Carolinas Communication Association
Pauline Matthey
paulinm@clemson.edu
First Vice President
Clemson University
Pauline Matthey was at Eastern Illinois University, working on her MA in Communication Studies with an emphasis on organizational communication, until the summer of 2012 when she moved to sunny South Carolina and joined the Clemson Family. She has been a lecturer there since then and loves it.
At Clemson University, Pauline teaches mostly the basic courses but also some of the core classes at times, including Introduction to Communication Studies or Communication Theories. She also manages the social media platforms and web presence of her department. On campus, she stays involved through her participation in a new pilot program by the Housing and Dining department called Faculty Friend and as the Senior Director of the Tiger SpeakOut Competition. Making a positive impact on the students’ experience at Clemson is one of her main goals.
Pauline's primary research interests include organizational communication and intercultural communication. More specifically, her research focuses on issues of power and control within correctional facilities, as well as inmates' identification to the inmate code while behind bars.
When work allows it, she loves to travel…. Especially to go back and visit family and friends in Switzerland, where she is from.
Leanne Pupchek
pupchekl@queens.edu
Second Vice President
Queens University of Charlotte
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Leanne Pupchek is second vice-president of CCA this year. She is professor of communication at Queens University of Charlotte. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of South Florida, where she focused on rhetoric and narrative (especially visual) in the service of national identity. She studied Radio-Television-Film at Syracuse and Journalism at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario. She taught and studied in L'viv, Ukraine in 2011-12 on a Fulbright fellowship. She loves to travel, including bringing students to CCA to present their work.
Her undergraduate thesis was a half-hour radio documentary on the reasons Canadian athletes could not play at the quarterback position in Canadian professional football.
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Elena Martinez-Vidal
vidale@midlandstech.edu
Website Manager
Midlands Technical College
Elena Martínez-Vidal is the web manager for CCA. She holds an MFA degree and a Certificate of Higher Education Leadership as well as 27 graduate hours towards an MA in English with an Emphasis in Speech Communication from the University of South Carolina (USC). Her undergraduate degree was earned at Dickinson College, PA, with a double major in Theatre Arts and French. Elena is currently the Department Chair of Humanities at Midlands Technical College. She was awarded Outstanding Adjunct of the Year in 1994. Recently she was awarded Service Excellence Leader of the month. While in graduate school, Elena published several speech exercises with her advisor at USC. In 2009, she was awarded the Betty Jo Welch award for "continuing and outstanding service to the association and the professions" from CCA. She also won the Mary E. Jarrard Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Competition in October 2000. In 2000, she received a certificate in “Recognition of Excellent Teaching by a Graduate Student” from the International Communication Association. Elena is also a professional actor and director. She is a Company member at Trustus Theatre and is actively involved in theatre in the Columbia area.
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Jason Black
jblac143@uncc.edu
Executive Director
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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Dr. Jason Edward Black (Ph.D., University of Maryland) is professor and chair of the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
His research program is located at the juncture of rhetorical studies and social change, with an emphasis on American Indian resistance, LGBTQ community discourses, and Black liberation. His work in these areas has appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Speech; Rhetoric & Public Affairs; Southern Communication Journal; Western Journal of Communication; American Indian Quarterly; American Indian Culture and Research Journal; Communication Quarterly; Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture; Advances in the History of Rhetoric; Kenneth Burke Journal; Journal of Media and Cultural Politics; and numerous book chapters. Black is the author of American Indians and the Rhetoric of Removal and Allotment (University Press of Mississippi, 2015). He is also co-editor, with Charles E. Morris, III, of An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings (University of California Press, 2013) and co-editor, with Greg Goodale, of Arguments about Animal Ethics (Lexington Books, 2010). Black is currently writing a book contracted with the University of Illinois Press titled Mascotting Native America and is working with Charles E. Morris, III on a second Harvey Milk anthology titled Milk Delivery.
Black teaches graduate courses in Contemporary Rhetorical Theory, Critical & Cultural Theories, Rhetorical Criticism, and Rhetoric & Social Change, along with undergraduate courses in Critical Whiteness, African American Rhetoric, Rhetoric, Race & the Law, War & Protest Rhetoric, Legal Rhetoric, and Native American Rhetoric.
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Theresa Russo
Theresa.Russo@cpcc.edu
Secretary
Central Piedmont Community College
Not Pictured:
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President Jennifer Brubaker
University of North Carolina-Wilmington
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Treasurer Carol Leeman
University of North Carolina Charlotte
Annual Editor Melody Lehn
University of South Carolina
Executive Board Members
