NEWS AND EVENTS
- Two new faculty joined the department in 2008. Assistant Professor Graham Bodie (Ph.D., Purdue University) teaches and conducts research in listening and information processing. Instructor Ashley Jones-Bodie (M.A., Auburn University) is completing her Ph.D. at Purdue with an emphasis on organizational rhetoric.
- James Honeycutt, Professor, published 4 book chapters in edited volumes dealing with imagined interactions and mental interaction. In addition, he co-authored 2 journal articles in the Journal of Intercultural Communication and the Southern Communication Journal that included a team of doctoral students: Khaled Nasser, Christopher Mapp, Joy Banner, and Betty Dupont. They reported on the emotional aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Additionally, he edited a volume, Imagine that: Studies in imagined interaction for Hampton Press. He is an author or co-author of 5 papers for the 2008 National Communication Association Convention in San Diego and the co-recipient of a 2008 NCA "Top 4" paper award.
- Patricia Suchy, Associate Professor, published the lead essay in the electronic peer-reviewed journal, Liminalities, entitled “13 ways to kill a mockingbird,” based on a show she directed in the HopKins Black Box Theatre. She presented a paper and screened Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story at the Performance Studies International Conference, Copenhagen, Aug. 2008, and appeared as a guest artist at the Superior Performance Festival in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, in October, 2008.
- Tracy Stephenson Shaffer, Assistant Professor, published two essays in Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies: “Mapping Mediatization in The Life and Times of King Kong” and “On the Haunting of Performance Studies” (with Benjamin D. Powell). She received a $3000 grant to bring Flight, a performance by New Orleans based theatre companies Mondo Bizarro and ArtSpot Productions, to the HopKins Black Box. Reelz Channel interviewed her as a “horror expert” for their show Spotlight.
LSU IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY/EQUAL ACCESS EMPLOYER |
- Stephanie Houston Gray, Assistant Professor, edited a special issue of the American Communication Journal on Art and Science in an Experimental Age. LSU recognized her with the prestigious Phi Kappa Phi Award for outstanding research by a junior faculty member.
- Graham Bodie, Assistant Professor, published articles about supportive messages, health marketing, and listening in Communication Yearbook, Health Marketing Quarterly, and the International Journal of Listening
- Renee Edwards, Professor and Chair, published an entry on “Information processing: Self-concept” in the new International Encyclopedia of Communication.
- Graduate Student Accomplishments: Andrée Betancourt was awarded the 2008-2009 LSU Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship (this makes the fourth year running that a CMST student has received this award.) She directed a show in the Black Box Theatre and presented five papers at NCA and other conferences. Gretchen Stein Rhodes gave two presentations of her one-woman show. Pavica Sheldon presented six convention papers and published two articles in the Journal of Media Psychology and the Journal of Intercultural Communication. Ryan McGeough has a Top 4 Paper at NCA, a review forthcoming in the Quarterly Journal of Speech and an essay being published in a collection on argumentation. Five students won Top Student Paper Awards in their divisions from the Southern States Communication Association: Rya Butterfield, Danielle McGeough, Pavica Juric, Crystal Lane Swift, and Khaled Nasser.
|