Wayne McMullen
Associate Professor of Speech Communication

Office: Delaware County Campus
Telephone: (610) 892-1426
Fax: (610) 892-1357
E-mail: wjm11@psu.edu

Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION:

• Ph.D., Penn State University, 1989
• M.A., Auburn University, 1982
• B.A., Temple University, 1980

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND INTERESTS:

Dr. Wayne McMullen is Program Head for Speech Communication at Penn State’s Commonwealth College, Co-coordinator of the Speech Communication major at Penn State’s Delaware County Campus and Associate Professor of Speech Communication. Wayne got his doctorate degree from Penn State and has been teaching at Delaware County since 1991.

 

Wayne teaches a variety of classes in media criticism and speech. These include The Art of Cinema, The Rhetoric of Film and Television, Rhetorical Theory, Women, Minorities, and the Media, Introduction to Speech and Language Science, Speech and Human Behavior, and Effective Speech. Dr. McMullen has been the recipient of the campus Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award and the University’s George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching.

 

Dr. McMullen’s research centers on investigations of media and mass-mediated messages from a communicative perspective. He has written several articles in this area that have been published in leading academic journals such as Text and Performance Quarterly, Women’s Studies in Communication, Southern Communication Journal, Western Journal of Speech Communication, and Literature/Film Quarterly. Dr. McMullen has been the recipient was the recipient of the Donald Ecroyd Research and Scholarship Award.

Dr. McMullen is an active participant in several service activities at Penn State. These have included serving as Chair of Faculty Senate at Delaware County, as well as on various committees, including the Faculty Senate Executive Committee, the Council of Academic Directors, the Promotion and Tenure Committee, the Madlyn Hanes Faculty Award Committee, the Strategic Planning Committee, the Curricular Affairs Committee, the Search and Screening Committee for Director of Student Life, the Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award Committee, and the Faculty Forum Committee.

 

External to the university, Dr. McMullen has been actively involved in the communication profession. Dr. McMullen has been Associate Editor of Communication Quarterly since 1999 and also Associate Editor of Women’s Studies in Communication since 1997. He has also served as an ad-hoc reviewer of several academic journals, including Critical Studies in Mass Communication, Text and Performance Quarterly, The Southern Communication Journal, and the Western Journal of Speech Communication, and professional organizations including the National Communication Association and the Speech Communication Association of Pennsylvania.

COURSES:

CAS 100: Effective Speech

CAS 210: Introduction to Speech and Language Science

CAS 412: The Rhetoric of Film and Television

CAS 405: Speech and Human Behavior

COMM 150: The Art of Cinema

RESEARCH AREAS:

Media Criticism
Rhetorical Criticism
Film Criticism