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								Catherine A.																 Dobris

Catherine A. Dobris

Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies
Adjunct Professor, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Department: Communication Studies, English, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
317-274-0572
Cavanaugh Hall (CA) 309

Education

Education

  • PhD, Indiana University 1989
  • MA, Indiana University 1984
  • BS, Emerson College 1981

Teaching

Teaching

Rhetorical Criticism, Rhetorical Theory, Feminist Rhetoric, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Publications

Publications

Davidson, R. D., Dobris, C. A. (In press, 2021). Film as Invitational rhetoric: Transcending motherhood narratives through community in 20th Century Women. Mothers, Community, and Friendship. Norma I. Peña Rivera, Janet MacLennan, and Dorsía Smith Silva (Ontario, Canada: Demeter Press).

Dobris, C.A., Turner, R., & Wilcox, L. (In press, 2021). “We Changed Minds”: A History of the Women’s Studies Program at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Andrea Walton, editor. Women at Indiana University: Views of the Past and the Future (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press)

Dobris, C. A. & Davidson, R. D. (2019). Pantsuit Nation: A Feminist Invitation to Engage. Gender, Race and Social Identity in American Politics. Lori Montalbano, editor. (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books

Davidson, R. D., Dobris, C. A., & White-Mills, K. (December 2018). What makes a “bad” mom “bad”?: A critical review of Lewis and Moore’s, Bad Moms. Women and Language.

Davidson, R. D. & Dobris, C. A. (2017). Social activism in popular culture: A critical review of disparate responses to Beyonce’s 2016 Super Bowl performance and Kendrick Lamar’s 2016 Grammy performance. Women and Language.

Dobris, C. A., White-Mills, K., Davidson, R. D., & Vasilopoulos, T. (2016). The Spockian Mother: Images of the “Good” Mother in Dr. Spock’s The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, 1946-1992. Communication Quarterly, 39 (1), 39-59.

Dobris, C. A. & Davidson, R. D. (2015). From dirty little secrets to prime time: Values, Metaphors, and social change at the 2015 Grammy awards. GEMS (Gender, Education, Music, and Society), 8 (4), 4-18.

Awards

Awards

  • 8 Teaching Excellence Awards (1997-2016)
  • Member of Faculty Colloquium for Excellence in Teaching (2000-present)

Academic Interests

Academic Interests

  • Rhetoric of motherhood
  • Intersections of gender, race, sexuality, ethnicity in rhetorical contexts

Service

Service

UNIVERSITY

  • Director of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program (WGSS)
  • WGSS Scholarship and Research Awards Committee
  • Tenure and Promotion Committee, School of the Arts, Indiana University Northwest, 2021.