Keynote Speaker
rmca 2012
The Role of Music in conducting and constructing reality: the illusion of life rhetorical perspective
DEANNA SELLNOW, UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
Sellnow is the Gifford Blyton Endowed Professor of Communication, as well as the Director of Undergraduate Studies in Communication and the Division of Instructional Communication at the University of Kentucky. She has published and presented her scholarship in international, national, regional, and state venues. Her work focuses primarily on instructional communication, communication education, and the rhetoric of popular culture. In terms of rhetoric, Sellnow has published a book, The Rhetorical Power of Popular Culture, Considering Mediated Texts, with SAGE and co-authored the Illusion of Life rhetorical perspective as a means by which to examine how music communicates via the dynamic interaction between discursive lyrical content and nondiscursive musical form.
Education
B.S. 1984, North Dakota State University; M.M., 1987, Wayne State University; Ph.D., 1991, University of North Dakota
Specialties
Instructional communication, popular culture rhetoric (primarily music as communication)
Author
The Rhetorical Power of Popular Culture: Considering Mediated Texts, (2009). Sage Publications.
Confident Public Speaking, 2nd ed. (2004). Wadsworth. (first edition title Public Speaking: A Process Approach)
