Full-Time Faculty
Emily Deering Crosby
Assistant Professor. Rhetorical criticism; digital rhetoric; popular culture and critical theory; sports communication; gender studies; rhetorical strategy; visual rhetoric.
Adria Goldman
Assistant Professor. Media Representations (influences/effects), Race and Gender Studies, Black Women’s Studies, Organizational Communication, Publicity and Public Relations.
Visiting Assistant Professor. Critical Pedagogy and Praxis; Environmental Communication and the Rhetoric of Place, Space, and Civic life; and Rhetoric and Ethics in Science, Technology, and the Environment.
Elizabeth Johnson-Young
Assistant Professor. Health communication; health and media; media effects; public relations and campaigns; social science research methods.
P. Anand Rao
Professor and Director of the Speaking Intensive Program. Rhetorical theory and criticism; visual rhetoric; public argument; rhetoric of science.
Sushma Subramanian
Assistant Professor and Faculty Adviser to The Weekly Ringer. Journalism.
J.D. Swerzenski
Assistant Professor of Digital Studies: Video, Audio, and Multimedia Production.
Zach Whalen
Department Chair, Associate Professor, and Director of the Minor Program in Digital Studies. Digital studies; video game studies; computational literature; comics/graphic narrative; creative coding.
Affiliated and Part-Time Faculty
Cartland Berge
Interim Director, Digital Knowledge Center. Adjunct Instructor of digital studies.
Brenta Blevins
Assistant Professor of English and Digital Studies, Department of English and Linguistics
Danielle Hartman
Adjunct Instructor of Communication.
Stefanie Chae
Adjunct Instructor of Digital Studies.
John T. Morello
Professor Emeritus of Communication. Public speaking; argumentation and debate; political communication; rhetoric; small group communication.
Timothy M. O’Donnell
Professor of Communication and UMW Provost. Public argument; debate; rhetoric of science; rhetorical theory and criticism.
Shavonne Shorter
Associate Professor of Communication and Associate Provost for Equity and Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer. Organizational communication.