Dr. Carrie Anne Platt
Assistant Professor
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Office: Minard 321B
Phone: (701) 231-7294
I joined the Department of Communication in Fall 2008,
shortly after completing my Ph.D. at the University of
Southern California. I was excited about moving up north
because I was born and have spent most of my life in Montana.
I received my B.A. from Carroll College (Helena, MT) and my
M.A. from Wake Forest University.
I work in a variety of research areas, including cultural studies, critical media theory, communication technologies, and rhetoric. My dissertation project focused on tactical shifts in the contemporary rhetoric of "family values" in the same-sex marriage and media decency debates. I am generally interested in public debates over issues of gender and sexuality, the impact of new technologies on education and the family, and discourses of technological obsolescence in the rural United States.
My current research projects explore the rhetoric of religion in public debates over same-sex marriage, the policing of female desire in YA fiction, and the pedagogical outcomes associated with blogging in the classroom. I am also collaborating with other faculty and graduate students on a number of different projects, including the communication of jealousy in stepfamilies, how privacy is managed when blogging about international or interracial adoption, the rhetoric of weather-casting, the communicative dimensions of relational aggression, and the use of post-feminist rhetoric in direct-to-consumer genetic testing.
This semester, I am teaching COMM 702: Introduction to College Teaching and COMM 708: Advanced Qualitative Methods in Communication Research. I will be on sabbatical in Spring 2010.