Faculty Spotlight 2024–2025
Emerson Professor featured in a collection of the year’s best essays, selected by Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Wesley Morris and series editor Kim Dana Kupperman.
WLP Distinguished Professor Jerald Walker has six essays appearing in the prestigious Best American Essays anthology in the upcoming 2024 edition.
What considerations and challenges emerge when a brand is getting ready to expand internationally?
Brent Smith, Dean of the School of Communication, and Sereikhuoch Eng, assistant professor in the department of marketing communication, have co-authored a chapter titled “BROWN Coffee and Bakery: Taking the Home-Brewed Success Internationally” in Utilizing Case Studies in Business Education (2024).
What social democratic strategies can be employed against far-right populist challenges?
Ian McManus, assistant professor at the Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies, has co-authored a paper titled “A path forward: social democratic strategies and responses to far-right populist challenges” for the August 2024 issue of European Politics and Society journal.
How do tongue strengthening exercises impact exercise outcomes, adherence, and participant confidence and motivation?
Lindsay Griffin, assistant professor in the department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, co-authored a paper titled “Biofeedback and Exercise Load Affect Accuracy of Tongue Strength Exercise Performance” for the August 2024 issue of Dysphagia Journal.
What factors contribute to consumers’ willingness to pay premium prices for integrated offerings?
Sereikhuoch Eng, assistant professor in the department of marketing communication, has co-authored a paper titled “Consumers’ Willingness to Pay a Price Premium for Integrated Products: A Moderated Mediation Model of Hedonic Value and Perceived Quality” in the August 2024 issue of Journal of Marketing Development and Competitiveness.
What are various methods in cinema that can be used to constitute an anti-colonial practice for a filmmaker?
Kathryn Ramy, a filmmaker and anthropologist with the department of visual media and arts, has authored a chapter titled “Anti-Colonial Cinema Practices: Dialogical, Experimental, Photochemical Film Praxis in Puerto Rico” in The Palgrave Handbook of Experimental Cinema (September 2024).
How does imagining different relations to heritage in the context of present political claims around land, territoriality and culture lead to the possibility of life-sustaining transboundary survival?
Nelli Sargsyan, associate professor at the department of Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies, has co-authored an article titled “Life-sustaining transboundary survival: rethinking Armenian struggles for heritage” in the September 2024 issue of International Journal of Heritage Studies.
What are the implications of result findings that indicate that commonly used standardized language tests do not adequately predict language irregularities produced by some older autistic children and adolescents during spontaneous discourse?
Ruth Grossman, professor in the department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, has co-authored a paper titled “Normal but Different: Autistic Adolescents Who Score Within Normal Ranges on Standardized Language Tests Produce Frequent Linguistic Irregularities in Spontaneous Discourse” in the September 2024 issue of Autism & Developmental Language Impairments.
How have contemporary Afro-Latin American novelists transformed a centuries-old European genre to address key aspects of the diaspora in various Caribbean and Latin American countries?
Rosario Swanson, professor with the department of writing, literature and publishing, has published an article titled “Coming of Age in the Afro-Latin American Novel: Blackness, Religion, Immigration” in the October 2024 issue of the Canadian Journal of African Studies.
What are current media visibility and representation challenges for Afghans in American cultural imagination?
Hazeta Atef, assistant professor with the Department of Journalism, has authored an article titled “The Representation of Afghans in the American Sitcom United States of Al: Examining the Burden of Representation and Challenges of Media Visibility” for the October 2024 issue of Howard Journal of Communication.
What key takeaways can we provide esports professionals and enthusiasts from an analysis of real-world examples, case studies, and future trends to gain insight into the industry’s dynamic nature?
Kevin Mitchell, professor from the Department of Communication Studies, has co-authored a chapter titled “Esports Public Relations” in the Routledge for Handbook of Esports (2024).
How can we make space for equitable civic and educational experiences by adopting a framework of structure, action, and agency in service of an imagined and inclusive future?
Paul Mihailidis, professor from the Department of Journalism, has co-authored an article titled “Developing a framework for equitable media literacy practice: Voices from the field” for the August 2024 issue of Community, Culture, and Critique.
How are Venezuelan migrants framed in newspapers based in Trinidad and Tobago?
Sharifa Simon-Roberts, assistant professor from the Department of Communication Studies, has co-authored an articled titled “In Search of a Safe Harbour: The Framing of Venezuelan Migrants in Mainstream Newspapers in Trinidad and Tobago” for the October 2024 issue of Migration and Development.
Jocelyn Marshall, affiliated faculty in Writing, Literature & Publishing and Visual & Media Arts, was awarded the 2024 National Women’s Studies Association University of Illinois Press First Book Prize for her first book, Dissent Nearby: Diasporic Feminisms & U.S. Imperialism.
Sharifa Simon-Roberts, assistant professor of Communication Studies, and Owen Eagan, senior lecturer in Communication Studies co-authored a research report The Influence of Social Justice Movies: A Case Study in Promoting Moral Understanding & Social Responsibility.
Their aim was to examine the connection among social justice movies, respondents’ moral understanding of racism, and their views of social responsibility. Their research was published in the Journal of Media Psychology in July, 2024.
Jocelyn Marshall, affiliated faculty in Writing, Literature & Publishing and Visual & Media Arts, was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship by the American Association of University Women. This award supports one full year of research on her current book project, Dissent Nearby: Diasporic Feminism & U.S. Imperialism.
Leonie Bradbury, Distinguished Curator-in-Residence and Director of Emerson Contemporary was awarded a grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation in August, 2024 to fund Emerson Contemporary’s latest multimedia exhibition, off the pedestal. Read more in Emerson Today
Brent Smith, Dean of the School of Communication and Professor of Marketing, and Sereikhuoch Eng, Assistant Professor of Marketing Communication and Graduate Program Director co-authored an article The agency of attachment orientation and parenthood: an investigation of individuals’ social comparison and self-gifting motivations
Their aim was to ascertain whether and how an individual’s social comparison affects their self-gifting motivations. Their research was published in the Journal of Contemporary Marketing Science in August, 2024.
Malic Amalya, Assistant Professor of Visual and Media Arts is working on a new film, New Earth, a 16mm experimental documentary, currently in development. New Earth is the third film in a series of 16mm mythologies, and was funded in part by a Norman and Irma Mann Stearns Distinguished Faculty Award. Read an interview with professor Amalya in Emerson Today.