North Carolina State University

Studies writing instruction, including response to student writing, writing assessment, writing across the curriculum, literacy theory, and digital literacies.

Studies science and technology communication, especially risk communication about emerging technologies such as nanotechnology, along with climate, disaster, and pandemic communication.

Studies digital rhetorics, electronic literature, and critical code studies through critical making, multimedia production, web development, and text/textile practice.

Studies AI and strategic communication, including responsible AI, AI literacy, human-AI interaction, crisis communication, misinformation, public trust, and organization-public relationships.

Studies how people learn to write, how writing programs support students and faculty, and how AI is reshaping writing practice, alongside feminist rhetoric and leadership.

Leads the college of humanities and social sciences as dean; the profile describes administrative initiatives rather than a specific research program.

Studies responsible AI, AI ethics, and risk and health communication, along with labor market analytics, technical communication, and intercultural and medical rhetoric.

Studies language variation and change in Raleigh, North Carolina, using a corpus of conversational recordings from residents, acoustic phonetics, and social network methods.

Studies neuroethics and the ethics of AI and neurotechnology, including the cognitive neuroscience of moral judgment, from a philosophical perspective.

Studies nineteenth-century British book and media history and the ethics of AI, using computer vision and multimodal AI to analyze Victorian newspapers and periodical illustrations.

Studies visual and material rhetoric through rhetorical criticism of civil rights discourse, memorials, museums, and public art, and also communication ethics and organizational communication.

Studies American film history, including documentary, the Hollywood studio system, independent filmmakers of the 1940s-50s, orphan and educational films, and race in nontheatrical film.

Studies organizational communication that supports collaboration, conflict management, and wellbeing, including workplace mediation, dispute system design, and conflict in health care settings.

Studies linguistic sound patterns and the phonetic origins of sound change, including covert articulatory variation, using laboratory and computational techniques.

Writes books, films, and digital humanities projects on Martin Luther King Jr., Langston Hughes, and Nina Simone, including a dual biography on the birth of Black Power.

Serves as an associate dean for faculty and staff development; the profile describes administrative work in English and comparative literature rather than a specific research program.

Studies how digital and networked writing practices shape work, learning, and engagement, including mobile writing workflows, attention dynamics, and public science engagement.

Studies dialects and language variation in North Carolina and develops dialect awareness programs and critical language pedagogy for schools and teacher education.

Studies digital rhetoric through creative coding, Arduino-based physical computing, and generative AI, including computational analysis of the prosody of James Baldwin's speech.

Studies the formation and remediation of propaganda and prejudice, especially antisemitism and Holocaust survivor testimonies, along with public communication of science and teaching scholarship.

Studies medieval literature, manuscripts, and book history, publishing in medieval studies and bibliographical scholarship.

Studies technical communication practice, genre, and knowledge work with emerging technologies, using mixed quantitative/qualitative discourse analysis, corpus techniques, and usability testing.

Studies rhetorical theory and criticism, analyzing presidential foreign policy speeches, scientific argumentation, visual rhetoric, and civil rights discourse.

Studies how emotion and identity shape rhetorical activity and composition teaching, with queer and feminist pedagogy and secondary work on rhetorics of queer and reproductive health.

Studies how information about controversial science topics flows through communication channels and shapes risk perception, using national opinion surveys, meta-analysis, and systematic review.

Writes and studies poetry with a focus on disability poetics and Deaf and hard-of-hearing poetics.

Studies international public relations, public diplomacy, and social identity, including DEI and intersectional identities at work and bibliometric studies of the PR field.

Studies writing program administration, academic labor, and teaching assistant preparation, with attention to class, body politics, and space, using qualitative methods and discourse analysis.

Studies film history and theory, especially abstract animation, avant-garde film, and the history of computer-generated imagery, through media archaeology and work on digital archives.

Studies how people with stigmatized conditions and identities communicate about them, focusing on sexual communication, disclosure, social support, and HIV/STI prevention.

Studies coding and data science work as rhetorical communication and Indigenous data sovereignty, designing community archives and data tools through community-engaged, design-justice work.

Studies team collaboration and communication, project planning, and research practice and mentoring, including mapping tools for fostering cooperation on complex problems.

Studies digital rhetorics and user experience, designing inclusive information architecture for public health information and rural organizations serving marginalized communities.

Studies transatlantic and transnational modernist literature and American culture, examining space, migration, race, and gender through postcolonial, diaspora, and feminist/queer theory.

Studies decolonial media theory, globalization, and subject formation through ethnographic fieldwork and interviews in Latin America, especially Chile, Argentina, and Mexico.

Studies public relations with a focus on brand-public relationships, the public's use of digital media, and publics' relationships with extreme organizations.

Studies the sociotechnical dimensions of emerging media technologies and how people appropriate and subvert them, through critical making, media arts, and activism.

Studies African popular culture and global media, focusing on hiplife and hip-hop music video production, creative work, and networked radio in Accra, Ghana.

Studies how the public remembers slavery and racial violence through rhetorical analysis of lynching memorials, plantation museums, and documentary films as counter-memories.

Studies race, gender, and sexuality through rhetorical and cultural studies, performance studies, and critical media studies, drawing on Black studies, Southern studies, and autoethnography.

Studies anime and analog and digital games as visual culture through cultural studies, gender and queer theory, and Asian/Asian American studies, including apocalyptic imaginations in global media.

Studies how film and media shape modern notions of gender and sexual difference, focusing on queer media and the influence of adult media on gay culture.

Studies film and media history and theory, focusing on South Asian cinemas, postcolonial and decolonial theory, and special effects as a site where religion and technology meet.