Roy Schwartzman

Bio

Dr. Roy Schwartzman (Ph.D., University of Iowa) joined NC State in the Fall of 2023 as Professor in the Department of Communication and Co-Director of the Campus Writing and Speaking Program (CWSP). Prior to his arrival at NC State, Roy spent 17 years at UNC Greensboro, where he directed the Communication Across the Curriculum program and served as Head of the Department of Communication Studies. At UNCG, Roy held affiliate faculty status in the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies; the Jewish Studies Program; the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering; and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. He was part of the implementation team for a $1.8 million Department of Education Title III grant at UNCG that incorporated a digital communication center alongside the Writing Center and Speaking Center.

His wide range of research includes critical scholarship of teaching and learning; public communication concerning science, technology, and medicine; and the formation and remediation of propaganda and prejudice (especially antisemitism and Holocaust survivor testimonies). He has been awarded a Holocaust Educational Foundation Fellowship and was named a USC Shoah Foundation Institute International Teaching Fellow. A creative writer and researcher, Roy has published more than 150 scholarly articles and book chapters (approximately 30 co-authored with students) as well as more than 350 poems. His work has won more than 20 research awards and 60 literary awards. His article “Performing Pandemic Pedagogy” is the most cited article published in Communication Education from 2020-2023. A recipient of the 2022 National Communication Association (NCA) Presidential Citation for Outstanding Service to the Discipline, Roy was the Principal Investigator for Cultivate Resilient Communities (the largest grant in NCA history) that established the inaugural NCA Center for Communication, Community Collaboration, and Change.

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Area(s) of Expertise

*Formation and remediation of propaganda and prejudice (especially antisemitism and Holocaust survivor testimonies)
*Public communication of science, technology, and medicine
*Critical scholarship of teaching and learning
*Political communication
*Figurative language

Publications

• Confronting Conundrums of Care in College Student Advising , International Conference on Gender Research (2024)
• Weaponizing Resilience: Women in the Trenches and Fringes of Pandemic Pedagogy , International Conference on Gender Research (2023)
• COVIDiots and Cogency , Advances in Linguistics and Communication Studies (2021)
• Risky Jews , Advances in Linguistics and Communication Studies (2021)
• Trumping Reason , (2021)
• Unpacking Privilege in Pandemic Pedagogy: Social Media Debates on Power Dynamics of Online Education , Journal of Communication Pedagogy (2021)
• (Re)Mediating Holocaust Survivor Testimony , Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal (2020)
• Communication Centers as Wellsprings of Community Engagement and Collaborative Research , (2020)
• Performing pandemic pedagogy , Communication Education (2020)
• Unma(s)king Education in the Image of Business: A Vivisection of Educational Consumerism , Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies (2017)

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