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Interdisciplinary Studies

Faculty and Staff Directory

Interim Chair

Bushnell, Cameron Fae, Ph.D.

Bushnell, Cameron Fae, Ph.D.

Associate Professor; Director, Pearce Center for Professional Communication

Courses: Postcolonial Literature, Southern Literature, Contemporary Literature
Email: cbushne@clemson.edu
Office: 707 Strode
Phone: 864-656-9351

Interests: Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Anglophone Postcolonial, World, and American Ethnic Literatures; Critical Literary and Race Theory; Interdisciplinary Studies; Cultural Studies; Postcolonial Literature & the Arts; Writing across the Curriculum (WAC) and Writing in the Disciplines (WID)


Directors

Blakesley, David

Blakesley, David

Professor of Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design; Campbell Chair in Technical Communication; Interim Director RCID

Courses: Histories of Rhetoric, RCID Studio I and II, Rhetoric of Cinema, Technical Writing, Kenneth Burke and Rhetorical Theory
Email: dblakes@clemson.edu
Office: 616 Strode
Phone: (765)-409-2649

Interests: rhetorical theory, history of rhetoric, digital and visual rhetorics, print and digital publishing, innovation and entrepreneurship, film theory and production, book design, technical communication, computers and writing, digital humanities.


Perpich, Diane, Ph.D.

Perpich, Diane, Ph.D.

Professor of Philosophy; Director, Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Programs (CAAH); Director, Program in Women's Leadership

Email: dperpic@clemson.edu
Office: 256C Sirrine Hall
Phone: 864-656-1532


Roland, L. Kaifa, Ph.D.

Roland, L. Kaifa, Ph.D.

Director of Global Black Studies

Email: lroland@clemson.edu
Office: 127 Hardin Hall
Phone: 864-656-2584


Smith, John, Ph.D.

Smith, John, Ph.D.

Senior Lecturer, Director of World Cinema

Courses: ENGL 4500: Film Genres; ENGL 4520: Great Directors; ENGL 4510: Film Theory and Criticism; ENGL 3670: Introduction to Film
Email: johnsm@clemson.edu
Office: 256D Sirrine Hall
Phone: 864-656-1532

Interests: Adaptation Industry, Genre, Melodrama, Reception Studies


Faculty

Barattoni, Luca, Ph.D.

Barattoni, Luca, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, World Cinema

Courses: Italian Cinema, Popular Culture
Email: lbaratt@clemson.edu
Office: 303 Strode


Skrodzka, Aga

Skrodzka, Aga

Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies

Courses: Film Theory and Criticism; Sexuality and the Cinema; Alterity and Difference on Screen; The Essay Film
Email: askrodz@clemson.edu
Office: 712 Strode
Phone: 864-656-3151

Interests: Film and Media Theory, Feminist Thought, Erotics of Screen, Political Economy of the Visual Commons, Transnational Cinemas


Lecturers

Cooper, Sarah M., Ph.D.

Cooper, Sarah M., Ph.D.

Assistant Director of Women’s Leadership & Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies

Email: scoope5@clemson.edu

Interests: queer theory, lesbian studies, feminist & material rhetorics, archives


Martin, Greg, MA, MBA

Martin, Greg, MA, MBA

Lecturer, Professional Writing

Email: mgreg@clemson.edu
Office: Sirrine Clemson, SC 29634


McDevitt, Meredith

McDevitt, Meredith

Lecturer, Women’s Leadership

Email: mgmcdev@clemson.edu
Office: 256G Sirrine Hall Clemson, SC 29634


Rader, Nicholas

Rader, Nicholas

Lecturer, Professional Writing

Courses: Technical and Business Writing
Email: nrader@clemson.edu
Office: 256 Sirrine Hall Clemson, SC 29634

Interests: Disability Rhetoric, Narrative Architecture, and Historic Cartography


Valenzuela Jones, Mark, M.F.A.

Valenzuela Jones, Mark, M.F.A.

Lecturer, Professional Writing

Courses: ENGL 3040 Business Writing
Email: mvj@clemson.edu
Office: 256 Sirrine Clemson, SC 29634


Staff

Krumrey, Katlyn

Krumrey, Katlyn

Administrative Coordinator

Email: kkrumre@clemson.edu


Monroe, Tonya C

Monroe, Tonya C

Administrative Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Programs

Email: tonyam@clemson.edu
Office: 256 Sirrine Hall
Phone: 864-656-1532


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