People

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

Email: tdander@clemson.edu
Office: 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

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

Email: elohmey@clemson.edu
Office: 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

Associate 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: 514 Strode

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 516

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: 302 Strode

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

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