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Megan E. Morrissey

Title: Associate Professor

Department: Communication Studies

College: College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae Link

Education

  • PhD, University of Colorado Boulder, 2013
    Major: Communication
    Dissertation: 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: 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 4540.001Communications Theories of SexualitySpring 2025
WGST 5900.002Special ProblemsSpring 2025
COMM 5840.001Seminar in Rhetorical StudiesFall 2024
WGST 5900.002Special ProblemsFall 2024

Previous Scheduled Teaching

COMM 5481.706Graduate InternshipSummer 5W2 2024
COMM 3620.901Intercultural CommunicationSummer 3W1 2024 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 4040.001Rhetorical TheorySpring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
WGST 5900.002Special ProblemsSpring 2024
COMM 5645.001Rhetorics of WorldmakingFall 2023 SPOT
COMM 3620.901Intercultural CommunicationSummer 3W1 2023 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 4540.001Communications Theories of SexualitySpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
WGST 5850.002Professional InternshipSpring 2023
WGST 5900.002Special ProblemsSpring 2023
COMM 5545.001Race and Public CultureFall 2022 SPOT
WGST 5900.002Special ProblemsFall 2022
COMM 3620.901Intercultural CommunicationSummer 3W1 2022 Syllabus SPOT
WGST 5850.001Professional InternshipSummer 10W 2022
WGST 5900.012Special ProblemsSummer 5W2 2022
COMM 4640.001Latin@ RhetoricsSpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5930.706Research Problems in Lieu of a ThesisSpring 2022
COMM 4540.001Communications Theories of SexualityFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5840.002Seminar in Rhetorical StudiesFall 2021 SPOT
COMM 3620.001Intercultural CommunicationSummer 3W1 2021 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 4640.001Latin@ RhetoricsSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5930.706Research Problems in Lieu of a ThesisSpring 2021
COMM 4540.001Communications Theories of SexualityFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5930.706Research Problems in Lieu of a ThesisFall 2020
COMM 5240.001Rhetoric and Mediated CultureFall 2020 SPOT
COMM 3620.001Intercultural CommunicationSummer 3W1 2020 SPOT
COMM 5920.706Research Problems in Lieu of a ThesisSummer 5W2 2020
COMM 4640.001Latin@ RhetoricsSpring 2020 Syllabus
WGST 5950.007Master's ThesisSpring 2020
COMM 4240.001Rhetoric and Popular CultureSpring 2020 Syllabus
COMM 4540.001Communications Theories of SexualityFall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5481.706Graduate InternshipFall 2019
WGST 5950.001Master's ThesisFall 2019
COMM 5545.001Race and Public CultureFall 2019 SPOT
COMM 5930.706Research Problems in Lieu of a ThesisFall 2019
COMM 3620.001Intercultural CommunicationSummer 3W1 2019 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5930.706Research Problems in Lieu of a ThesisSpring 2019
COMM 4240.001Rhetoric and Popular CultureSpring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5840.001Seminar in Rhetorical StudiesSpring 2019 SPOT
COMM 5840.601Seminar in Rhetorical StudiesSpring 2019 SPOT
COMM 4540.001Communications Theories of SexualityFall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 4640.001Latin@ RhetoricsFall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 3620.001Intercultural CommunicationSummer 3W1 2018 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5240.001Rhetoric and Mediated CultureSpring 2018 SPOT
COMM 4240.001Rhetoric and Popular CultureSpring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 4540.001Communications Theories of SexualityFall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5481.706Graduate InternshipFall 2017
COMM 5545.001Race and Public CultureFall 2017 SPOT
COMM 5930.706Research Problems in Lieu of a ThesisFall 2017
COMM 3620.001Intercultural CommunicationSummer 5W1 2017 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 4640.001Latin@ RhetoricsSpring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5480.706PracticumSpring 2017
COMM 4240.001Rhetoric and Popular CultureSpring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 4540.001Communications Theories of SexualityFall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5840.001Seminar in Rhetorical StudiesFall 2016 SPOT
COMM 3620.001Intercultural CommunicationSummer 5W1 2016 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5930.706Research Problems in Lieu of a ThesisSpring 2016
COMM 5240.001Rhetoric and Mediated CultureSpring 2016 SPOT
COMM 4240.001Rhetoric and Popular CultureSpring 2016 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5545.001Race and Public CultureFall 2015 SPOT
COMM 4540.001Rhetorics of SexualityFall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 3620.001Intercultural CommunicationSummer 5W2 2015 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 3620.201Intercultural CommunicationSummer 5W2 2015 SPOT
COMM 3620.202Intercultural CommunicationSummer 5W2 2015 SPOT
COMM 5481.706Graduate InternshipSpring 2015
COMM 4240.001Rhetoric, Culture and IdeologySpring 2015 Syllabus
COMM 4849.001Topics in Rhetorical StudiesSpring 2015 Syllabus
COMM 4240.001Rhetoric, Culture and IdeologyFall 2014 Syllabus
COMM 5840.001Seminar in Rhetorical StudiesFall 2014
COMM 3620.001Intercultural CommunicationSummer 5W1 2014 Syllabus
COMM 3620.001Intercultural CommunicationSpring 2014 Syllabus
COMM 5545.001Race and Public CultureSpring 2014
COMM 3620.001Intercultural CommunicationFall 2013 Syllabus
COMM 4240.001Rhetoric, Culture and IdeologyFall 2013 Syllabus

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.

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. (2016 - 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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    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):
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    • The intellectual challenge presented was
    • The amount of effort you put into this course was
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