Department of Communication Studies

Christopher N. Poulos

Associate Professor

Office: 107 Ferguson Building

Phone: 336-686-2514

E-mail: cnpoulos@uncg.ed

DEGREES

Ph.D.Human Communication Studies, University of Denver: June, 1999. Emphases: Philosophy of communication; relational communication and dialogue; communication ethics; qualitative methods; organizational communication. Dissertation: Leaping toward infinity: Embodied knowing and the ethical movements of communicative praxis.

M.A. Religious Studies , University of Denver: June, 1993. Emphases: Philosophy of religion; psychology of religion; and relationships between religion, literature, and film. Thesis: Rotations: Memory, forgetting, individuation, and intersubjectivity in selected fiction of Walker Percy

B.A. Philosophy , University of Colorado: May, 1982. Emphases: Philosophy and the arts (film, literature, drama); existentialism; philosophy of mind and language; Greek philosophy.

Scholarly interests

Relational and family communication; ethnography; rhetorical theory and philosophy of communication; dialogue, ethics, and community; film studies; diversity, conflict, and culture.

Teaching

Graduate

  • Engaging Graduate Scholarship
  • Graduate Seminar in Relational Communication
  • Heroism, Villainy, and Violence in Contemporary Culture (MALS)
  • Film and the American Dream (MALS)

Graduate/undergraduate

  • Relational Communication and the Hollywood Feature Film
  • Communicating Common Ground: Diversity and Dialogue
  • Communication and Ethnography

Undergraduate

  • Relational Communication
  • Persuasion in Western Culture
  • Communication Ethics
  • Family Communication

Publications

Book

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

Journal Articles

Poulos, C. (2008, in press). Narrative Conscience and the autoethnographic adventure: Probing memories, secrets, shadows, and possibilities. Qualitative Inquiry 14:1.

Poulos, C. (2008, in press). Accidental Dialogue: The search for dialogic moments in everyday life. (Communicaton Theory special issue on dialogue).

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. (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.

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

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.

In Press

Poulos, C. (in press, 2005). The ties that bind us, the shadows that separate us: Life and death, shadow and (dream)story. Qualitative Inquiry , Vol. 12.

 

CONFERENCE PAPERS

Poulos, C. (2004). Some field notes on field notes. National Communication Association Conference, Chicago, IL.

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, IL.

Poulos, C. (2004). Breakdown/breakthrough: An (auto)ethnography of (re)emergence . National Communication Association Conference, Chicago, IL.

Poulos, C. (2004). Everyday ethics. Communication Association Ethics Conference, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, June.

Poulos, C. (2003). Communicating common ground: Diversity and dialogue. National Communication Association Conference, Miami, Florida.

Poulos, C. (2003). The potential of dialogue. National Communication Association Conference, Miami, Florida.

Poulos, C. (2003). Encountering the light, living from the heart: Teaching, learning, and lighting Holy sparks. National Communication Association Conference, Miami, Florida.

Poulos, C. (2003). Crisis, hope, and heart: Ethics when it really counts. National Communication Association Conference, Miami, Florida.

Poulos, C. (2003). Integrating the theory and practice of service learning: Diversity, dialogue, and negotiation. Carolinas Communication Association Conference, Raleigh, North Carolina.

Poulos, C. (2002). Why I read autoethnography. National Communication Association Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Poulos, C. (2002). From theory to action: Communication and community in the classroom and beyond. National Communication Association Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Poulos, C. (2002). Loss and betrayal: Evocative symbols in relationship endings (A funeral liturgy for four papers). National Communication Association Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Poulos, C. (2002). Why do I need others? Emmanuel Levinas and the problem of indifference. National Communication Association Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Poulos, C. (2002). Disruption, silence, and creation: The search for civil discourse in the age of anxiety. Carolinas Communication Association Conference, Greensboro, North Carolina.

Poulos, C. (2002). Ethical ruminations: Alterity, implicature, and original goodness, Gull Lake National Communication Ethics Conference, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Poulos, C. (2001). The marvel of embodiment: Merleau-Ponty and Levinas on embodied being. National Communication Association Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.

Poulos, C. (2001). Radicalizing communication theory: Emmanuel Levinas and ‘reverent anarchic ethics.’ National Communication Association Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.

Poulos, C. (2001). Toward a Levinasian theory of communication: Anarchy, danger, otherwise. National Communication Association Conference (Levinas Seminar), Atlanta, Georgia.

Poulos, C. (2001). Knowledge, representation, and reflexivity in ethnographic research. National Communication Association Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.

Poulos, C. (2001). Teaching as engagement: Dialogue and difference in the communication classroom. Carolinas Communication Association Conference, Charlotte, North Carolina.

Poulos, C. (2001). Levinas unbound: Interpersonal communication as transcendent ethical encounter. Colorado Speech Communication Association Convention, Denver, Colorado.

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.

Poulos, C. (2000). Communication as communion: Toward a Bakhtinian phenomenology of engagement. National Communication Association Convention, Seattle, Washington.

Poulos, C. (2000). Terms of engagement: Ethnography, ethics, and IRBs. National Communication Association Convention, Seattle, Washington.

Poulos, C. (1999). Self—Other: Levinas and the ethics of encounter. National Communication Association Convention (Levinas Seminar), Chicago, Illinois.

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.

Poulos, C. (1999). The ecology of communication: Alterity, implicature, community. Western States Communication Association Convention, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Poulos, C. (1999). The ecology of organizing: Embodied agency, alterity, power, and ethics in organizational communication. Western States Communication Association Convention, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Poulos, C. (1998). Corporate training in a multicultural world: Intercultural communication dialectics and diversity ‘training.’ National Communication Association Convention, New York, New York.

Poulos, C. (1998). Bakhtin’s compass: Context, intonation, alterity, and answerability in everyday encounter. National Communication Association Convention (Bakhtin Seminar), New York, New York.

Poulos, C. (1998). Phenomenological research praxis. Research Methods Conference, Regis University.

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.

Poulos, C. (1997). The dialectic of control: Communication and the constitution of power in a (THOROUGHLY) modern corporation. National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, Illinois.

Poulos, C. (1997). Shvitzing/kibitzing: Bodies, communication, and ‘communion’ in a men’s locker room. National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, Illinois.

Thompson, J. & Poulos, C. (1997). Confessions of experience and lessons learned: A journey toward a dialogical research praxis. National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, Illinois.

COLLOQUIA

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

  • UNCG Scholars’ Travel Fund, 2002: $350
  • UNCG Scholars’ Travel Fund, 2003: $350
  • UNCG Scholars’ Travel Fund, 2004: $350
  • Applied for UNCG Summer Excellence Grants, 2001 and 2002 (not received)

SERVICE

National/Professional Organizations

  • Chair, Communication Ethics Division, NCA, 2007
  • Vice Chair, Communication Ethics Division, NCA, 2006
  • Vice Chair-Elect, Communication Ethics Division, NCA 2004-2005
  • Co-facilitator, Ethnography Pre-Conference, NCA 2004
  • Member, Editorial Review Board, Southern Communication Journal
  • Reviewer, Qualitative Inquiry
  • Reviewer, Cultural Studies Û Critical Methodologies
  • Reviewer, and inaugural member of Editorial Review Board, Kaleidoscope
  • Reviewer, Communication Theory
  • Reviewer, Alta Mira Press
  • Reviewer, McGraw-Hill
  • Reviewer, SUNY Press
  • Reviewer, Communication Ethics Division, NCA 2004 and 2005
  • Reviewer, Ethnography Division, NCA 2001-2002; 2003-2004
  • Chair, Awards Committee, Ethnography Division, NCA 2002
  • Editorial review board, Men and Masculinities (1998-99)
  • Association for Psychological Type (APT) National Ethics Committee, 1995-1996

UNCG

  • Chair, Speaking Across the Curriculum Committee, 2007-
  • Chair, Department Scholarship Committee, 2007-
  • Member, Service Learning Advisory Committee, 2006-
  • Director of Graduate Study, 2003-2006
  • Faculty Advisor, UNCG Communication Club, 2001-2004
  • Faculty co-facilitator/dialogue participant, Ashby Dialogue on Greensboro’s Hidden Legacy: The Impact of November 3, 1979 on the City Today
  • Facilitator, Faculty Development Workshops, University Speaking Center, 2003 and 2004
  • Member, UNCG University Film Studies Committee
  • Member, Broadcasting & Cinema Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
  • Member, Merit Awards/Scholarship Interview Committee, 2003 and 2005

Community

  • Community leader, Downtown Fencing Club, YWCA, Greensboro, NC.
  • Participant-Facilitator, Community-Building Initiatives, New Garden Friends School, 2001-2002
  • Team Facilitator, Denver Public Schools (K-12) Collaborative Decision Making Committees and Teacher In-Service training, 1996-2000

University of Denver

  • University of Denver Mentoring Program
  • University of Denver Fulbright Grant review committee, 1999-2001
  • Faculty Associate, Environmental Institute, University of Denver, 1999-2001

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES

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

AFFILIATIONS

  • National Communication Association (NCA)
  • 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)
  • Rocky Mountain Communication Association (RMCA)
  • Association for Psychological Type (APT)

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

  • The Mediation Process (CDR)
  • Leadership in Action (Outward Bound)
  • Communication Excellence (MSEC)
  • Myers-Briggs Type Indicator 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)
  • Rethinking Stress (Franklin-Covey)
  • Getting Connected (Carl Larson)

ACADEMIC AWARDS AND HONORS

  • Colorado Fellow, 1996-1998, University of Denver
  • Social Sciences Scholar, 1997-1998, University of Denver
  • Humanities Scholar, 1989-93, University of Denver
  • Phi Beta Kappa, 1981, University of Colorado
  • Nominee: Rhodes Scholarship, 1981, University of Colorado
  • Graduated with distinction (B.A.), 1982, University of Colorado
  • Arts & Sciences Dean’s Scholar, 1981-1982, University of Colorado

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Fall 2007 Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina Greensboro

Fall 2001-2007 Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of North Carolina— Greensboro. Director of Graduate Study, 2003-present.

Fall 1999-Summer 2001 Lecturer, Arts & Humanities Core and the Women’s College, University of Denver.

Fall 1997-Summer 1999 Adjunct Instructor, Arts & Humanities Core, School of Communication, and the Women’s College, University of Denver.

Fall 1995-Summer 1997 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Arts & Humanities Core, University of Denver.

CORPORATE POSITIONS

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.

CONSULTING EXPERIENCE

1/99-Present Communication, conflict, teamwork, diversity, communication ethics, and leadership consulting for organizations.

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