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RCID Program Director

David Blakesley

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

Hamilton Altstatt

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


Todd Anderson

Todd Anderson

Email: tdander@clemson.edu
Office: 256G Sirrine Hall


Erin Ash, Ph.D.

Erin Ash, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Email: ash3@clemson.edu


Susanna Ashton

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.

Luca Barattoni, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, World Cinema
Email: lbaratt@clemson.edu
Office: 303 Strode


Stephanie L. Barczewski

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

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

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

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: 864-656-5373


Cameron Fae Bushnell, Ph.D.

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

Bryan Denham

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


Megan Eatman

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.

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

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

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

Gabriel Hankins

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


Stephanie Hassell

Stephanie Hassell

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


Dani Herro, Ph.D.

Dani Herro, Ph.D.

Associate Professor Digital Media and Learning
Email: dherro@clemson.edu


Tharon Howard

Tharon Howard

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


Kathryn Langenfeld

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


Michael LeMahieu

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

Linda Li-Bleuel

Professor of Music
Email: llibleu@clemson.edu
Office: 216 Brooks


Darren L Linvill

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

Eddie Lohmeyer

Email: elohmey@clemson.edu
Office: 256F Sirrine Hall


Jeff Love, Ph.D.

Jeff Love, Ph.D.

Research Professor of German and Russian
Email: gjlove@clemson.edu


Brian McGrath

Brian McGrath

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


Lisa Melonçon, Ph.D.

Lisa Melonçon, Ph.D.

Department Chair and Professor
Email: lmelono@clemson.edu
Office: 256A Sirrine Hall


Michael L. Meng

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: (864) 656-3153


Lee Morrissey

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

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

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.

Stephanie Pangborn, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Email: sruhl@clemson.edu


Diane Perpich, Ph.D.

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

Mashal Saif

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


Johannes Schmidt, Ph.D.

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

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

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

Aga Skrodzka

Associate Professor of World Cinema
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: 864-656-3151


Michelle Smith

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

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

Daniel E. Wueste

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


Heidi Zinzow, Ph.D.

Heidi Zinzow, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Psychology
Email: hzinzow@clemson.edu


Professional Communication and Information Design (PCID)

Katalin Beck

Katalin Beck

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


Will Cunningham

Will Cunningham

Senior Lecturer
American Literature, post-1865; Service-Learning and Professional Communication
Email: wcunnin@clemson.edu
Office: 613 Strode


Ashley S Fisk

Ashley S Fisk

Principal Lecturer
Email: cowden2@clemson.edu
Office: 514 Strode


LaCresha Green

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

Tharon Howard

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


Greg Martin, MA, MBA

Greg Martin, MA, MBA

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


Laurianne Matheson

Laurianne Matheson

Lecturer
Email: lauriap@clemson.edu
Office: Strode 516


Chelsea McKelvey

Chelsea McKelvey

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


Seth McKelvey

Seth McKelvey

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


Nancy Paxton-Wilson

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

Mike Pulley

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


Nicholas Rader, Ph.D.

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

Philip D Randall

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


Mark Valenzuela Jones, M.F.A.

Mark Valenzuela Jones, M.F.A.

Lecturer, Professional Communication and Information Design
Email: mvj@clemson.edu


Heather Williams

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

Cynthia Ann Haynes

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


Jan Rune Holmevik

Jan Rune Holmevik

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


Steven B. Katz

Steven B. Katz

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


Victor Vitanza

Victor Vitanza

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


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