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Jensen, Kelly

jensenk@uww.edu

At UW-Whitewater

Affiliation

University - Faculty/Staff

Department

COLLEGE OF INTEGRATED STUDIES

Position

Assistant Professor

Office Location

AD 245

Bio

Kelly Jensen (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Wisconsin Whitewater at Rock County. She grounds her teaching in the belief that effective communication is a crucial ingredient to student success. Her courses hone students' ability to scrutinize how critical analysis of multiple perspectives, self-awareness, and context inform the ways we analyze and interpret communication. Her overall hope is that students develop the ability to think critically about the communication they encounter and become conscious about the communication they send out into the world. Broadly, her research considers how power dynamics empower and disempower the ways certain groups participate in the public sphere and how K12 education discourses influence unequal systems of privilege.

Education

Ph.D. Communication Arts (Rhetoric), University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2023
M.A. Communication Arts (Rhetoric), University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2019
M.A. Curriculum & Instruction, University of Colorado-Denver, 2012
B.A., Communication Studies, Gustavus Adolphus College, 2010

Selected Publications

“‘Our Pain Makes Us Family’: March For Our Lives and the Constitutive Role of Gun Violence Trauma in Youth Publics,” Communication and the Public (2023): 1-14.
“Localized Ideographs in Education Rhetoric: Polly Williams and a Justice-Driven Ideology of Choice,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 107, no. 3 (2021): 305-327.

Courses

CTA 101- Introduction to Interpersonal Communication
CTA 103- Introduction to Public Speaking
CTA 210- Introduction to Intercultural Communication
CTA 218- Popular Culture in the Media
CTA 368- Theory and Practice of Persuasion

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