Rhetoric and Communication
Sanae Elmoudden, Assistant Professor, received her B.A. from
Rutgers University, her M.A. and PhD from the University of
Colorado, Boulder. She studies the intersections between
globalization, technology, and communication—her emphasis is on the
implications of communication technologies on Organizational
Communication and Interpersonal Communication.
John B. Greg, Associate Professor,
received the Ph.D. from Wayne State University in Detroit. He
teaches public speaking, argumentation and debate, analytical and
critical thinking, and decision making. Prof. Greg has co-authored
research on analytical/critical thinking and decision-making.
Jeremiah Hickey, Assistant
Professor, received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University. His
teaching interests include the connection between public address
and political philosophy, especially in relation to the development
and maintenance of a democratic society. He teaches courses that
concern the first amendment and civil society, the rhetoric of
social movements, political communication, the development of
rhetorical history and rhetorical theory, public speaking, and
argumentation and debate.
Michael J. Hostetler, Professor, holds Ph.D. from Northwestern
University. He specializes in the history and criticism of
American public address and has an extensive background in
religious rhetoric. Prof. Hostetler was a Fulbright Teaching
Fellow to Ukraine in 2007. He is the Chairman of the
Department of Rhetoric, Communication, and Theatre.
Flora Keshishian, Assistant
Professor, is a Fulbright Scholar (Armenia, 2008) who received her
Ph.D. from New York University. She teaches courses in
Interpersonal Communication, Language and Intercultural
Communication, Public Speaking, Media Criticism, and News Analysis.
Her research interests include the interface of culture, media, and
economics; health communication; and education.
Stephen M. Llano, Assistant Professor, is a Doctoral Candidate
from the University of Pittsburgh and the Director of the St.
John’s University Argumentation and Debate Team. Prof.
Llano’s interests include, the relationship between poetry,
rhetoric and argumentation, contemporary argument theory as it
intersects with rhetoric, aesthetics, and culture, and the
development of critical and revolutionary pedagogy in argumentation
practice and theory, especially as it relates to the development of
phronesis, or, practical wisdom. His research includes
American debate theory and practice, Kenneth Burke, mid-20th
century poetics, the Beat Generation, 20th and 21st century
rhetorical and argumentation theory, classical theories of
rhetoric, Argumentation and Eastern thought, international debate
theories and methods.
Kelly A. Rocca (Ed.D.., West
Virginia University, 2000) is an Associate Professor and the
Associate Dean of St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
on the Staten Island campus of St. John’s University. She
regularly teaches Public Speaking, Interpersonal Communication,
Intercultural Communication, Persuasion, and Discover New York at
St. John’s, and has previously taught other courses, including
Nonverbal Communication, Instructional Communication, Communication
Media Effects, Research Methods, Communication in Contemporary
Society, and Organizational Communication. Her research interests
are in Interpersonal, Instructional, Health, and Sports
Communication.
Edward G. Skirde received the
Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University and specializes in
effective public speaking, semantics, and theories of
persuasion.
Jaime Wright, Assistant Professor,
received her B.A. from the University of Alabama, her M.A. from
Wake Forest University in North Carolina, and her PhD from the
University of Texas at Austin. She studies the intersections
between rhetoric, argument, and culture—with an eye toward learning
how different cultural elements shape the social, political and
historical ways we come to know (and understand) ourselves.
Theatre
Barbara Horn holds a Ph.D. from
CUNY. Horn specializes in theory and criticism of theatre. Her
publications include The Age of Hair: Evolution and Impact of
Broadway's First Broadway Musical (1991), Joseph Papp: A
Bio-Bibliography (1992), David Merrick: A Bio-Bibliography (1992),
Colleen Dewhurst: A Bio-Bibliography (1993), and Ellen Stewart and
La Mama: A Bio-Bibliography (1993), Maxwell Anderson: A Resarch and
Production Sourcebook (1996), Lillian Hellman: A Research and
Production Sourcebook (1998), all published by Greenwood Press.
Larry Myers holds a Ph.D. from Kent
State University. He specializes in playwriting and his plays have
been performed in San Francisco, Louisville, Anchorage, and
Edinburgh. His work is frequently produced off Broadway in New York
City.