Sara VanderHaagen (Communication Studies) wrote an essay, "The 'Agential Spiral': Reading Public Memory Through Paul Ricoeur," that recently appeared in the interdisciplinary journal Philosophy and Rhetoric. The essay adapts philosopher Paul Ricoeur's idea of "threefold mimesis" into a tool for analyzing public memory from a rhetorical perspective.

Tara Emmers-Sommer (Communication Studies), Katherine Hertlein (Marriage and Family Therapy), and M. Alexis Kennedy (Criminal Justice) have had their manuscript, "Porn Use and Attitudes: An Examination of Relational and Sexual Openness Variables Between and Within Gender" accepted to the Marriage and Family Review. The three authors also had their…

Erika Engstrom (Communication Studies) presented "Making Feminism Mainstream: Amy Poehler and NBC's Parks and Recreation" at the 25th annual Far West and American Culture Association conference in Las Vegas in February.

Erika Engstrom (Communication Studies) presented "The Disneyfication of Brideland" at the annual convention of the National Communication Association in Orlando, Fla., in November. Her presentation was part of a day-long seminar on teaching and researching Disney as popular culture and communication.

Tara Emmers-Sommer (Communication Studies) is the co-author, along with Wittenburg University professor Kathleen Warber, of an article, "The Relationships among Sex, Gender and Attachment," which was published in Language and Communication Quarterly.She also served as the keynote speaker for Alpha Delta Pi's Spirit Week recruitment retreat in…

Erika Engstrom (Communication Studies) made two presentations at the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in Chicago in August. The first was a refereed paper titled "What Happens to the 'Cream of the Crop'?: The Representative Anecdote in AMC's Mad Men." The second was a panel presentation…