Richard A. Rogers  

 

Associate Professor
Intercultural Communication, Cultural Studies
School of Communication, Room 371
928-523-2530
Richard.Rogers@nau.edu
Personal webpage 

Research and teaching interests

My work falls within the broad categories of critical rhetorical studies, cultural studies, media criticism, intercultural communication, feminist theory and criticism, and environmental communication. My current research program is focused on the place of indigenous “rock art” (petroglyphs and pictographs) in the contemporary western landscape and various other forms of marking the landscape and engaging in more-than-human dialogues.

Courses offered

Undergraduate

COM 200 Communication Theory
CST 201 Survey of Research in Communication Studies
CST 300 Rhetorical Criticism
CST 323 Intercultural Communication
CST 424 Gender & Communication
CST 498 Senior Seminar in Speech Communication
WGS 215 Masculinities in the United States

Graduate

COM 601 Research Methods in Communication
COM 698 Seminar: Representations & Appropriations of Native American Cultures
CST 524 Gender & Communication
CST 568 Communication & Contemporary Society
CST 623 Intercultural Communication Theory

Representative research and creative activity

“Magick as an Alternative Symbolic: Enacting Transhuman Dialogue” (co-authored with Julie Kalil Schutten), Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture 5 (2011): 261-280.

“’Your guess is as good as any’: Indeterminacy, Dialogue, and Dissemination in Interpretations of Native American Rock Art,” Journal of International and Intercultural Communication 2 (2009): 44-65.

“Beasts, Burgers, and Hummers: Meat and the Crisis of Masculinity in Contemporary Television Advertisements,” Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture 2 (2008): 281-301.

“Deciphering Kokopelli: Masculinity in Commodified Appropriations of Native American Imagery,” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 4 (2007): 233-255.

"From Cultural Exchange to Transculturation: A Review and Reconceptualization of Cultural Appropriation," Communication Theory 16 (2006): 474-503.

"Overcoming the Objectification of Nature in Constitutive Theories: Toward a Transhuman, Materialist Theory of Communication," Western Journal of Communication 62 (1998): 244-272.

Education

PhD, Communication, University of Utah, 1994
MS, Communication, University of Utah, 1990
BA, Speech Communication, Humboldt State University, 1988
AA, General Education, Napa Valley College, 1985