Health University

Tasha N. Dubriwny

Assistant Professor

Department of Communication & Women s Studies Program

Texas A&M University

Phone: 979-***-****

Email: *********@****.***

Education

Ph.D., University of Georgia, Department of Speech Communication, 2005

M.A., University of Cincinnati, Center for Women s Studies, 2001

B.A., University of Oklahoma, Women s Studies Program, 1999

Employment

Assistant Professor, Department of Communication & Women s and Gender Studies

Program, Texas A&M University (2007-present)

Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of South Florida (2005 -

2007)

Grants & Fellowships

Texas A&M University, Stipendiary Fellow, Glasscock Center for the Humanities, 2007,

$1500

University of South Florida, CAS New Researcher Grant, 20 06, $9,611

University of South Florida, CAS Faculty Research and Development Grant, 2005, $1000

Publications

Refereed Articles

Dubriwny, T. (2009) Constructing Breast Cancer in the News: Betty Ford and the Evolution of the

Breast Cancer Patient. Journal of Communication Inquiry, 33(2), 104-125.

Lynch, J. & Dubriwny, T. (2006). Drugs and double binds: Racial identity and

pharmacogenomics in a system of binary race logic. Health Communication, 19(1), 61-73.

Dubriwny, T. (2005). Consciousness-raising as collective rhetoric: The Redstockings abortion

speak-out of 1969. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 91(4), 395-422.

Dubriwny, T. (2004). First ladies and feminism: Laura Bush as advocate for women s and

children s rights. Women s Studies in Communication, 28(1), 84-114.

Dubriwny, T., Bates, B., & Bevan, J. (2004). Lay understandings of race: Social and genetic

definitions. Community Genetics, 7, 185-195.

Condit, C.M., Dubriwny, T., Lynch, J., & Parrot, R. (2004). Lay people s understanding of and

preference against the word mutation. American Journal of Medical Genetics, 130A, 245-250.

Condit, C.M., Parrott, R., Harris, T., Lynch, J., & Dubriwny, T. (2004). The role of "genetics"

in popular understandings of race. Public Understanding of Science, 13, 249-272.

Bevan, J., Lynch, J., Dubriwny, T., Harris, T., Achter, P., Reeder, A., & Condit, C. M. (2003).

Informed lay preferences for delivery of racially varied pharmacogenomics. Genetics in

Medicine, 5(5), 393-399.

Condit, C.M., Condit, D., Dubriwny, T., Sefcovic, E., Acosta-Alzura, C., Brown-Givens, S.,

Dietz, C., & Parrott, R. (2003). Lay understandings of sex/gender and genetics: A methodology

preserving polyvocal coder input. Sex Roles. 49(1), 557-570.

Book Reviews and Miscellaneous

Dubriwny, T. (2007). Ford, Betty and Chisholm, Shirley, in L. L. Kaid & C. Holtz -

Bacha (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Political Communication, p. 102-3 & 249-50. New York: Sage.

Dubriwny, T. (2003). Review of Postfeminist News: Political Women in Media Culture.

Women s Studies in Communication. 26(2), 296.

Forthcoming

Dubriwny, T. (forthcoming, September 2010). Television News Coverage of Postpartum Disorders

and the Politics of Medicalizaiton. Feminist Media Studies.

Dubriwny, T. Book Review of The Biopolitics of Breast Cancer: Changing Cultures of Disease and

Activism by Maren Klawiter. Accepted by Argumentation and Advocacy.

Works in Progress

Of Fathers and Daughters: Jane Addams, Citizenship, and Social Democracy. Revising for

submission to Rhetoric and Public Affairs.

Adopting Feminism: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Sarah Palin, and Women s Rights Rhetoric.

Writing for submission to Quarterly Journal of Speech.

Representations of Women s Health in the Postfeminist Era. Book manuscript in preparation.

Honors

Top Three Paper, Organization for Research on Women and Communication, Western

States Communication Association Convention, 2005.

Competitive paper accepted for Doctoral Honors Seminar, 2004.

Top Graduate Student Paper, Health Communication Division, Eastern States

Communication Association Convention, 2003.

Conference Presentations

Dubriwny, T. (November, 2008). Subverting and Supporting Scientific Authority: Breast Cancer

Activists and the Early Detection Controversy. National Communication Association Convention,

Association for the Rhetoric of Science and Technology Division.

Dubriwny, T. (May, 2008). The Rhetoric of Postfeminism and Representations of Women s

Health Issues. Rhetoric Society of America, Research Network.

Dubriwny, T. (2007, November). Envisioning a Social Democracy: Jane Addams s A Modern

Lear. National Communication Association Convention, Public Address Division.

Dubriwny, T. (2007, October). Jane Addams s Gendered Citizenship. Sixth Feminism(s) &

Rhetoric(s) Conference.

Dubriwny, T. (2006, November). Blurring the public/private divide: Betty Ford s advocacy of

breast cancer awareness. National Communication Association Convention, Political

Communication Division.

Dubriwny, T. (2006, November). Psychiatric articulations of women during the postpartum

period. National Communication Association Convention, Feminist and Women s Studies

Division.

Dubriwny, T. (2006, May). Envisioning postpartum disorders: Visual rhetoric and the

articulation of mother. Rhetoric Society of America Biennial Conference.

Dubriwny, T. (2005, November). Where is the mother in genetic engineering discourse?:

Implications for subjectivity, science, and capitalism. National Communication Association

Convention, American Association fo r the Rhetoric of Science and Technology.

Dubriwny, T. & Bates, B. (2005, November). Theorizing radical democracy through the

negative: Two lessons from Lenina Huxley. National Communication Association Convention,

Association for Psychoanalysis.

Dubriwny, T. (2004, November). Framing menopause: News coverage of the HRT controversy.

National Communication Association Convention, Health Communication Division.

Conference Presentations continued

Lynch, J. and Dubriwny, T. (2004, November). Homoambiva lence: Conspicuous consumption,

class and sexuality in Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. National Communication Association

Convention, Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender Communication Studies Division.

Dubriwny, T. (2004, November). Researching the women s health movement: Women s clinics

and abortion rights. National Communication Association Convention, Feminist and Women s

Studies Division.

Dubriwny, T. (2004, July). Consciousness raising and perspective by incongruity: The

Redstockings abortion speak-out of 1969. Doctoral Honors Seminar.

Dubriwny, T. (2003, November). Consciousness raising and perspective by incongruity: The

Redstockings abortion speak-out of 1969. National Communication Association Convention,

Feminist and Women s Studies Divis ion.

Bevan, J., Lynch, J., Dubriwny, T., et al. (2003, April). Informed lay preferences for delivery of

racially varied pharmacogenomics. Eastern States Communication Association Convention,

Health Communication Division. (Top Graduate Student Paper)

Dubriwny, T. (2002, November). Alternative or conventional medicine: An analysis of

demarcation rhetoric. National Communication Association Convention, Student Division.

Condit, C.M., Condit, D., Dubriwny, T., et al. (2002, November). Lay understand ings of

sex/gender and genetics: A methodology preserving polyvocal coder input. National

Communication Association Convention, Poster Session.

Panel Responses & Chairs

Chair, FWSD Competitive Papers: Rhetorically Speaking, Feminist & Women s

Studies Division, NCA, November 2008

Chair, Negotiating Difference: Women s Rhetoric, 1845-1915, Sixth Feminism(s) &

Rhetoric(s) Conference, October 2007.

Respondent to Public Arguments about Public Health, AARST, NCA, November 2005

Respondent to Top Gender Papers, Student Division, NCA, November 2005

Guest Lectures and Colloquia

Panel Member, Department of Communication Colloquium on Sarah Palin. October

2008.

Panel Member, New Faculty Orientation, What I Wish I had Known My First Year.

August 2008.

Panel Member, Women s Studies Program presentation of The Business of Being Born.

April 2008.

Guest Lectures continued

Panel Member, Department of Communication Colloquium on Barack Obama. April

2008.

Invited Lecture: Creative and Effective Conference Presentations. Texas A&M Writing

Center. March 2008.

Invited Colloquium: Of Fathers and Daughters: Jane Addams s Gendered Citizen.

Department of Communication, Texas A&M University, May 2007.

Invited Lecture: Effective Doctor/Patient Communication. University of South Florida

Medical School, Physical Diagnosis I, October 2006.

Invited Lecture: Effective Doctor/Patient Communication in a Geriatric Setting.

University of South Florida continuing education conference, Geriatric Healthcare:

Standards of Excellence, June 2006.

Invited Colloquium: Visualizing Postpartum Disorders. Department of Communication,

University of South Florida, March 2006.

Invited Lecture on Abortion Rhetoric, February Sisters Association, University of

Kansas, February 2005.

Invited Colloquium: Postpartum Disorders and the Psychiatric Subject. Department of

Speech Communication, University of Georgia, November 2004.

Invited Lecture on Gender and Communication, FRES 1020 (Freshman Seminar),

University of Georgia, 2004.

Teaching:

Courses Taught:

Rhetorical and Textual Analysis (Graduate)

Gender and Communication

Rhetoric of Health

Rhetorical Theory

Rhetorical Criticism

Persuasion in the Media Age

Health Communication (Undergraduate and Graduate)

Introduction to Public Speaking

Introduction to Women s Studies

Doctoral Committees:

Katherine Hampsten, committee member, Communication

Elizabeth Hatfield, committee member, Communication

Lauren Lemley, committee member, Communication

Rebecca McGovney-Ingram, committee member, Agricultural L eadership, Education &

Communications

Service

Disciplinary Service

Editorial Boards:

Editorial Board (2008-present), Southern Communication Journal

Editorial Board (2005-present), Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative

Communication Research

Editorial Board, (2005-2007), Quarterly Journal of Speech

Manuscript Reviews:

Guest Reviewer (September 2008), Journal of Women, Politics & Policy

Manuscript Reviewer (March 2008), National Communication Association, Feminist and

Women s Studies Division.

Book Manuscript Reviewer (June 2007), Ashgate Publishing

Manuscript Reviewer (December 2006), Theodore Clevenger Undergraduate Honors

Conference, Southern States Communication Association

Guest Reviewer (April 2006), Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies

Guest Reviewer (2002-2004), Critical Studies in Media Communication

Positions:

Representative to NCA Resolutions Committee (2008-2009), Division of Public Address.

Student Representative (2002-2003), Feminist and Women s Studies Division, NCA

University Service:

Texas A&M University

Member, Women s Studies and Rhetoric Search Committee (2007 -2008)

Member, Women s Studies Program Review Committee, Texas A&M University (2007-

2009)

Member, Undergraduate Instruction Committee, Department of Communic ation, Texas

A&M University (2007-2009)

University of South Florida

Member, College of Arts and Sciences Advisory Committee, University of South Florida

(2006-2007)

Member, Executive Committee, Department of Communication, University of South

Florida (2006-2007)

Member, Research Committee, Department of Communication, University of South

Florida (2006-2007)

Reviewer, College of Arts and Sciences International Travel Award Program, University

of South Florida (2006)

Member, SPR Committee, Department of Communication, University of South Florida

(2005-2006)

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