Five new tenure track professors begin their careers at CSUN in the fall of 2008
The college is pleased to announce the hiring of five new tenure track professors who will begin their career at CSUN in the fall of 2008. |
COMMUNICATION STUDIES
John M. Kephart III (M.A., 2005, University of Southern California), received his B.A. and M.A. in Communication from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication. His emphasis is on Rhetorical Theory and Criticism and Gender Studies. His dissertation engages cultural responses to narratives of “masculinity crisis” within the United States in the late 20th, examining rhetorical strategy and cultural politics within popular culture and social movements. John is the Director of Forensics at CSUN, which competes in a wide variety of debate and individual events. John blends theoretical inquiry with practical application to create a collaborative learning environment devoted to critical thinking. He has taught a wide range of courses, including Argumentation, Gender and Media, Rhetorical Theory, and Small Group and Team Communication. As likely to quote "The Big Lebowski" in class as he is Aristotle, John believes that critical engagement is just as valuable in our everyday lives and mundane experiences as it is when examining issues of global significance.
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Jeanine Marie Mingé (Ph.D., University of South Florida), received her Master's degree from San Diego State University and her Bachelor’s degree from James Madison University. Jeanine has published her work on performance and sexuality in the journal Qualitative Inquiry. Her dissertation focuses on cob building, a natural building process, to create sacred and aesthetic spaces with the community. Cob building expands and complicates our understanding of arts-based and performance methods in communication, the categorization of community art, feminist poststructural pedagogies, and community methods. Her areas of interest include performance studies, feminist theory, queer theory, and arts-based inquiry. All of her work is dedicated to cultivating social justice. She is equally enthralled by and creates the communicative presence of visual imagery, poetry, installation art, narrative, and performance.
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JOURNALISM
Tae hyun Kim, (B.A., M.A., Ohio State University, Ph.D., Washington State University). Tae Hyun previously taught at the University of Louisiana at Monroe where he was in charge of the communication department’s news editorial curriculum. A media sociologist, he specializes in the study of control and social change functions of mass media. Kim’s media industry experience includes being a staff writer for the Madison Press, public relations coordinator for the Asian America Commerce Group, and a photo stringer for the Columbus Dispatch, the Akron Beacon Journal, and the Associated Press.
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Jéssica Retis, (B.A., Universidad de Lima, M.A., Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ph.D., Universidad Complutense de Madrid.) Jessica has conducted research and has taught in Mexico, Spain and US universities in Madrid. She specializes in the analysis of contemporary Diaspora and its media implications. Prior to teaching, Jessica has more than 18 years of experience as a journalist including working for publications such as Fin de Semana, Universal, Ojo in Perú, Revista Mexicana de Comunicación, El Nacional, and Reforma in Mexico. In addition, she brings experience as a producer, scriptwriter, and news anchor for television stations in Spain and Perú. |
THEATRE
Christine Menzies has been an actor, director, voice and dialect coach, writer and teacher in the United States, Canada, Britain and Trinidad. Christine has also taught at Louisiana State University, Portland State University, the University of Southern California and Cal Poly, Pomona, as well as colleges and universities across Canada. Christine has been a Voice/Text/Dialects Director at the Oregon and Kentucky Shakespeare festivals, at Portland Centre Stage and Artists Repertory Theatre, Oregon and The Swine Palace, Louisiana. She has directed extensively in the U.S. and abroad. |
John Kephart III, Ph2/10/09tor of Forensics
Jeanine Mingé, Ph.D., 
Tae-Hyun Kim, 
Jessica Retis,
Christine Menzies,