keywords
- Curriculum Design, Effective Communication Practices, Leadership Development, Decolonization, rhetoric, discourse
- Contact Info
Maurer, Christy Dale Instructor
Positions
- Instructor, Communication
Research Areas
Research
Publications
selected publications
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journal article
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Performing Native Rhetorics of Resistance and Identity.
Rhetoric and Public Affairs.
731-731.
2017
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The Zero-Sum Game of Race and the Familiar Strangeness of President Obama.
Southern Communication Journal.
206-222.
2016
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Competency and Connection: Undergraduate Students and Effective Email Messages.
Communication Teacher.
129-134.
2015
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Playing the Race Card: Antiracial Bordering and Rhetorical Practices of New Racism.
The Review of Communication.
81-101.
2015
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Scrum: Enhancing Student Team Organization and Collaboration.
Communication Teacher.
55-62.
2015
- Teaching Millennials the Ps & Q of Professional Emailing 2015
- The Writing on the Wall: (New) Racism in U.S. Public Conversations about Race 2015
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Invisible Wounds, Invisible Abuse: The Exclusion of Emotional Abuse in Newspaper Articles.
Journal of Emotional Abuse.
375-402.
2008
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Performing Native Rhetorics of Resistance and Identity.
Rhetoric and Public Affairs.
731-731.
2017
Teaching
courses taught
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COMM 2400 - Discourse, Culture and Identities
Primary Instructor - Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2021
Considers how communication is central to constructing who people are and examines social controversies related to talk and identities. Students learn to analyze and understand discourse, defined as everyday talk and conversation, through the practice of discourse analysis. -
COMM 3310 - The Craft of Argument
Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Summer 2018 / Fall 2018 / Spring 2019
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COMM 3740 - Qualitative Communication Research Methods
Primary Instructor - Fall 2019 / Spring 2021
Learn to collect and analyze qualitative data (interviews, observations, focus groups) in order to answer research questions about communication and society. Focuses on research that investigates meaning, understanding, process, and interpretation in order to enhance our knowledge of human interaction. Recommended prerequisites: COMM 1210 and COMM 1600. -
COMM 4220 - Senior Seminar: Functions of Communication
Primary Instructor - Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2021
Topical seminar on the functions of communication across interpersonal, group, organizational, and public contexts. Reviews current theory and research on topics such as communication and conflict, persuasion, and ethical dimensions of communication practices.