Richard A. Rogers
Rank: Associate Professor
intercultural communication, cultural studies
School of Communication, Room 371
(928) 523-2530
Richard.Rogers@nau.edu
Personal web page:
jan.ucc.nau.edu
Brief description of 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:
COM 200 Communication Theory
SC 201 Survey of Research in Speech Communication
SC 300 Rhetorical Criticism
SC 323 Intercultural Communication
SC 424 Gender & Communication
SC 498 Senior Seminar in Speech Communication
Graduate:
SC 524 Gender & Communication
SC 568 Communication & Contemporary Society
Representative Research and Creative Activity:
"Rock Art: Indigenous Images, Historic Inscriptions and Contemporary Graffiti," DocumentaryWorks, ed. Mark Neumann, April 2006. documentaryworks.org/stories/rockart.htm
"From Cultural Exchange to Transculturation: A Review and Reconceptualization of Cultural Appropriation," Communication Theory 16.4 (November 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:
Ph.D., Communication, University of Utah, 1994
M.S., Communication, University of Utah, 1990
B.A., Speech Communication, Humboldt State University, 1988
A.A., General Education, Napa Valley College, 1985
