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Katherine Lind

Educational Background

  • PhD: Communication and Culture | Indiana University (2018)
  • MA: Communication and Rhetorical Studies | Syracuse University (2011)
  • BA: Communication Studies | University of Puget Sound (2009)

Personal Statement

Hailing from Colorful Colorado, I have lived in 8 states around the country—I moved to Washington for college, pursued higher education in New York and Indiana, then taught at universities and colleges in Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Ohio—most of them without a car.

I am a fierce advocate for public transportation and encouraging others to become less dependent on cars (#NUMTOT pride). I will bike, walk, and train hop myself ragged exploring whatever city I am in.

Along with teaching, I enjoy puzzling, swimming, and critiquing pop culture. I recently took up watercolor as a stress reliever, but now I find that I stress over making the perfect birthday card or figuring out what to paint next. I tend to dance at the drop of a beat, which is great for Zumba classes but not so much for grocery shopping.

Professional Statement

As a rhetorical and critical cultural scholar, I explore the intersections of visual rhetoric (and media studies), environmental communication, public advocacy and social movement communication, civic engagement, and public memory.

My investment in community building and local environmental advocacy enables me to connect my research to local organizations and policy development and to bring these real-world applications to the classroom.

Despite being from a land-locked state, I have published essays on marine animal advocacy in “Quarterly Journal of Speech” and “Environmental Communication.” I co-edited a special issue of “Rhetoric Society Quarterly,” which featured essays composing a “Rhetorical Bestiary.” I branched out of animal advocacy with an article on visual rhetoric and Confederate monuments in the “Howard Journal of Communications.”

I continue to embrace the upbeat topic of climate change and biodiversity loss as a rhetorical project, believing that we need to focus on enhancing environmental communication.

Courses Taught

  • CMST 192: Introduction to Effective Communication
  • CMST 289: Gender and Communication
  • CMST 383: Rhetoric, Culture, and Power: Analysis of Public Communication
  • CMST 389: Creating Change through Persuasion
Contact
Katherine Lind (PhD)
Assistant Professor

DuFresne PAC 209