headshot of Dr. Paul J. Achter
Associate Professor of Rhetoric
Chair, Department of Rhetoric & Communication Studies

Specialties:
  • Rhetorical Theory and Rhetorical Criticism
  • Rhetoric and Racism
  • Television
  • American Political Culture
  • War Rhetoric
Contact:
(804) 289-8743
headshot of Dr. Timothy  Barney
Professor of Rhetoric and Communication Studies
Chair, Department of Art and Art History

Specialties:
  • Visual Rhetoric
  • Geopolitics
  • Presidential and Electoral Rhetoric
  • Cold War and post-Cold War Public Address
  • Critical Intercultural Communication
Contact:
(804) 287-6383
headshot of Dr. Greg  Cavenaugh
Visiting Assistant Professor

Specialties:
  • Spirituality in/and/of Performance
  • Rhetoric of Religion
  • Inclusive Leadership
  • Geek Culture
Contact:
(804) 287-6510
headshot of Dr. Scott  Johnson
Associate Professor of Communication Studies

Specialties:
  • Communication Education
  • Interpersonal and Group Communication
  • Communication Theory and Research
Contact:
(804) 287-6698
headshot of Dr. Nicole  Maurantonio
Professor of Rhetoric & Communications
Associate Provost of Academic Affairs
Director of Advising, First-Year Seminar, and First- and Second-Year Programming

Specialties:
  • Public memory
  • U.S. media history
  • Race and representation
  • Qualitative research methods
Contact:
(804) 289-8267
headshot of Dr. Mari Lee  Mifsud
Professor of Rhetoric
Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Advisory Board Member, ex-officio

Specialties:
  • Rhetorical Theory
  • Critical Theory
  • Feminist Praxis, Intersectional and Post-Colonial
  • History and Historiography of Rhetoric
  • Homeric and Classical Rhetoric
  • Comparative Rhetoric
Contact:
(804) 287-6513
Academic Administrative Coordinator
Contact:
(804) 289-8263
headshot of Dr. Malcolm  Ogden
Visiting Assistant Professor of Rhetoric & Communication Studies

Specialties:
  • Internet Studies
  • Platform Studies
  • Computational Culture
  • Marxism
  • Affect Theory
  • Critical Posthumanism
  • Aesthetic Theory
  • Critical and Cultural Theory
  • Materiality and Infrastructure
  • Continental Philosophy
Contact:
headshot of Dr. Ignatius G.D Suglo
Assistant Professor of Rhetoric & Communication Studies

Specialties:
  • Global Media
  • Media Histories
  • Digital Culture
  • Visual Communication
  • Media and Activism
  • Africa-China Relations
Contact:
(804) 289-1773
headshot of  Yijun  Sun
Visiting Assistant Professor of Rhetoric & Communications Studies

Specialties:
  • Media Histories
  • Media Theories
  • Science and Technology Studies
  • Feminist Technologies
  • Digital Media Studies
  • Cultural Studies
  • Critical Studies of AI
  • Media Industries
Contact:
headshot of  Yijun  Sun
Visiting Assistant Professor of Rhetoric & Communications Studies

Specialties:
  • Media Histories
  • Media Theories
  • Science and Technology Studies
  • Feminist Technologies
  • Digital Media Studies
  • Cultural Studies
  • Critical Studies of AI
  • Media Industries
Contact:
headshot of Dr. Lauren Craig Tilton
Professor of Digital Humanities
E. Claiborne Robins Professor of Liberal Arts
Data Science Advisory Board Member

Specialties:
  • Computational/Digital Humanities
  • Visual Culture
  • Community Media
  • Politics of Representation
Contact: