Associate Professor

Dr. Marc Howard Rich

Department of English and Journalism

Interests

  1. Nuclear weapons policy
  2. German Critical Theory
  3. Rhetoric

Education

2008

Christopher Newport University
USA
Bachelors

2010

University of Colorado
USA
Masters

2015

University of Colorado
USA
Ph.D.

Experience

  • 2018-present, Associate Professor | 3/3, SRM University AP, Amaravati India.
  • 2017-2018, Lecturer | 4/4, Christopher Newport University, Newport News VA.
  • 2016-2017, Adjunct Faculty | 4/2, Christopher Newport University, Newport News VA.
  • 2015-2016, Adjunct Faculty | 2/2/2, University of Colorado, Boulder CO.
  • 2008-2010, 2012-2015, Graduate teaching | University of Colorado, Boulder CO

Research Interest

  • The intersections between nuclear weapons policy and democracy from a rhetorical perspective.
  • Communication metatheory from a pragmatic standpoint.
  • Public speaking, persuasion, and argumentation.
  • The intersections between religion and democracy.

Awards & Fellowships

  • 2014, Outstanding student papers in the Philosophy of Communication panel, NCA
  • 2014 Communication department summer dissertation fellowship, University of Colorado
  • 2012, Top Four Papers in Spiritual Communication Division, NCA
  • 2010, Top Four Papers in Philosophy of Communication Division, NCA
  • 2007, Provost undergraduate summer research grant, Christopher Newport University

Memberships

  • National Communication association

Publications

  • Rich, M. H. (2018). McKeon’s semantics of communication: A pragmatic exploration of the communicative arts. Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication. 9(1). pp. 5-24. DOI: 10.1386/ejpc.9.1.5_1
  • Rich, M. H. (2015). Spiritual debate in communication theory: Craig’s metamodel applied. The Journal of Communication and Religion. 38(2). pp. 134-153. ISSN: 0894-2838
  • Rich, M. H., Craig, R. T. (2012). Habermas and Bateson in a world gone M.A.D.: Metacommunication, paradox, and the inverted speech situation. Communication Theory, 22(4). pp. 383-402. DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2885.2012.01412.
  • Rich, M. H. (2007). Investigating coffeehouses as the new public sphere: the 9/11 attacks and public sphere discussion. Communication and Argumentation in the Public Sphere, 1(1). pp. 140-153, ISSN: 1843-7893.

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