Communications Department

About

Erin Ellis

Erin Ellis Assistant Director, The University Speaking Center; Academic Professional, Department of Communication Studies

Office: 22 McIver Building
Phone: 336-256-1388
E-mail: edellis@uncg.edu

Education

2011 Master of Arts in Communication Studies- University of North Carolina at Greensboro

2009 Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies, Minor in Broadcasting & Cinema- University of North Carolina at Greensboro

UNC Greensboro Professional Appointments

2011-Assistant Director, The University Speaking Center
2011-Lecturer, Department of Communication Studies

Course taught:

Communication in the Workplace

Teaching Publication

Schwartzman, R. & Ellis, E. D. (2011). Catering to customers or cultivating communicators? Divergent educational roles of communication centers. International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 1(17), 58-66.

Teaching Accomplishments

2011 Awarded, National Association of Communication Center's Ferguson Top Faculty Research Paper

Communication Activism Pedagogy

2012 Voices of the People, City Council, Greensboro, North Carolina

Pedagogical Workshops, Panel Presentations, and Papers

2012

You Can Lead Students to the Classroom, but Can You Make Them Think, Lilly South Conference on College and University Teaching, Greensboro

What Makes our Students' Brains Say, Hey, This Is Important, Save This Information: Strategies to Optimize Memory Formation, Lilly South Conference on College and University Teaching, Greensboro

2011

Schwartzman, R. Ellis, E. D., Yarragunta, H. R. (2011). Catering to Customers or cultivating communicators? Reconciling divergent perceptions and roles of communication centers. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Association for Communication Centers, Richmond, VA.

Ellis, E. D. (2011, October). A Dilemma for African American Women in Broadcast Journalism. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender, Chicago, IL. 

Inartful Communication: Challenging the Language of Bullying, Carolinas Communication Association Conference, Winston Salem, NC