Departmental News
Maryland@ILA, 2008; Maryland@SSCA, 2008; Maryland@RSA, 2008
Faculty members and graduate students from the Department of Communication at the University of Maryland will present research, attend meetings, hold offices, and receive awards at the annual conventions of the International Listening Association, March 27-29, 2008, in Portland, Maine, the Southern States Communication Association, April 2-6, 2008, in Savannah, Georgia, and the biennial meeting of the Rhetoric Society of America, May 23-26, 2008, in Seattle, Washington.
At ILA, Professor Andrew Wolvin & graduate student Bjørn Stillion Southard will present their co-authored analysis of Jimmy Carter's presidential listening skills. Wolvin is also a co-author of an essay entitled "Theories in Listening: What is their foundation and why we need theories?" and the author of "The Medical Patient as Listener." Graduate student Erica Lamm will also present her research, entitled "A Test of Listenability in College Lectures" at the ILA convention.
At the Southern States Communication Association, graduate student Abbe Depretis will participate in a roundtable discussion on "Bridging the Cultural Gap: Changing Instructional Methods." Terri Donofrio, a graduate student in the department, will present an essay entitled "“For the Sake of the Fetus or for the ‘Health’ of the Nation? Two Threads of Antiabortion Rights Discourse” and associate professor Mari Boor Tonn will participate in a roundtable discussion on the relationship between the theories of Kenneth Burke and communicating social change.
In addition, UM alum Lisa Corrigan (Ph.D., 2006) is one of three new SSCA scholars featured on a "Spotlight on Scholarship" panel. Corrigan is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Arkansas.
At the biennial meeting of the Rhetoric Society of America, graduate students and faculty members in the department will present research. Ph.D. student Ben Krueger will present two papers, one entitled "John F. Kennedy's Commencement Address to American University," and the other entitled "Evil That Good May Come? A Rhetorical analysis of the Moral Reasoning of George W. Bush."
Ph.D. candidate Michele Mason will offer a paper entitled "Delivery and the Integrated Art of Rhetoric," and M.A. student Heather Brook Adams will speak on "Talking (Back) About Home: Considering the Discourse of Class in Academia."
Assistant professor Kristy Maddux is presenting an essay entitled "Faithful Political Rhetoric: The Responsibilities of Christian Civic Participation."
