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Catherine Egley Waggoner is a Professor in the Department of Communication & Digital Media at Wittenberg University. She teaches courses such as Reasoning and Communication, Analysis of Visual Persuasion, Rhetoric of Memory, Critical Methods in Communication, and Gender & Communication.
- Ph.D. in Communication, The Ohio State University
- M.A. in English, Bowling Green State University
- B.A. in English, University of Southern Mississippi
Her research focuses on contemporary rhetoric with critical/cultural perspectives, rhetorical criticism, visual persuasion, and the performance of gender, race, and class. She has explored these themes through service trips to the Mississippi Delta and a 2018 study abroad program in Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany, where she taught about national memory and monuments.
Her publications include co-authored books: Making Camp: Rhetorics of Transgression in U.S. Popular Culture (2009, winner of two National Communication Association awards) and Realizing our Place: Real Southern Women in a Mythologized Land (2019, Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award nominee). Her work has appeared in journals like Critical Studies in Media Communication, Feminist Media Studies, and Text & Performance Quarterly.
- Distinguished Teaching Award (2014)
- National Communication Association Book Awards (2009)
- Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award nomination (2019)
She joined Wittenberg University in 1995 and has integrated her upbringing in the Mississippi Delta into her academic work, emphasizing regional identity and cultural memory.
