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Ashley Jones-Bodie

Posted on: August 17th, 2017 by jsmitch1

Dr. Ashley Jones-Bodie is Assistant Professor of Speech Communication and Communication Across the Curriculum Coordinator in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric, University of Mississippi. She holds a PhD in Public Affairs & Issues Management/Organizational Communication from Purdue University and a master’s degree in communication from Auburn University. Currently, her research focuses on organizational rhetoric, instructional communication, and student-focused experiences in oral communication general education. Dr. Jones-Bodie’s work explores questions surrounding students’ academic experiences from multiple perspectives, whether faculty instructional practices; student experiences in oral communication education; and understanding the communicative behaviors of organizations in which we exist. At UM, Dr. Jones-Bodie’s Communication Across the Curriculum work examines the role of oral communication education in the University’s undergraduate general education curriculum and works to support the continued inclusion of oral communication educational experiences for all undergraduate students. In 2020, Dr. Jones-Bodie’s research on the rhetoric of atonement was recognized with the Communication Studies Article of the Year award.

Prior to her time at UM, Dr. Jones-Bodie spent nearly a decade as faculty in the Department of Communication Studies at Louisiana State University and served as Director of Basic Courses, overseeing the department’s introductory, general education courses program, including 50 plus sections of the introductory public speaking course each semester. In her role as DBC, she also provided training and support for new graduate student teachers through the department’s graduate communication pedagogy course. While at LSU, Dr. Jones-Bodie was recognized with a 2015 TAF Undergraduate Teaching Award – a university-wide, competitive award conferred for excellence in undergraduate teaching.

Having spent her childhood in Mississippi and nearly fifteen years away in her early career, Dr. Jones-Bodie was pleased to return to her home state in 2018 and contribute to the work and mission of UM.

Selected Publications:

Jones-Bodie, A. (2020). Methodist Hospital’s rhetoric of atonement: Examining an organization’s response to NICU overdoses. Communication Studies, 71(4), 584-600. doi: 10.1080/10510974.2020.1749682. Communication Studies, Article of the Year Award 

Jones-Bodie, A., Anderson, L.B., & Hall, J. (2020). Where do you turn? Student-identified resources in the basic course experience, sources of information, feedback, and help-seeking behaviors. Basic Communication Course Annual, 32 (1), Article 5. Available at https://ecommons.udayton.edu/bcca/vol32/iss1/5

Jones-Bodie, A. (2020). Exploring critical communication approaches through Grandmama’s birthday: An application of the self-reference effect through public and personal timelines. Communication Teacher, 34(2), 88-96. doi: 10.1080/17404622.2019.1624799.

Seth Wilson

Posted on: January 18th, 2017 by addavis

My name is Seth Wilson and I’m a Graduate Writing Fellow in Linguistics. I was born in Amory, MS but have lived in Oxford since 2011. I tutor linguistics undergraduate students in writing conventions and content development for Linguistics. My favorite aspect of the fellowship is that most of my students are second language speakers of English. This allows me to not only assist my students writing needs, but also to increase my cultural awareness and cultural appreciation on campus. Being a Writing Fellow has allowed me to connect with people from different countries and backgrounds by helping them to convey their ideas appropriately in their Linguistics writing projects. My current graduate work is on free word order variation in Esperanto as well as on Esperanto identity construction within the context of an internet based communicative environment. My work deals with analyzing the evolutionary linguistic behavior of constructed languages – specifically Esperanto.

Seth Waite

Posted on: January 18th, 2017 by addavis

Seth is a second year Masters student in the Department of Philosophy and Religion. His interests lie at the intersection of language, logic, and metaphysics. Particularly he is interested in the ways that our reasoning informs the way that we communicate and how we communicate informs the way that we perceive reality.

Seth is excited to be a Writing Fellow with the Department of Writing and Rhetoric as it is a great opportunity to apply some of the research he is doing in Philosophy to the pedagogy of writing.