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.