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COMMPOST January 2015 Volume: 33, #2 National Communication Association Edition University of Minnesota Department of Communication Studies 225 Ford Hall 224 Church Street SE Minneapolis, MN 55455 Editor: Beatrice Dehler Secretary: Ronald W. Greene _____________________________________________________________________ I was happy to see so many alums stay so late into the evening at the Minnesota Party in celebration of Karlyn Campbell. I wanted to thank everyone for making it such a great event. A special congratulations goes out to Professor Alan Gross for receiving a well-deserved NCA Distinguished Scholar Award. Ron Greene Senior Faculty (NCA) Activities Ron Greene Last year my essay "Another Materialist Rhetoric" won the Charles Woolbert Award. So in Chicago we had the panel to discuss the work. Ed Schiappa, Matt May, and Kristen Swenson were part of a good panel. I was happy to return to my performance roots in Chicago and did a performance with Dr. Amy Darnell from Columbia College (MO) for the 100 years in 100 minutes panel. We performed "Performance as Knowing/Knowing as Performance" by Mary Francis Hopkins and Beverly Whittaker Long. Susanne Jones Jones, S. M., Hansen, W., & Hughes, S. (2014, November). How the genie got in the bottle: Initial results for an appraisal-based model of mindful supportive communication. Presented at the Communication and Social Cognition division of the National Communication Association, Chicago, IL. (Top 3 Paper) Bodie, G., Cannava, K., Vickery, A. J., & Jones, S. M. (2014, November). The role of “active listening” in informal helping conversations: Impact on perceptions of listener helpfulness, sensitivity, and supportiveness and discloser emotional improvement. Presented at the Interpersonal Communication Division of the National Communication Association, Chicago, IL. Jones, S. M. (2014, November). The mark of person-centered speech on interpersonal communication scholarship. (Panel Presenter). Competitive panel held in the Interpersonal Communication Division of the National Communication Association, Chicago, IL. Ascan Koerner “Family Communication Patterns, Family Sexual Communication, and Adult Children’s Sexual Communication, Satisfaction, and Relationship Quality” Mark Pedelty and Joy Hamilton “Act Like it Matters: Putting Art, Performance, and Popular Culture into Environmental Communication Curriculum” (Presented at the Environmental Communication Pedagogy and Practice NCA Preconference) Arthur Walzer “Norton Anthology on Rhetoric and Writing: A Response to Robert Hariman” (Chair and Participant) Panel: Appropriating Foucault for Communication Studies (Respondent) Graduate Student (NCA) Activities Jacquelyn Arcy “A Dolla Make Me Holla’: Finance and Sentiment in Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” & “Affect & Activism in Feminist Media Studies: Mapping Conceptual Links before and after the Affective Turn” Emma Bedor Re-Evaluating the Gaze for Revenge Pornography/“Gonna Show the World…” Using Classic Critiques to Make Feminist Sense of Today’s TV, Global Brands, Reporting on Violence Against Women, and Revenge Porn Shelby Bell “Supreme Court Authority: Deeds Done in Words” (Communication and Law Division Scholar to Scholar Session) Diane Cormany “The Affective Flows of Financial News Media: CNBC’s The Closing Bell” & “Whitewashing Memories of Violence on Game of Thrones” Carly Danielson “Student Bullying as ‘Repetitive’” Societal Conceptualizations and Implications” Liora Elias “Outside the Box: Representations of and Possibilities for Transgender People on TV” (Co-authored with alumni Raechel Tiffee) & “’Is Laverne Cox the Woman We’ve Been Waiting For?’ Transgender Possibilities and Resistance to the Carceral State In/Outside of Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black” (co-authored with alumni Raechel Tiffee) Mia Fischer “”Free CeCe! The Tragic Consequences of Transgender Deviance” & “Under the Ban-Optic Gaze: Chelsea Manning and the State’s Surveillance of Transgender Bodies” (top three papers in NCA’s LGBT division) Elena Hristova “Speaking the Public Intellectual: Race, Media, and Praxis in the Public Sphere” Allison Prasch “Towards a Rhetorical Theory of Deixis” (Paper competitively selected by Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division) & “Saluting the ‘Skutnik’: The Civic Hero in Presidential Discourse” (co-authored with Julia Scatliff) Special Note to Alumni Dear Alumni Members of the Department of Communication Studies: As graduate students in the Department of Communication Studies, we would like to express our deepest gratitude for your active participation and generosity at the Minnesota Party at the NCA conference in Chicago. It was our great pleasure meeting and sharing such a wonderful moment with you to celebrate the 100th anniversary of NCA and Professor Campbell’s lifelong contributions to our discipline. Without your generosity, contributions and concerted effort to advance our discipline we are unable to attend these conferences and continue our scholarly work. For many of us, it was our first NCA conference and it was exciting to see the energy and enthusiasm that the network of friendship and scholarship created at the party. The opportunity to meet with professional scholars strengthened our shared believe that our strong sense of community is vital to the advancement of our scholarly research and communal ethos. We are all very thankful to be a part of this vibrant community and its history. Again, we thank you for your generosity and support. The Communication Studies Graduate Student Association Teaching Faculty (NCA) Activities Alyssa Isaacs “Defining, connecting, implementing: Furthering the field of family sexual Communication” Scott Makstenieks “Tradition for a Modern Ummah: Seyyed Hossein Nasr’s Rhetoric of Contemporary Islam in a Post 9/11 World” Other Department Activities Senior Faculty Susanne Jones Susanne Jones has been busy working on her research in social support. Best news, the first pub on mindful communication is published in the peer-reviewed journal, Mindfulness. Jones, S. M., & Hansen, W. D. (2014). Mindful supportive communication: Three empirical studies exploring initial connections. Mindfulness. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12671-014-0362-7 Together with Graham Bodie from Louisiana State University and his students, Jones also published papers in Communication Monographs, Communication Studies, and the Western Journal of Communication. Bodie, G., Cannava, K., Vickery, A. J., & Jones, S. M. (in press). Patterns of nonverbal adaptation in supportive interactions. Communication Studies. Bodie, G., Cannava, K., Vickery, A. J., & Jones, S. M. (January, 2015). The role of “active listening” in informal helping conversations: Impact on perceptions of listener helpfulness, sensitivity, and supportiveness and discloser emotional improvement. Western Journal of Communication. Bodie, G., Jones, S. M., & Vickery, A., Hatcher, L., & Cannava, K. (2014). Examining the construct validity of enacted support: A multitrait-multimethod analysis of four perspectives for judging immediacy and listening behaviors. Communication Monographs. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2014.957223 Ascan Koerner Ascan Koerner gave a colloquium entitled “Family Communication Patterns: The Next 25 Years” at the University of Missouri Department of Communication Studies on December 5, 2014. Mark Pedelty “Making Music with, for, and at Animals” (Keynote lecture and performance presented with David Rothenberg at the Ecomusicologies III Conference) Asheville, NC “Sounds Studies, Ecomusicology, and PostHumanism in/for/with Ethnomusiciology” Metropolitan Museum of Art Pittsburgh, PA Pedelty, Mark and Morgan Kuecker. “Seen to be Heard? Gender, Voice, and Body in Television Advertisements.” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 11, no. 3 (2014): 250-269. Amy Sheldon Invited chapter: Sheldon, A. forthcoming. "Thank you for heckling me: Hillary Rodham Clinton's discursive management of her public persona, her political message, and the 'Iron my shirt!' hecklers in the 2008 Presidential election campaign." In John Wilson and Diana Boxer (eds.), Discourse, Politics and Women as Global Leaders. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Invited conference particpation (accepted): Sheldon, A. "'Oooh, this smells like strawberry': American preschoolers evaluations of synthetic food odors in color markers during an art activity -- metonymic mapping, embodied cognition". Paper for the panel "Adapting food, adapting language" at the 14th Conference of the International Pragmatics Association in Antwerp, 26-31 July 2015. Teaching recognition: Mentor, President's Distinguished Faculty Mentor Program, 2014-2015 Graduate Students Emma Bedor Catfish-ing With Foucault: Discipline and Punishment in the Digital Panopticon/” It’s Real Life, Lower Your Expectations”: Gender(ed) Performances in Post-Recessionary Situation Comedies and Reality Television National Women’s Studies Association San Juan, Puerto Rico November 2014 & “Material Minds: Psychiatric Research Practices and the Case of Dan Markingson” Stephen Bennett “Kayne West, Runaway, and the Crazy-Making of a Black Auteur” Dean Hooper New Scholars Conference Drew University, Madison, NJ Bennett, Stephen. “The Othering of Palestinians in Film: Munich and Waltz with Bashir.” Networking Knowledge, Vol. 7, no 3 (2014). Liora Elias “Post(ing) Same-Sex Marriage: Discourse of Marriage Rights as they Circulate on and Around ABC’s Modern Family” Film and History Conference, Madison, WI Mia Fischer “Terrorizing Chelsea Manning – Transgender Surveillance and the U.S. Security State” National Women’s Studies Association San Juan, Puerto Rico November 2014 Fischer, M. (2015). “Under the Ban-Optic Gaze: Chelsea Manning and the State’s Surveillance of Transgender Bodies” in E. van der Meulen & R. Heynen (Eds.), Expanding the Gaze: Gender and the Politics of Surveillance. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. (forthcoming 2015) Awarded a $900 travel award from the Council of Graduate Students, December 2014. Elena Hristova “Patricia J. Williams on the Radio: Speaking Race, Speaking Praxis in the 1997 BBC Reith Lectures” “Time Out For Victory!”: Women, Work, and Comic Books During the Second World War: Engendering Education, Engendering Labor (Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender) Elena also won a Lent Award for Comics Scholarship (2014) – Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. Allison Page “Slavery’s Not Funny but You People are Hilarious’: Race, Satire, and New Media” American Studies Association Conference Los Angeles, CA November 2014 Page, A. “How Many Slaves Work for You?’ Race, New Media, and Neoliberal Consumer Activism.” Journal of Consumer Culture. Pre-published online October 8, 2014. Page, A. and Stephen Dillon. “The Haunting of Evidence.” Special issue of Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies, “From Emmett Til to Trayvon Martin.” Forthcoming Page A. “Circulating Cuteness: Affect, Capital, and Cute Animal Videos.” In Visceral Media: Interrogating Affect in Contemporary Media Culture, edited by Hollis Griffin. Forthcoming on Routledge. Allison Prasch “The Significance of Place in U.S. Presidential Public Address” “Doing Rhetoric at the U” (Graduate Student Conference, University of Minnesota) “Book Review: The Good Neighbor: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Rhetoricof American Power by Mary E. Stuckey.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 17, no. 3 (Fall 2014): 553-558. Jules Wight Wight, J. (2014). "Considering Hall and Reconsidering Foundations of the Popular", The Popular Culture Studies Journal. Vol. 2. Wight, J. (2014). Saving Private Manning? On Erasure and the Queer in the I am Bradley Manning Campaign. Paper Session: Now You See It, Now You Don’t: On Codes Screens, Visibility, and Erasure. International Communication Association, Seattle, WA. Wight, J. (2014). Moving Beyond the Limits of Authorship?: Michelle Obama’s 2012 Convention Speech. Panel: Political Rhetoric and Discourse. International Communication Association, Seattle, WA. Recent Dissertations Mark Martinez: "Care of the Machine Self: Physiology, Cybernetics, Humanistic Systems in Ergonomics" (Adviser: Ronald Walter Greene) Dana Schowalter: Philanthropy as Gendered Global Governance: Philanthrocapitalism, Branded Citizenship, and the Selling of Corporate Social Responsibility (Adviser: Mary Vavrus) Shannon Stevens: “Revolution in the countryside”: Shifting Financial Paradigms Amid the Rhetoric of the “Farm Crisis,” 1925-1933 (Adviser: Ronald Walter Greene) Undergraduate Students Under the direction of instructor Mia Fischer, the undergraduate students in her COMM 3201 Media Production class produced an excellent public service announcement on white privilege and racism in light of the “BlackLivesMatter protests. Peter Gregg and Mark Neuman-Scott's Comm 3204 sections worked with eight local clients to produce public service announcements, including motivating people to volunteer with exoffender reentry (Amicus), seeking counseling after experiencing sexual violence (Sexual Violence Center), installing recycling containers at convenience stores (Recycling Association of Minnesota), stress management for students, employees, and faculty at the U of MN (PAWS), adopting pets and changing the image of Minneapolis Animal Control and Care, Green Line safety tips for U students (UofM Department of Public Safety and Transportation), UofM 624WALK and Academy of Whole Learning School serving children with Autism Spectrum and Intellectual Disability Disorder (ASD) and Intellectual Disability (ID). Peter Gregg and Mark Neuman-Scott's audio-only follow-up to their webseries Forsythia won "Best New Original Ongoing Production" at the 2014 Audio Verse Awards. It was also nominated for "Best Writing of an Ongoing Original Short-Form Production," "Best Audio Engineering in an Ongoing Original Production," "Best Ongoing Original Short-form Drama of the Year," "Best Ongoing Original Short-form Production of the Year," "Best Actress in an Original Supporting Role," "Best Actor in an Original Leading Role." A number of U of MN undergraduates worked on the series. Raven Johnson (BA, 2014) has finished her first semester at New York University’s MFA Film Program, and Erin Phipps (BA, 2014) has finished her first semester at the London School of Film, also for her MFA. The guest speakers for this year’s Communication Studies Association Alumni Panel Event were: Carolyn Marinan (Public Relations Officer for Hennepin County Communications) Brian Numainville (Principal of Retail Feedback Group) Allison O’Neil (Catapult Marketing) Brooke Eibert (Solution Design Group) The Minnesota Debate Team recently concluded a very successful semester, including elimination round appearances in all of the major invitationals. The team of Cody Crunkilton (Political Science, Spanish) and Miranda Ehrlich (Communications, Political Science) performed particularly well, with their performances earning an invitation to the prestigious Dartmouth Round Robin in late January, where they will compete against top teams from Emory, Georgetown, Harvard, Michigan, Michigan State, and Northwestern. Teaching Faculty Nan Gesche (M.A. __) was selected to speak at the Women Entrepreneurs of Minnesota Conference in October, 2014. She continues to teach leadership development at the Graduate School of Banking in Madison, WI. Alyssa Isaacs (Ph.D. ___) wrote an entry entitled “Teen Pregnancy” for The Encyclopedia of Family Studies. This 5-volume reference work will serve to increase awareness of research questions and findings across professionals in different fields and to introduce beginning scholars, interested laypersons and journalists to key issues in the broad field of “family studies.”’ (description of the encyclopedia) Alumni Beth E. Bonnstetter (Ph.D. 2008) has been named a 2014 Faculty Fellow by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. She will be spending a week in Burbank, CA attending an intensive on the television industry. This is awarded to only 20 faculty nationally a year. Mark Braun, Provost and Dean of the College at Gustavus, received the 2014 Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) Chief Academic Officer Award at the 42nd Annual Institute for Chief Academic and Chief Financial Officers on Saturday, Nov. 1 in Portland, Ore. Marty Lewis-Hunstiger (MA, '83) is Managing Editor of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies, a new open-access peer-reviewed journal launched November 18, cosponsored by Riane Eisler's Center for Partnership Studies and the University of Minnesota School of Nursing. She continues as Editor of Creative Nursing: A Journal of Values, Issues, Experience, and Collaboration, a quarterly peer-reviewed professional nursing journal, and is an affiliate faculty member in the School of Nursing, teaching writing for publication and facilitating small-group discussions in the Foundations of Interprofessional Communication and Collaboration course sponsored by the Academic Health Center. Wendy Introwitz Pareene (BA 2010) using pseudonym Wendy Wilde, News Director at KTOE Radio News in Mankato, Minnesota, received eight First Place Awards for radio news in 2013. They are: Edward R. Murrow Awards Region 4 Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin First Place Best Newscast Eric Sevareid Awards Northwest Broadcast News Association Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska First Place Best Newscast First Place Best Sound First Place Best Website Minnesota Associated Press First Place Best Newscast First Place Best Spot Hard News Reporting First Place Best Feature First Place Best Website News _____________________________________________________________________ Thank you for your “bits and pieces” for COMMPOSTING. As your paper version COMMPOST editor of 34+ years and a member of the Department of Communication Studies for almost 44 years, I thought it appropriate to send one final paper version of the newsletter as I permanently sign off retiring on March 6, 2015. In addition to spending extra time with my siblings, nieces, nephews, and great nieces and nephews I plan to do a little traveling (Shanghai, China in September and maybe London, England in December). I also am going to try to retrain myself to sleep later than 5:00 a.m., continue to have lunch with Joan Lund, and do lots of nothing, at least for a while. During the reflecting part of my days, I will think of you all with fondness. My commitment to the department and to the university has been because of you and I thank you for all the wonderful memories. An informal reception (no speeches) and light lunch will be held on Friday, February 26 from 11am-2pm in 200 Ford Hall. For more information, contact Jennifer Hammer ([email protected]), Ron Greene ([email protected]), or Mary Vavrus ([email protected]). Please RSVP so we have an idea of how much food to order. Bea Dehler