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College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Cindy Rosenfeld

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Asst Teaching Professor

Faculty Mentor, Impact Scholars

Interim Director of Undergraduate Programs

Winston Hall NA

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Bio

Education

2022 PhD North Carolina State University
Program: Communication, Rhetoric, & Digital Media
Dissertation: Vulnerable flourishings: Building more-than-human worlds with digital rhetorics

2019 MS North Carolina State University
Department of Communication
Thesis: Close encounters of the slithering kind: An ethnographic study
of human-snake interaction

2013 MSW University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
School of Social Work
Track: Direct Practice
Focus: Child and Adolescent Mental Health

2009 BA University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Department of Communication
Focus: Interpersonal Communication

Recent Publications

Book

Rosenfeld, C. P. (2023). Digital worldbuilding and ecological readiness. Lexington Books.

Journal Articles

Rosenfeld, C. P. (revise and resubmit). Don’t Blink: The Rhetoric of Citizen Hypervigilance in Doctor Who. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies.

Zagacki, K. S., & Rosenfeld, C. P. (2024). Environmental communication as an ethic of care: Mary Oliver’s poetry of the more-than-human world. Western Journal of Communication. doi: 10.1080/10570314.2023.2186751

Rosenfeld, C. P. (2023). Slithering stories-we-live-by: Animal educators’ construction and enactment of positive narratives about snakes. Society & Animals, 31(4), 489-506. Published online, Sept. 2021. doi: 10.1163/15685306-bja10061

Gallagher, V. J., Tomlinson, C., & Rosenfeld, C. P. (2022). Of sound, bodies, and immersive experience: Sonic rhetoric and its affordances in the Virtual Martin Luther King Project. enculturation. doi: https://www.enculturation.net/Sound_Bodies_ImmersiveExperience

Scheper, A., Rosenfeld, C. P., & Dubljevic, V. (2022). The public impact of academic and print media portrayals of TMS: Shining a spotlight on discrepancies in the literature. BMC Medical Ethics, 23(1), 1-17. doi: 10.1186/s12910-022-00760-5

Rosenfeld, C. P. (2022). Sit down and talk: Doctor Who and the imperfect peace myth. Communication Quarterly, 70(1), 42-62. doi: 10.1080/01463373.2021.2016879

Rosenfeld, C. P. (2021). Talking trash: The rhetoric of waste bins. Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures, 24. doi: http://hyperrhiz.io/hyperrhiz24/essays/6-rosenfeld-talking.html

Rosenfeld, C. P. (2021). Toward the Humilocene: The embodied rhetoric of St. Francis of Assisi. The Trumpeter, 36, 22-44. http://trumpeter.athabascau.ca/index.php/trumpet/issue/view/126

Rosenfeld, C. P. (2021). Do you hear the people sign?: Citizens’ comments on an online petition opposing North Carolina’s ag-gag law. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 49(5), 515-531. https://doi-org.prox.lib.ncsu.edu/10.1080/00909882.2021.1965185

Area(s) of Expertise

Environmental Communication, Media Studies, Rhetorical Theory and Criticism, Animal Studies, Ecolinguistics and Ecocriticism, Posthumanism, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies, Organizational Communication

Groups

  • Catalina de Onís Dissertation Award in Environmental Communication, National Communication Association (2023)
  • Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award, Communication Graduate Student Association award (as nominated and selected by first and second year M.S. students). North Carolina State University (2025)
  • Lambda Pi Eta Outstanding Teacher Award, Communication Studies Honor Society award (as nominated and selected by Lambda Pi Eta students). North Carolina State University (2025)