Cal Poly Experts Directory - Communications
Business Communication • Intercultural Communication • Language & Linguistics • Political Communication
Business Communication
Jim Howland
Lecturer in English
(805) 756-6162/2596 e-mail: howland@calpoly.edu
Areas of expertise:
* on-line databases
* résumé preparation
* job prospecting strategies
Harvey Robert Levenson, Ph.D.
Professor and Head of Graphic Communication
(805) 756-6151/1108 e-mail: hlevenso@calpoly.edu
Author of Understanding Graphic Communication.
Author of Complete Dictionary of Graphic Arts and Desktop Publishing Terminology.
Editor of Literacy and Print Media.
Author of numerous articles dealing with graphic communication technology and trends.
Consultant, speaker, and expert witness.
Award of Excellence, Graphic Arts Technical Foundation Educational Council.
Elected to the Graphic Arts Technical foundation Society of Fellows.
Areas of expertise:
* organizational communication
* printing and technology
* production and dissemination of print media
* desktop publishing
* promotion of basic literacy skills
* in-plant training programs
B. Christine Shea, Ph.D.
Lecturer in Speech Communication
(805) 756-2909/2553 e-mail: cshea@calpoly.edu
Author or co-author of more than 30 papers, articles, and book chapters on organizational behavior, gender issues and communication.
Reviewer for Management Communication Quarterly.
Consultant and speaker for business, education, and service organizations.
Member, American Psychological Association, American Psychological Society, National Communication Association, International Communication Association, and Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender.
Areas of expertise:
* organizational due process systems
* organizational justice/fairness
* employee participation programs
* gender issues in the workplace
* women's employment
* sexual harassment
* sex discrimination
* male-female communication
* organizational and management communication
Intercultural Communication
Steven T. McDermott, Ph.D.
Professor of Speech Communication
(805) 756-1158/2553 e-mail: smcdermo@calpoly.edu
Author of nearly 20 book chapters and articles on communications.
Author of "Communication Factors in Alienation Among Foreign College Students" in World Communication. Co-author of the book, "Communication Research." Associate editor of The Western Journal of Communication. Recipient, Distinguished Scholarship Award, International and Intercultural Division, National Communication Association (1987).
Areas of expertise:
* intercultural communication patterns
* adaptation of immigrants to U.S. society
* ethnic communication in the U.S.
Languages & Linguistics
John D. Battenburg, Ph.D.
Professor of English
Coordinator of Cal Poly's English as a Second Language program
(805) 756-2945/1205 e-mail: jbattenb@calpoly.edu
Author of English Monolingual Learners' Dictionaries: A User-Oriented Study (1991).
Consultant to English as a second language programs.
Member, American Association of Applied Linguistics, Dictionary Society of North America, Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages.
Areas of expertise:
* lexicography
* English dictionaries
* language learning
* foreign and second language teaching and learning
* applied and general linguistics
* American literature of the 17th to 19th centuries
Hernan Castellano-Giron, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Modern Languages
(805) 756-1620/1205 e-mail: hcastell@calpoly.edu
Author of eight books and numerous articles and essays.
Internationally known artist with many group and individual shows in Europe, North America and Latin America.
Recipient of many literary awards, including the Hispamerica Prize for a short story (1978).
Areas of expertise:
* Spanish and Italian languages and cultures
* Latin American literature--especially 20th century
* Magical Realism, Surrealism and Neo-realism
* cinema and graphic art in Latin America
* the Renaissance
* Italian movie art
* Federico Fellini
* Luis Buñuel
William Martinez, Jr., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Spanish
(805) 756-2889/1205 e-mail: wmartine@calpoly.edu
Contributing author to four articles on Venezuelan poetry.
Co-author of language acquisition textbook and author of second-year Spanish textbook.
Resident director, Mexico summer program.
Areas of expertise:
* Venezuelan literature -- 1958 to present (Trafico & Guaire)
* Latin American literature
* Mexican culture (biculturality and bilinguality)
* second-language acquisition theory and teaching methodologies
* Chicano and Latino culture and literature
* "center-margin" theory
* literature of women
* literature of the Mexican Revolution
* theory of the lyric--historization as a need to analyze texts
* cultural diversity
Bianca Rosenthal, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair of Modern Languages & Literatures
(805) 756-1205 e-mail: brosenth@calpoly.edu
Author of Pathways to Paul Celan: A History of Critical Responses as a Chorus of Discordant Voices (1995).
Areas of expertise:
* German and French
* language acquisition
* German literature -- 18th century to present
* French literature -- 20th century
* German, French and Russian cultures
* literature of women
* values and technology
Johanna Rubba, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
(805) 756-2184/2596 e-mail: jrubba@calpoly.edu
Member, Linguistic Society of America and International Cognitive Linguistics Association.
Author of several articles in theoretical and descriptive linguistics.
Areas of expertise:
* linguistics and theories of language acquisition
* grammar and correct vs. incorrect English
* general facts about human language
* language and society
* standard and nonstandard dialects
* English-only laws and policies
* minority languages and dialects
* language and gender
* endangered languages and language rights
* history of language in the United States
* teaching English and other languages
* bilingualism and bilingual education
* modern Aramaic and Aramaic-speaking communities in the United States
Political Communication
Raymond Zeuschner, Ph.D.
Professor of Speech Communication
(805) 756-1231/2553 e-mail: rzeuschn@calpoly.edu
Author of Effective Public Speaking, textbook (1995), and Communicating Today, textbook (1993, 1997).
Past president, California Speech Communication Association.
Past national president, Cross-Examination Debate Association.
Former mayor and city council member, Morro Bay, Calif.
Areas of expertise:
* public speaking and communication
* political communication
* planning
* political debates