Education
Ph.D., University of Georgia, Department of Speech Communication, 2005
M.A., University of Cincinnati, Center for Women’s Studies, 2001
B.A., University of Oklahoma, Women’s Studies Program, 1999
Employment
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Assistant Professor, Department of Communication & Women’s and Gender Studies Program, Texas A&M University (2007-present)
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Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of South Florida (2005-2007)
Grants & Fellowships
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Texas A&M University, Stipendiary Fellow, Glasscock Center for the Humanities, 2007, $1500
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University of South Florida, CAS New Researcher Grant, 2006, $9,611
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University of South Florida, CAS Faculty Research and Development Grant, 2005, $1000
Publications
Refereed Articles
Dubriwny, T. (2009). Constructing Breast Cancer in the News: Betty Ford and the Evolution of the Breast Cancer Patient. Journal of Communication Inquiry, 33(2), 104-125.
Lynch, J. & Dubriwny, T. (2006). Drugs and double binds: Racial identity and pharmacogenomics in a system of binary race logic. Health Communication, 19(1), 61-73.
Dubriwny, T. (2005). Consciousness-raising as collective rhetoric: The Redstockings’ abortion speak-out of 1969. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 91(4), 395-422.
Dubriwny, T. (2004). First ladies and feminism: Laura Bush as advocate for women’s and children’s rights. Women’s Studies in Communication, 28(1), 84-114.
Dubriwny, T., Bates, B., & Bevan, J. (2004). Lay understandings of race: Social and genetic definitions. Community Genetics, 7, 185-195.
Condit, C.M., Dubriwny, T., Lynch, J., & Parrot, R. (2004). Lay people’s understanding of and preference against the word “mutation.” American Journal of Medical Genetics, 130A, 245-250.
Condit, C.M., Parrott, R., Harris, T., Lynch, J., & Dubriwny, T. (2004). The role of "genetics" in popular understandings of race. Public Understanding of Science, 13, 249-272.
Bevan, J., Lynch, J., Dubriwny, T., Harris, T., Achter, P., Reeder, A., & Condit, C. M. (2003). Informed lay preferences for delivery of racially varied pharmacogenomics. Genetics in Medicine, 5(5), 393-399.
Condit, C.M., Condit, D., Dubriwny, T., Sefcovic, E., Acosta-Alzura, C., Brown-Givens, S., Dietz, C., & Parrott, R. (2003). Lay understandings of sex/gender and genetics: A methodology preserving polyvocal coder input. Sex Roles. 49(1), 557-570.
Book Reviews and Miscellaneous
Dubriwny, T. (2007). “Ford, Betty” and “Chisholm, Shirley,” in L. L. Kaid & C. Holtz-Bacha (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Political Communication, p. 102-3 & 249-50. New York: Sage.
Dubriwny, T. (2003). Review of Postfeminist News: Political Women in Media Culture. Women’s Studies in Communication. 26(2), 296.
Forthcoming
Dubriwny, T. (forthcoming, September 2010). Television News Coverage of Postpartum Disorders and the Politics of Medicalizaiton. Feminist Media Studies.
Dubriwny, T. Book review of The Biopolitics of Breast Cancer: Changing Cultures of Disease and Activism by Maren Klawiter. Argumentation and Advocacy.
Dubriwny, T. Book review of Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns by Erika Falk. Rhetoric and Public Affairs.
Works in Progress
Of Fathers and Daughters: Jane Addams, Citizenship, and Social Democracy. Revising for submission to Rhetoric and Public Affairs.
Adopting Feminism: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Sarah Palin, and Women’s Rights Rhetoric. Writing for submission to Quarterly Journal of Speech.
Postfeminist Risk: Contemporary Representations of Women’s Health Issues. Book manuscript in preparation.
Honors
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SLATE Teaching Award, Texas A&M University, spring 2009.
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Top Three Paper, Organization for Research on Women and Communication, Western States Communication Association Convention, 2005.
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Competitive paper accepted for Doctoral Honors Seminar, 2004.
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Top Graduate Student Paper, Health Communication Division, Eastern States Communication Association Convention, 2003.
Conference Presentations
Dubriwny, T. (April, 2009). Adopting and Adapting Feminism: Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, and the 2008 Presidential Campaign. Questions of Legacy Mini-Conference, Vanderbilt University.
Dubriwny, T. (November, 2008). Subverting and Supporting Scientific Authority: Breast Cancer Activists and the Early Detection Controversy. National Communication Association Convention, Association for the Rhetoric of Science and Technology Division.
Dubriwny, T. (May, 2008). The Rhetoric of Postfeminism and Representations of Women’s Health Issues. Rhetoric Society of America, Research Network.
Dubriwny, T. (2007, November). Envisioning a Social Democracy: Jane Addams’s “A Modern Lear.” National Communication Association Convention, Public Address Division.
Dubriwny, T. (2007, October). Jane Addams’s Gendered Citizenship. Sixth Feminism(s) & Rhetoric(s) Conference.
Dubriwny, T. (2006, November). Blurring the public/private divide: Betty Ford’s advocacy of breast cancer awareness. National Communication Association Convention, Political Communication Division.
Dubriwny, T. (2006, November). Psychiatric articulations of women during the postpartum period. National Communication Association Convention, Feminist and Women’s Studies Division.
Dubriwny, T. (2006, May). Envisioning postpartum disorders: Visual rhetoric and the articulation of mother. Rhetoric Society of America Biennial Conference.
Dubriwny, T. (2005, November). Where is the mother in genetic engineering discourse?: Implications for subjectivity, science, and capitalism. National Communication Association Convention, American Association for the Rhetoric of Science and Technology.
Dubriwny, T. & Bates, B. (2005, November). Theorizing radical democracy through the negative: Two lessons from Lenina Huxley. National Communication Association Convention, Association for Psychoanalysis.
Dubriwny, T. (2004, November). Framing menopause: News coverage of the HRT controversy. National Communication Association Convention, Health Communication Division.
Lynch, J. and Dubriwny, T. (2004, November). Homoambivalence: Conspicuous consumption, class and sexuality in Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. National Communication Association Convention, Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender Communication Studies Division.
Dubriwny, T. (2004, November). Researching the women’s health movement: Women’s clinics and abortion rights. National Communication Association Convention, Feminist and Women’s Studies Division.
Dubriwny, T. (2004, July). Consciousness raising and perspective by incongruity: The Redstockings’ abortion speak-out of 1969. Doctoral Honors Seminar.
Dubriwny, T. (2003, November). Consciousness raising and perspective by incongruity: The Redstockings’ abortion speak-out of 1969. National Communication Association Convention, Feminist and Women’s Studies Division.
Bevan, J., Lynch, J., Dubriwny, T., et al. (2003, April). Informed lay preferences for delivery of racially varied pharmacogenomics. Eastern States Communication Association Convention, Health Communication Division. (Top Graduate Student Paper)
Dubriwny, T. (2002, November). Alternative or conventional medicine: An analysis of demarcation rhetoric. National Communication Association Convention, Student Division.
Condit, C.M., Condit, D., Dubriwny, T., et al. (2002, November). Lay understandings of sex/gender and genetics: A methodology preserving polyvocal coder input. National Communication Association Convention, Poster Session.
Panel Responses & Chairs
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Chair, “FWSD Competitive Papers: Rhetorically Speaking…,” Feminist & Women’s Studies Division, NCA, November 2008
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Chair, “Negotiating Difference: Women’s Rhetoric, 1845-1915,” Sixth Feminism(s) & Rhetoric(s) Conference, October 2007.
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Respondent to “Public Arguments about Public Health,” AARST, NCA, November 2005
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Respondent to “Top Gender Papers,” Student Division, NCA, November 2005
Guest Lectures and Colloquia
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Invited Lecture: The History of the Women’s Movement. Aggie Women in Leadership (AWIL), Texas A&M University, April 2009.
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Invited Moderator, Texas A&M University Social Justice Week, discussion following viewing of The Great Debaters, February 2009.
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Panel Member, Department of Communication Colloquium on Sarah Palin. October 2008.
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Panel Member, New Faculty Orientation, “What I Wish I had Known My First Year.” August 2008.
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Panel Member, Women’s Studies Program presentation of The Business of Being Born. April 2008.
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Panel Member, Department of Communication Colloquium on Barack Obama. April 2008.
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Invited Lecture: Creative and Effective Conference Presentations. Texas A&M Writing Center. March 2008.
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Invited Colloquium: Of Fathers and Daughters: Jane Addams’s Gendered Citizen. Department of Communication, Texas A&M University, May 2007.
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Invited Lecture: Effective Doctor/Patient Communication. University of South Florida Medical School, Physical Diagnosis I, October 2006.
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Invited Lecture: Effective Doctor/Patient Communication in a Geriatric Setting. University of South Florida continuing education conference, “Geriatric Healthcare: Standards of Excellence,” June 2006.
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Invited Colloquium: Visualizing Postpartum Disorders. Department of Communication, University of South Florida, March 2006.
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Invited Lecture on Abortion Rhetoric, February Sisters Association, University of Kansas, February 2005.
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Invited Colloquium: Postpartum Disorders and the Psychiatric Subject. Department of Speech Communication, University of Georgia, November 2004.
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Invited Lecture on Gender and Communication, FRES 1020 (Freshman Seminar), University of Georgia, 2004.
Teaching:
Courses Taught:
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Rhetorical and Textual Analysis (Graduate)
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Gender and Communication
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Rhetoric of Health
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Rhetorical Theory
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Rhetorical Criticism
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Persuasion in the Media Age
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Health Communication (Undergraduate and Graduate)
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Introduction to Public Speaking
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Introduction to Women’s Studies
Doctoral Committees:
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Donathan Brown, committee member, Communication
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Katherine Hampsten, committee member, Communication
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Elizabeth Hatfield, committee member, Communication
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Lauren Lemley, committee member, Communication
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Rebecca McGovney-Ingram, committee member, Agricultural Leadership, Education & Communications
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Masha Sukovic, committee member, Communication
Service
Disciplinary Service
Editorial Boards:
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Editorial Board (2008-present), Southern Communication Journal
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Editorial Board (2005-present), Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research
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Editorial Board, (2005-2007), Quarterly Journal of Speech
Manuscript Reviews:
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Guest Reviewer (April 2009, September 2009), Critical Studies in Media Communication
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Guest Reviewer (September 2008, February 2009), Journal of Women, Politics & Policy
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Manuscript Reviewer (March 2008), National Communication Association, Feminist and Women’s Studies Division.
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Book Manuscript Reviewer (June 2007), Ashgate Publishing
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Manuscript Reviewer (December 2006), Theodore Clevenger Undergraduate Honors Conference, Southern States Communication Association
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Guest Reviewer (April 2006), Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies
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Guest Reviewer (2002-2004), Critical Studies in Media Communication
Positions:
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Representative to NCA Resolutions Committee (2008-2009), Public Address Division, NCA.
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Student Representative (2002-2003), Feminist and Women’s Studies Division, NCA
University Service:
Texas A&M University
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Member, Department of Communication Diversity Committee (2009)
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Member, Women’s Studies and Rhetoric Search Committee (2007-2008)
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Member, Women’s Studies Program Review Committee, Texas A&M University (2007-2009)
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Member, Undergraduate Instruction Committee, Department of Communication, Texas A&M University (2007-2009)
University of South Florida
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Member, College of Arts and Sciences Advisory Committee, University of South Florida (2006-2007)
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Member, Executive Committee, Department of Communication, University of South Florida (2006-2007)
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Member, Research Committee, Department of Communication, University of South Florida (2006-2007)
- Reviewer, College of Arts and Sciences International Travel Award Program, University of South Florida (2006)
- Member, SPR Committee, Department of Communication, University of South Florida (2005-2006)
