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Marcyrose Chvasta, Ph.D.

   

performance studies, cultural studies, media theory

Assistant Professor
813.974.7456
CIS 3036
mchvasta@cas.usf.edu
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Dr. Chvasta joined the Communication faculty in 2001. Her current projects investigate women's relationship to work, regret in performance, and online journaling. She has served as co-editor of the Performance in Review section of Text and Performance Quarterly, is past chair of the Performance Studies Division of the Southern States Communication Association, and serves on the editorial board of Women's Studies in Communication. She is co-editor and founder of the online, multimedia journal Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies.

At the 2006 Southern States Communication Association convention, Dr. Chvasta was given the SSCA Outstanding Teacher Award.

Curriculum Vitae

Undergraduate course offerings

  • Children's Literature and Performance
  • Performing Nonfiction
  • Human Relations and Performance
  • Introduction to Communication as Performance
  • Popular Forms of Public Communication
  • Performing Identity

Graduate course offerings
  • Historical Perspectives on Communication (topic: Performance Studies)
  • Performance and Technology
  • Performance Criticism
  • Introduction to Graduate Studies in Communication
  • Communication Research Methods

Representative publications
  • "Anger, Irony, and Protest: Confronting the Issue of Efficacy, Again. Text and Performance Quarterly 26.1 (2006).

  • "Remembering Praxis: Performance in the Digital Age." Text and Performance Quarterly 25.2 (2005). [download pdf]

  • "Screening Bodies: Performance and Technology" Performance/Text/Technology: An Ejournal 1.1 (2004). [download pdf]

  • "Mapping the Terrain of Screened Realities" (with Deanna Fassett). In Survivor Lessons: Communication Issues Under a Watchful Eye (eds. Matthew J. Smith and Andrew F. Wood), 2003.

Awards

  • Outstanding New Teacher Award, Southern States Communication Association, 2006
  • HUB Award [MA teaching and advising], Department of Communication, USF, 2006
  • Faculty Recognition Award [Doctoral teaching and advising], Department of Communication, USF, 2005
  • Undergraduate Appreciation Award, Deparetment of Commuinication, USF, 2004
  • HUB Award [MA teaching and advising], Departmentof Communication, USF, 2003

Education

Ph.D., Speech Communication, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 2001.

M.A., Speech Communication, California State University, Northridge, 1996.

B.A., Communication, Arizona State University, 1993.

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