Ann
Atkinson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Communication
E-mail: aatkinso@keene.edu
Mailstop: 4000
Office
phone: 603.358.2466
Office
Location: MEDI 113
Subject
Areas: Rhetorical
criticism,
political
communication,
communication
theory,
public
speaking,
ethics.
Research
Interests: Women
in politics.
She contributed
a chapter
to Inventing
a Voice:
The Rhetoric
of American
First
ladies
of the
Twentieth
Century called “Lou
Henry
Hoover:
Mining
the Possibilities
as Leader
and First
Lady” (2003).
Her essay
about
Frances
Perkins
will appear
in American
Rhetoric
in the
New Deal
Era, Volume
7 of a
ten-volume
series
called A
Rhetorical
History
of the
United
States
: Significant
Moments
in American
Public
Discourse. Currently
she is
completing
a project
about
May Craig,
a political
journalist
who worked
for Gannett
newspapers
for four
decades,
beginning
in the
1930s.
Professor
Atkinson
earned
her
Ph.D.
in communication
at the
University
of Massachusetts
Amherst
in 1996.
She has served as chair of the department since fall 2005. |
