Garret Lee Castleberry, Ph.D. Curriculum Vitae

garretcastleberry3@gmail.com – (580) 547-9229 https://okcu.academia.edu/GarretCastleberry

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Department of Communication, The University of Oklahoma. (Dissertation Title: Imitating and Innovating a Critical Television Studies Model for

Communication) Advisor: Dr. Eric M. Kramer. Degree completion: May 2015. M.A. Department of Communication Studies, University of North Texas, 4.0 GPA

(Thesis Title: Incorporating flow for a comic [book] corrective of Rhetcon.) Advisors: Dr. Brian Lain & Dr. Shaun Treat. Degree completion: May 2010.

B.A. Department of Communication and Theatre, Southwestern Oklahoma State University,

Summa Cum Laude. Degree completion: May 2006.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD Fall 2016-present: Interim Program Director of the College of Adult Graduate Studies, Mid-America Christian University. Fall 2015-present: Director of Forensics, Oklahoma City University. Fall 2015-present: Introduction to Human Communication (On site & Hybrid), Public Speaking (Online), Public Speaking (Hybrid), Adjunct Instructor, Oklahoma State University-Oklahoma City. Fall 2014-present: Communication & Cultural Change, Media Culture & Social Influence, Creating Social Media Presence & Cultural Movements (On site & Online), Political Communication in the Digital Age, Advanced Public Relations, Introduction to Public Relations, Fundamentals of Publics Speaking – Adjunct Professor, Mid-America Christian University. Fall 2014-present: Principles of Public Speaking, Intercollegiate Forensics – Adjunct Instructor, Oklahoma City University. Fall 2011-Spring 2015: Director of Forensics, The University of Oklahoma. Summer 2013: Communication: A Critical/Cultural Introduction – Course Instructor, The University of Oklahoma. Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Practicum in Forensics, The University of Oklahoma. Summer 2012: Communication: A Critical/Cultural Introduction – Course Instructor, The University of Oklahoma.

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May Intersession 2011: Principles of Communication – Course Instructor, The University of Oklahoma. Fall 2010-Spring 2011: Principles of Communication, The University of Oklahoma. Summer 2010 Maymester: Introduction to Communication - Course Instructor, The University of North Texas. Spring 2010: Topics in Rhetoric: Superheroes, Introduction to Public Speaking, Assistant Basic Course Director, The University of North Texas. Fall 2009: Introduction to Public Speaking, Performance of Literature, Assistant Basic Course Director, The University of North Texas. Spring 2009: Introduction to Human Communication, Argument and Rhetoric, The University of North Texas. Fall 2008: Introduction to Human Communication, The University of North Texas.

PUBLICATIONS

(2016). Understanding Stuart Hall’s ‘Encoding/Decoding’ Through AMC’s Breaking Bad. In Communication Theory and Millennial Popular Culture: Essays and Applications. Roberts, K, & Hickly, J. (Eds.), pp. 84-95. New York: Peter Lang. (2015). AMC’s Hell on Wheels as an (Im)Moral Autobiographic Allegory to Living Life on the “Edge” of [Western] Civilization. Special Issue for the International Review for Qualitative Research, Volume 8, Issue 3. DOI: 10.1525/irqr.2015.8.3.330. (2015). (Gentry, J. Co-author). Missed Opportunity: The Decline of Athletics on ESPN and America’s Passive Culture. In The ESPN Effect: Academic Studies of the Worldwide Leader in Sports. McGuire, J. & Armfield, G. G. (Eds.). New York: Peter Lang. (2015). Game(s) of Fandom: The Hyperlink Labyrinths that Paratextualize Game of Thrones Fandom. In Television, Social Media and Fan Culture (Slade, A., Narro, A., & Givens-Carroll, D. Eds.). Lexington Books/Roman & Littlefield. (2014). Connecting Genre Rituals and Revising the American Western in TV’s Sons of Anarchy. Special Issue for Cultural Studies!Critical Methodologies, Vol. 14, Issue 3. DOI: 10.1177/1532708614527561. (Accepted). True Poverty: Labyrinthine Poverty as Narrative Convention and Social Performance in HBO’s True Detective. In "Would That They Had Eyes To See": Essays on HBO's True Detective. Wysocki, M. & Graves, S. (Eds.). Summer 2017. (In Press). (Copeland, K., Co-author). Biblical Allegories, Open Signifiers, and Old Testament Suffering in The Walking Dead. In Christian Faith within American Popular Culture. (Slade, A.

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& Christian, E. B., Eds.). Lexington Books/Roman & Littlefield. Summer 2017. (Accepted). (Edited Anthology). Wrestling Fandom and Digital Convergence: The Kitsch Class Consciousness of SiriusXM’s Busted Open Radio. In Colliding Inside the Squared Circle: The Convergent Nature of Professional Wrestling. 2017. (Accepted). Autoethnography Tales and Televisual Parallels: Adjunct Life Reflected in AMC’s Better Call Saul. In New TV: An Emerging and Evolving Terrain. 2017. (Accepted). (Edited Anthology). Global Temporialism: Television, Time, and the Temporal Urgency of the post-9/11 TV Drama. In Global TV After 9/11. Ferrari, C. (Ed.). New York: Rowman & Littlefield. (Accepted). Foodie Vérité: Theorizing How Travel Channel Twice Commodifies Culinary Experiences for TV Consumption. In Food and Everyday Life, vol. 2, Conroy, T. (Ed.). Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. (Accepted). Intertextual Performances of Product Placement and Media Franchising in Mel Brooks’s Spaceballs. In The Sociological Films of Mel Brooks. Bonnstetter, B. & Boerboom, S. (Eds.). Spring 2017 (Estimated). (In Press). “Action & Adventure” [Encyclopedia Entry]. Batchelor, B., Jones, N., & Turner, K. (Eds.). Hooray for Hollywood: A Cultural Encyclopedia of America’s Dream Factory. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood. May 2017. ISBN-10: 0313397058, ISBN-13: 978-0313397059. (In Press). “Crime” [Encyclopedia Entry]. Batchelor, B., Jones, N., & Turner, K. (Eds.). Hooray for Hollywood: A Cultural Encyclopedia of America’s Dream Factory. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood. May 2017. ISBN-10: 0313397058, ISBN-13: 978-0313397059. (In Press). “I’ll be back” [Encyclopedia Entry]. Batchelor, B., Jones, N., & Turner, K. (Eds.). Hooray for Hollywood: A Cultural Encyclopedia of America’s Dream Factory. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood. May 2017. ISBN-10: 0313397058, ISBN-13: 978-0313397059. (In Press). “Rural Life” [Encyclopedia Entry]. Batchelor, B., Jones, N., & Turner, K. (Eds.). Hooray for Hollywood: A Cultural Encyclopedia of America’s Dream Factory. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood. May 2017. ISBN-10: 0313397058, ISBN-13: 978-0313397059. (In Press). “Scarface” [Encyclopedia Entry]. Batchelor, B., Jones, N., & Turner, K. (Eds.). Hooray for Hollywood: A Cultural Encyclopedia of America’s Dream Factory. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood. May 2017. ISBN-10: 0313397058, ISBN-13: 978-0313397059. (In Press). “Showtime” [Encyclopedia Entry]. Batchelor, B., Jones, N., & Turner, K. (Eds.). Hooray for Hollywood: A Cultural Encyclopedia of America’s Dream Factory. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood. May 2017. ISBN-10: 0313397058, ISBN-13: 978-0313397059.

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(In Press). “Family” [Encyclopedia Entry]. Batchelor, B., Jones, N., & Turner, K. (Eds.). Hooray for Hollywood: A Cultural Encyclopedia of America’s Dream Factory. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood. May 2017. ISBN-10: 0313397058, ISBN-13: 978-0313397059. (In Press). “Wall Street” [Encyclopedia Entry]. Batchelor, B., Jones, N., & Turner, K. (Eds.). Hooray for Hollywood: A Cultural Encyclopedia of America’s Dream Factory. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood. May 2017. ISBN-10: 0313397058, ISBN-13: 978-0313397059. (In Press). “Animals on Film” [Encyclopedia Entry]. Batchelor, B., Jones, N., & Turner, K. (Eds.). Hooray for Hollywood: A Cultural Encyclopedia of America’s Dream Factory. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood. May 2017. ISBN-10: 0313397058, ISBN-13: 978-0313397059. (In Press). “Home Alone” [Encyclopedia Entry]. Batchelor, B., Jones, N., & Turner, K. (Eds.). Hooray for Hollywood: A Cultural Encyclopedia of America’s Dream Factory. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood. May 2017. ISBN-10: 0313397058, ISBN-13: 978-0313397059. (In Press). “Charlton Heston” [Encyclopedia Entry]. Batchelor, B., Jones, N., & Turner, K. (Eds.). Hooray for Hollywood: A Cultural Encyclopedia of America’s Dream Factory. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood. Fall 2016. (In Press). “Cinemax” [Encyclopedia Entry]. Batchelor, B., Jones, N., & Turner, K. (Eds.). Hooray for Hollywood: A Cultural Encyclopedia of America’s Dream Factory. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood. May 2017. ISBN-10: 0313397058, ISBN-13: 978-0313397059. (In Press). “Food” [Encyclopedia Entry]. Batchelor, B., Jones, N., & Turner, K. (Eds.). Hooray for Hollywood: A Cultural Encyclopedia of America’s Dream Factory. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood. May 2017. ISBN-10: 0313397058, ISBN-13: 978-0313397059. (In Press). “Religion” [Encyclopedia Entry]. Batchelor, B., Jones, N., & Turner, K. (Eds.). Hooray for Hollywood: A Cultural Encyclopedia of America’s Dream Factory. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood. May 2017. ISBN-10: 0313397058, ISBN-13: 978-0313397059. (In Press). “Sean Connery” [Encyclopedia Entry]. Batchelor, B., Jones, N., & Turner, K. (Eds.). Hooray for Hollywood: A Cultural Encyclopedia of America’s Dream Factory. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood. May 2017. ISBN-10: 0313397058, ISBN-13: 978-0313397059. (In Press). “Symbols” [Encyclopedia Entry]. Batchelor, B., Jones, N., & Turner, K. (Eds.). Hooray for Hollywood: A Cultural Encyclopedia of America’s Dream Factory. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood. May 2017. ISBN-10: 0313397058, ISBN-13: 978-0313397059. (In Press). “Toy Story” [Encyclopedia Entry]. Batchelor, B., Jones, N., & Turner, K. (Eds.). Hooray for Hollywood: A Cultural Encyclopedia of America’s Dream Factory. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood. May 2017. ISBN-10: 0313397058, ISBN-13: 978-0313397059.

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(In Press). “Kevin Costner” [Encyclopedia Entry]. Batchelor, B., Jones, N., & Turner, K. (Eds.). Hooray for Hollywood: A Cultural Encyclopedia of America’s Dream Factory. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood. May 2017. ISBN-10: 0313397058, ISBN-13: 978-0313397059. (In Press). “Travel” [Encyclopedia Entry]. Batchelor, B., Jones, N., & Turner, K. (Eds.). Hooray for Hollywood: A Cultural Encyclopedia of America’s Dream Factory. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood. May 2017. ISBN-10: 0313397058, ISBN-13: 978-0313397059.

BOOKS (Forthcoming, 2017). (Copeland, K., co-editor). Competition, Community, and Educational Growth: Contemporary Perspectives on Competitive Speech and Debate. New York: Peter Lang.

(Under Review, 2017). Cultural Myths and TV Labyrinths: Storytelling in the Age of Prestige Television. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. (Under Review, 2018). Genre Mixing with the American Western: Cultural Influence and Television Form. New York: New York University Press. (Under Review, 2018). Close Watching Television: An Interdisciplinary Method for Televisual Criticism. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

DIGITAL PUBLICATIONS & MEDIA CRITICISMS (2017). “Westworld’s “Contrapasso” episode suggests dehumanization and Dante’s 9 Circles of Hell.” PopMatters.com [Website]. http://www.popmatters.com/feature/westworld-contrapasso-suggests-dehumanization-and-dantes-nine-circles-of-he/. (2017). Stage: Coach the Texas Jack Story (film review). PopMatters.com [Website]. http://www.popmatters.com/review/stagecoach-the-texas-jack-story/. (2017). “Stranger Things’ nightmare/nostalgia in “The Upside Down”. PopMatters.com [Website]. http://www.popmatters.com/review/stranger-things-nightmare-nostalgia-in-upside-down-episode/. (2016.) “Banshee”. The Best TV of 2016. PopMatters.com [Website]. http://www.popmatters.com/feature/the-best-tv-of-2016/. (2016.) “Silicon Valley” in The Best TV of 2016. PopMatters.com [Website]. http://www.popmatters.com/feature/the-best-tv-of-2016/P4/. (2016.) “Stranger Things” in The Best TV of 2016. PopMatters.com [Website]. http://www.popmatters.com/feature/the-best-tv-of-2016/P4/. (2016.) “Westworld” in The Best TV of 2016. PopMatters.com [Website]. http://www.popmatters.com/feature/the-best-tv-of-2016/P4/.

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(2016). Hell on Wheels is both a tactical homage to the Western genre, and a postmodern pastiche. PopMatters.com [Website]. http://www.popmatters.com/review/hell-on-wheels-tactical-homage-western-genre-postmodern-pastiche/. (2016-present). TV Reviewer. PopMatters.com [Website]. Westworld, Season 1. http://www.popmatters.com/archive/contributor/1204/. (2016-present). TV Reviewer. PopMatters.com [Website]. Stranger Things, Season 1. http://www.popmatters.com/archive/contributor/1204/. (2016). The Absurdity of Nostalgia in the Visual Comedy of Netflix’s Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp. In Media Res, A Media Commons Project. Nostalgic Media Week. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2016/09/14/absurdity-nostalgia-visual-comedy-netflix-s-wet-hot-american-summer-first-day-camp. (2016). Franchising Horror for Television. Flow: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture. http://www.flowjournal.org/2016/03/franchising-horror-for-television/. (2016). The Visual Discourse between Hammer Horror and Showtime’s Penny Dreadful. Flow: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture. http://www.flowjournal.org/2016/01/the-visual-discourse-between-hammer-horror-and-showtimes-penny-dreadful/. (2015). Seasonal TV, Hammer Horror’s Cult History, and TCM’s Tele-Binging Convergence Model. Flow: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture. http://flowtv.org/2015/10/seasonal-tv-hammer-horrors-cult-history-and-tcms-tele-binging-convergence-model/. (2015). Prophetic Revisionist Paratextual Ontologies: Preparing the Way for The Force Awakens. In Media Res, A Media Commons Project. Star Wars Week. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2015/12/16/prophetic-revisionist-paratextual-ontologies-preparing-way-force-awakens. (2015). Performing Meta-Catharsis: Hulk Hogan’s “Redemption” Arc as Racist Apologia. In Media Res, A Media Commons Project. Co-coordinator & Contributor. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2015/10/05/performing-meta-catharsis-hulk-hogans-redemption-arc-racist-apologia. (2015). The Colbert Report as Millennial Pedagogy. In Media Res, A Media Commons Project. Late Night with Stephen Colbert Week. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2015/09/03/colbert-report-millennial-pedagogy. (2015). Maneuvering Audience Perception by Re-f(r)aming the Class Conscious “D-List” Celebrity. In Media Res, A Media Commons Project. D-List Celebrity Week. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2015/03/23/maneuvering-audience-perception-re-framing-class-conscious-d-list-celebrity.

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(2014). Creating Game of Thrones’ Cross-Demographic Appeal through Genre-Mixing Iconicity. In Media Res, A Media Commons Project. Game of Thrones Week Theme. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2014/09/23/creating-game-thrones-cross-demographic-appeal-through-genre-mixing-iconicity. (2014). Lego Fandom, Cyber Feudalism, and Convergence Culture in Classic-Castle.com. In Media Res, A Media Commons Project. Lego Week Theme. http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2014/06/24/lego-fandom-cyber-feudalism-and-convergence-culture-classic-castlecom.

JOURNAL ARTICLES UNDER REVIEW (Under Review). Introducing a “Method” for How to Close Watch and Rhetorically Recap TV. Journal of Communications Media Studies. Fall 2017. (Under Review). Innovating Female Heidi-Redeemer Archetypes into an Oppositional Arya-Revenger Anti-heroine in HBO’s Game of Thrones. Critical Studies in Media Communication. (Under Review). Biker Genre Conventions, Film Sound, and Transmedia Convergence in FX’s Sons of Anarchy. New Review of Television and Media Studies.

CONFERENCE AWARDS

TOP STUDENT PAPER IN POPULAR COMMUNICATION DIVISION Student Paper. Literary Art as Transformational Craft: Innovating the Heidi-Redeemer Archetype as an Arya-Revenger Anti-heroine in HBO’s Game of Thrones. Southern States Communication Association. Tampa, FL. Spring 2015.

TOP STUDENT PAPER IN WOMEN AND GENDER STUDIES

Student Paper. Daughters of Anarchy – Liberal Feminist Discourse Amidst Hegemonic Patriarchy in TV‘s Sons of Anarchy. Southern States Communication Association. Louisville, KY. Spring 2013.

TOP STUDENT PERFORMANCES IN PERFORMANCE STUDIES Student/Group Performance. Now What Are We Gonna Call This? Garret Castleberry, University of Oklahoma; Andrea Baldwin, Southern Illinois University; and Camille Hall, University of Texas. Southern States Communication Association. Louisville, KY. Spring, 2013.

TOP STUDENT PAPERS IN RHETORIC AND PUBLIC ADDRESS Student Paper. “To Be or not To Be”: Reading Rhetorical Style in TV‘s Sons of Anarchy as Mediating Critical Rational and Conservative Counterintelligentsia Negotiation. Southern States Communication Association. Louisville, KY. Spring 2013.

CONFERENCE & CONVENTION PRESENTATIONS

Panel Paper. True Poverty: Labyrinthine Poverty as Narrative Convention and Social Performance in HBO’s True Detective. National Communication Association. Philadelphia, PA. Fall 2016.

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Panel Participant. “Resolved: The Roles of Forensics and Deliberation in Students’ Civic Discourse.” National Communication Association. Philadelphia, PA. Fall 2016. Panel Paper. (Copeland, K. Co-author). Biblical Allegories and Old Testament Symbolism in The Walking Dead. Religious Communication Association conference. Philadelphia, PA. Fall 2016. Panel Chair & Participant. Competitive Forensics and Research Methods Workshop Leader. Oklahoma Speech, Theatre, and Communication Association. Tulsa, OK. Fall 2016. Panel Chair & Participant. When Academic-Fans Go LIVE: Podcasting as Mass Communication Critical Pedagogy. Southern States Communication Association. Austin, TX. Spring 2016. Panel Paper. Conspicuously Consuming Bloodline: Binging Netflix’s Southern Noir as Late-Night Convention. Southern States Communication Association. Austin, TX. Spring 2016.

Panel Paper. Racial-Mania I: Hulk Hogan’s “winning” tactics as reflector of America’s eschewed psyche. Southern States Communication Association. Austin, TX. Spring 2016.

Teachers on Teaching Series: Honoring the Pedagogy Legacy of Karen Anderson-Lain and Leah Bryant. National Communication Association. Las Vegas, NV. Fall 2015. Panel Chair & Participant. Individual Event’s Forensics Workshop Leader, Oral Interps. Oklahoma Speech, Theatre, and Communication Association. Northeastern Oklahoma State University-Broken Arrow. Fall 2015. Roundtable Participant. Oklahoma Forensics Coaching Pedagogy & Recruitment. Oklahoma Speech, Theatre, and Communication Association. Northeastern Oklahoma State University-Broken Arrow. Fall 2015. Student Paper. The Western’s Edge: Nowhere West and AMC’s Hell on Wheels as (Im)Moral Allegories for Living. Southern States Communication Association. Tampa, FL. Spring 2015. Student Paper. Literary Art as Transformational Craft: Innovating the Heidi-Redeemer Archetype as an Arya-Revenger Anti-heroine in HBO’s Game of Thrones. Southern States Communication Association. Tampa, FL. Spring 2015. Student Paper. Biker Genre Conventions, Film Sound, and Transmedia Convergence in FX’s Sons of Anarchy. Southern States Communication Association. Tampa, FL. Spring 2015. Performance Panel. “From DVR’ing to DVR’ed: Where Did My Last Five Years Go?” In ABD Phantoms of Fandom—Performing the TV BINGE. Southern States Communication Association. Tampa, FL. Spring 2015. Paper Panel. Mediating Market Expansion: Global Temporialism through Netflix Brand Innovations. Southern States Communication Association. Tampa, FL. Spring 2015.

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Author’s Panel. Game(s) of Fandom: Hyperlink Labyrinths directing Game of Thrones Fandom. Southern States Communication Association. Tampa, FL. Spring 2015. Competitive Paper. (with Jeffrey Gentry, Rogers State University). Missed Opportunity: The decline of athletics of ESPN and America’s passive culture. IACS’s Eighth Summit on Communication and Sport. Charlotte, North Carolina. Spring 2015. Student Paper. “Rotten is the New Raunch” – Displacing Raunch Culture for a Male-Centered Genre Theory of the Rotten Aesthetic. National Communication Association. Chicago, IL. Fall 2014. Student Paper. Global Temporialism: Television, Time, and the post-9/11 TV Drama. National Communication Association. Chicago, IL. Fall 2014. Panel Chair & Participant. Public Address and Platform Speaking Workshop. Oklahoma Speech, Theatre, and Communication Association. Oklahoma City University. Fall 2014. Student Paper. Bordering on Crazy: Rhetorical Revision of the Western Genre for a post-9/11 Antihero Mythology in TV’s Sons of Anarchy. Rhetoric Society of America. San Antonio, TX. Summer 2014. Student Paper. “Rotten is the New Raunch” – Displacing Raunch Culture for a Male-Centered Genre Theory of the Rotten Aesthetic. Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Norman, OK. Spring 2014. Student Paper “Material Anarchy”: Connections of Western Binaries & the Trickster Archetype Illuminated through Prownian Analysis of a Sons of Anarchy Table Lamp. Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Norman, OK. Spring 2014. Student Paper. Daughters of Anarchy – Liberal Feminist Discourse Amidst Hegemonic Patriarchy in TV‘s Sons of Anarchy. Southern States Communication Association. Louisville, KY. Spring 2013. Student/Group Performance. Now What Are We Gonna Call This? Garret Castleberry, University of Oklahoma; Andrea Baldwin, Southern Illinois University; and Camille Hall, University of Texas. Southern States Communication Association. Louisville, KY. Spring, 2013. Student Paper. “To Be or not To Be”: Reading Rhetorical Style in TV‘s Sons of Anarchy as Mediating Critical Rational and Conservative Counterintelligentsia Negotiation. Southern States Communication Association. Louisville, KY. Spring 2013.

Conference Paper. SuperPunctum! – Repetition and Commodification of Barthes’ Punctum in DC Comics. National Communication Association. Orlando, FL. Fall 2012.

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Panel. I Can‘t Teach Today, There‘s a Monster in my Classroom: How Instructors Grapple with Their Own Anxieties Whilst Instilling Confidence in Students and Creating Effective Learning. Southern States Communication Association. San Antonio, TX. Spring 2012. Roundtable. Tweeting Teachers: Taking on the Challenge and Creating Customs Sponsor: Instructional Development Division. Southern States Communication Association. San Antonio, TX. Spring 2012. Roundtable. Utilizing Visual Culture as Amends to Misperceptions of Mid-America Academia. Mid-America American Studies Association. Tulsa, OK. Spring 2012. Student Paper. Material Anarchy: Critical Reflections of Materiality Embedded in Sons of Anarchy Memorabilia. Mid-America American Studies Association. Tulsa, OK. Spring 2012. Student Paper. Revisiting the Visual Communication of Barthes’ Punctum in DC Comics.” Sooner Communication Conference. Norman, OK. Spring 2012. Panel. Community Engagement and Experiential Learning: Combining the Benefits of Learning from Direct Experience with Engaging in Charitable Works to Facilitate Student Learning and Help Our Communities. National Communication Association. New Orleans, LA. Fall 2011. Student Paper. Graphic Literature as Equipment for Living: Burke's guilt, victimage, purification/redemption cycle in Green Lantern: Rebirth. Southwest Texas/Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. San Antonio, TX. Spring 2011. Student Paper. Introducing a Theory of Rhetcon in postmodern superhero storytelling: An analysis of Green Lantern: Rebirth. Southwest Texas/Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. San Antonio, TX. Spring 2011. Panel. Technology and Service Learning: Redesigning the Basic Course in a Changing University Culture. Southern States Communication Association. Little Rock, AR. Spring 2011. Panel. Americana on Trial – Swearing in Narrative Theories for Cross-Examination of Popular American Artifacts. Southern States Communication Association. Little Rock, AR. Spring 2011. Roundtable. “I CMC U”: An open dialectic on the past, present, and future continuum of CMC research and CMC’s roles of relevance and potentiality in Communication Studies. Sooner Conference. Norman, OK. Spring 2011. Panel. Superempowering Rhetorical Criticism: Critical Engagements Via Comic Book Culture. Rhetorical Society of America, Minneapolis, MN. Spring, 2010. Student Paper. “Y Now?” Examining the post-9/11 kairos of Brian K. Vaughan’s Y: The Last Man as a vessel for audience flow. Pop Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, St. Louis, MO. Spring 2010.

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Student Paper. “Enema of the State: Applying Significant Choice to Father Phillip Magaldi and the Fort Worth Diocese Catholic Church Crisis.” University of North Texas New Voices, New Perspectives Student Conference, February 2010. Student Paper. “Y Now?” The decline of white male privilege remedied through the somatic possessing of flow in Y: The Last Man. Southern States Communication Association, Memphis, TN. Spring 2010. Panel. Positively Burketacular: Analysis of societal work and play in Western culture through the communicative lens of Kenneth Burke. Southern States Communication Association, Memphis, TN. Spring 2010. Student Paper. “The Cultural Commodity of Green Lantern.” University of Oklahoma Sooner Conference, Norman, OK. Spring 2010. Panel. “Pedagogy as a Reflective Tool for Beginning Teachers”. University of North Texas New Voices, New Perspectives Student Conference, Denton, TX. Spring 2009. Panel. “Myth of the American Superhero continued…” University of North Texas New Voices, New Perspectives Student Conference, Denton, TX. Spring 2009. Roundtable. “Superhero Zeitgeist: Rhetorical Themes and Superhero Tropes.” Popular Culture Association/American Communication Association, New Orleans, Spring 2009.

PUBLICATION MENTIONS

Jones, Norma & Randy Duncan (Interview). (2016). “The PCSJ Interview: Randy Duncan.” In The Popular Culture Studies Journal, 4(1), p. 295. http://mpcaaca.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/PCSJ_v4_12.pdf. Top Critics Reviews (Review). (2016). Westworld: Season 1 on RottenTomatoes.com [Website]. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/westworld/s01/. Top Critics Reviews (Review). (2016). Stranger Things: Season 1 on RottenTomatoes.com [Website]. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/stranger_things/s01/reviews/. External Reviews. (Review). (2016). Hell on Wheels: The Complete Series on IMDB.com [Website]. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1699748/externalreviews?ref_=tt_ov_rt. Muller, Christine. (25 September, 2016). “Should I stay or should I go? Stanger Things and the in-between.” Popcornforsupper.com [Website]. https://popcornforsupper.com/2016/09/25/stranger-things/. Wandtke, Terrance R. (2012). The meaning of superhero comics. Jefferson, NC: McFarland books. See endnotes, chapter 8, paragraph 5.

National Intestate Oratory Association Qualifying Speech. (credited “Coached by”) Jones,

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Lynze. Confronting Mediated Storms: Analyzing Tornado Evasion & Advisory Improvements. In Winning Orations. Interstate Oratory Association.

National Intestate Oratory Association Qualifying Speech. (credited “Coached by”) Strasbaugh, Keith. Mediating Yellow Truths: Scrubbing the Ethics of Contemporary Journalism. In Winning Orations. Interstate Oratory Association.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS, LECTURES, SEMINARS, & PUBLIC PERFORMANCES Fall 2015. Interview on Critical Research Methods and the Development of Close Watching for Television Studies. Department of Communication and Languages. Coastal Carolina University. Spring 2015. Transformational Journeys and the Role of the Western Narrator in Arthur Penn’s Little Big Man. Cinema of the American West Guest Lecture, Weitzenhoffer Family of Fine Arts School of Art and Art History. University of Oklahoma. Fall 2014. Public Address & Platform Speech Research Workshop and Presentation. Oklahoma Speech, Theatre, and Communication Association. Oklahoma City University. Fall 2014. Communication Graduate Student Association Brown Bag: “Demystifying the grad program: Advice, humor, and coping strategies.” University of Oklahoma. Spring 2014. Guest Lecture. “Viewer Discretion Advised: Theorizing a Rotten Aesthetic as a male anesthetic to Levy’s Raunch Culture.” Southwestern Oklahoma State University. Spring 2014. Guest Lecture. “Visual Culture, Comics, and Media Ethics.” Oklahoma Baptist University. Fall 2012. Basic Course TA Training: Teaching Critical Studies in the Basic Course. Invited by University of North Texas. Fall 2010. ENG 4000: University of Central Oklahoma. Researching and Writing on American Superheroes and Graphic Novel Narratives. Spring 2010. COMM 4849: Special Topics in Rhetorical Studies: Superheroes. Led weekly class discussion on assigned readings in graphic novel literature. Spring 2009. COMM 2140: Argumentative Fallacies. A lecture on tradition argumentative fallacies that comprise debatable structures of refutation. Fall 2009. COMM 2040: Persuasive Speaking and Outlining. A lecture on the role of persuasion in speaking, audience analysis, and outlining research for persuasive speeches. May 2005. Modern American Cultural Geography in the United States. Chuxiong Normal University, Yunnan, China. Served as distinguished guest of Chuxiong University. Provided daily lectures to university students majoring in English.

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May 2005. Entertainment vs. Reality: An international perspective on foreigners’ view of American normalcy. Served as distinguished guest of Chuxiong Normal University, Yunnan, China. Provided daily lectures to university students majoring in English. May 2005. The Cornerstone of English: Basics in Communication. Served as distinguished guest of Chuxiong Normal University, Yunnan, China. Provided daily lectures to university students majoring in English. May 2005. Sugar vs. Protein: A comparison between the diets of American and international athletes. Served as distinguished guest of Chuxiong Normal University, Yunnan, China. Provided daily lectures to university students majoring in English. Spring 2004. “Guy Noir: Private Eye”. Reader’s Theater University Showcase at Southwestern Oklahoma State University. Spring 2003. “A Little Tolerance”. Reader’s Theater University Showcase at Southwestern Oklahoma State University.

AREAS OF INTEREST

Media Studies: Television Studies, Genre Studies, Film Studies, Digital Radio and Comics Studies and their interdisciplinary roles in Convergence Culture, Aesthetic Studies, Audience-Reception Studies, Fan Studies and Industry Studies. Communication’s Role in Mediated Myth-making, Metaphor, Allegory, Symbolism, Persuasion, and the Human Condition. Critical/Cultural Studies: Popular Culture as “Soft Power”, Ideological Criticism of Monoculture and Hegemony, Media Semiotics intersecting Multiculturalism, Capitalism and Globalism. Strategic Communication: Social Media use for Marketing, Media Franchising in Theory & Practice, Techniques in Ethnography and Interviewing, Podcasting, Media Production Design, Audience & Reception Studies, Advertising and Ideology, Public Relations & Crisis Communication, Experiential Learning and Professional Networking through Internships. Modern/Postmodern Myth and Myth-making: Genre Myths in Popular Culture, including ideologies of the American Western, Fan Culture, Media Criticism of Graphic Novels, Newsmedia, Political Rhetoric, TV/Film/Internet, Narrative Theory and Seriality. Interdisciplinary Studies: Visual Culture, Visual Rhetoric, Image Studies, Mediations of Ritual, Flow, Monoculturalism, Political Activism, and Spectacle. Contemporary Rhetorical Theory: Critical Rhetoric, Theory-building and Theory-bridging as modes of Communication, Media Representations of Masculinity in Crisis, and Divisions of “Soft” Power Negotiation.

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Ethnography & Performance Studies: Autoethnography, Ritual Studies and Repetition, Communitas and Flow in Consumer Culture, Live Performance, Everyday Life Performance, Identity Performance, and Ethnography of Fan Culture Performances.

FILM/MEDIA/CRITICAL/CULTURAL THEORISTS John Fiske, Stuart Hall, Henry Jenkins, Antonio Gramsci, Theodore Adorno, Marshall McLuhan, Harold Innis, Raymond Williams, Roland Barthes, Guy DeBord, Louis Altusser, Nicholas Mirzoeff, Herbert Marcuse, Terry Eagleton, Kenneth Burke, Victor Turner, Neil Postman, Judith Williamson, Barry Brummett, Edwin Black, Horace Newcomb, Christian Metz, Judith Mayne, Andre Bazin, Jane Feuer, Laura Mulvey, John Cawelti, Richard Slotkin, Jim Kitses, Rick Altman, Thomas Schatz, Richard Dyer, Michel Chion, John Belton, Slavoj Zizek, Jurgen Habermas, Noam Chompsky, Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, William Doty, bell hooks, Paulo Freire, Jonathan Gray, Amanda Lotz, Derek Johnson, Jason Mittell, Peter Coogan, Richard Reynolds, Jeremy Butler, Irving Goffman, Julia Kristeva, Marvin Carlson, James Burke, Kendall Phillips, Joshua Gunn, Arthur Asa Berger, and numerous others.

ACADEMIC-RELATED WEBSITES (CURATOR, COORDINATOR, COLUMNIST)

“PopMatters” (TV Reviewer & Columnist) – www.popmatters.com [Website] Ongoing contributor for Television section. http://www.popmatters.com/archive/contributor/1204/. “COM(M) and Get It!” – Academic weblog designed for extension of classroom dialogues about course content and related discussion for online participation: http://commandgetit.wordpress.com/. “The Cultural COMMune” – Academic blog devoted to expanding classroom dialogue, activities, and connections outside traditional classroom boundaries. This blog functions as a response hub that compliments formal university modes like Desire2Learn while adding contemporary features that engage students on deeper levels: http://culturalcommune.wordpress.com. “Kitsch King” – Weblog devoted to critical examinations of polyvalent texts and various mediated messages. It functions as a think tank generating online discussion and future critical research into popular culture: http://kitschking.wordpress.com/. Communication Graduate Student Association website for the University of Oklahoma Department of Communication: http://oucgsa.wordpress.com/. Oklahoma City University Forensics Team Website: http://www.okcu.edu/artsci/philosophy/speech-debate/team/index. University of Oklahoma Forensics Team Website: http://www.ou.edu/soonerspeech/Sooner_Speech/Home.html. Oklahoma City University Forensics Team Social Media Pages (manage announcements, outcomes, and public discussions, et al.): https://www.facebook.com/OCUForensics, https://twitter.com/OCUDebate.

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TECHNOLOGICAL SKILLS

I have technical training and/or professional media production experience with the following tools: Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro, Avid, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, Microsoft Office Suite, HTML, Wordpress, Audacity, general social and transmedia formats.

SERVICE & TRAINING

National (Graduate): Forensics Division Chair. Oklahoma Speech, Theatre, and Communication Association. Fall 2016-present. Vice Chair-Elect. Popular Communication Division. Southern States Communication Association. 2016-2017. Editorial Advisory Board. The Popular Culture Studies Journal. Fall 2016-present. Reviewer. The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture. Fall 2016-present. Cowboy Quality Lite e-Learning Training. Oklahoma State University-Oklahoma City. Spring 2016. Contributing Author. Flow: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture. University of Texas, Austin. Department of Radio-Television-Film (Sponsor). Fall 2015-present. Contributor and Theme Week Organizer. In Media Res, A Media Commons Project. Georgia State University (Sponsor). Fall 2015-present. OIFA Officer Committee/Planner: Oklahoma Intercollegiate Forensics Association, Fall 2015-present. Secretary. Popular Communication Division. Southern States Communication Association. Fall 2015-Spring 2017. Manuscript Reviewer, Chair. Critical/Cultural Communication Division, National Communication Association. Spring 2014-present. Manuscript Reviewer, Chair. Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division, National Communication Association. Spring 2014-present. Manuscript Review. Popular Communication Division, Southern States Communication Association. Spring 2015-present. Manuscript Review. Ethnography Interest Group, Southern States Communication Association. Spring 2015-present. Manuscript Reviewer. American Studies Division, National Communication Association. Spring

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2013-2015. Manuscript Reviewer, Chair. Visual Communication Division, National Communication Association. Spring 2014. Committee Member. District 3 AFA-NIET Forensics. Fall 2012-Spring 2013. University (Graduate): Secretary. Communication Graduate Student Association. University of Oklahoma, Fall 2012-Spring 2013. Committee Member. Brown Bag Committee. University of Oklahoma, Fall 2012-Spring 2013. Secretary. Communication Graduate Student Association. University of Oklahoma, Fall 2011-Spring 2012. IRB Training. University of Oklahoma. Completed, January 2011. Professional Ethics Training Seminar. University of Oklahoma. Completed, August 2010. President. Communications Organization of Graduate Students. University of North Texas. Spring 2009 President and Faculty Liaison. Communications Organization of Graduate Students. University of North Texas. Fall 2009 Department: Undergraduate Advisor (Forensics). Manage and mentor team leaders, coordinate guest speakers and workshops, advise undergrad students on research, writing, and performance, run scholarship selection committee for Forensics In-State and Out-of-State Fellowships, supervise budget and coordinate expense accounts with multiple University personnel and departments. Fall 2011-Spring 2015. Committee Member. Colloquium/Brown Bag Faculty Presentations Schedule Fall 2011-Spring 2012. Judge. Josh Freeman Speech & Debate Tournament. University of Oklahoma. Spring 2011. Director/Executive Producer, Graduate Teaching Assistant Video Lecture Series for QEP course COMM 1010. University of North Texas, Spring 2010. Assistant to Basic Course Director, COMM 1010. Training/Orientation of new and returning Graduate Assistants. University of North Texas, Fall 2009-Spring 2010. Assistant/Judge. UNT John Gossett Speech & Debate Tournament. University of North Texas. Fall 2009.

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Graduate Committee Member. Hiring Committee for Rhetoric Tenure Faculty Position(s). University of North Texas, Spring 2009. Graduate Committee Member. Hiring Committee for Basic Course Director Position. University of North Texas, Spring 2009. Coordinator and Organizer. Communication Studies Department Interdisciplinary New Voices, New Perspectives Student Conference. University of North Texas, Spring 2009. Undergraduate Submission Committee. Reviewed undergraduate essays submitted to the UNT New Voices, New Perspectives Student Conference. University of North Texas, Spring 2009. Assistant/Graduate Emissary for University of North Texas. Spring 2009 Sooner Conference in Norman, OK. University (Undergraduate): Recruiter. University Media Association, January 2005-May 2006. Southwestern Oklahoma State University. Producer/Director/Editor/Writer/Anchor. Campus News Station KDOG. Spring 2005. Southwestern Oklahoma State University. Baptist Collegiate Ministries Leadership Council. Drama Leader. Spring 2002-Spring 2005. Southwestern Oklahoma State University. President. Pi Kappa Delta (forensics). 2004-2005. Southwestern Oklahoma State University Chapter. President. Pi Kappa Delta (forensics). *2003-*2004. *Nationals Finalist, Reader’s Theatre. Southwestern Oklahoma State University Chapter. Board Member. Collegiate Activities Board. January 2004-May 2005. Southwestern Oklahoma State University. Resident Assistant. May 2003-May 2004. Southwestern Oklahoma State University.

AWARDS & HONORS

Ongoing: PopMatters “Pop 10” list of most-read articles for the month of October, 2016. Westworld, “The Original” Review. D. J. Nabors Outstanding College Forensics Coach Award, Oklahoma City University. Presented at Oklahoma Speech, Theatre, and Communication Conference (OSTCA), Tulsa, OK, September, 2016. PopMatters “Pop 10” list of most-read articles for the month of August, 2016. Stranger Things reviews.

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In Media Res Editorial Staff Picks for “Most Commented Posts” in recognition for organization & contribution of “Racism in Wrestling” theme week. Fall 2015. In Media Res Editorial Staff Picks for “Best of 2014” recognition among contributors (online), for curator piece Lego Fandom, Cyber Feudalism, and Convergence Culture in Classic-Castle.com (December 24, 2014). Graduate: Top Dissertation Award, Critical/Cultural Studies Division, National Communication Association, Fall 2015 (nominated). The Provost’s Certification of Distinction in Teaching Award – Top 10% Among Graduate Students at the University of Oklahoma (Student Evaluations), Spring 2015. Josh Lee Outstanding Work in Political and Mass Communication Award, Department of Communication, University of Oklahoma, Spring 2015 - $1000. Outstanding Service as Director of Forensics, University of Oklahoma, Spring 2015. Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant – Director of Forensics, University of Oklahoma, Spring 2014. Outstanding Graduate Service to the University of North Texas, 2009-2010. Phi Kappa Phi Honors Robe, Spring 2010. UNT Department of Communication Studies Recognition of Service Award to Communication Organization of Graduate Students, April 2009 Undergraduate: Graduation Honors Medal, Summa Cum Laude, presented at the Southwestern Oklahoma State

University Language Arts Banquet, April 2006. Graduation Honors Chord, Summa Cum Laude, April 2006. Dramatic Duo – 1st Place, Pi Kappa Delta State Conference, University of Oklahoma. March

2005. Dramatic Duo-1st Place, Pi Kappa Delta. University of Central Oklahoma. February 2005. Cedrick Crink Memorial Scholarship, April 2005. Spanish Departmental Scholarship, April 2005. Homecoming King Finalist, representing Pi Kappa Delta. Fall 2004. Presidential Gavel Award for excellence, Pi Kappa Delta President, 2003-2004. Cedrick Crink Memorial Scholarship, April 2004. 2003-2004 Pi Kappa Delta “Greatest Contribution to the Squad” Award. April 2004. Reader’s Theatre – 2nd Place, Pi Kappa Delta National Conference, Nashville, TN, March 2004. Cedrick Crink Memorial Scholarship, April 2003. Reader’s Theatre – 2nd Place, Pi Kappa Delta National Conference, Baltimore, MD, March 2003. Reader’s Theater- 1st Place, Tulsa Community College Annual OSTCA Speech & Debate

Tournament, November 2002. President’s Scholarship, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, 2001-2002

GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS

Travel Grant Proposal, OCU Speech & Debate Team, International Forensics Association in Lima, Peru. Spring 2017 - $6,000. Robberson Travel Grant. University of Oklahoma Graduate College, Spring 2015 - $950. College of Arts & Sciences Travel Grant, Spring 2015 - $350.

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CGSA Travel Grant, Department of Communication, Spring 2015 - $312.50. College of Arts & Sciences Travel Grant, University of Oklahoma, Fall 2014 - $450.00. CGSA Travel Grant. Department of Communication, Fall 2014 - $286.70. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Student Scholarship. National Communication Association 100th, Fall 2014. - $250. Graduate Teaching Assistantship, University of Oklahoma, 2014-2015. CGSA Travel Grant. Department of Communication, Fall 2013 - $100. Graduate Teaching Assistantship, University of Oklahoma, 2013-2014. Robberson Travel Grant. University of Oklahoma Graduate College. Spring 2013 - $500. CGSA Travel Grant. Department of Communication. Spring 2013 - $606.25. GSS Travel Grant. Graduate Student Senate. Fall 2012 - $542. CGSA Travel Grant. Department of Communication. Fall 2012 - $287. Graduate Teaching Assistantship, University of Oklahoma, 2012-2013. CGSA Travel Grant. Department of Communication. Spring 2012 - $869.52. GSS Travel Grant. Graduate Student Senate. Spring 2012 - $275.16. Graduate Teaching Assistantship, University of Oklahoma, 2011-2012. College of Arts & Sciences Travel Grant. University of Oklahoma. Spring 2011 - $750. CGSA Travel Grant. Department of Communication. Spring 2011 - $683.54. Graduate Teaching Assistantship, University of Oklahoma, 2010-2011. Faculty-nominated University Scholarship Grant, Spring 2010. NCA Travel Grant, Fall 2009 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, University of North Texas, Fall 2009-Spring 2010. Graduate Assistantship, University of North Texas, Fall 2008-Spring 2009.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS

National Communication Association Southern States Communication Association Rhetoric Society of America Oklahoma Speech, Theatre, and Communication Association Communication Graduate Student Association Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Kenneth Burke Society Mid-America American Studies Association Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Pi Kappa Delta National Forensics League Communication Organizations of Graduate Students Performance Interest Group

RELEVANT GRADUATE COURSEWORK COMPLETED Introduction to Graduate Studies Communication and Pedagogy Mythic Rhetorical Analysis of the American Superhero Rhetorical Methods Performance Theory Rhetorical Theory Crisis Communication

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Narrative Theory Public Address Studies: Publics and Counterpublics Qualitative Research Methods Advanced Qualitative Research Methods History and Theory of Communication Feminist Theory Visual Culture Historical Methods Cinema of the American West Material Culture Public Sphere Theory Film Theory and Ideology Mass Media Perspectives Quantitative Methods Cross-Cultural Communication Electronic Media Criticism

RELEVANT UNDERGRADUATE COURSEWORK COMPLETED Newsgathering & Reporting News Editing Media Law & Ethics Media Production I Media Production II Intercultural Communication Interpersonal Communication Argumentation & Debate Persuasive Speaking Communication Theory Small Group Communication Organizational Communication Oral Interpretation of Literature Reader’s Theater Forensics Introduction to Theatre Theatrical/Studio Makeup Internship in PR (Great Plains Regional Medical Center) Internship in Media Production (Garmin Productions, LLC)

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REFERENCES Dr. Eric Mark Kramer Professor University of Oklahoma Mass Communication & Technology Phone: (405) 325-2349 Email: kramer@ou.edu Cell: (405) 641-1911 (permission to contact any time) Dr. Brian Richardson Associate Professor & Chair University of North Texas Department of Communication Studies Phone: (940) 565-4748 Email: Brian.Richardson@unt.edu Dr. Patrick C. Meirick Associate Professor/Director of Political Communication University of Oklahoma Mass Media & Political Communication Phone: (405) 325-1574 Email: meirick@ou.edu Dr. Alison Fields Mary Lou Milner Carver Professor of Art of the American West Associate Professor of Art History University of Oklahoma Art & Art History Phone: (505) 977-6801 Email: afields@ou.edu Dr. Ralph Beliveau Associate Professor/Media Arts Area Head University of Oklahoma Gaylord School of Journalism Phone: (405) 325-4169 Email: beliveau@ou.edu