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
COMM 3370 - Environmental Communication
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Spring 2018 / Fall 2018 / Spring 2019 / Fall 2019
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 6320 - Rhetorical Theory
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Spring 2019
Reviews current theory and research on topics such as contemporary rhetorical theory, rhetoric and public life, 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. Recommended prerequisite: COMM 5320.
COMM 6340 - Rhetoric and Civic Community
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Spring 2018
Considers performances of public life as rhetorical inducements of civitas. Topics include negotiation of self-regulation among interdependent partners, rhetorical exclusions and/or counterpublics, and dialectical tensions of public/private as these contribute to and have civic consequences for publicness, community, and social will. Recommended prerequisite: COMM 5320.
