CAS at PSU

Alumni of the Department of Communication Arts & Sciences have been invited to sign up to join the CAS Friends and Alumni Network (CAS-FAN).

PhD candidate Cheyenne Zaremba’s essay, “Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder?”, is now published in Death, Commemoration, and Cultural Meaning, exploring how COVID-19 memorials transformed visual remembrance. A free introduction is available here: mailchi.mp/berghahnbooks/…

Who's in Denver? If you're at #NCA2025, drop by our booth at the Graduate School Open House, 1-4pm today!

Students who joined the CAS-led global studies trip to study democracy in Ireland last May talk about their experience and the importance of accountability in government. @psumccourtneyinst instagram.com/reel/DQwsPwTFz…

🎓 Celebrating academic freedom! Dr. Bradford Vivian delivered the 2025 Finegold Lecture at Pitt and a public talk at the University of Alabama, highlighting how misinformation threatens universities—and why academic freedom is worth both celebrating and defending.

On Nov. 7, Prof. Katya Haskins joins ASHR’s First Friday Forum (1–2 PM ET) to discuss the Journal for the History of Rhetoric. Don’t miss it—register here: bit.ly/3WLrzQj

Dr. VanHaitsma's book offers a queer feminist history of rhetoric that recovers the civic contributions of women teachers in same-sex romantic friendships. Congratulations, Pamela! (End thread: 4/4)

... "The Erotic as Rhetorical Power: Archives of Romantic Friendship Between Women Teachers," published in Oct. 2024 by Ohio State University Press. ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9… (3/4)

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies Pamela VanHaitsma will receive the 2025 Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award from the Public Address Division at this fall’s NCA conference. (Thread: 1/4)

Or search the "academic and faculty" positions on the PSU Careers website – hr.psu.edu/careers/browse… – using our department’s name as the search term. Inquiries about our search may be forwarded to cas.la.psu.edu/people/denise-… (End thread 3/3)

...whose scholarship addresses the intersection of interpersonal or relational communication and technology-mediated communication. Go to the Penn State Workday Academic Positions site to read the full description and apply: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic (2/3)

CAS Is Hiring! We are excited to announce that the Communication Arts & Sciences Department at Penn State is seeking a new tenure-track colleague at the assistant or associate professor level... (Thread 1/3)

Second, the Interpersonal Communication Division of NCA will honor Dr. Brisini with its Early Career Award this November at the national conference. Two terrific accomplishments; Well done, Kellie! (End thread: 2/2)

The CAS Department congratulates Kellie Brisini, 2018 PhD alum, for two exciting fall recognitions. First, Dr. Brisini was promoted and tenured at Louisiana State University, where she is now an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies. (Thread: 1/2)

...to forward a theory of klimax– a rhetorical strategy midlife women use to disrupt their place in dominant temporal structures. Congrats, Ashley! (End thread: 3/3)

Ashley's paper, "Klimatic Becomings: Midlife Women's Temporal Rhetorics" examines Miranda July's novel, All Fours, #MidlifeAwakening TikTok videos, and Brené Brown's viral essay, "The Midlife Unraveling"... (2/3)

Congratulations! CAS Ph.D. student, Ashley Hay, was recently awarded a Top Student Paper in the Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division at National Communication Association. (Thread: 1/3)

When you see them all in the hallways, be sure to say, “Congratulations on winning the Braithwaite award!” (End thread: 5/5)

The Vice-Chair Elect of the Family Communication Division describes the essay as innovative and insightful, setting a high standard for future scholarship in the field. Dr. Solomon’s co-authors will be in town to strategize with her on the next steps of their collaboration. (4/5)

Distinguished Professor Denise Haunani Solomon and her co-authors, Leanne K. Knobloch (U of Illinois), Jennifer A. Theiss (Rutgers), and Rachel McLaren (U of Iowa), will receive the 2025 Dawn O. Braithwaite Distinguished Book Award from NCA’s Family Communication Division. (1/5)