Faculty
Mickey Bannon (PhD, University of Pittsburgh)
Lecturer Organizational Communication, Special Topics in Communication: Speaking and Writing Across Business and the Professions, Discussion, Public Speaking
E-mail: mbannon@pitt.edu
Lynn Clarke (PhD, Northwestern University)
Assistant Professor, Director of Public Speaking
Rhetoric of social movements, rhetoric and civic life, contemporary rhetorical theory, and rhetoric and critical social theory
Donald B. Egolf (PhD, University of Pittsburgh)
Associate Professor
Communication Theory, Nonverbal/Interpersonal/Small-Group Communication
E-mail: ratchet@pitt.edu
William Fusfield (PhD, University of Washington)
Associate Professor
History of German and American Rhetoric, Critical Theory, Rhetoric and Culture, Rhetoric of Science
E-mail: fusroy@pitt.edu
John Gareis (PhD, University of Pittsburgh)
Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Advising
Interpersonal Communication, Small-Group Communication, Organizational Communication
E-mail: gareis@pitt.edu
Meredith Guthrie (PhD, Bowling Green State University)
Lecturer and Undergraduate Advisor
Popular Culture, Women's Studies, History, Philosophy
E-mail: guthrie@pitt.edu
Olga Kuchinskaya (PhD, University of California, San Diego)
Assistant Professor
E-mail: okuchins@pitt.edu
John Lyne (PhD, University of Wisconsin)
Professor
Rhetorical Theory and Philosophy, Rhetoric of Science, Argumentation
E-mail: jlyne@pitt.edu
Brenton Malin (PhD, University of Iowa)
Assistant Professor
Media Criticism, Television and Society
E-mail: bmalin@pitt.edu
Gordon Mitchell (PhD, Northwestern University)
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, and Director of William Pitt Debating Union
Public Argument, Rhetoric of Science, Critical Pedagogy
E-mail: gordonm@pitt.edu
Lester Olson (PhD, University of Wisconsin)
Professor and Chancellor's Distinguished Teacher
Rhetorical Criticism and Theory, American Public Argument, Rhetorical Iconology, Rhetoric and Human Rights
E-mail: olson@pitt.edu
John Poulakos (PhD, University of Kansas)
Associate Professor
Rhetorical Theory, Rhetoric and Philosophy, Classical Rhetoric
E-mail: poulakos@pitt.edu
Shanara Reid-Brinkley (PhD, University of Georgia)
Assistant Professor and Director of Debate
African American Rhetoric
E-mail: srb@pitt.edu
Gerald Shuster
(PhD, University of Pittsburgh)
Political Communication, Presidential Rhetoric I, Presidential Rhetoric II, Organizational Communication,
Communication Process, Writing for Electronic Media
E-mail: ges3@pitt.edu
Janet Skupien (PhD, Columbia University)
Director of Speaking Across the Disciplines,Theories of Interpersonal Communication, Communication Ethics, Narrative and Storytelling
E-mail: skupienj@pitt.edu
Barbara Warnick (PhD, University of Michigan)
Department Chair and Professor
New Media Criticism, Public Discourse on the Internet, Rhetorical
Criticism, Rhetorical Theory, Argumentation, Textual Analysis
E-mail: bwarnick@pitt.edu
Ronald Zboray (PhD, New York University)
Professor and Affiliate Faculty in Cultural Studies and Women's Studies, Communication, History, and Culture; Qualitative Methods (History and
Ethnography); Media Audiences; U.S. Print Culture; Visual Culture;
Gender and American Public Address; Race, Class, and Gender
E-mail: zboray@pitt.edu