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Kim Cuny

Kim Cuny

Senior Lecturer

Communication Studies

Email Address: kmcuny@uncg.edu

Phone: 336.256.1389

Education

MFA Theatre, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
M.A. Communication Studies, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
B.A. Speech, Theatre, and Communication, Monmouth University

Courses Taught

  • CST 105: Introduction to Communication Studies
  • CST 200: Communication and Community
  • CST 460: Storytelling

Research

Pedagogical and creative interests include radical pedagogy, experiential learning, speaking center studies, learning for justice, instructional design, arts for all, and the use of storytelling along with process drama to help adults with developmental and/or intellectual disabilities and all young children make sense of the world around them.

Selected Publications

Cuny, K. M. (2018). A case study of outside events versus the thriving speaking center. Communication Center Journal, 4, 39-47. Retrieved from http://libjournal.uncg.edu/ccj/article/view/1728/pdf

Cuny, K. M. (2018). The work around: How teaching with andragogical practices can normalize learning disabilities in education. In M. S. Jeffress (Ed.), International Perspectives on Teaching with Disability. (pp. 205-217). Routledge, NY: New York.

Cuny, K.M., Littlejohn, S., Crowe, K.M. (2015). The Digital media commons and the digital literacy center collaborate: The growing pains of creating a sustainable learning space. In R. Carpenter, Selfe, R., Apostel, S., & Apostel, K. (Eds.). Sustainable learning spaces: Design, infrastructure, and technology. Logan, UT: Computers and Composition Digital Press/Utah State University Press. https://ccdigitalpress.org/book/sustainable/s3/uncg/index.html

Cuny, K., Southard, J., & Ellis-Harrison, E. (2022). Let’s Talk: Learning to Communicate Well in Emergency Online Learning. Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings. https://encompass.eku.edu/pedagogicon/2021/socialnetworks/2

Cuny, K. M., Thompson, M., & Naidu, H. P. (2014). Speaking for a change: Using speaking centers to amplify marginalized voices in building sustained community movements for social justice. In L. R. Frey & D. L. Palmer (Eds.), Communication activism pedagogy (pp. 381-410). New York, NY: Hampton.

Harrison, E. D., Southard, J.M., Cuny, K.M. (2023).Crafting and presenting oral communication assignments. In E. Fackler (Ed.), Writing Effects: Practical Techniques for the College Writer. (pp.). Hayden-McNeil.

Strawser, M. G., Cuny, K. M., Carpenter, R., Dvorak, K., & Prentiss, S. (2022). The centrality of the center (early COVID edition): Best practices for sustaining communication center operations during a global pandemic. Southern Discourse in the Center: A Journal of Multiliteracy and Innovation, 26(1), 58–81. https://southeasternwritingcenter.wildapricot.org/resources/SD_Archive/articles/26_1/sdc_vol-26-1_spring-2022_full-issue.pdf

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