Dr. Nahed Eltantawy

Nahed Eltantawy’s research focuses on media representation, gender issues, the Middle East, globalization and critical and cultural studies. She has presented her work at communication conferences in North America and the Middle East. Eltantawy uses her research to inform her journalism classes. She is also interested in developing new courses that combine her research interests with her journalism background.

One example would be a seminar on Media Representation of the Middle East. Eltantawy spends most of her free time with her husband and two sons. She also enjoys reading, cooking, traveling and the beach.

Dr. Kate Fowkes

Dr. Fowkes specializes in the analysis of film and television texts, particularly mainstream fantasy, sci-fi, and comedy films. She has also worked as a screenwriter and script consultant. Her research on fantasy and supernatural films informs her teaching in a variety of classes from film history and film theory to screenwriting and special topics courses such as “Monsters, Ghosts and Angels in Popular Film.” She speaks French and loves animals, nature, travelling, reading, music, theatre, and …movies! Well duh.

Dr. Judy Isaksen

Dr. Judy Isaksen’s pedagogy and research are rooted in Cultural Studies, an interdisciplinary methodology that explores the ways in which culture creates and transforms individual experiences, everyday life, social relations, and systems of power. As such, she enjoys teaching a wide range of courses in communication, media theory and production, cultural studies and pop culture, visual rhetoric, women and gender studies, race studies, rhetorical theory and writing, hip-hop culture, and literature.

Her research and publications have examined audio rhetoric, hip-hop theorists, Zora Neale Hurston, whiteness studies, Generation X, West African drumming, minorities on public radio, and racial discourse. The more pleasurable aspects of Dr. Isaksen's personal life that also feed into her teaching are writing, reading, yoga, painting and drawing, dancing, drumming, hiking and camping.

Prof. John Luecke

John R. Luecke, APR, teaches courses in public relations, human communication and public speaking. He brings more than 30 years of experience as a PR professional and educator to the classroom. Luecke's research interests focus on the application of intercultural communication theories to the practice of public relations.

Dr. Jim Trammell

Jim Y. Trammell is interested in religion and media. He’s written on the portrayal of religion on The Simpsons, Conservative Christian film reviews, and how The Passion of the Christ was marketed to evangelical churches.
Dr. Trammell also teaching media production classes at High Point University, and serves as the head of the Religion and Media Interest Group for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. In his spare time
Dr. Trammell enjoys practicing his bass, reading Ralph Waldo Emerson, and collecting autographs from U.S. Congressmen and women.

Dr. Wilfred Tremblay

Wilfred Tremblay is the Director of the Nido R. Qubein School of Communication. His research and teaching areas are law, management and economics. He managed radio stations in Pittsburgh and Indianapolis and has published in The Journal of Radio Studies, among other titles. Dr. Tremblay also spent a sabbatical studying media development in Southeast Asia. A former professional musician, Tremblay is an avid jazz fan and spends way too much time watching NBA basketball.

Dr. Gerald Voorhees

Gerald is one of a new generation of games scholars invested in the humanistic inquiry of the cultural and communicative implications of video games and gaming. He is currently working to rethink dominant assumptions about the relationship between traditional modes of representation (narrative, visual, aural) and interactive processes, and to push forward critical/cultural studies approaches to new media analysis by exploring the intersection between rhetoric, ludology, and textual criticism.

Gerald has published in the journal Games and Culture and has made numerous presentations for the National Communication Association. He is also co-chair of the Games Studies Area of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference.