Joshua Morrison

• Educational Background & Specialties
• Publications
• Activities
• Awards
• Courses

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

• B.A: Communication/Political Science, Abilene Christian University, 2011
• B.S.: Psychology/Sociology, Abilene Christian University, 2011
• M.A.: Communication, University of Colorado Boulder, 2014
• M.A.: Mass Communication, Texas State University, 2017

Specialties

• Celebrity Culture

Publications

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Publications

• Morrison, J. N. (2020). Teaching Celebrity: Editor’s Introduction. Teaching Media Quarterly, 8(1), 1-4.
• Morrison, J. N. (2018). Anticipating the Mobilization of Queerness in the Rehabilitation of Kevin Spacey. QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, 5(2), 58-65.
• Morrison, J. N. (2018). All Stars Burn the Same: Media Customs and the Flattening of Celebrity. In C. M. Madere (Ed.), Celebrity Media Effects: The Persuasive Power of the Stars (5-14). Lanham: Lexington Books.
• Morrison, J. N. (2020). Stealing Fame: Lifestyle Celebrity and the Dubious Cultural Politics of Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 17(2), 149-165.
• Morrison, J. (2020). Review of Reality TV and Queer Identities: Sexuality, Authenticity, Celebrity, by Michael Lovelock. QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, 7(3), 211-214.
• Trisler, B., J. N. Morrison & R. Liu (2021). Editors’ Notes. Teaching Media Quarterly, 9(1), 1-3.

Activities

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Activities

Professional

• Co-editor at Teaching Media Quarterly 2019 - present
• Teaching Assistant Professional Development Program Alum - 2021

Awards

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Awards

• Gerard A. Hauser Award, Rhetoric Society of America, 2020
• Top Four Paper, Rhetoric and Communication Theory Division, National Communication Association, 2015
• Top Four Paper, Performance Studies Division, National Communication Association, 2015
• Graduate Student Scholar Award, Department of Communication Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2019
• Career Readiness Fellowship, 2020
• Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship, 2021

Courses

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Courses

• COMM 1101 Introduction to Public Speaking
• COMM 3263W Media Literacy: Decoding Media Images and Messages