Personal Information
Organization / Workplace
Warrensburg, Missouri
Occupation
Professor Emerita
About
Professor of Communication (film and media studies), UCM.
Currently I teach courses in film/media studies, media literacy, gender communication, and many others, including graduate courses in theory and method.
My parents came from the hills of Appalachia (West Virginia and Virginia). I grew up in various places around the U.S. before my dad retired from the Air Force, and moved to Dallas,Texas. I cut my teeth on a road map, and I've loved to travel ever since. I've lived in many states, including 4 different ones before I was 2 years old, starting in Illinois where I was born, then Texas, California & Arizona. The first elementary school I went to was in Washington, D.C., then