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Pezzullo, Phaedra C.

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  • Prof. Pezzullo's areas of expertise include: environmental communication, environmental justice studies, rhetoric, and cultural studies. She has published widely on the late age of fossil fuels; the trope of the human; bodies; pollution beliefs; chemical pollution and safety campaigns; toxic and disaster tourism; environmental communication; cultural studies; public spheres and counterpublics; research methods, particularly the cultural politics of field methods and performance studies; theories and practices of resistance and transgression; praxis; pinkwashing; boycotts and buycotts; presence; space/place and time; everyday life; intellectual formations; and environmental justice in North America.

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  • the late age of fossil fuels, the humananities, bodies, pollution beliefs, chemical pollution and safety campaigns, toxic and disaster tourism, environmental communication, cultural studies, public spheres and counterpublics, research methods, theories and practices of resistance and transgression, praxis, pinkwashing, boycotts and buycotts, presence, space place and time, everyday life, environmental justice

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Teaching

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  • COMM 3370 - Environmental Communication
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Fall 2018 / Spring 2019 / Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Fall 2022 / Fall 2023
    Introduces the growing field of environmental communication, including historical events, key concepts, legal landmarks, technological developments and public controversies at the intersection of the environment, economics and social justice. Focuses on persuasive communication in the public sphere, as well as the constitutive power of communication to name and redefine what has been and might become possible in our environmental imaginations.
  • COMM 3380 - Advanced Topics in Storytelling, Culture, & Climate Justice
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2024
    Examines how we communicate about the intersections of climate change and social justice within specific cultural contexts, as well as how we can change narratives about climate justice through a culture-centered framework. Will focus on storytelling topics, such as food justice or energy justice.
  • COMM 4300 - Senior Seminar: Rhetoric
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2019 / Fall 2023 / Fall 2024
    Reviews current theory and research on rhetoric and culture on topics such as environmental rhetoric, rhetoric of racism, and rhetoric of storytelling.
  • COMM 5225 - Environmental Communication
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2020
    Investigates key concepts in environmental communication and considers which theoretical frameworks and practical actions can inform the effects of various constituents to address environmental issues.
  • COMM 5300 - Seminar: Rhetoric
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2021
    Reviews current theory and research on topics such as rhetoric and publics, rhetoric as an interpretive social science, and rhetoric of social movements and political campaigns. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours on different topics.
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