Faculty Profile

Megan Morrissey

Title
Associate Professor
Department
Communication Studies
College
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

    

    

      


                          

            
Curriculum Vitae

            

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Education

            



  

  


  
PhD, University of Colorado Boulder, 2013. 
Major: Communication
Dissertation Title: With(in) U.S.: Resistive Accommodation and Cultural Strangers' Discourses of National Belonging
Certificate, University of Colorado Boulder, 2012. 
Major: Women & Gender Studies
MA, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2008. 
Major: Communication Studies
Dissertation Title: Constructed Identities of the 2006 Great American Boycott: Examining the Effects of Newspaper Framing on U.S. American and Immigrant Identity
BA, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2002. 
Major: Communication Studies
BA, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2002. 
Major: English
BA, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2002. 
Major: Spanish





          

        
                

          
Current Scheduled Teaching*


          
COMM 3620.901, Intercultural Communication, Summer 2024 
WGST 5900.012, Special Problems, Summer 2024 
COMM 4040.001, Rhetorical Theory, Spring 2024 Syllabus
WGST 5900.002, Special Problems, Spring 2024 


          
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  Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of
  higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for
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Previous Scheduled Teaching*


            
                    

                    COMM 5645.001, Rhetorics of Worldmaking, Fall 2023  SPOT
                    

                    COMM 3620.901, Intercultural Communication, Summer 3W1 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    COMM 4540.001, Communications Theories of Sexuality, Spring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    WGST 5850.002, Professional Internship, Spring 2023 
                    

                    WGST 5900.002, Special Problems, Spring 2023 
                    

                    COMM 5545.001, Race and Public Culture, Fall 2022  SPOT
                    

                    WGST 5900.002, Special Problems, Fall 2022 
                    

                    COMM 3620.901, Intercultural Communication, Summer 3W1 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    WGST 5850.001, Professional Internship, Summer 10W 2022 
                    

                    WGST 5900.012, Special Problems, Summer 5W2 2022 
                    

                    COMM 4640.001, Latin@ Rhetorics, Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    COMM 5930.706, Research Problems in Lieu of a Thesis, Spring 2022 
                    

                    COMM 4540.001, Communications Theories of Sexuality, Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    COMM 5840.002, Seminar in Rhetorical Studies, Fall 2021  SPOT
                    

                    COMM 3620.001, Intercultural Communication, Summer 3W1 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    COMM 4640.001, Latin@ Rhetorics, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    COMM 5930.706, Research Problems in Lieu of a Thesis, Spring 2021 
                    

                    COMM 4540.001, Communications Theories of Sexuality, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    COMM 5930.706, Research Problems in Lieu of a Thesis, Fall 2020 
                    

                    COMM 5240.001, Rhetoric and Mediated Culture, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    COMM 3620.001, Intercultural Communication, Summer 3W1 2020  SPOT
                    

                    COMM 5920.706, Research Problems in Lieu of a Thesis, Summer 5W2 2020 
                    

                    COMM 4640.001, Latin@ Rhetorics, Spring 2020 Syllabus
                    

                    WGST 5950.007, Master's Thesis, Spring 2020 
                    

                    COMM 4240.001, Rhetoric and Popular Culture, Spring 2020 Syllabus
                    

                    COMM 4540.001, Communications Theories of Sexuality, Fall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    COMM 5481.706, Graduate Internship, Fall 2019 
                    

                    WGST 5950.001, Master's Thesis, Fall 2019 
                    

                    COMM 5545.001, Race and Public Culture, Fall 2019  SPOT
                    

                    COMM 5930.706, Research Problems in Lieu of a Thesis, Fall 2019 
                    

                    COMM 3620.001, Intercultural Communication, Summer 3W1 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    COMM 5930.706, Research Problems in Lieu of a Thesis, Spring 2019 
                    

                    COMM 4240.001, Rhetoric and Popular Culture, Spring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    COMM 5840.001, Seminar in Rhetorical Studies, Spring 2019  SPOT
                    

                    COMM 5840.601, Seminar in Rhetorical Studies, Spring 2019  SPOT
                    

                    COMM 4540.001, Communications Theories of Sexuality, Fall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    COMM 4640.001, Latin@ Rhetorics, Fall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    COMM 3620.001, Intercultural Communication, Summer 3W1 2018 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    COMM 5240.001, Rhetoric and Mediated Culture, Spring 2018  SPOT
                    

                    COMM 4240.001, Rhetoric and Popular Culture, Spring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    COMM 4540.001, Communications Theories of Sexuality, Fall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    COMM 5481.706, Graduate Internship, Fall 2017 
                    

                    COMM 5545.001, Race and Public Culture, Fall 2017  SPOT
                    

                    COMM 5930.706, Research Problems in Lieu of a Thesis, Fall 2017 
                    

                    COMM 3620.001, Intercultural Communication, Summer 5W1 2017 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    COMM 4640.001, Latin@ Rhetorics, Spring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    COMM 5480.706, Practicum, Spring 2017 
                    

                    COMM 4240.001, Rhetoric and Popular Culture, Spring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    COMM 4540.001, Communications Theories of Sexuality, Fall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    COMM 5840.001, Seminar in Rhetorical Studies, Fall 2016  SPOT
                    

                    COMM 3620.001, Intercultural Communication, Summer 5W1 2016 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    COMM 5930.706, Research Problems in Lieu of a Thesis, Spring 2016 
                    

                    COMM 5240.001, Rhetoric and Mediated Culture, Spring 2016  SPOT
                    

                    COMM 4240.001, Rhetoric and Popular Culture, Spring 2016 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    COMM 5545.001, Race and Public Culture, Fall 2015  SPOT
                    

                    COMM 4540.001, Rhetorics of Sexuality, Fall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    COMM 3620.001, Intercultural Communication, Summer 5W2 2015 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    COMM 3620.201, Intercultural Communication, Summer 5W2 2015  SPOT
                    

                    COMM 3620.202, Intercultural Communication, Summer 5W2 2015  SPOT
                    

                    COMM 5481.706, Graduate Internship, Spring 2015 
                    

                    COMM 4240.001, Rhetoric, Culture and Ideology, Spring 2015 Syllabus
                    

                    COMM 4849.001, Topics in Rhetorical Studies, Spring 2015 Syllabus
                    

                    COMM 4240.001, Rhetoric, Culture and Ideology, Fall 2014 Syllabus
                    

                    COMM 5840.001, Seminar in Rhetorical Studies, Fall 2014 
                    

                    COMM 3620.001, Intercultural Communication, Summer 5W1 2014 Syllabus
                    

                    COMM 3620.001, Intercultural Communication, Spring 2014 Syllabus
                    

                    COMM 5545.001, Race and Public Culture, Spring 2014 
                    

                    COMM 3620.001, Intercultural Communication, Fall 2013 Syllabus
                    

                    COMM 4240.001, Rhetoric, Culture and Ideology, Fall 2013 Syllabus

          


          
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  Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of
  higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for
  undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.
  

        

      

    

  

  
  	

	

	  

		

		   
Published Publications



  

  
Published Intellectual Contributions


  
Abstracts and Proceedings
Morrissey, M. E. (2010). Equality as an Ideograph: The Gay Rights Movement and   			Proposition 8. Conference Proceedings. ALTA Conference Proceedings. 
Book Chapter
Morrissey, M. E. (2019). Calaveras, Calacas, and Cultural Production: The Queer Politics of Brown Belonging in U.S. Dia de Lost Muertos Celebrations. Queer Intercultural Communication. Rowman & Littlefield. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538121405/Queer-Intercultural-Communication-The-Intersectional-Politics-of-Belonging-in-and-across-Differences
Schwartzman, R., Morrissey, M. E. (2010). Collaborative student groups and critical thinking in an online basic communication course. Cases on online discussion and interaction: Experiences and outcomes. 
Encyclopedia Article
Morrissey, M. E. (2021). Disidentification.  Oxford: Oxford Encyclopedia of Queer Studies and Communication,. 
Journal Article
Morrissey, M. E. (2022). When Everything Changes, Everything Stays the Same: The Queer Paradox of Quarantine Pods. Women's Studies in Communication. Taylor & Francis. 
Morrissey, M. E. (2021). Under (Y)our Skin: Rachel Dolezal and the Elasticity of Whiteness. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. Taylor & Francis. 
Morrissey, M. E. (2019). Border Matters: A New Materialist Critique of Border Art on the U.S.-Mexico Border.. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication. 
Trudeau, J., Morrissey, M. E. (2017). “Bring in an Honest Verdict:" Prosecuting Southern Whiteness in American Slavery As It Is. Southern Communication Journal. 
Morrissey, M. E. (2017). The Incongruities of Queer Decorum: Exploring Gabriel García Román’s, Queer Icons. Women's Studies in Communication. no. 
Morrissey, M. E., Kimball, K. Y. (2016). #SpoiledMilk: Blacktavists, visibility and the exploitation of the black breast. Women's Studies in Communication. 
Enck, S. M., Morrissey, M. E. (2016). If Orange is the New Black, I Must be  	Colorblind:  Comic framings of post-racism in the Prison-industrial Complex. Critical Studies in Media Communication. 
Morrissey, M. E. (2016). The Right to Marry: Negotiating 	(In)dependence as a U.S. Border Rhetoric. Communication, Culture & Critique. 
Morrissey, M. E. (2015). (Net)roots of belonging:  Contemporary  discourses of  (in)valuability and post-racial citizenship in the United State. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication. 
Morrissey, M. E., Sims, C.  (2015). Playing the Race Card: Discourses of (Anti)racial Bordering and the Possibility of Alchemic Metaphors. Review of Communication. 
Morrissey, M. E. (2013). A DREAM disrupted: Undocumented Migrant Youth Disidentifications with U.S. Citizenship. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication. 
Morrissey, M. E. (2013). A question of humanity: Discursive construction and material consequences of black lesbianism in South Africa. Women's Studies in Communication. 
Morrissey, M. E. (2008). A culture of unpredictability: How current school reforms have failed our educational communities. Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research. 
Translation or Transcription
Morrissey, M. E. (2020). How Art Installations on the US-Mexico Border Affected People’s Understanding of the Border.  Denton: Communication Currents, National Communication Association. https://www.natcom.org/communication-currents/how-art-installations-us-mexico-border-affected-peoples-understanding-border
Morrissey, M. E., Sims, C. L. (2015). The Writing on the Wall: (New) Racism n U.S. Public Conversations About Race. 10(6), . Communication Currents. 



	
		
		
	  

	

	

  
    
	

	

	  

		

		   
Awarded Grants



  
  
  	  
          
Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research  

 	 
	 	 
  
Fellowship   
Morrissey, M. E., "Graduate Summer Fellowship," Sponsored by University of Colorado Boulder, State, $6000.00 Funded. (2012 – 2012).
Morrissey, M. E., "Dissertation Fellowship," Sponsored by University of Colorado Boulder, State, $3800.00 Funded. (2011 – 2011).
Grant - Research   
Morrissey, M. E., "Communication Studies Research Grant," Sponsored by UNT Department of Communication Studies, University of North Texas, $3000 Funded. (April 2016 – December 2016).
Morrissey, M. E., "Junior Faculty Research Grant," Sponsored by University of North Texas, University of North Texas, $5000.00 Funded. (2014 – 2014).



	
		
		
	  

	

	

	
	

  
  
  

  	

		

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