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Suzanne M. Enck

Title: Chair

Department: Communication Studies

College: College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae Link

Education

  • PhD, Indiana University, 2005
    Major: Communication and Culture
    Specialization: Rhetorical Studies; American Studies
    Dissertation: Site Unseen: Women's Agency in Contemporary American Constructions of Domestic Violence
  • MA, Ball State University, 1995
    Major: Speech
    Dissertation: Leading the Antifeminist Movement: A Feminist Criticism of Beverly LaHaye's Rhetoric
  • BA, Miami University, 1994
    Major: Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs Philosphy

Current Scheduled Teaching

COMM 5950.760Master's ThesisSpring 2025
COMM 4545.001Rhetorics of Protest, Movement(s) and ResistanceSpring 2025
COMM 5445.001Feminist CriticismFall 2024 SPOT
COMM 5950.750Master's ThesisFall 2024

Previous Scheduled Teaching

COMM 4951.001Honors College Capstone ThesisSpring 2024
COMM 5950.760Master's ThesisSpring 2024
COMM 4545.001Rhetorics of Protest, Movement(s) and ResistanceSpring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 4140.001Gender and CommunicationFall 2023
COMM 5745.001Rhetorics of Protest, Social Movement(s) and ResistanceFall 2023 SPOT
COMM 5910.700Special ProblemsSpring 2023
COMM 4849.001Topics in Rhetorical StudiesSpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5445.001Feminist CriticismFall 2022 SPOT
COMM 5950.760Master's ThesisSpring 2022
COMM 5930.700Research Problems in Lieu of a ThesisSpring 2022
COMM 4240.001Rhetoric and Popular CultureSpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5950.750Master's ThesisFall 2021
COMM 5840.001Seminar in Rhetorical StudiesFall 2021 SPOT
WGST 5950.001Master's ThesisSpring 2021
COMM 5930.700Research Problems in Lieu of a ThesisSpring 2021
COMM 4240.001Rhetoric and Popular CultureSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5445.001Feminist CriticismFall 2020 SPOT
COMM 5445.601Feminist CriticismFall 2020 SPOT
WGST 5950.002Master's ThesisFall 2020
COMM 4240.001Rhetoric and Popular CultureSummer 5W1 2020 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5840.001Seminar in Rhetorical StudiesSpring 2020
COMM 5840.601Seminar in Rhetorical StudiesSpring 2020
COMM 4849.001Topics in Rhetorical StudiesSpring 2020 Syllabus
COMM 5345.001Rhetorical TheoryFall 2019 SPOT
COMM 5481.711Graduate InternshipSummer SUM 2019
COMM 5481.711Graduate InternshipSpring 2019
COMM 5445.001Feminist CriticismFall 2018 SPOT
COMM 5445.601Feminist CriticismFall 2018 SPOT
COMM 4140.001Gender and CommunicationFall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5930.711Research Problems in Lieu of a ThesisFall 2018
COMM 4240.001Rhetoric and Popular CultureSummer 5W2 2018 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 4140.001Gender and CommunicationSpring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 4849.001Topics in Rhetorical StudiesSpring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5481.711Graduate InternshipFall 2017
COMM 5930.711Research Problems in Lieu of a ThesisFall 2017
COMM 5345.001Rhetorical TheoryFall 2017 SPOT
COMM 4240.001Rhetoric and Popular CultureSummer 5W1 2017 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 4140.001Gender and CommunicationSpring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5340.001Rhetorical MethodsSpring 2017 SPOT
COMM 5445.001Feminist CriticismFall 2016 SPOT
COMM 5930.711Research Problems in Lieu of a ThesisFall 2016
COMM 4240.001Rhetoric and Popular CultureSummer 5W2 2016 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 4140.001Gender and CommunicationSpring 2016 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5950.761Master's ThesisSpring 2016
COMM 4849.001Topics in Rhetorical StudiesSpring 2016 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5481.711Graduate InternshipFall 2015
COMM 5930.711Research Problems in Lieu of a ThesisFall 2015
COMM 5345.001Rhetorical TheoryFall 2015 SPOT
COMM 4040.001Rhetorical TheorySummer 5W1 2015 Syllabus SPOT
COMM 5445.001Feminist CriticismSpring 2015
COMM 4040.001Rhetorical TheorySpring 2015 Syllabus
COMM 4140.001Gender and CommunicationFall 2014 Syllabus
COMM 5340.001Rhetorical MethodsFall 2014
COMM 5900.711Special ProblemsFall 2014
COMM 4140.001Gender and CommunicationSpring 2014 Syllabus
COMM 5481.711Graduate InternshipSpring 2014
COMM 4040.001Rhetorical TheorySpring 2014 Syllabus
COMM 4140.001Gender and CommunicationFall 2013 Syllabus
COMM 5345.001Rhetorical TheoryFall 2013
COMM 4849.001Topics in Rhetorical StudiesSummer 3W1 2013 Syllabus
COMM 5445.001Feminist CriticismSpring 2013
COMM 4140.001Gender and CommunicationSpring 2013 Syllabus
COMM 5481.711Graduate InternshipSpring 2013
COMM 4140.001Gender and CommunicationFall 2012 Syllabus
COMM 5085.001Pedagogy and CommunicationFall 2012
COMM 5480.711PracticumFall 2012
COMM 5900.711Special ProblemsSummer 5W1 2012
COMM 4220.001Gender and CommunicationSpring 2012 Syllabus
COMM 5930.711Research Problems in Lieu of a ThesisSpring 2012
COMM 4040.001Rhetorical TheorySpring 2012 Syllabus
COMM 4220.001Gender and CommunicationFall 2011 Syllabus
COMM 5481.711Graduate InternshipFall 2011
COMM 5345.001Rhetorical TheoryFall 2011
COMM 4220.001Gender and CommunicationSpring 2011 Syllabus
COMM 3440.001Public Address StudiesSpring 2011 Syllabus
COMM 5930.711Research Problems in Lieu of a ThesisSpring 2011
COMM 4220.001Gender and CommunicationFall 2010 Syllabus
COMM 5950.761Master's ThesisFall 2010
COMM 5840.001Seminar in Rhetorical StudiesFall 2010
COMM 4900.711Special ProblemsFall 2010
COMM 4220.001Gender and CommunicationSummer 5W1 2010
COMM 4900.711Special ProblemsSummer 5W1 2010
COMM 4220.001Gender and CommunicationSpring 2010
COMM 3440.001Public Address StudiesSpring 2010
COMM 4220.001Gender and CommunicationFall 2009
COMM 4040.001Rhetorical TheoryFall 2009

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book Chapter

  • Enck, S.M. (2014). "Resisting Gendered Violence through the Classroom: A Feminist Activist Approach to Communication Studies,". Communication Activism Pedagogy, eds. Lawrence R. Frey and David L. Palmer. Hampton Press. http://www.hamptonpress.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=978-1-61289-134-7
  • Enck, S.M., Murray, S. (2010). "How to Hook a Hottie": Teenage Boys, Hegemonic Masculinity, and CosmoGirl! Magazine. Mediated Boyhood: Boys, Teens, and Tweens in Popular Culture and Media, ed. Annette Wannamaker. Peter Lang. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc139467/m1/1/
  • Enck, S.M. (2009). "Seeing Family Violence Differently: Shifting Perspectives from Social Science to Rhetorical,". Family Violence: Communication Processes, eds. Dudley D. Cahn and Sally A. Lloyd. State University of New York Press. https://www.academia.edu/1102445/Seeing_Family_Violence_Differently_Shifting_Perspectives_from_Social_Science_to_Rhetorical
  • Enck, S.M. (2004). "Beyond the Burning Bed: The Life, Trial, and Aftermath of Francine Hughes". Famous American Crimes and Trials, Volume 4, ed. Steve Chermak and Frankie Bailey. Praeger.
  • Book Review

  • Enck, S.M. (2020). Book Review, The Mark of Criminality: Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era by Bryan J. McCann. Rhetoric & Public Affairs. 23 (2) 412-415.
  • Enck, S.M. (2009). Book Review, Welfare Reform and Sexual Regulation by Anna Marie Smith. American Studies.
  • Enck, S.M. (2008). Book Review, LGBT Studies and Queer Theory: New Conflicts, Collaborations, and Contested Terrain, eds. Karen Lovaas, John P. Elia, and Gust A. Jep. Journal of GLBT Family Studies.
  • Enck, S.M. (2005). Book Review, Domestic Violence and the Politics of Privacy by Kristin A. Kelly. Journal of International Women's Studies.
  • Journal Article

  • Enck, S.M. (2022). Privacy, precarity, and political change: Connecting gendered violence to reproductive injustice. Quarterly Journal of Speech. 108 (4) 431-435.
  • Moyer, L.M., Enck, S.M. (2018). Is my grief too public for you? The digitalization of grief on Facebook. Death Studies.
  • Enck, S.M. (2018). Listening for Intimate Partner Violence: A Call for Empathic Empowerment. Women's Studies in Communication. 41 (2) 100-103.
  • Enck, S.M. (2018). Accountability Amidst the ‘Me Too’ Reckoning: Kevin Spacey’s Homopatriarchal Apologia. 5 (2) 80-86.
  • Enck, S.M. (2016). The Praxis of Rhetorical Attitudinizing: Productive Criticism as Civic Engagement. Review of Communication. 16 (1) 92-94. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15358593.2016.1183905?journalCode=rroc20
  • Enck, S.M., Morrissey, M.E. (2015). If Orange Is the New Black, I Must Be Color Blind: Comic Framings of Post-Racism in the Prison-Industrial Complex. Critical Studies in Media Communication. 32 (5) http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15295036.2015.1086489?journalCode=rcsm20
  • Enck, S.M. (2015). Planning a Gender Fair as a Semester-Long Final Project. Communication Teacher. 29 (2) 1-8. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17404622.2014.1003950
  • Drescher, L.H., Enck, S.M. (2015). The Literacy of Pain: An Autoethnographic Account of Negotiating Immediacy Skills in the Face of Death. Departures in Critical Qualitative Research. 4 (3) 27-50. http://dcqr.ucpress.edu/content/4/3/27
  • Enck, S.M., McDaniel, B.A. (2015). “I Want Something Better for My Life”: Personal Narratives of Incarcerated Women and Performances of Agency. Text and Perfomance Quarterly. 35 (1) 43-61. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10462937.2014.975271#.VfB6z4peMm8
  • Enck, S.M., McDaniel, B.A. (2012). Playing With Fire: Cycles of Domestic Violence in Eminem and Rihanna's ''Love the Way You Lie''. Communication, Culture & Critique. 5 (4) 618-644. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1753-9137.2012.01147.x
  • Enck-Wanzer, S.M. (2009). All's Fair in Love and Sport: Black Masculinity, Domestic Violence, and the Media. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. 6 (1) 1-18. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14791420802632087#.VfB70IpeMm8

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

    Fellowship

  • Enck-Wanzer, S.M. (Principal), "John H. Edwards Fellowship," sponsored by Indiana University, State, $17000 Funded. (2002 - 2003).
  • Grant - Research

  • Enck-Wanzer, S.M. (Principal), "Research Activity Travel Award," sponsored by Eastern Illinois University, State, $400 Funded. (2008 - 2008).
  • Enck-Wanzer, S.M. (Principal), "Council on Faculty Research Grant," sponsored by Eastern Illinois University, State, $1200 Funded. (2007 - 2007).
  • Enck-Wanzer, S.M. (Principal), "Research Activity Travel Award," sponsored by Eastern Illinois University, State, $400 Funded. (2007 - 2007).
  • Enck-Wanzer, S.M. (Principal), "Research Activity Travel Award," sponsored by Eastern Illinois University, State, $400 Funded. (2006 - 2006).
  • Grant - Teaching

  • Enck, S.M. (Principal), "Transformative Instruction Initiative Fellow," sponsored by University of North Texas, University of North Texas, $3000 Funded. (2010 - 2010).
  • Enck-Wanzer, S.M., "Faculty Development Support Grant," sponsored by Eastern Illinois University, State, $400 Funded. (2008 - 2008).
  • Enck-Wanzer, S.M., "Faculty Development Support Grant," sponsored by Eastern Illinois University, State, $400 Funded. (2006 - 2006).
  • Enck-Wanzer, S.M., "Faculty Development Support Grant," sponsored by Eastern Illinois University, State, $400 Funded. (2005 - 2005).
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  • 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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