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Emeritus Faculty

Mary Hinchcliff-Pelias

Associate Professor, Emerita
Ph.D., Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 1982; 1983.


Lenore Langsdorf

Professor, Emerita
Ph.D., State University of New York at Stonybrook, 1977; 1990.

Philosophy of communication; Argumentation, communication, cultural, and rhetorical theory; Hermeneutic phenomenology, critical theory, and process philosophy as research orientations.


Richard L. Lanigan

Professor, Emeritus
Ph.D., Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 1969; 1974.

Theories and Models of Human Communicology, Semiotic Phenomenology, Philosophy of Communication.


Ronald J. Pelias

Ronald J. Pelias

Professor, Emeritus
Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1979; 1981.

Performance studies, performance methods, autoethnography.


Elyse Pineau

Associate Professor, Emerita
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1990; 1990.

Women's autobiography, literary adaptation, and personal narratives in performance.


William D. Smith

Associate Professor, Emeritus
Ph.D., Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 1964; 1961.


Nathan Stucky

Nathan Stucky

Professor, Emeritus
Ph.D., University of Texas, 1988; 1990.

Performance studies, performance ethnography, cultural ritual, performance pedagogy