Dr. Julie Kalil Schutten
Visiting Assistant Professor
Critical Rhetoric, Environmental Communication, Gender/Feminist Studies
School of Communication
Room Room 309
(928) 523-4531
Julie.Schutten@nau.edu
Research and teaching interests:
My research focuses on the intersections between environmental communication, new social movements and gender/feminist studies. In recent research projects I have been exploring the tensions experienced by social movements comprised of hidden populations. The Neo-Pagan movement (specifically contemporary witches) is an illustrative case that I use to explore these tensions.
Beyond theorizing new social movements with hidden populations, the study of Neo-Paganism has implications for the environmental movement. Neo-Paganism intersects within the discourses of spiritual ecofeminism (a blending of the ecology/environmental movement and feminist movement) and environmental communication as it works to illustrate the cyclical connections between humans and other-than-humans, thereby encouraging environmental stewardship ethics.
As a teacher I strongly believe that dialogue leads to awareness and awareness leads to pro-active change by members of society. I am interested in promoting critical reflection, not regurgitation. By allowing a multitude of voices to be heard in the classroom, diversity and learning are strengthened.
Courses offered:
SC 111 Fundamentals of Public Speaking
COM 200 Communication Theory
SC 312 Interviewing
SC 424 Gender and Communication
Representative Research and Creative Activity:
Schutten, J. K. (2007). Environment /human dialogics: Toward a queering of nature. In L.S. Volkening, D. Wolfe, E. Plec, W. Griswold & K. DeLuca (Eds.). Proceedings of the 8th biennial conference on communication and the environment: Wilderness, advocacy, & the media (pp. 116-127). Athens, GA: Department of Speech Communication, University of Georgia.
Schutten, J. K. (2006). Invoking Practical Magic: New social movements, hidden populations and the public screen. Western Journal of Communication, 4, 331-354.
Rogers, R. A. & Schutten, J. K. (2004). The gender of water and the pleasure of alienation: A critical analysis of visiting Hoover Dam. The Communication Review, 7, 259-283.
Links of interest:
http://www.starhawk.org/index.html (Ecofeminist activist, Starhawk’s “Tangled Web”)
http://www.esf.edu/ecn/ (Environmental Communication Network)
http://www.righteousbabe.com/action/index.asp (“Our Actions Will Define Us”)
http://stepitup2007.org/ (Step it Up! Reduce Carbon Emissions 80% by 2050)
http://www.codepinkalert.org/index.php (Code Pink)
Education:
Ph.D. University of Utah, 2007
M.A. University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1999
B.A. Northern Arizona University, 1997
