Communication & Media Faculty & Staff
Winona State’s Communication & Media faculty examines human communication between and among people in many ways.
They explore and analyze communication in one-on-one or work group and team settings, plus formal public communication and portrayals in popular media.
Our faculty teach students what they need to know to be successful and ethical lifelong learners, and they try to model these traits as well.
Phelps Hall 126
507.457.5474
Office Hours
Tuesday–Thursday: 1-4pm
DuFresne PAC 204
507.457.2362
Phelps Hall 113E
507.457.5098
Education
- MFA | Temple University
- BA | Concordia University Montreal
- Fulbright Research Grant recipient in Filmmaking | Hungary (2018-19)
Phelps Hall 129E
507.457.5638
Education
- PhD | Bowling Green State University
- MA | University of Minnesota-Duluth
- BA | University of San Diego
- Fulbright scholar in Digital Culture | Norway (2011-12)
Phelps Hall 113C
507.457.5231
Education
- MFA | Bowling Green State University
- BS | University of Akron
Phelps Hall 113B
507.457.5238
Education
- PhD | University of Connecticut
- MBA | Boston College
- BA | LanZhou University
- BS | LanZhou University
Phelps Hall 129F
507.457.2981
Education
- PhD | Malmö University
- MFA | Brown University
Phelps Hall 129D
507.457.2603
Education
- PhD | University of Minnesota
- MA | Bethel University
- BA | Winona State University
DuFresne PAC 210
507.457.5246
Communication & Media Faculty Spotlight
Community engagement and scholarship enhance our teaching in the Communication & Media department.
Adam Gaffey organized a panel on power and representations of Native Americans in public art and storytelling as part of the 2023 WSU Consortium for Liberal Arts and Sciences Promotion series.
In 2022, Tammy Swenson-Lepper led a community discussion on managing social media as part of Central Lutheran Church’s Parenting Teens Series.
Kelly Herold’s Disability and Culture class organized a “Disability Culture Celebration” event in 2022.
Miller, A. R., & Stana, A. (2024). Struggling to recover or recovering the struggle: a critical examination of recovery narratives as discourses-in-practice for people suffering from postpartum depression. Atlantic Journal of Communication, 32(5), 733–746.
Gaffey, Adam J. (2023). “Making the Lover’s Leap: Wenonah, Rhetorical Colonialism, and Dissociative Memory(-)Work.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 53, 5, 2023, 797-813.
Ballard. R. L. & Swenson-Lepper, T. (2023). Examining students’ social media use and ethical awareness: Class activities and “Coastal Succulents”. Communication Teacher, 37(3), 198-206.
Swenson-Lepper, T. & Hanson, H. (2023). “Social media, COVID-19, Misinformation, and ethics: A Descriptive Study of American Adults’ Perceptions” (PDF). In Pamela A. Zeiser and Berrin A. Beasley (Eds.), Social media ethics and COVID-19: Well-being, truth, misinformation, and authenticity (53-82). Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group.
Flynn, M. A., Veilleux, E., & Stana A. (2022). A post from the woods: Social media, well-being and our connection to the natural world. Computers in Human Behavior Reports (5), 100171.
Gaffey, A. J. (2022). Introducing the rhetoric of narratives with Barack Obama’s Of Thee I Sing. Communication Teacher, 36(1), 1-4.
Javanovic, S., Swenson-Lepper, T., McManus L., Velez Ortiz, M., Ballard, R., Leavitt, M., & Charron, L. (2021). Communication ethics: Activities for critical thinking and reflection. Kendall Hunt Publishing Company.
View all Communication & Media faculty publications in our OpenRiver archive.