Dr. Payne joined the faculty in 1988. Dr. Payne's research interests include critical methodology, contemporary rhetorical theory, and the discourse of individual identity in popular American film.

Undergraduate course offerings

• Introduction to Communication
• Persuasion
• Advanced Public Speaking
• Rhetorical Analysis of the Mass Media
• Rhetorical Theory

Graduate course offerings

• Communication Aesthetics
• The Rhetoric of Everyday Life
• Rhetorical Analysis of Film
• Rhetorical Criticism
• Ethnographic Approaches to Rhetoric
• Postmodern Rhetoric

Representative publications

• "Autobiology." Composing Ethnography. A. Bochner and C. Ellis, (eds). Altamira Press, 1996.


• "Characterology, Media, and Rhetoric". Communication, Culture, and Consciousness: Walter Ong's Contributions to American Cultural Studies (eds. B. Gronbeck, T. Farrell, and P. Soukup).


• The Wizard of Oz: Therapeutic Rhetoric in Contemporary Media Ritual.Quarterly journal of Speech,. 75 (1989):25-39. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1991, pp. 223-236.


• Coping With Failure: The Therapeutic Uses of Rhetoric Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1989.

Awards

• Faculty Recognaition Award (from Graduate Communication Assoication), 1989, 1997, 2001
• Senior Class Outstanding Teacher Awards, 1992
• Teaching Incentive Program Award, USF, 1994.
• Service Recognition Award, Undergraduate Communication Council, 1989

Education

Ph.D., Speech Communication, University of Iowa, 1982