Dr. Bartesaghi joined the Communication faculty in 2005. Weaving together talk and text, her work on discourse highlights the connections between talk-in-interaction and the larger institutional and social framework within which talk is situated, enabled, and constrained. Her research will continue to explore power dynamics in conversation, institutional and social narratives and linguistic constructions, and using a discourse approach to reveal the power of the taken for granted in our everyday communication. At the 2005 National Communication Associatioconvention in Boston, Dr. Bartesaghi was awarded the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Language and Social Interaction Division.

Undergraduate course offerings

• Communication Theory
  [Fall 2005 syllabus]
• Communication and Mental Illness
  [Fall 2005 syllabus]
• Communicating Health & Illness (Health Communication)
• Analyzing Social Interaction

Graduate course offerings

• Discourse in Health institutions
  [Spring 2007 syllabus]

Representative Publications

• Bartesaghi, M., & Castor, T. R. (In press). Social construction in communication: Revisiting the conversation. In C. Beck (Ed.), Communication Yearbook, 32. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
  
• Bartesaghi, M., & Castor, T. R. (In press). Tracing our steps through communication social construction: Six propositions for how to go on. In W. Leeds-Hurwitz & G. Galanes (Eds.), Socially Constructing Communication: Catching Ourselves in the Act, The 2006 NCA Summer Institute. Mahwah, NJ: Hampton Press.

Education

Ph.D., Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, 2004.

BS, Communication, Ithaca College, 1992.