Hi, I’m Chris.

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington

ABOUT ME

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Priming "American Carnage:" Reality Television and Donald J. Trump. Critical Studies in Media Communication

FEATURED PUBLICATIONS

Assistant Professor of Communication

University of North Carolina Wilmington

Courses Taught:
Research Methods
Communication Theory
Rhetorical Theory & Criticism
Health Communication

TEACHING & TRAINING EXPERIENCE

Rhetorics of Cancer in America

In my dissertation, I positioned American cancer rhetoric as an expansive multimodal rhetorical formation that functions through constitutive means to create a veil of unity, a fabled and romanticized cancer community, that obfuscates, erases, silences, and justifies the disparities in cancer care wrought by capitalism.

DISSERTATION

Robert Bostrom Young Scholar Award

Awarded at the 2019 Southern States Communication Association Conference for the “most outstanding paper submitted to the conference by a graduate student.”

AWARDS

Ph.D.|Georgia State University

M.A.|Texas State University

B.A.|DePaul University

EDUCATION

(Nov 2024). The "War on Cancer" as a Constitutive Metaphoric Framework. Top Paper Panel in Rhetorical & Communication Theory Divisuion at the110th Annual National Communication Association Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana.

(May 2024). The Constitutive Materiality of American Cancer Culture's Iconic Objects. Dissertation chapter presented at the 21st Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference in Denver, Colorado.