Rhetorical Power of Popular Culture Considering Mediated Texts

Deanna D. Sellnow is the Gifford Blyton Endowed Professor of Communication and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Communication and of the Division of Instructional Communication at the University of Kentucky. She conducts faculty development workshops on instructional communication pedagogy and has published her research in regional, national, and international journals. Her research interests include the rhetoric of popular culture, particularly music as communication, and instructional communication. She is co-author of COMMUNICATE! COMM, SPEAK, and THE CHALLENGE OF EFFECTIVE SPEAKING, all with Cengage Learning.

Deanna Sellnow currently serves as the Gifford Blyton Endowed Professor of Communication and Director of the Division of Instructional Communication and Research in the College of Communication and Information at the University of Kentucky. Her research interests include popular culture rhetoric and instructional communication. She has presented her work at state, regional, national, and international conferences and has published in a variety of journals. She also conducts faculty development workshops across the country. She and her husband, Tim, have two children: Debbie and Rick.