Ryan McGeough
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Associate Professor, Communication
Department Head
326 Lang Hall
Ryan McGeough
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Associate Professor, Communication
Department Head
Ryan’s research focuses on one broad question: how do people use a variety of visual and multimedia technologies to access the public sphere and engage in deliberation and persuasion? To answer this question, he has published research on the visual argumentation of monuments, political satire, information literacy, and the public argument of Columbian hunger strikes. Ryan has also published The Essential Guide to Visual Communication, a textbook that is part of Bedford/St. Martin’s “Essential Guide” series.
Ph.D. Louisiana State University
Ryan is Department Head, leading Communication and Media through numerous curriculum innovations. He is also Basic Course Director, overseeing the training and instruction of our department’s Liberal Arts Core course, Oral Communication (COMM 1000). This allows him the opportunity to work closely with graduate students in order to provide them training and support as they begin their own teaching careers. Ryan has also taught courses about digital culture, political communication, rhetoric and civic culture, and graduate seminars on research methods and critical cultural studies. He tries to build each of his classes around providing students with at least one truly unique assignment or learning experience.
Visual communication, rhetoric and public deliberation, public memory, and digital culture.