Department of English Language and Literature
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Pat J. Gehrke
Title: | Professor |
Department: | English Language and Literature College of Arts and Sciences |
Email: | gehrke@mailbox.sc.edu |
Phone: | 803-351-8852 |
Resources: | English Language and Literature |
Education
PhD, The Pennsylvania State University, Communication Arts and Sciences, 2003
MA, California State University at Chico, Communication Arts and Sciences, 1997
BA, California State University at Chico, Communication Arts and Sciences, 1995
Specialization
Communication education, history of communication, public engagement (particularly regarding new and emerging technologies), communication ethics, and rhetorical theory.
Courses
GRADUATE SEMINARS
• Communication Pedagogy
• Educating Dissent
• Communication Ethics
• Rhetoric, History, and Power
• Rhetoric and Democracy
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES
• Online Public Communication
• Public Speaking Anxiety Reduction
• Public Speaking
• Business & Professional Communication
• Small Group Communication
• Public Communication & Civic Engagement
• Rhetoric of Science and Technology
• Communication Ethics
Accolades
• National Communication Association Presidential Citation for Service, 2016.
• National Communication Association Presidential Citation for Service, 2015.
• National Communication Ethics Conference, James A. Jaksa Scholar in Residence, 2014.
• National Communication Association Philosophy of Communication Division Book Award,
2011.
Publications
BOOKS & EDITED VOLUMES
• Pat Gehrke & Megan Foley. Contemporary Public Speaking. New York: W.W. Norton, 2023.
• Pat J. Gehrke. Nano-Publics: Communicating Nanotechnology Applications, Risks, & Regulations. New York: Palgrave, 2018.
• Adam S. Lerner & Pat J. Gehrke. Organic Public Engagement: How Ecological Thinking Transforms Public Engagement with
Science. New York: Palgrave, 2018.
• Pat J. Gehrke. Online Public Communication. Irmo, SC: Basis Publishing, 2018, 2nd edition, 2024.
• Pat J. Gehrke, ed. Teaching First-Year Communication Courses: Paradigms and Innovations. New York: Routledge, 2017.
• Pat J. Gehrke, ed. Micro-Histories of Communication Studies: Mapping the Future of Communication through
Local Narratives. New York: Routledge, 2016.
• Pat J. Gehrke & William M. Keith, eds. The Unfinished Conversation: 100 Years of Communication Studies. Co-edited with William M. Keith. New York: Routledge, 2014.
• Pat J. Gehrke. The Ethics and Politics of Speech: Communication and Rhetoric in the 20th Century. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2009.
RECENT ARTICLES & ESSAYS
• Pat J. Gehrke. “Creating More Equitable Rubrics to Reduce Discrimination and Inequities
in Public Speaking Courses.” Communication Teacher (in press, advance online publication posted July, 2024).
• Pat J. Gehrke. “Online and Mediated Public Speaking.” In Stevie M. Munz, Tim McKenna-Buchanan,
& Anna M. Wright, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Public Speaking Research and Theory. New York: Routledge, 2024. 373-381.
• Pat J. Gehrke. “Ecological Validity.” In Bruce Frey, ed., SAGE Encyclopedia of Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation. Thousand Oak, CA: SAGE, 2018.
• Pat J. Gehrke. “Jurgen Habermas.” In Ronald C. Arnett, Annette M. Holba, and Susan
Mancino, eds., An Encyclopedia of Communication Ethics. New York: Peter Lang, 2018.
• Pat J. Gehrke. “The Fallacy of Reasoned Discourse.” Ethica 28 (March 16, 2017): 13-15.
• Pat J. Gehrke, “A Manifesto for Teaching Public Speaking,” Review of Communication 16 (2016): 246-264.
• Pat J. Gehrke, “What Rhetoric Can Do: Criticism as Critique.” The Effects of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Effects: Past, Present, Future. Eds. Amos Kiewe & Davis W. Houck. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press,
2015. 82-100.
• Weston Eaton, Wynne Wright, Kyle Whyte, Stephen P. Gasteyer, & Pat J. Gehrke, “Engagement
and Uncertainty: Emerging Technologies Challenge the Work of Engagement.” Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement 18 (2014): 151-177.
• Pat J. Gehrke, “Ecological Validity and the Study of Publics: The Case for Organic
Public Engagement.” Public Understanding of Science 23 (2014): 77-91.
• Pat J. Gehrke, “Before the One and the Other: Ethico-Political Communication and Community.” Philosophy of Communication Ethics: Alterity and the Other. Eds. Ronald C. Arnett & Pat Arneson. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University
Press, 2014. 55-73.
• Pat J. Gehrke & William M. Keith, “A Brief History of the National Communication Association.” The Unfinished Conversation: 100 Years of Communication Studies. Eds. Pat J. Gehrke & William M. Keith. New York: Routledge, 2014. 1-25.
Other Information
EXTERNAL GRANTS AWARDED
• Enrichment of the Discipline Grant, National Communication Association. $4,743 (2011-2014).
PI. Travel for PI and one co-PI to the communication archives at the University of
Utah.
• Nanotechnology Interdisciplinary Research Team: Intuitive Toxicology, National Science
Foundation, #06-595. $1,399,000 over 4 years (2007-2011). Co-PI / PI & Director of
USC sub-award of $468,645.
• Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education: Nanoscience and Technology Advocacy Studies
Cognate, National Science Foundation, #05-543. $199,500 over 2 years (2005-2007).
Investigator. Recruited to develop and teach pilot course for $9,257.
SELECT EDITORIAL SERVICE
• Editorial Board, University of South Carolina Press series in Movement Rhetoric /
Rhetoric’s Movements, 2020-present.
• Editorial Board, Duquesne University Press series in Philosophy / Communication, 2013-2021.
• Editor, Review of Communication, 2013-2016.
• Editorial Board, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 2010-2014.
• Editorial Board, Western Journal of Communication, 2012.
• Editorial Board, Review of Communication, 2009-2012.