Dr. E. Michele Ramsey
Dr. E. Michele Ramsey (Ph.D., University of Georgia) is an Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences and Women's Studies at the Pennsylvania State University, Berks. Her research interests include representations of gender in the media, and the rhetoric of women's rights, social movements, and politics. Specific essays have focused on suffrage rhetoric, audience responses to The Bell Curve, mediated representations of women, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and The People vs. Larry Flynt. Her most recent work focuses on the rhetoric surrounding the so-called "War on Christmas." Her work has been published in Communication Teacher, Critical Studies in Media Communication, The Review of Communication, Women's Studies in Communication, Western Journal of Communication, Women and Language, Feminist Media Studies, and Teaching Ideas for the Basic Course. She teaches Public Speaking, Media Literacy, Rhetorical Theory, Language, Culture, and Communication, Gender and Communication, Rhetoric of Television and Film, and Contemporary American Political Rhetoric, and Black American Rhetoric. Her interest in the vital importance of language in our everyday life led her to offer her services for the language module of this textbook.
