Northern Illinois University
Department of Communication
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Professor
Rhetoric and Public Communication

Profile

(Ph.D., Ohio State University)
Specialties: cultural studies, rhetorical studies, womanist epistemology and methodology, communication and spirituality, African American rhetoric, pedagogy, autoethnography.

Latest Publications

• Co-editor. Fight the Power! The Spike Lee Reader. Peter Lang Press. 2009.
• Co editor. "As the Spirit Moves Us: Embracing Spirituality in the Postsecondary Experience." New Directions for Teaching and Learning Journal. Number 120. Winter 2009.
• "Engaging Spirituality and An Authentic Self in the Intercultural Communication Class in As the Spirit Moves Us: Embracing Spirituality in the Postsecondary Experience." Teaching and Learning Journal, Number 120, Winter 2009.
• "Assessing Womanist Thought: The Rhetoric of Susan L. Taylor." Communication Quarterly, Volume 48, Fall 2001.