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Alumni Edition

On May 1, 2009, we welcomed Ms. Jane Sell, Associate Administrator, to our department. Jane will work in Communication Studies 50% time and in Statistics the other 50%. Jane has been at the University of Minnesota since 1981 and her interests include grandchildren, knitting, and walking.

Joan Lund's retirement party was a great success and she is at home relaxing. Her e-mail address is lundx013@umn.edu

—Ed

Senior Faculty

Karlyn Kohrs Campbell lectured on "Forgotten Forerunner: Frances Wright" at the University of Kansas on April 2, 2009, in honor of Wil A. Linkugel. She also presented a paper on a panel titled "Obama's First Hundred Days" on April 4, 2009, at the Central States Communication Association Convention in St. Louis, MO.

Alan Gross's article, "Toward a Theory of Verbal-Visual Interaction: The Example of Lavoisier," appeared in the Spring 2009 edition of Rhetoric Society Quarterly.

Dean Hewes's article, "Elaborations on the Socioegocentric and Dual-Level Connectionist Models of Group Interaction Processes," appeared in the April 2009 edition of Human Communication Research.

Laurie Ouellette will present "Citizen Band: Private Broadcasting and Public Service in the Neoliberal Era" and "Reinventing PBS: Public Television in the Postnetwork, Postwelfare Era" at the International Communication Association Conference in Chicago, IL, May 20-25, 2009.

Edward Schiappa was the 2009 Rudolph Verderber Distinguished Lecturer for the Department of Communication at the University of Cincinnati. On April 30, 2009, he presented a talk titled "The Public and Technical Arguments over Gay Marriage in California in 2008."

Edward Schiappa will be a presenter at "Justification, Reason, and Action: Tradition and Innovation in Public Argument," a conference in honor of Professor David Zarefsky, at Northwestern University, May 29 & 30, 2009.

Sheldon, Amy. 2008. 'Dis is Schubert, tough guy'. Linguistic construction of masculinities in a Microsoft ad. In Jason F. Siegel, Traci C. Nagle, Amandine Lorente Lapole, and Julie Auger (eds.) Gender in Language: Classic Questions, New Contexts. Indiana University Linguistic Club Working Paper, 7, 151-160. Bloomington, IN: IULC Publications. Special issue published in conjunction with Sociolinguisticsfest. Conference of June 12-14, 2008. Peer-reviewed publication.

Sheldon, Amy, with Mark Wicklund (authors' names listed alphabetically).  2008. "…biological sex and gender could be different": A Role for Narrative in the Production of Social and Linguistic Differentiation. Gender in Language: Classic Questions, New Contexts. Indiana University Linguistic Club Working Paper, 7, 135-148. Bloomington, IN: IULC Publications. Special issue on Language and Gender published in conjunction with Sociolinguisticsfest. Conference of June 12-14, 2008. Peer-reviewed publication.

Sheldon, Amy. (2008) You can be the baby brother but you aren't born yet: Preschool girls' negotiation over power and access in pretend play. In I. Hutchby (ed.) Methods in Language and Social Interaction, Vol. 3, pp. 80-100. London: Sage. Reprinted from Research on Language and Social Interaction, 29(1), 57-80. Peer-reviewed publication.

Mary Vavrus will present "Feminist Media Studies, Meet the Trades" as part of a panel titled "Beyond the Modifier: Feminist as Keyword" at the International Communication  Association Conference in Chicago, IL, May 21-25, 2009.

Kirt Wilson will present a talk titled "Building the Rituals of Violence: Mimesis and Racial Conflict after the Civil War" to the English Department at the University of California – Irvine, June 2, 2009.

Congratulations to Professors Susanne Jones and Amy Sheldon for their election to the CLA Assembly. Both will serve two-year terms from Fall Semester 2009 through June 30, 2011.

Teaching Faculty

Tim Behme (Ph.D. 2007) presented "Authorship Norms and Ethics in Ancient Greek Prose" on May 13, 2009, at the University of Minnesota – Duluth.

John Campbell (Ph.D. 2008) has accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor at Temple University.

Graduate Students

Casey Kelly's article, "Women's Rhetorical Agency in the American West: The New Penelope," will appear in the Spring 2009 issue of Women's Studies in Communication.

Matthew May's article, "Spinoza and Class Struggle," will appear in the June 2009 issue of Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies.

Julie Wilson was awarded the Thomas Wallace Graduate School Fellowship for the 2009-2010 academic year.

International Communication Association Conference
Chicago, Illinois, May 20-25, 2009

Paper: "Domesticating Diversity, Negotiating Feminism: The Liberal Capitalistic Public Sphere of The View" (Top Student Paper award in the Feminist Studies Division) Rebecca Jurisz

Paper: "Finding Angelina Jolie in the Field of Global Neoliberalism Governmentality" Julie Wilson

Union for Democratic Communications Conference
Buffalo, New York, May 28-June 3, 2009

Paper: "Corporate Dominance after the Network Era: Monopolizing Television through Controlling 'Means of Consumption'" Anthony Nadler

Southern States Communication Association Conference
Norfolk, Virginia, April 1-5, 2009

Paper: "Suburban Creations of the Frankenstein Myth in Edward Scissorhands and Pleasantville" Monica Moore

ALTA - NCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation
Alta, Utah, July 30-April 2, 2009

Paper: "Ready to Fight: FDR's 'Pre-War' Discourse and the Creation of an American" Identity" Emily Berg

Graduate Student Placement

Samuel Boerboom accepted a position as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College.

Casey Kelly accepted a position as Visiting Assistant Professor at Butler University.

Matthew May accepted the Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Colgate University.

Pamela Hill Nettleton accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor in the magazine sequence of Journalism in the J. William and Mary Diederich College of Communication at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Department Awards

Marguerite Garden Jones Award
Sarah E. Spring, Undergraduate Award
Erin Kroes, Undergraduate Award

Old Buffalo Graduate Award
Thomas Johnson
Emanuelle Wessels

William O. and Natalie Krauch Lund Undergraduate Scholarship
Brittany Stahlman

Stuart A. Lindman Undergraduate Award
Jordan Knoedler

Nick Schoen III Undergraduate Scholarship
Dino Blankov

Graduate Research Partnership Program Awards
Emily Berg
Samuel Boerboom
Meg Kunde
Helen Morgan Parmett

Summer Fellowship Support (Block Grant Funds and Haeberle Funds)
Heidi Croatt
Jon Hoffman
Rebecca Kuehl
Alice Leppert
Tony Nadler
Jessica Prody
Kristine Weglarz
Min Zhu

We are saddened to report that our friend and mentor, Professor Ernest G. Bormann, passed away in December 2008. A memorial service will be held on Friday, April 24, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. in the Lakewood Cemetery Chapel, 3600 Hennepin Avenue South, Mpls., MN.  An informal reception will follow at his daughter Lisa and her husband Franz' home near the cemetery. Maps will be available at the chapel with directions to their home. Please visit "In Memoriam Ernest G. Bormann 1925-2008" at www.comm.umn.edu

Thank you for your "bits and pieces" for COMMPOSTING.  Please be sure to send your bits to Bea Dehler at dehle001@umn.edu  Deadline:  August 15, 2009. As usual, this will be our yearly alumni edition.

Mayh 2009 Vol. 27, #4

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

Department of Communication Studies
225 Ford Hall, 224 Church Street S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Editor: Beatrice Dehler
Secretary: Edward Schiappa