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Justin Trudeau

Title: Associate Professor

Department: Communication Studies

College: College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae Link

Education

  • PhD, Louisiana State University, 2006
    Major: Communication Studies
    Dissertation: Jack Kerouac's Spontenous Prose: A Performance Generalogy of The Fiction
  • MA, Oregon State University, 1999
    Major: Interdisciplinary Studies
    Specialization: Speech Communication
    Dissertation: Theodre Dwight Weld's Use of the Judicial Motif in "American Slavery As It IS: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses
  • BS, Oregon State University, 1995
    Major: Speech Communication

Current Scheduled Teaching

COMM 4360.001Performance CompositionSpring 2025
COMM 5365.001Performance TheorySpring 2025
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.

Previous Scheduled Teaching

COMM 5265.001Performance MethodsSpring 2024 SPOT
COMM 4060.001Performance TheorySpring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5930.708Research Problems in Lieu of a ThesisSpring 2024
COMM 4460.001Performance ArtFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 2040.001Public SpeakingFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 2040.201Public SpeakingFall 2023 Syllabus
COMM 2040.202Public SpeakingFall 2023 SPOT
COMM 3865.001Adaptation and StagingSpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5160.001Performative WritingSpring 2023 SPOT
COMM 5930.708Research Problems in Lieu of a ThesisSpring 2023
COMM 4360.001Performance CompositionSpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 4060.001Performance TheorySpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 3865.001Adaptation and StagingFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5260.001Seminar in Adaptation and StagingFall 2021 SPOT
COMM 5260.601Seminar in Adaptation and StagingFall 2021 SPOT
COMM 5910.708Special ProblemsFall 2021
COMM 5265.001Performance MethodsSpring 2021 SPOT
COMM 5265.601Performance MethodsSpring 2021 SPOT
COMM 4060.001Performance TheorySpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 3865.001Adaptation and StagingFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5160.001Performative WritingFall 2020 SPOT
COMM 5930.708Research Problems in Lieu of a ThesisFall 2020
COMM 4360.001Performance CompositionSummer 5W2 2020 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 4360.001Performance CompositionSpring 2020 Syllabus
COMM 4060.001Performance TheorySpring 2020 Syllabus
COMM 4900.708Special ProblemsSpring 2020
COMM 3865.001Adaptation and StagingFall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5260.001Seminar in Adaptation and StagingFall 2019 SPOT
COMM 4360.001Performance CompositionSummer 5W2 2019 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 4360.001Performance CompositionSpring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5265.001Performance MethodsSpring 2019 SPOT
COMM 4060.001Performance TheorySpring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 3865.001Adaptation and StagingFall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 2060.013Performance of LiteratureFall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 4360.001Performance CompositionSummer 5W2 2018 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 4360.001Performance CompositionSpring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 4060.001Performance TheorySpring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5160.001Performative WritingSpring 2018 SPOT
COMM 3865.001Adaptation and StagingFall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5260.001Seminar in Adaptation and StagingFall 2017 SPOT
COMM 5900.708Special ProblemsFall 2017
COMM 4360.001Performance CompositionSummer 5W2 2017 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5265.001Performance MethodsFall 2016 SPOT
COMM 4060.001Performance TheoryFall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 3865.001Adaptation and StagingSpring 2016 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 4460.001Performance ArtSpring 2016 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5860.002Seminar in Performance StudiesSpring 2016 SPOT
COMM 4360.001Performance CompositionFall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 4060.001Performance TheoryFall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5930.708Research Problems in Lieu of a ThesisFall 2015
COMM 3865.001Adaptation and StagingSummer 5W2 2015 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 3865.001Adaptation and StagingSpring 2015 Syllabus
COMM 4360.001Performance CompositionSpring 2015 Syllabus
COMM 5480.708PracticumSpring 2015
COMM 5900.708Special ProblemsSpring 2015
COMM 5481.708Graduate InternshipFall 2014
COMM 4460.001Performance ArtFall 2014 Syllabus
COMM 4060.001Performance TheoryFall 2014 Syllabus
COMM 5365.001Performance TheoryFall 2014
COMM 3865.001Adaptation and StagingSpring 2014 Syllabus
COMM 5950.758Master's ThesisSpring 2014
COMM 4360.001Performance CompositionSpring 2014 Syllabus
COMM 5950.758Master's ThesisFall 2013
COMM 4060.001Performance TheoryFall 2013 Syllabus
COMM 5930.708Research Problems in Lieu of a ThesisFall 2013
COMM 5860.001Seminar in Performance StudiesFall 2013
COMM 3865.001Adaptation and StagingSummer 5W2 2013 Syllabus
COMM 5900.708Special ProblemsSummer 5W1 2013
COMM 3865.001Adaptation and StagingSpring 2013 Syllabus
COMM 4360.001Performance CompositionSpring 2013 Syllabus
COMM 5930.708Research Problems in Lieu of a ThesisSpring 2013
COMM 5950.758Master's ThesisFall 2012
COMM 4460.001Performance ArtFall 2012 Syllabus
COMM 4060.001Performance TheoryFall 2012 Syllabus
COMM 5365.001Performance TheoryFall 2012
COMM 5365.791Performance TheoryFall 2012
COMM 4900.708Special ProblemsFall 2012
COMM 4360.001Performance CompositionSummer 5W2 2012 Syllabus
COMM 3865.001Adaptation and StagingSpring 2012 Syllabus
COMM 4360.001Performance CompositionSpring 2012 Syllabus
COMM 5265.001Performance MethodsSpring 2012
COMM 4900.708Special ProblemsSpring 2012
COMM 4460.001Performance ArtFall 2011 Syllabus
COMM 4060.001Performance TheoryFall 2011 Syllabus
COMM 4360.001Performance CompositionSummer 5W2 2011 Syllabus
COMM 3865.001Adaptation and StagingSpring 2011 Syllabus
COMM 4060.001Performance TheorySpring 2011 Syllabus
COMM 5365.001Performance TheorySpring 2011
COMM 5930.708Research Problems in Lieu of a ThesisSpring 2011
COMM 4460.001Performance ArtFall 2010 Syllabus
COMM 5910.708Special ProblemsFall 2010
COMM 4900.708Special ProblemsSummer 5W2 2010
COMM 3865.001Adaptation and StagingSpring 2010 Syllabus
COMM 5950.758Master's ThesisSpring 2010
COMM 4060.001Performance TheorySpring 2010 Syllabus
COMM 5900.708Special ProblemsSpring 2010
COMM 5950.758Master's ThesisFall 2009
COMM 4460.001Performance ArtFall 2009 Syllabus
COMM 5265.001Performance MethodsFall 2009
COMM 5910.708Special ProblemsFall 2009
COMM 5950.758Master's ThesisSpring 2009
COMM 4060.001Performance TheorySpring 2009
COMM 5365.001Performance TheorySpring 2009
COMM 4900.708Special ProblemsSpring 2009
COMM 5950.758Master's ThesisFall 2008
COMM 4360.001Rhetoric of PerformanceFall 2008
COMM 4900.708Special ProblemsFall 2008
COMM 4869.001Topics in Performance StudiesFall 2008
COMM 2060.001Performance of LiteratureSummer 5W1 2008
COMM 2060.201Performance of LiteratureSummer 5W1 2008
COMM 2060.202Performance of LiteratureSummer 5W1 2008
COMM 5950.758Master's ThesisSpring 2008
COMM 3760.001Performance MethodsSpring 2008
COMM 4060.001Performance TheorySpring 2008
COMM 5860.001Seminar in Performance StudiesSpring 2008
COMM 5950.758Master's ThesisFall 2007
COMM 4360.001Rhetoric of PerformanceFall 2007
COMM 4900.708Special ProblemsFall 2007
COMM 2060.001Performance of LiteratureSummer 5W1 2007
COMM 2060.201Performance of LiteratureSummer 5W1 2007
COMM 2060.202Performance of LiteratureSummer 5W1 2007
COMM 4060.001Performance TheorySpring 2007
COMM 5365.002Performance TheorySpring 2007
COMM 4900.708Special ProblemsSpring 2007
COMM 2060.001Performance of LiteratureFall 2006
COMM 2060.201Performance of LiteratureFall 2006
COMM 2060.202Performance of LiteratureFall 2006
COMM 2060.203Performance of LiteratureFall 2006
COMM 2060.001Performance of LiteratureSummer 5W2 2006
COMM 2060.001Performance of LiteratureSpring 2006
COMM 2060.002Performance of LiteratureSpring 2006
COMM 4060.001Performance TheorySpring 2006
COMM 2060.001Performance of LiteratureFall 2005
COMM 2060.201Performance of LiteratureFall 2005
COMM 2060.202Performance of LiteratureFall 2005
COMM 2060.203Performance of LiteratureFall 2005
COMM 5860.001Seminar in Performance StudiesFall 2005
COMM 4869.001Topics in Performance StudiesFall 2005
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 Intellectual Contributions

    Journal Article

  • Trudeau, J. Adaptation as Augmentation: Performing Writing as a Means of Survival. Text and Perfomance Quarterly. NO. 44 (1) Taylor & Francis.
  • Suchy, P., Allison, J.M., Vaughn, H.A., Trudeau, J. (2018). "Debbie Does Dallas." A Performance Featured in "A few good swedes: Examples of sweding for your consideration.". Text and Perfomance Quarterly. 38 (1-2) 115-117.
  • Vaughn, H.A., Trudeau, J. (2018). “Big Tex is Burning: Performing Iconicity by Means of Collaborative Directing.. Text and Perfomance Quarterly. 38 (3) 170-184. Taylor Francis.
  • Trudeau, J.T., Vaughn, H. (2018). "Big Tex is Burning: Performing Iconicity by Means of Collaborative Directing.". Text and Perfomance Quarterly.
  • Trudeau, J., Morrissey, M.E. (2017). “Bring in an Honest Verdict:" Prosecuting Southern Whiteness in American Slavery As It Is. Southern Communication Journal.
  • Trudeau, J. (2011). Specters in the Rear-View: Haunting Whiteness in Jack Kerouac's On the Road.. Text and Perfomance Quarterly. 31 (2) 149-68.
  • Trudeau, J. (2009). 'I … Am No Clown Drunkard Merely': Rehabbing Celebrity in Jack Kerouac's Doctor Sax.. Theatre Annual. 62 21-45.
  • Trudeau, J. (2008). The Low Down Here. Text and Perfomance Quarterly. 28 (3) 369-75.
  • Trudeau, J. (2007). Stooging the Body, Stooging the Text: Jack Kerouac's Visions of Cody. Text and Perfomance Quarterly. 27 (4) 334-50.
  • Trudeau, J. Jack Kerouac's Spontaneous America: A Performance Genealogy of The Postwar Avant-Garde. Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research. 3 43-62.
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Overall
Summative Rating		 Challenge and
Engagement Index		 Response Rate

out of 5
out of 7		 %
of
students responded
  • Overall Summative Rating (median):
    This rating represents the combined responses of students to the four global summative items and is presented to provide an overall index of the class’s quality. Overall summative statements include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 5 = Excellent, 3 = Good, and 1= Very poor):
    • The course as a whole was
    • The course content was
    • The instructor’s contribution to the course was
    • The instructor’s effectiveness in teaching the subject matter was
  • Challenge and Engagement Index:
    This rating combines student responses to several SPOT items relating to how academically challenging students found the course to be and how engaged they were. Challenge and Engagement Index items include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 7 = Much higher, 4 = Average, and 1 = Much lower):
    • Do you expect your grade in this course to be
    • The intellectual challenge presented was
    • The amount of effort you put into this course was
    • The amount of effort to succeed in this course was
    • Your involvement in course (doing assignments, attending classes, etc.) was
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