizational groups, communicating trust in organizations, communication networks, group decision-making, and organizational culture.
Recent related work:
Popa, C. (October 2009). Communication and Trust in Different Contexts - presentation given at the Research Colloquium, College of Communication, Rowan University
Popa, C. (April, 2008). How We Talk about Climate Change – presentation given at Focus the Nation Week at Rowan University
Popa, C. (October, 2007). Culture Clash: Opportunities and Challenges in Western-Arab Communication – paper presented at Multiculturalism, Pluralism and Globalization, an interdisciplinary conference sponsored by the Wisconsin Institute for peace and conflict studies and the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse
Popa, C. (June, 2007). Measuring and Explaining Trust – paper presented at the European Survey Research Association Conference, Prague, Czech Republic
Popa, C. (May, 2007). A Model of Trust and Communication – paper presented at International Communication Association Convention, San Francisco
Daniel Schowalter
B.S. University of Wisconsin- Stevens Point
M.A. University of Arkansas
Ph.D. Indiana University
Dr. Schowalter teaches Mass Media and Their Influences, Rhetorical Theory, Rhetorical Criticism, Public Speaking, and Senior Seminar.
His research interests include the intersections of rhetorics, visuality, memory and the popular imagination, with special interest in rhetoric of documentary imagery.
Recent related work:
Schowalter, D.F. (advance book publication contract). Visuality and Trauma at the National Museum of the American Indian. University of Alabama Press.
Schowalter, D.F. (2009). “Disarticulating American Indianness in the National Museum of the American Indian.” Rhetoric, Materiality & Politics. Frontiers of Political Communication Series. Eds. John Louis Lucaites and Barbara Biesecker.
Schowalter, D.F. (2004). “Hallucination as Epistemology: Critiquing the Visual in Ken Burns’ The West.” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 1.3: 250-270.
Schowalter, D.F. (2000). “Remembering the Dangers of Rock and Roll: Toward A Historical Narrative of the Rock Festival.” Critical Studies in Media Communication, 17: 86-102.
Maria Simone
B.A. Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
M.S. University of North Texas
Ph.D. Temple University
Dr. Simone teaches a collection of courses, including Political Communication, Mass Media and Their Influences, Communication Theory, Introduction to Communication Studies, Public Speaking, and Public Speaking for the Reticent Student. Additionally, she serves as the Course Director for Public Speaking.
Her primary research agenda focuses on a participatory civic culture through explorations of media and democracy, with an emphasis on public sphere studies, media law and policy, and civic engagement, especially via digital and converging media systems. A secondary research interest, which compliments the first, includes an examination of surveillance via digital media technologies and the type of disciplinary power such surveillance wields over a democratic citizenry.
Recent related work:
Simone, M.A. (2009). Give me liberty and give me surveillance: A case study of the U.S. Government’s discourse of surveillance. Critical Discourse Studies, 6(1), 1-14.
Simone, M.A. (2008). CODE PINK Alert: Mediated Citizenship in the Public Sphere. In K. Wahl-Jorgensen (Ed.) Mediated Citizenships. New York: Routledge.
Simone, M.A. (2006). Mediated Citizenship in the Public Sphere. Social Semiotics, 16(2), 345-364.
Simone, M.A., & Fernback, J. (2006). Invisible Hands or Public Spheres? Theoretical foundations for U.S. Broadcast Policy. Communication Law & Policy, 11(2), 287-313.
Edward Streb, Department Chair
B.S. Northwestern University
M.A. Northwestern University
Ph.D. Northwestern University
Dr. Streb teaches Persuasion and Social Influence, Public Speaking, Seminar in Communication Studies, and Rhetorical Criticism. He is a former president of both the Rowan University Senate and the NCAA
Faculty Athletics Representatives Association.
His research focuses on the persuasive aspects of popular culture.
Journalism
Mark Berkey-Gerard
B. A. Eastern University
M. S. Columbia University
Professor Berkey-Gerard teaches courses in online journalism.
His current research interests include hyperlocal news, interactive narratives, online journalism education, and academic/commercial news partnerships.
Recent related work:
Grant: Innovations in Teaching Using Technology (Rowan IT Department and Faculty Learning Center)
Blog about teaching interactive storytelling at http://markberkeygerard.com/
Contributor to WHYY It’s Our City blog
Claudia Cuddy
B.A. Rowan University
M.A. Rowan University
Professor Cuddy teaches classes in publication layout and design and the publishing industry, as well as journalism internship and practicum.
Her current research/creative interests include the use of digital media in the workplace, page layout and design, editing, comparison of editing styles (style manuals), word usage, and typography.
Recent related work:
Communicating with QuarkXPress, 4th edition, 2008, Mickleton, NJ: Word Nerd Publishing.
Cityscapes by Terry McGuire (layout and design)
Core Curriculum for Nephrology Nursing, 6th edition, 2008, American Nephrology Nurses' Association.( Editing, design, layout and production)
Carl Hausman
B. A. University of State of New York
M.A. Antioch University
Ph.D. Union Institute
Post Doctoral Fellowship - New York University
Dr. Hausman teaches Media Ethics, Journalism Principles and Practices, and Problems in Contemporary Journalism.
His current research/creative interests include journalism ethics, government, critical thinking, professional writing, radio and television broadcasting.
Recent related work:
Weekly analysis of ethical aspects of news at: www.ethicsnewsline.com
Modern Radio Production, 8th ed., Cengage, 2009
Lies We Live By, Routledge, 2000
Candace Kelley
B. A. Howard University
M. S. Syracuse University
J. D. Seton Hall Law School
Professor Kelley teaches courses in media law and braodcast journalism.
Her current research interests include intellectual property, Nielsen ratings, and broadcast journalism.
Recent related work:
Head writer for legal publication about intellectual property issues at lawcast.com.
“Turnitin.com : The Decision is In.” LAWCAST, Inc. Pennington, N.J. April 2009
“Joel Fights Back.” LAWCAST, Inc. Pennington, N.J. April 2009.
“John McCain's Music Doesnt' Get the Vote.” LAWCAST, Inc. Pennington, N.J. March 2009.
Kathryn Quigley
B. A. Villanova University
M.A. University of Maryland
Professor Quigley teaches News Reporting, Media Ethics, Feature Writing, and Internship, among other courses.
Her current research interests include media ethics, children and families journalism, online media coverage of child deaths and disappearances, the future of journalism education, social media and its relationship to journalism.
Recent related work:
Introduction to News Writing: Topics and Techniques. Kendall-Hunt. 2006.
Public Relations/Advertising
Joseph Basso
B.A. Rowan University
M.A. Rowan University
Ph.D. Texas A& M
J.D. Widener University
Dr. Basso teaches
His current research interests are primarily focused on First Amendment Law and the Fairness Doctrine
Tracie N. Babb
B.A. Fordham University
M.A. Fordham University
Ph.D. Howard University
Dr. Babb teaches
Dr. Babb’s research interests include the use of new media in reputation management and the implications that popular culture has on the public relations industry.
Suzanne FitzGerald
B.A. Eastern University
M.S. Drexel University
Ph.D. Temple University
Dr. FitzGerald teaches Seminar, the thesis writing course of the M.A, in public relations program and Case Studies/PR Planning, the undergraduate capstone courses in the public relations major.
Her current research interests include internet advertising on news web sites, Fairness Doctrine impact on PR practitioners, PR education, and PR/advertising credibility.
Recent related work:
Corporate Training: Online or Traditional, Corporate Communication Conference, England, June 2008
Marketing in a Time of Economic Uncertainty: An Examination of Internet Advertising in Popular News Web Sites, International Association of Online Communicators, October 2009
The Resurrection of the Fairness Doctrine and its Implications for Public Relations Education and Practice, Public Relations Society of America Educator's Academy, November 2009
Anthony Fulginiti
B.A. Laurel Hill College
M.A. Villanova University
M.A. Rowan University
Professor Fulginiti teaches courses in advertising techniques, PR ethics, PR planning, and others.
His current research interests include community studies relating community and public school systems' values; public opinion studies of social issues -- marriage, politics, family, religion, culture; message, audience, channel identification for integrated marketing communication projects; and PR techniques - random probability telephone surveys, focus groups, content analyses, interviews, advisory committees
M. Larry Litwin
B.A. Parsons College
M.A. Rowan University
Professor Litwin teaches Intro to Advertising, Intro to PR, Media Planning and Buying, Electronic Media Copyright, and Impact of PR on the News.
His research interests include how changing media affect public relations and crisis communication and the media.
Michael D. McNiven
B.A. Brigham Young University
M.A. Brigham Young University
Ph.D. University of Georgia
Dr. McNiven teaches Intro to Advertising, Media Planning, and Intro to PR/Advertising Research, among other courses.
His current research/creative interests include media consumption, and financial advertising/marketing.
Edward H. Moore
B.A. Rowan University
M.A. Rowan University
Professor Moore teaches Public Opinion, Techniques in Communication, and Basic PR Writing.
Professor Moore’s research interests include educational public relations and technology in PR and advertising.
Recent related work:
The School and Community Relations9th Edition(Allyn Bacon)
School-PR Research Primer (NSPRA)
Mastering E-Newsletters (NSPRA)
School Public Relations for Student Success (Corwin)
Radio/TV/Film
Joseph Bierman
B.A. Rowan University
M.F.A. New York University
Ph.D. Regent University
Dr. Bierman teaches Film Production 1, 2 and Advanced Filmmaking, Screenwriting, and Contemporary International Cinema.
His research interests are in film production theory and international film production practices, particularly in the former Soviet Union and Ireland. Dr. Bierman’s films have appeared in more than 40 film festivals and he has won the CINE award for two of his films "Araby" and "The Telltale Heart". His most recent film “The Open Window” had its premiere at the 2008 New Jersey International Film Festival at Rutgers University.
Recent related work:
Bierman, Joseph. “The Open Window.” DVD Color 8 minutes. Official Selection: New Jersey International Film Festival at Rutgers, New Brunswick, June 8, 2008. Downbeach Film Festival, Margate, New Jersey, July 2008.
Sheri Chinen Biesen
B.A. University of Southern California
M.A. University of Southern California
Ph. D. University of Texas at Austin
Professor Biesen is author of Blackout: World War II and the Origins of Film Noir (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005), described by American Historical Review as, "the most detailed and thoroughly researched interpretation of this era's American film noir." She has contributed to Film Noir Reader 4, Gangster Film Reader, Film and History, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Literature/Film Quarterly, Popular Culture Review, The Historian, Television and Television History, and edited The Velvet Light Trap.
She teaches American Film Directors, Film History II, Film Noir, Film Genres, Gangsters/NeoNoir, Film History I, and RTF Research & Criticism.
Recent related work:
Biesen, Sherri Chinen. Blackout: World War II and the Origins of Film Noir. Baltimore: John Hopkins Press, 2005.
Biesen, Sheri Chinen. “Reforming Hollywood Gangsters: Crime and Morality from Populism to Patriotism” in The Gangster Film Reader. Eds. Alain Silver, James Ursini. Pompton Plains, NJ: Limelight Editions, 2007.
Keith Brand
B.F.A. West Virginia University
M.Ed. Temple University
Professor Brand teaches Radio Broadcasting I and Television Production I.
His research interests include community media, low power FM, and regulation of the media. Mr. Brand is host of "Sleepy Hollow" on WXPN FM, the artistic director of the Seven Stars Music Festival, and a member of "The HIX", a local band.
Recent related work:
Brand, Keith. “The Blob” Audio Documentary. National Broadcast on NPR’s All Things Considered, September 10, 2008. Also posted on NPR website. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94479654
Mike Donovan
B.A. New Jersey City University
M.A. New York University
Professor Donovan teaches The Television Industry and TV History and Appreciation. Mike is the first professor to occupy the King Family professorial chair in the college.
His research interests include TV history and programming.
Ned Eckhardt
B.A. Colgate University
M.A. Case Western Reserve University
Professor Eckhardt teaches Television Documentary Production, Advanced Television Production, and Television Program Packaging. He is an award-winning documentary maker. His latest documentary, "Seabrook Farms Remembered," was funded by the New Jersey Historical Commission and is being distributed nationally by the publisher Holmes & Meier. He is currently writing a text on documentary production entitled "Life in the Lens".
Recent related work:
Eckhardt, Ned. “Seabrook Farms Remembered.” DVD Color 20 minutes. (Crystal Award of Distinction, Communicator Awards winner in 2003.) Downbeach Film Festival, Margate, NJ, July 2008.
Richard Grupenhoff
B.A. Xavier University
M.A. Purdue University
Ph.D. Ohio State University
Dr. Grupenhoff teaches Film Production, Film History, and African-American Film History. He is the author of The Black Valentino: The Stage and Screen Career of Lorenzo Tucker. He coordinates the student/faculty exchange program between Rowan University and the University of Osnabrueck, in Germany.
His main research interest is African-American film history.
Ken Kaleta
B.A. Villanova University
M.A. Villanova University
Ph.D. New York University
Dr. Kaleta teaches Film History and Appreciation I and Movie Industry. He has written several books: Hanif Kureishi - Postcolonial Storyteller, David Lynch and Conversations with Hal Hartley. He co-produces with Professor Mike Donovan the "Talking Pictures" series which brings working industry professionals to the College to speak to our students.
In addition, Dr. Kaleta continues to research independent filmmaking and local Philadelphia area filmmakers.
Recent related work:
Kaleta, Ken. Hal Hartley. New York: Soft Skull Press, 2008.
Kaleta, Ken. With the Rich and Mighty: Emlen Etting of Philadelphia. Newtown Square, PA: Kay Square Press, 2008.
Judith Lancioni
B.A. College of New Rochelle
M.A. Ohio University
Ph.D. Temple University
Dr. Lancioni teaches RTF Research and Criticism, Images of Women in Film, and Television Program Packaging. She has published articles on The Civil War, Billy Elliot, Desperate Housewives, Survivor, Star Trek, and Visual Rhetoric.
Her research interests include films of Ken Burns, reality television, documentary theory, gender issues in film, science fiction genre in film and TV, and magical realism.
Recent related work:
Lancioni, Judith. Fix Me Up: Essays on Television Dating and Makeover Shows. Forthcoming
Lancioni, Judith. “Rhetoric of the Frame. Revisioning Archival Photographs in The Civil War” in Visual Rhetoric: A Reader in Communication and American Culture. Eds. Lester Olson, Cara Finnegan, and Diane Hope. Thousand Oaks, CA: 2008.
Lancioni, Judith. “The Civil War: A Battleground of Meaning,” Film and History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies. 38.1, 2008.
Diana Nicolae
B.A. University of Bucharest
M.F.A. University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Professor Nicolae teaches Television Production, Advanced Television Production, and Documentary Production. She is an accomplished documentarian, with professional experience in broadcast journalism, radio, and advertising.
Her interests include Documentary production, International Journalism, and Eastern European politics.
Recent related work:
Nicolae, Diana. “Acasa.” DVD (Producer/Director) 2008.
Nicolae, Diana. “Romania is Bleeding.” DVD (Producer/Director). 2008.
Chandrasekhar Vallath
B. Tech. Banaras Hindu University, India
M.A. Bowling Green State University, Ohio
Ph. D. Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Dr. Vallath teaches the New Media courses in the RTF program, as well as instructing for Media Aesthetics and other core courses. He has been an active part of the development of new media courses in the program.
His research interests include the use of new media forms in health campaigns, and pedagogy and new media.
Recent related work:
Vallath, Chandrasekhar. Interactive Tool for Substance Awareness Coordinators. Web site and DVD-ROM produced for the New Jersey Higher Education Consortium. 2008.
Vallath, Chandrasekhar. Video Modeling of Social Stories for Autistic Children. A series of video vignettes shot and produced for KenCrest, Philadelphia. 2008.
Vallath, Chandrasekhar. Interactive Multimedia Quiz for Large Classes. Interactive multimedia application for teachers to create entertaining and educational quizzes on any subject. 2008.
Vallath, Chandrasekhar. Principal Investigator, Interactive Tool for Substance Awareness Coordinators, New Jersey Higher Education Consortium Web Site—Rowan University Center for Addiction Studies (Fall 2007/Spring 2008)-$10,000.
Writing Arts
Ronald Block
B.A. University of Nebraska-Lincoln
M.A. Syracuse University
M.S. Syracuse University
Professor Block teaches undergraduate and graduate-level creative writing, focusing on poetry and the short story.
His current creative interests involve the writing of both poetry and fiction.
Recent related work:
“Concerning Freaks, Book Clubs, and the Unbearable Distances of the Plains.” The Big Empty [an anthology of creative non-fiction]. Ed. Ladette Randolph. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007.
Featured Poet at the Warren County Poetry Festival. September 29, 2007. Blair Academy, Blairstown, NJ, where I presented my work and also participated with a panel discussion: “Mapping and Making: Questions of Poetry and Place.”
“Shame” and “Strip Joint” in Nebraska Presence (Omaha: Backwaters Press, Fall 2007).
Presented of poetry at the Betty June Silconas Poetry Center. November 7, 2008, Sussex County Community College, Newton, NJ.
Presentation of “Fragments of One Poem: Using Published Poems as Writing Prompts” in the Pedagogy Forum of the Associated Writing Programs Conference, New York, February 2008.
Host of WGLS, Writers’ Roundtable.
Julia Chang
B.A. Stonehill College
M.S. Columbia University
M.A. Temple
Professor Chang teaches in both the undergraduate and graduate creative writing programs, specializing in fiction and creative nonfiction. She also teaches Writing Children's Stories
Her current research/creative interests include writing in many styles and in several genres of prose: literary fiction, journalism, memoir, arts criticism and creative nonfiction. Recent non-fiction work has focused on Cambodian refugee families resettled in the South Bronx , undocumented migrant workers in the United States, poverty and its impact on family life, and the impact of global “free trade” upon the marginalized residents of third world countries Her fiction often focuses on the dynamics within families, including physical and emotional abuses, migration, biracialism, and international adoption.
Jennifer Courtney
B.A. Duquesne University
M.A. Western Michigan University
Ph.D. Purdue University
Dr. Courtney teaches Seminar I and II at the graduate level, Introduction to Writing Arts, Evaluating Writing, and Sophomore Engineering Clinic I.
Her current research interests include curriculum development, writing program administration, and cultural studies.
Recent related work:
“Real Men Do Housework: Ethos and Masculinity in Contemporary Domestic Advice.” Rhetoric Review. January 2009.
“The Writing Arts Major: A Work in Process” Co-authored with Deb Martin, and Diane Penrod. What are We Becoming? Developments in Undergraduate Writing Majors. Eds. Greg Giberson and Thomas Moriarty. Utah State UP. Forthcoming.
“’What exactly is this major?’ Creating Disciplinary Identity Through an Introductory Course” Co-authored with Sanford Tweedie and William I. Wolff. What are We Becoming? Developments in Undergraduate Writing Majors Eds. Greg Giberson and Thomas Moriarty. Utah State UP. Forthcoming.
“Pedagogical Tasks and Writing Assignments.” Co-authored with Christine Tardy. Teaching Academic Writing. New York, NY: Continuum Press. 2008.
Ai Guo Han
B.A. Xian Foreign Language University
M.A. Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Han teaches College Composition I and II, English as a Second Language I and II, and Elementary Chinese.
His research interests are teaching and learning in the classroom and Daoism and its applications.
Roberta Harvey
B.A. University of North Dakota
B.S. University of North Dakota
M.A. University of North Dakota
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Dr. Harvey teaches courses in the First-year Writing Program, including specialized versions of College Composition II for engineering and biology students, and technical writing.
Her current research interests include how people learn, writing program administration, academic leadership, discipline-specific writing instruction, teamwork, information literacy, assessment of writing,
programmatic and institutional assessment, engineering and liberal education, materialist feminist rhetorical theory
Erin Herberg
B.S. Western Carolina University
M.A. Western Carolina University
Ph.D. Georgia State University
Dr. Herberg teaches College Composition I and II, Writing for the Workplace, Writing, Research and Technology, Contemporary Rhetoric, and Managerial Communication.
Her research interests are the history of rhetoric, women and rhetoric, and assessment.
Martin Itzkowitz
B.A. Brooklyn College
M.A. New York University
Ph.D. New York University
Dr. Itzkowitz teaches College Composition, Writing with Style, Assessment of Writing, Semantics, Humanities, Creative Writing, and Special Topics Honors.
His current research/creative interests include poetry and fiction; writing and mimesis (study in progress); and a primer on genocide (in planning stage).
Recent related work:
“Occupational Hazard” in The Barefoot Muse (Spring/Summer) 2006.
“Occupational Hazard,” “auntiquities,” “Manifest Destiny,” and “The Avenue/Winter Night” in The HyperTexts (Fall) 2006.
Drew Kopp
B.A.
M.A.
Ph.D. University of Arizona
Dr. Kopp teaches
His current research interests include sophistic approaches to writing instruction, such as writing with new media (especially digital video), and using writing situations to examine and challenge everyday practices and values.
Recent related work:
“Computer Gameplay as Grunt and Reflection.” Works and Days 43-44 (spring-fall 2004): 167-183.
Deb Martin
B.S. Western Michigan University
M.A. Texas Woman's University
Ph.D. Texas Woman's University
Dr. Martin teaches courses in the undergraduate major; The Writer’s Mind, Tutoring Writing, Evaluating Writing, and Perspectives in Assessment in the graduate program. She is the Rowan Writing Center Director. Her current research/creative interests include writing pedagogy, evaluating writing, disability studies.
Recent related work:
Martin, D. and Martin J. (In Press) “Breaking the ‘Boom and Bust’ Dynamic of Professional Development.” Principal Leadership.
Courtney, J., Martin, D., and Penrod, D. (In Press) “The Writing Arts Major: A
Work in Process.” Book Chapter for Advance(d) Composition: Undergraduate Majors and the Future of the Discipline. G. Giberson and T. Moriarty, Eds. Utah State University Press.
Cypher, J. and Martin, D. (2008) “The Mobius Strip: Team Teachers Reflecting on Disability Studies and Critical Thinking.” Disability Studies Quarterly 28.4.
Martin, D. (2008) “The Authors Gallery: A Meaningful Integration of Technology and Writing.”Middle School Journal 39.4. (13-19).
Martin, D. (2008) “Add Disability and Stir: The New Ingredient in Composition Textbooks.” Book Chapter in Disability and the Teaching of Writing: A Critical Sourcebook. B. Brueggemann and C. Leweicki-Wilson, Eds. Bedford/St. Martin’s Press. (74-91).
Martin, D. (2007) Book Review: Coming to Terms: Theorizing Writing Assessment inComposition Studies by Patricia Lynne. Writing Program Administration 30.3 Summer. (155-58).
Jeffrey Maxson
B.A. Yale University
M.A. University of California at Berkeley
Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley
Dr. Maxson teaches Integrated College Composition I and II, Writing for Electronic Communities, and Writing Difference.
His research interests include computer-mediated composition, writing of linguistic minorities, and alternative discourses.
Recent related work:
Maxson, Jeffrey. “‘Government of da Peeps, for da Peeps, and by da Peeps’: Revisiting the Contact Zone.” Journal of Basic Writing 24.1 (2005): 24-47.
Janice Rowan
B.A. Rutgers University
M.A. University of Michigan
Professor Rowan teaches Fiction to Film and Writing for the Workplace. She has been a department chair and is currently serving as the College’s Interim Associate Dean.
Her research interests include faculty development, business communication, film adaptations of literature, and academic leadership.
Recent related work:
Paper presentation (October 2009), “Unity and Division in Michael Ondaatje’s and Anthony Minghella’s The English Patient: A Study of Maps, Boundaries, and Identities,” West Virginia University 33rd Colloquium on Literature and Film.
Paper presentation (Feb 2010), Working title - “Curricular Innovation and Responding to Societal Needs,” Kansas State's 27th Annual Academic Chairpersons Conference.
Donald Stoll
B.A. Valparaiso University
M.F.A. University of Texas
Ph.D. Indiana University
Dr. Stoll teaches College Composition I and II, Writing for the Workplace, Writing, Research, and Technology, and Magazine Article Writing.
His current research interests include student learning assessment, the scholarship of teaching and learning, and the scholarship of engagement.
Christa Teston
B.A. Kent State University
M.A. Kent State University
Ph.D. Kent State University
Dr. Teston teaches Evaluating Writing, Sophomore Engineering Clinic, Writing for the Workplace, and courses in visual rhetoric.
Her current research interests include multidisciplinary deliberative decision-making, visual communication, and medical rhetoric.
Recent related work:
Teston, C. (2010) “From Artifact to Action: The Role of Medical Images in Cancer Care Deliberations,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Louisville, KY.
Teston, C. (2009). A Grounded Investigation of Genred Guidelines in Cancer Care Deliberations. Written Communication 26(3): 320-348.
Teston, C. (2008, October) “Multimodal Deliberations in a Medical Workplace Setting: A Tumor Board Study,” Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric & Composition, Louisville, KY
Teston, C. (2008, April) “Knowledge-Building & Decision-Making in Risky Situations: A Tumor Board Study,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, LA
Teston, C. (2008, March) “You Say Medicine, I Say Mêtis-ine: The ‘Promise’ of Healthcare in the 21st Century,” Rhetoric Society of America, Seattle, WA
Teston, C. (2008, February) “Risk and Representation: A Tumor Board Study,” The University of Santa Barbara International Conference on Writing Research Across Borders, Santa Barbara, CA
Sanford Tweedie
B.A. University of Michigan
M.A. Eastern Michigan University
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Dr. Tweedie teaches the in the first-year writing program, undergraduate major, and M.A. in Writing.
His current research/creative interests include undergraduate writing programs: theory and practice;
Post-Wende perceptions of East Germany; integration of Let Me Learn in the classroom; students in transition; genre-stretching writing; narratives of pedagogical failure; and flash fiction.
Recent related work:
“What exactly is this major?: Creating Disciplinary Identity Through an Introductory Course.” With Jennifer Courtney and William Wolff. In What are We Becoming?: Developments in Undergraduate Writing Majors, edited by Greg Giberson and Tom Moriarity. Logan: Utah State University Press. Forthcoming 2010.
“Thinking Not Inside or Outside but About the Boxes.” Liberal Education. Summer 2007: 49-51.
“When Your Number is Up” Hospital Drive: A Journal of Reflective Practice in Word & Image. Issue 4: Summer 2009. (http://hospitaldrive.med.virginia.edu/Issue4/Story/Tweedie.html)
“Seville, Midafternoon.” Loch Raven Review. Winter 2008. Vol. IV, no. 4. In print and online (http://www.lochravenreview.net/2008Winter).
“American, the Beautiful” Doorknobs and BodyPaint. #49 (http://www.iceflow.com).
William Wolff
B.A. Union College
M.A. University of Cincinnati
Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Wolff teaches Writing, Research, and Technology; and Engineering Clinic II.
His current research/creative interests include Web 2.0, new media, digital humanities, literacy, usability, accessibility, classification systems, and laptops.
Recent related work:
Wolff, W.I. (2009). Systems of classification and the cognitive properties of grant proposal formal documents, Technical Communication Quarterly.
Wolff, W.I., Fitzpatrick, K., and Youssef, R. (2009). Rethinking usability for Web 2.0 and beyond, Currents in Electronic Literacy.
Wolff, W.I. (2008). “‘A chimera of sorts’: Rethinking educational technology grant programs, courseware innovation, and the language of educational change,” Computers & Education, 51, pp. 1184 – 1197.
Wolff, W.I. (2008, October). “When Understanding Hypertext Isn’t Enough: Notes toward a New Online Literacy.” The Seventh Biennial Thomas R. Watson Conference. Louisville, KY.
Wolff, W.I., and Penrod, D. (2008, June)”Preparing Online Communicators for the Future of Information Systems.” Third Annual International Association of Online Communicators Conference. Reykjavik, Iceland.
Wolff, W.I. (2008, April). Integrating Technology, part of the panel Building and Sustaining an Independent Writing Major: Insights from a Decade of Departmental Experience, Conference on College Composition and Communication. New Orleans, LA.
Wolff, W.I., and Penrod, D. (2008, January). Preparing Writers for the Future of Information Systems. 4th International Conference on Technology, Knowledge, and Society. Boston, MA.
Wolff, W. I. (2008). Mapping Relationships among Web 2.0 Applications: A Preliminary Investigation into a New Information Literacy. Non-Salary Financial Support Grants, Rowan University, ($4811.00 for hardware and two undergraduate research assistants)
Wolff, W.I. (2008). Reconceiving Writing, Research, and Technology by Introducing Video Composition, Oral History, and Educational Outreach. Innovations in Teaching with Technology Grant, Rowan University, 2008, for ($2500.00 for hardware)
