Cindy Spurlock, Ph.D.

Department Rank:
Assistant Professor

Area:
Communication Studies

Office: Walker Hall 240
Fax: 828-262-2543
Email: spurlockcm@appstate.edu

Education

Ph.D., UNC Chapel Hill
Communication Studies

M.A., UNC Chapel Hill
Communication Studies

B.A., North Carolina State University
Communication; English

Teaching Specialties

Contemporary Rhetorical Theory and Criticism
Public Communication and Culture
Environmental Advocacy
Critical Theory
Visual Culture
Qualitative Methods in Communication Studies
Place and Public Memory
Service-Learning

Current Courses Being Taught

COM 3155: Persuasion
COM 2101: Public Speaking

Professional Affiliations / Organizations

National Communication Association
Rhetoric Society of America
Southern States Communication Association
Association of American Colleges and Universities
Southeast Environmental Leadership Program

Research Interests

Rhetoric and Public Memory in Contemporary American Culture

Tourism and the Rhetorics of Place, Space, and Power

Social Movements, Advocacy, and Social Change

Rhetorics of Sustainability, Preservation, and Conservation

Selected Publications

Spurlock, Cindy M. Performing and Sustaining (Agri)Culture and Place: The Cultivation of Environmental Subjectivity on the Piedmont Farm Tour. Text and Performance Quarterly 29 (2009): 5-21.

Spurlock, Cindy M. Inhabiting Spaces of Resistance: A Meditation on Co Performative Acts of Protest. Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture 6.2 (2009).