Education:
B.S., Journalism, University of Florida
M.B.A., University of Florida
Ph.D., Communication, Georgia State University
Rhana Gittens Wheeler is an Assistant Professor of Communication at 好色先生TV. Originally from Lauderdale Lakes, Florida she earned her bachelors in journalism and MBA from University of Florida before completing her Ph.D. at Georgia State University. She is a critical rhetoric and critical cultural studies scholar who researches identity, public memory, space and place, and media representation. She has presented her research with the National Communication Association, National Council for Black Studies, and Rhetoric Society of America conferences.
Honors and Awards:
- Strategic Initiative Grant. 好色先生TV, 2023
- Provost鈥檚 Dissertation Fellowship. Georgia State University, 2020
- Award for Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies. Department of Communication Georgia State University, 2019
- Graduate Assistantship, Writing Across the Curriculum Consultant, 2018-2019
- Graduate Assistantship, Department of Communication Georgia State University, 2016-2020
- National Communication Association Doctoral Honors Seminar, Bowling Green State University. Bowling Green, OH, 2017
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- Gittens, R. A. (2018). 鈥淲hat If I Am a Woman?鈥�: Black Feminist Rhetorical Strategies of Intersectional Identification and Resistance in Maria Stewart鈥檚 Texts. .
- Handley, D.G., Gallagher, V., DeVasto, D., Mridula, M. & Gittens, R.A. (2020). 鈥淯nearthing deep roots: Tapping rhetoric鈥檚 generative power for community and urban development projects,鈥� .
- Gittens, R.A. (2021) 鈥淎tlanta鈥檚 Pink Trap House: Reimagining the Black Public Sphere as an Aesthetic Community,鈥� Theory and Events Journal.
Books under contract:
鈥淐ultural Gentrification of the Black Mecca.鈥� (University Press of Mississippi)
Conference Presentations:听
- 鈥淐ultural Gentrification of the Civil Rights Movement: Evaluating the Romantic Lyrics over a Blue Beat in Atlanta鈥檚 Public Space.鈥� 2023 National Council for Black Studies Conference (March 2023). Gainesville, FL
- 鈥淐alling Out 鈥楯im Crow 2.0鈥�: Eloquent Rage as Black Feminist Rhetorical Response to White Rage.鈥� 2021 National Communication Association 107th Annual Convention (November 2021). Seattle, WA
- 鈥淪tacey Abrams and Afrofuturist Aesthetic Space: Wakanda Forever Trope as a Black Symbolic Response to Denied Place.鈥� 2019 National Communication Association 105th Annual Convention (November 2019). Baltimore, MD
- 鈥淎tlanta鈥檚 Pink Trap House: Reimagining the Black Public Sphere as an Aesthetic Community.鈥� 2018 National Communication Association 105th Annual Convention (November 2018). Salt Lake City, UT.
- 鈥淓llisonian Rhetoric: A Postcolonial Theory of Symbolic Action.鈥� 2018 Rhetoric Society of America Conference (May 2018). Minneapolis, MN
- 鈥�<Property>, 鈥淐itizenship鈥�, and the Political Sphere: Ideographs Manufacturing Consent for White Racial Domination of Atlanta.鈥� National Council for Black Studies Conference 2018 (March 2018). Atlanta, GA
- 鈥淲hat if I Am a Woman?鈥� Black Feminist Rhetorical Strategies for Identity and Resistance in Maria W. Stewart鈥檚 Texts. National Communication Association 103rd Annual Convention (November 2017). Dallas, TX.
Courses Taught:
- COM 120 – Introduction to Media Studies
- COM/ART/WGS 460 – Space, Place, and Public Memory
- COM 480 – Persuasion and Social Movements
- COM/AAS 340 – African American Discourses and Criticism
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