Communication Studies Faculty
Winona State’s Communication Studies faculty examine human communication between and among people in many ways.
We explore and analyze communication in one-on-one or work group and team settings, plus formal public communication and portrayals in popular media.
We also teach students what they need to know to be successful and ethical lifelong learners, and we try to model these traits as well.
Communications Faculty Spotlight
Community engagement and scholarship enhance our teaching in the Communication Studies 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.
Emilie Falc’s Intercultural Communication class took part in the International Coffee Hour hosted by WSU International Services on Feb. 1, 2023.
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. “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.
Falc, E. (2020). Water is life: Shared destinies (PDF). In Casey R. Schmitt, Christopher S. Thomas, & Theresa R. Castor (Eds.), Water, rhetoric and social justice: A critical confluence (pp. 19-42). Lexington Books.
View all Communication Studies faculty publications in our OpenRiver archive.