1. Activities
2. Faculty
3. Frequently Asked Questions

1. CAMPUS LINKS
   1. Inside UNCG
   2. Admissions
   3. Academics
   4. Libraries
   5. Administration
   6. Research & Centers
   7. International Programs
   8. Continuing Education
      & Outreach
   9. Technology
   10. Arts & Entertainment
   11. Employment
   12. Corporate Resources
   13. Giving to UNCG

CST H1N1 Plan

Golden Chain Induction - Nov 1, 2009

Newsletter - Summer 2009

Apply to Major in Communication Studies

News Flashes

Melinda Alston & Bethany Barnes Receive Top Undergrad Research Project Award

Faculty Members Nominated for Teaching Awards

Student Kissy Gomes Awarded

Student Kiya Ward Receives Award

Kim Cuny Awarded at NCA

Department Head's Advisory Board Formed

Faculty member selected for the Houle Engaged Scholar Program

Faculty & Student Book Receives Award

Communication Studies Alum Signs Pro Basketball Deal

Lambda Pi Eta Honor Society 2008 Inductees

Dept. Scholarship Winners 2008 Announced

Graduate Student Receives Several Awards

Communication Studies Professor Authors Textbook on Conflict Resolution

Professor Authors Innovative Communication Textbook

A Call For Dialogue

 

Christopher N. Poulos

Associate Professor

Office: 107 Ferguson Building

Phone: 336-334-5297 or cell 336-686-2514

E-mail: cnpoulos@uncg.ed

DEGREES

EDUCATION

Ph.D.   Human Communication Studies, University of Denver: June, 1999.
M.A.   Religious Studies, University of Denver: June, 1993.
B.A.     Philosophy, University of Colorado: May, 1982.

SCHOLARLY INTERESTS
I am an ethnographer and philosopher of communication with interests in relational  and  family communication, dialogue, communication ethics, and film.

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Fall 2007-present Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina—Greensboro.

Fall 2001-2006 Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina—Greensboro. Director of Graduate Study, 2003-2006

Fall 1999-Summer 2001 Full-time Lecturer, Arts & Humanities Core and the Women’s College, University of Denver. Taught courses in relational communication, conflict, film studies, and philosophical approaches to ecology and wholeness (Teaching load: 9 courses/year).

Fall 1997-Summer 1999 Adjunct Instructor, Arts & Humanities Core, School of Communication, and the Women’s College, University of Denver. Taught courses in conflict, film studies, and relational communication.

Fall 1995-Summer 1997 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Arts & Humanities Core, University of Denver. Team-taught Understanding Human Conflict core course.

TEACHING

Graduate

CST 600: Engaging Graduate Scholarship
CST 663: Graduate Seminar in Relational Communication
MLS 620: Heroism, Villainy, and Violence in Contemporary Culture

Graduate

MLS 620A: Film and the American Dream

Mixed graduate/upper-division undergraduate  (500-level)

CST 555: Relational Communication and the Hollywood Feature Film

Undergraduate

CST 207: Relational Communication
CST 210: Communication Ethics
CST 305: Persuasion in Western Culture
CST 460: Communicating Common Ground: Diversity, Story, and Dialogue
CST 460: Communication and Ethnography: Writing Life
CST 460: Family Communication

PUBLICATIONS
Book
Poulos, C. (2008). Accidental Ethnography: An inquiry into family secrecy. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.

Refereed Journal Articles
Poulos, C. (2008). Accidental Dialogue: The search for dialogic moments in everyday life. Communication Theory, 18:1, 117-138.
Poulos, C. (2008). Narrative Conscience and the autoethnographic adventure: Probing memories, secrets, shadows, and possibilities. Qualitative Inquiry 14:1, 46-66.
Poulos, C. (2006). The ties that bind us, the shadows that separate us: Life and death, shadow and (dream)story. Qualitative Inquiry, Vol. 12:1, 96-117.
Poulos, C. (2004). Disruption, Silence, and Creation: The search for dialogic civility in the age of anxiety. Qualitative Inquiry Vol. 10:4, 534-547.
Poulos, C. (2003). Fire and ice: Flaming passion, reified structure, and the organizing body. American Communication Journal Vol. 6:2 (Winter).
Poulos, C. (2002). The death of ordinariness: Living, learning, and relating in the age of anxiety. Qualitative Inquiry, Vol. 8:3, 288-301.

Book Chapters

Poulos, C. (2006). Dreaming, writing, teaching: Stories from within thin places. In W. Ashton & D. Denton (Eds.), Spirituality, ethnography, and teaching: Stories from within.  New York, NY:  Peter Lang Publishers.

Poulos, C. (2004). Spirited teaching: A pedagogy of courage. In W. Ashton & D. Denton (Eds.), Spirituality, action & pedagogy: Teaching from the heart.  New York, NY:  Peter Lang Publishers.

Poulos, C. (2003). The death of ordinariness: Living, learning, and relating in the age of anxiety. In N. K. Denzin & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.). 9/11 in American culture. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.

Book Reviews

Poulos, C. (2003). [Review of the book, Moments of meeting: Buber, Rogers, and the potential for public dialogue]. Southern Communication Journal, Vol. 68:2, 168-169.
Poulos, C. (2002). [Review of the book, Prejudiced communication: A social psychological perspective]. Southern Communication Journal, Vol. 67:3, 295-296.

Publications prior to UNCG
Poulos, C. (1999). Shvitzing/kibitzing: Bodies, communication, and "communion" in a men's locker room. Cultural Studies: A Research Volume, Vol. 4, 193-215 (refereed collection).

UNPUBLISHED WORKS
Poulos, C. (1999). Leaping toward infinity: Embodied knowing and the ethical movements of communicative praxis. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Denver.
Poulos, C. (1993). Rotations: Memory, forgetting, individuation, and intersubjectivity in selected fiction of Walker Percy, Unpublished master’s thesis, University of Denver.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Poulos, C. (2008). Approaching the "autotext": An open dialogue on the process of creation. International Qualitative Inquiry Congress, University of Illinois, May.
Poulos, C. (2008). Conversations with the Muses: A performance about the creative process. International Qualitative Inquiry Congress, University of Illinois, May.
Poulos, C. (2008). ‘The Ethnographic I’ and a relational ethic for practicing ethnography. Southern States Communication Association Conference, Savannah, GA, April.
Poulos, C. (2007). Falling in the river, coming up for air: Notes and stories on the writing of autothnography. National Communication Association Conference, Chicago, November.
Poulos, C. (2007). I’ve Been Called Out: Spirit, Story, and Writing Life. National Communication Association Conference, Chicago, November.
Poulos, C. (2007). Walk the Line: Fear and loathing on the tenure track. International Qualitative Inquiry Congress, University of Illinois, May.
Poulos, C. (2007). The future of autoethnography. International Qualitative Inquiry Congress, University of Illinois, May.
Poulos, C. (2007). Weaving the stories of a secret life. International Qualitative Inquiry Congress, University of Illinois, May.
Poulos, C. (2006). Dreaming, writing, teaching: Stories from within thin places (A dramatic reading). National Communication Association Conference, San Antonio, TX, November.
Poulos, C. (2006). On naming…and exploring…and creating…: A response to Michael Hyde’s “The Life Giving Gift of Acknowledgement.” National Communication Association Conference, San Antonio, TX, November.
Poulos, C. (2006). Out the shadows, into ethos: A second look at communication ethics as storied dialogic praxis. National Communication Association Conference, San Antonio, TX, November.
Poulos, C. (2006). Out of the Shadows, into Ethos: Communication Ethics as Storied Dialogic Praxis. Ninth National Communication Ethics Conference (NCA), Duquesne University, June.
Poulos, C. (2006). Narrative Conscience and the Autoethnographic Adventure: Probing Secrets, Shadows, and Possibilities in Communication Research. International Qualitative Inquiry Congress, University of Illinois, May.
Poulos, C. (2005). Spirit in motion: Embodied/spiritual knowing and the movements of communicative praxis. National Communication Association Conference, Boston, Massachusetts: November.
Poulos, C. (2005). Dancing in the light: Dialogic moments in everyday life. National Communication Association Conference, Boston, Massachusetts: November.
Poulos, C. (2005). Out of the shadows: Telling family secrets as healing praxis. National Communication Association Conference, Boston, Massachusetts: November.
Poulos, C. (2004). Some field notes on field notes. National Communication Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois: November.
Poulos, C. (2004). The search for ethics in everyday life: Risk and the courage to connect in the age of anxiety. National Communication Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois: November.
Poulos, C. (2004). Breakdown/breakthrough: An (auto)ethnography of (re)emergence. National Communication Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois: November.
Poulos, C. (2004). Everyday ethics. Communication Association Ethics Conference, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: June.
Poulos, C. (2003).  Communicating common ground: Diversity and dialogue.  National Communication Association Conference, Miami, Florida: November.
Poulos, C. (2003).  The potential of dialogue.  National Communication Association Conference, Miami, Florida: November.
Poulos, C. (2003).  Encountering the light, living from the heart: Teaching, learning, and lighting Holy sparks. National Communication Association Conference, Miami, Florida: November.
Poulos, C. (2003).  Crisis, hope, and heart: Ethics when it really counts. National Communication Association Conference, Miami, Florida: November.
Poulos, C. (2003).  Integrating the theory and practice of service learning: Diversity, dialogue, and negotiation. Carolinas Communication Association Conference, Raleigh, North Carolina: September.
Poulos, C. (2002). Why I read autoethnography. National Communication Association Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana: November.
Poulos, C. (2002). From theory to action: Communication and community in the classroom and beyond. National Communication Association Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana: November.
Poulos, C. (2002). Loss and betrayal: Evocative symbols in relationship endings (A funeral liturgy for four papers). National Communication Association Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana: November.
Poulos, C. (2002). Why do I need others?  Emmanuel Levinas and the problem of indifference. National Communication Association Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana: November.
Poulos, C. (2002). Disruption, silence, and creation: The search for civil discourse in the age of anxiety. Carolinas Communication Association Conference, Greensboro, North Carolina: September.
Poulos, C. (2002). Ethical ruminations: Alterity, implicature, and original goodness, Gull Lake National Communication Ethics Conference, Kalamazoo, Michigan, June.
Poulos, C. (2001). The marvel of embodiment: Merleau-Ponty and Levinas on embodied being. National Communication Association Conference, Atlanta, Georgia: November.
Poulos, C. (2001). Radicalizing communication theory: Emmanuel Levinas and ‘reverent anarchic ethics.’ National Communication Association Conference, Atlanta, Georgia: November.
Poulos, C. (2001). Toward a Levinasian theory of communication:  Anarchy, danger, otherwise. National Communication Association Conference (Levinas Seminar), Atlanta, Georgia: November.
Poulos, C. (2001). Knowledge, representation, and reflexivity in ethnographic research. National Communication Association Conference, Atlanta, Georgia: November.
Poulos, C. (2001). Teaching as engagement: Dialogue and difference in the communication classroom. Carolinas Communication Association Conference, Charlotte, North Carolina: September.
Poulos, C. (2001). Levinas unbound: Interpersonal communication as transcendent ethical encounter. Colorado Speech Communication Association Convention, Denver, Colorado: March.

Conference Presentations prior to UNCG
Poulos, C. (2000). You really burn me up OR The other is present; thus, Infinity: Levinas, theôria, praxis. National Communication Association Convention  (Levinas Seminar), Seattle, Washington: November.
Poulos, C. (2000). Communication as communion: Toward a Bakhtinian phenomenology of engagement. National Communication Association Convention, Seattle, Washington: November.
Poulos, C. (2000). Terms of engagement: Ethnography, ethics, and IRBs. National Communication Association Convention, Seattle, Washington: November.
Poulos, C. (1999). Self—Other: Levinas and the ethics of encounter. National Communication Association Convention (Levinas Seminar), Chicago, Illinois: November.
Poulos, C. (1999). Grandpa died the other day, or What am I supposed to do now:  A phenomenology of the grieving body. National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, Illinois: November.
Poulos, C. (1999). The ecology of communication: Alterity, implicature, community. Western States Communication Association Convention, Vancouver, British Columbia: February. 
Poulos, C. (1999). The ecology of organizing: Embodied agency, alterity, power, and ethics in organizational communication. Western States Communication Association Convention, Vancouver, British Columbia: February.
Poulos, C. (1998). Corporate training in a multicultural world: Intercultural communication dialectics and diversity‘training.’ National Communication Association Convention, New York, New York: November.
Poulos, C. (1998). Bakhtin’s compass: Context, intonation, alterity, and answerability in everyday encounter. National Communication Association Convention (Bakhtin Seminar), New York, New York: November.
Poulos, C. (1998). Phenomenological research praxis. Research Methods Conference, Regis University, Denver, Colorado: April.
Poulos, C. (1998). Practical consciousness, discursive consciousness, and the constitution of intercultural dialogue. TOP 3 Intercultural Communication Paper, Western States Communication Association Convention, Denver, Colorado: February.  
Poulos, C. (1997). The dialectic of control: Communication and the constitution of power in a (THOROUGHLY) modern corporation. National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, Illinois: November.
Poulos, C. (1997). Shvitzing/kibitzing: Bodies, communication, and ‘communion’ in a men’s locker room. National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, Illinois: November.
Thompson, J. & Poulos, C. (1997).  Confessions of experience and lessons learned: A journey toward a dialogical research praxis. National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, Illinois: November.

COLLOQUIA
Poulos, C. (2006). Narrative Conscience and the Autoethnographic Adventure: Probing Secrets, Shadows, and Possibilities in Communication Research. Colloquium on the ethics of revealing secrets, Department of Communication, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Poulos, C. (2004). The search for ethics in everyday life: Risk and the courage to connect in the age of anxiety. Department of Communication, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Poulos, C. (2003). Teaching from the heart: On dreaming in the dark and dancing in the light. Department of Communication, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Poulos, C. (2002). Self, other, encounter: Ethics and alterity in (intimate) relationships OR Ethical ruminations: Alterity and implicature, Department of Communication, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Poulos, C. (2001). Radicalizing communication theory and research. Department of Communication, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

 GRANTS
Awarded (UNCG)

• 2007    UNCG Scholars’ Travel Fund,  $350
• 2006    UNCG Scholars’ Travel Fund,  $350
• 2005    UNCG Scholars’ Travel Fund,  $350
• 2004    UNCG Scholars’ Travel Fund, $350
• 2003    UNCG Scholars’ Travel Fund, $350
• 2002    UNCG Scholars’ Travel Fund, $350
   
  Awarded (outside agencies)
  2005    Summer Travel Grant, National Communication Association, $250

OUTREACH

Poulos, C. (2008). Professor’s perspectives on academic life. For SOAR and Freshman Summer Launch programs, UNCG.
Poulos, C. (2007). Communicating Common Ground in Leadership Contexts, NC Triad Leadership Academy, September 15.
Poulos, C. (2007).Wait, are those canons loaded? Cicero's approach to great public speaking! National Association of Communication Centers Mini-Conference, April 13.

SERVICE
University

• 2008-ongoing Group Facilitator, University Faculty Mentoring Program
• 2008-ongoing Mentor, University Student Mentoring Program
• 2008 Faculty presenter SOAR and Summer Launch Programs
• 2008 Facilitator, University Speaking Center Ethics Initiative
• 2007-ongoing Chair, University Speaking Intensive Committee
• 2007-ongoing Solicitor, SECC
• 2007-08 Member, OLSL Program Review Committee
• 2003-present Member, UNCG University Film Studies Committee
• 2006-ongoing Member, UNCG Service-Learning Advisory Council
• 2006 Faculty facilitator, UNCG Freshman Summer book read
• 2003-2004 Faculty Interviewer, Merit Awards/Scholarship Interview
• Faculty Committee, Ashby Dialogue on Greensboro’s Hidden Legacy: The Impact of November 3, 1979 on the City Today
• 2005 Co-Facilitator, with Kim Cuny, Speaking Across the Curriculum Faculty Development Workshop, University Speaking Center
• 2003-04 Co-Facilitator, with Joyce Ferguson, Speaking Across the Curriculum Faculty Development Workshops, University Speaking Center
• 2003-04 Faculty participant, admissions phone-a-thons
• 2004-present Member, Various Doctoral Dissertation Committees (4)

College

• 2008-09 Member, College of Arts & Sciences Curriculum & Teaching Committee
• 2004-05 Member, Broadcasting & Cinema Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
• 2006-07 Member, Film & Television Studies Concentration Committee

Department

• 2008-ongoing Faculty Advisor, Lambda Pi Eta Communication Studies Honor Society
• 2008-ongoing Member, Department Curriculum Committee
• 2007-08 Facilitator, Communication and Culture Department Initiative
• 2007-08 Member, Department Planning Committee for Harriet Elliott Lecture Series
• 2003-2006 Director of Graduate Study, Department of Communication
• 2001-2004 Faculty Advisor, UNCG Communication Club

Professional service and organizational leadership/membership

• 2007-09 Guest Editor, Iowa Journal of Communication, Special Issues on Autoethnography (2 issues)
• 2008-09 Immediate Past Chair and Chair of Awards Committee, Communication Ethics Division, NCA
• 2006-08 Chair, Communication Ethics Division, NCA
• 2005-06 Vice Chair, Communication Ethics Division, NCA
• 2004-05 Vice Chair-Elect, Communication Ethics Division, NCA
• 2004 Co-facilitator, Ethnography Pre-Conference, NCA
• 2008-ongoing Reviewer, International Journal of Qualitative Research
• 2007-ongoing Reviewer, Symbolic Interaction
• 2004-ongoing Member, Editorial Review Board, Southern Communication Journal
• 2006 Invited member, Editorial Review Board, Communication Theory, special issue on Dialogue, summer/fall 2006
• 2002-ongoing Reviewer, Qualitative Inquiry
• 2002-ongoing Reviewer, Cultural Studies Û Critical Methodologies
• 2003-ongoing Editorial Review Board, Kaleidoscope
• 2002-ongoing Reviewer, Communication Theory
• 2004 Reviewer, Alta Mira Press
• 2003 Reviewer, McGraw-Hill
• 2002 Reviewer, SUNY Press
• 2004-05 Reviewer, Communication Ethics Division, NCA
• 2001-2004 Reviewer, Ethnography Division, NCA
• 2002 Chair, Awards Committee, Ethnography Division, NCA
• 1998-99 Editorial review board, Men and Masculinities
• 1996 Association for Psychological Type (APT) National Ethics Committee

Community service

• 2008-09 Clerk (chair), Adult Education Committee, New Garden Friends Meeting
• 2001-2007 Member, Leadership Team, Downtown Fencing Club, YWCA, Greensboro, NC
• 2001-present Participant-Facilitator, Community-Building Initiatives, New Garden Friends School
• 2004-05 Hospitality coordinator, New Garden Friends Meeting
• 2006-2008 Member, Adult Education Committee, New Garden Friends Meeting

ACADEMIC AWARDS AND HONORS

• 2007 Ellis-Bochner Autoethnography and Personal Narrative Research Award, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction
• 1996-1998 Colorado Fellow, University of Denver
• 1997-98 Social Sciences Scholar, University of Denver
• 1983-93 Humanities Scholar, University of Denver
• 1981-82 Arts & Sciences Dean’s Scholar, University of Colorado
• 1981 Phi Beta Kappa, University of Colorado
• 1981 Nominee: Rhodes Scholarship, University of Colorado
• 1981 Graduated with distinction  (B.A.), University of Colorado

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES

• 2005 Finding Funding Grant Workshop
• 2003 Grant writing workshop: Write Winning Grants to Industry and Foundations, (UNCG/David Morrison and Stephen Russell)
• 2003 Tips for grant writers, Center for Creative Leadership/UNCG
• 2002-05 Communicating Common Ground Pre-conference workshops, NCA
• 2002 Speaking across the curriculum faculty development workshops 1 & 2
• 2002 Writing across the curriculum faculty development workshops 1 & 2
• 2002 Introduction to Blackboard, UNCG TLC
• 2001 Introduction to web publishing, UNCG TLC

AFFILIATIONS

• National Communication Association (NCA)
• International Association for Qualitative Inquiry (IAQI)
• International Communication Association (ICA)
• Southern States Communication Association (SSCA)
• Communicating Common Ground Initiative (NCA/SPLC/AAHE/CC)
• Carolinas Communication Association (CCA)
• Association for Experiential Education (AEE)
• Western States Communication Association (WSCA)
• Association for Psychological Type (APT)

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

• The Mediation Process (CDR)
• Leadership in Action (Outward Bound)
• Communication Excellence (MSEC)
• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Qualifying Training; MBTI Step II (APT); MBTI and Organizational Development (CPP)
• Managing Personal Growth (Blessing & White/MOHR)
• Managing Organizational Transition (William Bridges)
• Orchestrating Team Performance (Tracom)
• Accelerated Learning Principles (BCAL)
• Getting Connected (Carl Larson)

CONSULTING EXPERIENCE

1999-Present  Communication, conflict, teamwork, diversity, communication ethics, and leadership consulting for organizations and institutes.

CORPORATE EMPLOYMENT

July 1985-September 1999 Senior Education & Organizational Development Specialist, First Trust Corporation, Denver, Colorado.  Corporate organizational development, communication and leadership training, team building, and conflict mediation.

 

Page updated: 12-Dec-2008

Accessibility Policy