People

Interim Program Director

• Faculty
  
  

  RCID Program Director

  David Blakesley Professor of Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design; Campbell Chair in Technical Communication; Interim Director RCID 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. Email: dblakes@clemson.edu Office: 616 Strode Phone: (765)-409-2649

  Affiliated Faculty

  Hamilton Altstatt Audio Program Director and Assistant Professor of Practice, Audio Email: haltsta@clemson.edu

  Todd Anderson Associate Professor Email: tdander@clemson.edu Office: 256G Sirrine Hall Phone: 256G Sirrine Hall

  Erin Ash, Ph.D. Associate Professor Email: ash3@clemson.edu

  Susanna Ashton Professor Notions of authentication and identity in slavery & freedom narratives; 18th-, 19th-, and early 20th-century American Literature; collaboration; surveillance studies; copyright; history of the book; periodical culture; abolitionist literature; Charles W. Chesnutt; American Literary Realism; Life Writing Email: sashton@clemson.edu Office: 611 Strode

  Luca Barattoni, Ph.D. Associate Professor, World Cinema Email: lbaratt@clemson.edu Office: 303 Strode

  Stephanie L. Barczewski Chair; Professor; Carol K. Brown Scholar in the Humanities European History; Britain; Cultural; Empire Email: sbarcze@clemson.edu Office: Hardin Hall 106 Phone: 864/656-3153

  Abel A. Bartley Professor U.S. History; US 1945-1975; US since 1975; African American history Email: abartly@clemson.edu Office: 108 Hardin Hall Phone: 864-656-5372

  Becky Becker Professor of Theatre New Plays, Cross-Cultural Theatre, Hidden Histories, Social Justice, Embodied Cognition Email: becker1@clemson.edu Office: 210 Brooks

  James M. Burns Professor and Director of the Humanities Hub World History; Africa since 1850; Empire; Transnational history; Global History; Film Studies; Popular Culture Email: burnsj@clemson.edu Office: Hardin Hall 127 Phone: Hardin Hall 127

  Cameron Fae Bushnell, Ph.D. Associate Professor; Director, Pearce Center for Professional Communication 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) Email: cbushne@clemson.edu Office: 707 Strode Phone: 864-656-9351

  Bryan Denham Campbell Professor of Sports Communication Email: bdenham@clemson.edu Phone: 864-656-1567

  Megan Eatman Associate Professor; Associate Chair Public Rhetoric, Visual Rhetoric, Digital Rhetoric, Disability Rhetorics, Composition Pedagogy Email: meeatma@clemson.edu Office: 806 Strode

  Ufuk Ersoy, Ph.D. Co-Director of Ph.D. program in Planning, Design and the Built Environment; Associate Professor / Robert Mills Professor in Architecture for 2018/19 Email: uersoy@clemson.edu Office: Lee 3-115

  Maziyar Faridi Assistant Professor Comparative Modernism; Global Cinema; Poetry and Poetics; Film Theory; Postcolonial Transnational Studies; Critical Theory; Global South; Middle East and North African Literatures and Cinemas Email: mfaridi@clemson.edu Office: 610 Strode

  Jordan Frith Pearce Professor of Professional Communication technical communication, mobile communication, infrastructure studies, writing studies, social media Email: jfrith@clemson.edu Office: Strode 602

  Gabriel Hankins Associate Professor Modernism, Digital Humanities, Television Studies, Comparative Theory, Horror Email: ghankin@clemson.edu Office: 609 Strode

  Stephanie Hassell Assistant Professor World History; Africa, 1500-1850; Empire; Slavery; Indian Ocean Studies; Religion Email: stphanh@clemson.edu Office: Hardin 104 Phone: Hardin 104

  Dani Herro, Ph.D. Associate Professor Digital Media and Learning Email: dherro@clemson.edu

  Tharon Howard Professor, Professional Communication & Information Design Program Director Email: tharon@clemson.edu Office: 617 Strode

  Kathryn Langenfeld Assistant Professor Roman Empire; Mediterranean World; World History; Historiography/Historical Theory & Method; Archaeology; Art and Architecture; Material Culture Email: klangen@clemson.edu Office: Hardin 008 Phone: Hardin 008

  Michael LeMahieu Professor 20th/21st Cent American Lit. Civil War Memory. Philosophy of Language. Email: mlemahi@clemson.edu Office: 101 Strode Tower Phone: 864.656.0376

  Linda Li-Bleuel Professor of Music Email: llibleu@clemson.edu Office: 216 Brooks

  Darren L Linvill Professor Co-Director, Watt Family Innovation Center Media Forensics Hub Email: DARRENL@clemson.edu Office: 405 Strode Tower Phone: 864-656-4182

  Eddie Lohmeyer Assistant Professor Email: elohmey@clemson.edu Office: 256F Sirrine Hall Phone: 256F Sirrine Hall

  Jeff Love, Ph.D. Research Professor of German and Russian Email: gjlove@clemson.edu

  Brian McGrath Professor Email: mcgrath@clemson.edu Office: 607 Strode Phone: (864) 656-3151

  Lisa Melonçon, Ph.D. Department Chair and Professor Email: lmelono@clemson.edu Office: 256A Sirrine Hall

  Michael L. Meng Associate Professor; M.A. Program Director European History; Central Europe; Intellectual History; Religion; Philosophy Email: mmeng@clemson.edu Office: 116 Hardin Hall Phone: 116 Hardin Hall

  Lee Morrissey Alumni Distinguished Professor; Affiliate Faculty, Religious Studies. Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English-language literature; John Milton; early modern religion and politics; history of literary criticism; colonial Ireland; archipelagic and transatlantic Email: lmorris@clemson.edu Office: 316 Strode Phone: 316 Strode

  Clare Mullaney Assistant Professor, Disability Rhetorics disability studies, nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. literature, material text studies, editorship studies, and reading methods Email: cmullaney@clemson.edu Office: 605 Strode

  Angela Naimou Associate Professor Literatures in English since 1900; Anti-colonial and Postcolonial Theory; Studies of Race, Diaspora, and Migration; Law and Literature; World Literature in Translation Email: anaimou@clemson.edu Office: 709 Strode

  Stephanie Pangborn, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Email: sruhl@clemson.edu

  Diane Perpich, Ph.D. Professor Women's Leadership Phenomenology, Ethics, Feminist Theory Email: dperpic@clemson.edu Office: 256C Sirrine Hall Phone: 864-656-1532

  Mashal Saif Associate Professor of Religion Email: msaif@clemson.edu Office: Hardin 214

  Johannes Schmidt, Ph.D. Professor of German; Director of ML Program Johann Gottfried Herder, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, 18th century, German philosophy; Holocaust / Shoah studies Email: schmidj@clemson.edu Office: 704 Strode

  Timothy Sellnow Professor of Communication Crisis Communication, Risk Communication, Disaster Communication, Agriculture Communication Email: tsellno@clemson.edu Office: 403 Strode Phone: 864-656-1567

  Deanna Sellnow Professor and Chair, Department of Communication Strategic instructional risk and crisis communication in a variety of contexts such as natural disasters, health epidemics and pandemics, biosecurity, terrorism and agricultural biotechnology. Email: dsellno@clemson.edu Office: 430E Daniel Hall Phone: 864-656-1567

  Aga Skrodzka Professor of Film and Media Studies Film and Media Theory, Feminist Thought, Erotics of Screen, Political Economy of the Visual Commons, Transnational Cinemas Email: askrodz@clemson.edu Office: 712 Strode Phone: 712 Strode

  Michelle Smith Associate Professor, Rhetoric and Composition Feminist rhetorics, historiography, women’s work, archives, utopianism Email: mcsmth@clemson.edu Office: 606 Strode

  Rhondda Robinson Thomas Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature Black self-writing, Black historiography, and 18th- and 19th-century Black literature and culture Email: rhonddt@clemson.edu Office: 711 Strode

  Daniel E. Wueste Kathryn and Calhoun Lemon Professor of Philosophy Email: ernest@clemson.edu Office: 234 Hardin

  Heidi Zinzow, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology Email: hzinzow@clemson.edu

  Professional Communication and Information Design (PCID)

  Katalin Beck Senior Lecturer Technical and Business Writing; Global and Cross-cultural Communication; Online Collaboration Email: kbeck@clemson.edu Office: 604 Strode

  Ashley S Fisk Principal Lecturer Email: cowden2@clemson.edu Office: Strode 604

  LaCresha Green Senior Lecturer Rhetoric of Divine Spaces; Rhetoric and Mortality; Rhetoric, Language, and Culture in U.S. Villages; and the Rhetoric of Identities Email: lacresg@clemson.edu Office: 502 Strode

  Tharon Howard Professor, Professional Communication & Information Design Program Director Email: tharon@clemson.edu Office: 617 Strode

  Greg Martin, MA, MBA Lecturer, Professional Communication and Information Design Email: mgreg@clemson.edu Office: Sirrine Clemson, SC 29634

  Laurianne Matheson Lecturer Email: lauriap@clemson.edu Office: Strode 302

  Seth McKelvey Lecturer 20th- & 21st century American literature; contemporary poetry; political economy Email: rsmckel@clemson.edu Office: Strode 311

  Chelsea McKelvey Lecturer Early Modern Literature; Shakespeare; Eighteenth-Century Literature Email: crmckel@clemson.edu Office: Strode 511

  Nancy Paxton-Wilson Senior Lecturer 17th and 18th Century British Lit, Critical Prison Studies, Technical, Business, and Scientific Writing, STS Science/Technology in Society Email: npaxton@clemson.edu Office: 302 Strode

  Mike Pulley Senior Lecturer Journalism, Narrative Nonfiction, Science Writing, 20th-century Literature Email: wpulley@clemson.edu Office: 302 Strode

  Nicholas Rader, Ph.D. Lecturer, Professional Communication and Information Design Disability rhetoric, narrative architecture, histo-cartography, professional communication and information design, veteran studies, and rhetorics of war Email: nrader@clemson.edu Office: 240 Sirrine Hall, Clemson, SC

  Philip D Randall Principal Lecturer Email: randal3@clemson.edu Office: Strode 302

  Mark Valenzuela Jones, M.F.A. Lecturer, Professional Communication and Information Design Email: mvj@clemson.edu

  Heather Williams Senior Lecturer Postcolonial Literature, Contemporary World Literature, Technical Writing, Business Writing, Client-Based Projects Email: hpwilli@clemson.edu Office: 517 Strode Tower

  Emeritus Faculty

  Cynthia Ann Haynes Professor Emeritus Rhetoric, Composition, Critical Theory, Games Studies, Violence, Terrorism and Conflict Email: texcyn@clemson.edu

  Jan Rune Holmevik Associate Professor Digital creativity and literacies, information design, digital transformation Email: jholmev@clemson.edu

  Steven B. Katz Emeritus Faculty - Interdisciplinary Studies Email: skatz@clemson.edu

  Victor Vitanza Emeritus Faculty - English; Founding Director of the RCID program (2005); Fellow, Rhetoric Society of America Email: sophist@clemson.edu

• Students
  
  

  RCID STUDENTS

  George Abraham crisis communications, human/AI agent interactions Email: gabrah2@clemson.edu

  Mark Abueg technical writing, criminal justice and communications Email: mabueg@clemson.edu

  Bahareh Brittany Alaei Chora, participatory pedagogy, post-conflict rhetoric, electracy Email: balaei@clemson.edu

  Joy Amponsah rhetorics of science, critical race theory, composition pedagogy, Digital and visual media, human computer interaction Email: amponsah@clemson.edu

  Seyedehzahra Aslieramsadati design, film studies, visual rhetoric Email: saslier@clemson.edu

  Victoria Banks interactive narrative design, videogame script writing, multimodal composition and rhetoric, creative writing Email: vbanks2@clemson.edu

  Derick Burgin rhetoric of science, rhetoric of health & medicine, biomedical ethics, science fiction Email: dburgin@clemson.edu

  Robynn Butler visual rhetoric, design, digital publishing Email: robynnb@clemson.edu

  Fran Chapman ageism, religious rhetorics, sports rhetorics, Southern linguistics Email: fcsmith@clemson.edu

  Emily Crum collective memory, trauma, anti-colonial and postcolonial theory, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic film and television, rhetoric of artificial intelligence and robots Email: crum@clemson.edu

  Leoncia Cruz sense of place, science communication, rhetorics of nature Email: leoncic@clemson.edu

  Emily Danuser first-person narratives and their influence on the perception of agency, mediation, and religious rhetoric Email: edanuse@clemson.edu

  Jessica Delgado Rhetorics of Memory, Rhetoricity of Arrangement in Place, Collective and Cultural Memory Texts Email: delgad4@clemson.edu

  Paige Dhyne WAC/writing instruction, information literacy, science literacy, science communication, scientometrics, rhetorics of libraries, and rhetorics of sustainability (advocacy and education) Email: pdhyne@clemson.edu

  Jaquial Durham Educational leadership and administration, Southern prison culture, African American history and culture of Clemson University and Clemson, South Carolina Email: jaquial@clemson.edu

  Justin Shay Easler digital rhetorics, digital narratives, video game design, digital spaces, socialization in VR Email: Jeasler@clemson.edu

  Jude Enete usability studies, user experience, cultural studies, innovation and technology, human-computer interaction, technical communication Email: jenete@clemson.edu

  Angela Fabbri persuasion and influence, artificial intelligence, interpersonal communication, media Email: ahfabbr@clemson.edu

  Galen Faison kairos of literature, creative writing, hashtag activism and rhetoric as a tool to bridge culture Email: gfaison@clemson.edu

  John Falter prose style, classical rhetoric, persuasion psychology, folk rhetorics, and multi-modal composition Email: jfalter@clemson.edu

  Amie Flanagan film studies, visual rhetoric, feminist theory, digital publishing, and history Email: amief@clemson.edu

  Dominique Francisco political and religious rhetoric, social activism, critical race theory, anti - LGBTQ+ rhetoric in religion Email: dkf@clemson.edu

  Michelle Barry Franco gender and communication, women's studies in communication, teen girls & communication Email: franco3@clemson.edu

  Hanna Gilreath data analytics, feminist rhetorics in STEM, composition theory Email: hgibson@clemson.edu

  Cassandra Headden Film studies, visual rhetoric, feminist theory, design Email: Cheadde@clemson.edu

  Taylor Henry preservation, spatial rhetoric, object-oriented ontology and advocacy journalism Email: thenry4@clemson.edu

  McClain Hermes rhetorical theory, communication theory, feminist theory, disability rights and activism, and LGBTQ+ studies Email: lhermes@clemson.edu

  Shantell Hinton-Hill Black feminism, womanist theology, afro-futurism, sacred rhetoric, Black folklore Email: shanteh@clemson.edu

  Mike Ledbetter music history/musicology, Latin-American culture/history, African-American culture/history Email: mbledbe@clemson.edu

  Elizabeth Link Mimesis, Rhetorics of Media, Electracy Email: elink@clemson.edu

  Julia Longaker Crisis Communications, Professional Communications, Healthcare Rhetoric Email: jlongak@clemson.edu

  Amy Maciel risk and crisis communication, media portrayal, renewal messaging Email: amaciel@clemson.edu

  Lucy Manley feminist rhetorics, pedagogy Email: lbmanle@clemson.edu

  M. Tiffany Messer-Bass migration and refugee narratives, censorship in American public and school libraries, ethics of censorship, community rhetorics in third places, nationality and identity juxtapositions Email: mmesser@clemson.edu

  Andrew Moore political rhetoric, media discourse, communication technologies Email: acmr@clemson.edu

  Brittney Nix-Crawford digital rhetoric, digital visual media, critical cultural communication, feminist theory and the intersection with race, racism in journalism Email: bnixcra@clemson.edu

  Madison Norder Victorian literature, feminist rhetoric, gothic literature, and pedagogy Email: manorde@clemson.edu

  Andy Notbohm transmedia / cross-media / multi-media storytelling, media effects Email: anotboh@clemson.edu

  Felix Terngu Nyikwagh digital humanities, cultural rhetoric, usability studies, risk communication, and film studies Email: fnyikwa@clemson.edu

  Andrew Okai film rhetoric, digital and visual rhetoric, multimedia production, electracy, media studies, religious rhetoric, African cinema Email: aokai@clemson.edu

  William Ordeman border rhetorics, ecology, disinformation, big history, narration, doxa, interactionality Email: wordema@clemson.edu

  Janis Palma rhetorical theory, rhetoric of social justice, rhetorical ethnography, communication and culture Email: jpalma@clemson.edu

  Holland Perry Russian language and translation, cultural and linguistic anthropology, technical writing, information design, rhetorics of disability, rhetorics of addiction, rhetorics relating to health in military and government, documentary filmmaking, unreliable narrators, storytelling Email: hollant@clemson.edu

  Emily Shelton Poole political rhetorics and misinformation, affective embodiment, and neurorhetorics Email: espoole@clemson.edu

  Jessica Reeher critical rhetorics, feminist rhetoric, rhetorical representation in popular culture, social justice Email: jreeher@clemson.edu

  Jessie Reynolds-Clay intersectional feminist studies, reproductive rhetorics, queer theory, fat studies, and pedagogy Email: jclay3@clemson.edu

  Molly Riddell digital rhetorics, political campaigns, and rhetorics of identity and difference Email: mcridde@clemson.edu

  Lane Riggs Migration and diaspora studies; border rhetorics; nationalist identity; and digital rhetorics. Email: laner@clemson.edu

  Dave Rochlin Electracy, technology and business ethics, impact narratives, rhetoric of collaboration Email: drochli@clemson.edu

  Rebecca Rea Ross Feminist critical theory, rhetorics of religion, rhetorics of conspiratorial thought, pedagogy, intersectional/constellating rhetorics Email: rsross@clemson.edu

  Don Russell rhetorics in classical theatrical texts, communication & information design in arts organizations Email: dtrusse@clemson.edu

  Anne Salces Nedeo Critical theory, continental philosophy, rhetorics of difference and oppression, rhetorics of identity and memory, social justice, and art. Email: asalces@clemson.edu

  Meena Mahabir Seabrook Caribbean animation, digital rhetoric, cultural representation, edutainment, digital media and learning Email: mmahabi@clemson.edu

  Steven Sheffield Disinformation, Social Media Narrative Propagation, Pedagogy of Open Source Intelligence, Alternative Data Usage Email: ssheffi@clemson.edu

  Kris Smith data visualization rhetoric, visual narrative, sports rhetorics, data storytelling, digital literacy, visual communication, sports and gender rhetorics, digital and visual rhetorics Email: ksmit34@clemson.edu

  Brennan Stebbins information design for news, rhetorics of media, digital and visual media, information literacy, media discourse, data analytics, interactive media Email: bstebbi@clemson.edu

  Meghan Sweet Comparative Rhetorics, Critical Theory, Phenomenology, Contemplative Pedagogy, Histories of Rhetoric Email: sweet6@clemson.edu

  Harrison Taylor emerging and digital media, film studies, visual rhetoric, rhetoric and composition Email: htaylo8@clemson.edu

  Christian Taylor rhetoric of religion, Burkean rhetorical theory Email: ctayl28@clemson.edu

  Cecily Rouse Timmons semiotics, edusemiotics, philosophy of education, identity studies, constitutive rhetoric, social marketing, nonprofit communications, and information design Email: cecilyt@clemson.edu

  Amy Tobin Political rhetoric, religious rhetoric, social inequalities, racial injustice, educational pedagogies, educational inequalities, political communication, digital rhetorics Email: aftobin@clemson.edu

  Ashlyn Walden accessibility, universal design, & user-centered design; online literacy instruction, online writing instruction, digital design Email: acwalde@clemson.edu

  Brittanny Walker African-American rhetoric, early childhood Email: blw6@clemson.edu

  Melissa Wellborn data visualization, information design, digital learning theory, technical and professional writing Email: welbor4@clemson.edu

  Jeff Wheeler rhetorics of value, composition theory, rhetorics of opera/fine art, rhetoricity of human psychology in digital information/digital art Email: jwheel2@clemson.edu

  Gabrielle Wilkosz cross-cultural rhetorics, first-year writing & composition studies, post-apocalyptic literature Email: gwilkos@clemson.edu

  David Williams World cinema, play-writing/screenwriting, collaboration, social justice. Email: dgwilli@clemson.edu

  Conchetta Willis Afrocentricity Theory, multicultural theory and education, qualitative research that includes focus groups Email: conchew@clemson.edu

  Anna Victoria Wong critical discourse analysis on propaganda vs resulting public opinion Email: annaviw@clemson.edu

  Nicci Wooley information design, visual rhetoric, and digital media Email: adwoole@clemson.edu

  Shih Yu Wu New Materialist approach to rhetoric; Buddhist rhetoric; Comparative rhetoric Email: shihyu@clemson.edu

  Taylor Wyatt disability rhetorics, mad rhetorics, rhetorics of health and body, and social justice Email: tjwyatt@clemson.edu