Experience

Merrimack College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Professor and Interim Grad Director (fall 2022)

  • Jun 2015 - Present

  I am a Professor, Interim Grad Director, and former Chair of Merrimack College's Communication and Media department. My teaching and scholarship revolve around culture, power, and media. I've had the privilege to teach students in Senior Seminar, Media Ethics, Digital Storytelling, Research Inquiry, Garden Memoirs, Humor and Media, and Persuasion, among other engaging classes. My research focuses on analyzing new media engagement patterns and mediated representations of marginalized groups. I published six journal articles in 2019, four of which are co-authored with my phenomenal colleagues.



Nazareth College

• Australia
• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Assistant Professor and Program Director

  • Aug 2008 - May 2015

  I was Assistant Professor of Communication and Media in Nazareth College's English department for seven years. I taught nearly a dozen different classes, including Media Studies, Persuasion, Media Ethics and Law, Research Methods, Humor and Media, Media Marathoning, Race and Ethnicity in Media, Oral Communication, Human Communication, and College Writing.I served as the Communication and Media program director from fall 2013 to spring 2015. In that position, I conducted assessment, gathered program data, supervised internships, recruited students, facilitated curricular discussions, and implemented curricular changes. Under my leadership, the number of Communication and Media majors increased by over one-third from fall 2013 to fall 2014.