Faculty & Staff
Associate Professor of Rhetoric
Chair, Department of Rhetoric & Communication Studies
Specialties:
- Rhetorical Theory and Rhetorical Criticism
- Rhetoric and Racism
- Television
- American Political Culture
- War Rhetoric
(804) 289-8743
Professor of Rhetoric and Communication Studies
Chair, Department of Art and Art History
Specialties:
- Visual Rhetoric
- Geopolitics
- Presidential and Electoral Rhetoric
- Cold War and post-Cold War Public Address
- Critical Intercultural Communication
(804) 287-6383
Visiting Assistant Professor
Specialties:
- Spirituality in/and/of Performance
- Rhetoric of Religion
- Inclusive Leadership
- Geek Culture
(804) 287-6510
Dr. Nicole Maurantonio
She/Her
Professor of Rhetoric & Communications
Associate Provost of Academic Affairs
Director of Advising, First-Year Seminar, and First- and Second-Year Programming
Specialties:
- Public memory
- U.S. media history
- Race and representation
- Qualitative research methods
(804) 289-8267
Professor of Rhetoric
Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Advisory Board Member, ex-officio
Specialties:
- Rhetorical Theory
- Critical Theory
- Feminist Praxis, Intersectional and Post-Colonial
- History and Historiography of Rhetoric
- Homeric and Classical Rhetoric
- Comparative Rhetoric
(804) 287-6513
Visiting Assistant Professor of Rhetoric & Communication Studies
Specialties:
- Internet Studies
- Platform Studies
- Computational Culture
- Marxism
- Affect Theory
- Critical Posthumanism
- Aesthetic Theory
- Critical and Cultural Theory
- Materiality and Infrastructure
- Continental Philosophy
Assistant Professor of Rhetoric & Communication Studies
Specialties:
- Global Media
- Media Histories
- Digital Culture
- Visual Communication
- Media and Activism
- Africa-China Relations
(804) 289-1773
Visiting Assistant Professor of Rhetoric & Communications Studies
Specialties:
- Media Histories
- Media Theories
- Science and Technology Studies
- Feminist Technologies
- Digital Media Studies
- Cultural Studies
- Critical Studies of AI
- Media Industries
Professor of Digital Humanities
E. Claiborne Robins Professor of Liberal Arts
Data Science Advisory Board Member
American Studies Advisory Board Member
Specialties:
- Computational/Digital Humanities
- Visual Culture
- Community Media
- Politics of Representation
Emeriti Faculty
Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Emeritus
Specialties:
- Communication Education
- Interpersonal and Group Communication
- Communication Theory and Research
(804) 287-6698