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In coordination with an undergraduate-run organization called Students Teaching Students, CAS department faculty members mentor exemplary students who develop and teach 1-credit courses on a variety of subjects that advance expertise in communication and its role in public life. This semester, Associate Teaching Professor Lori Bedell is supporting undergraduates Kara Miller (who was in Lori’s RCL course a few years back) and Jess Strait as they teach a course titled “Period Talk: The Impact of Stigma on the Menstrual Equity Movement.”
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Robin Duffee

Assistant Teaching Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences
Assistant Director of Graduate Studies in Communication Arts and Sciences
duffee@psu.edu
229 Sparks Building University Park, PA 16802
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Curriculum Vitae

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Curriculum Vitae

https://cas.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2022/04/Duffee-CV-Updated-4.2.24.pdf

Education

B.A., Texas Tech University, 2017
M.A., Texas Tech University, 2019
Ph.D. Coursework, Penn State University, 2022

Professional Bio

Robin Duffee has an interdisciplinary research background in critical media studies and rhetorical theory, and currently studies equitable and accessible teaching practices in higher education. Related to that pursuit, she has earned a certification in Ethical Pedagogy from the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence and is a faculty ambassador for Penn State’s R-VOICE Center.
Robin loves to help students learn both theoretical concepts and practical skills that can help them improve their communication in their personal, professional, and public lives. She specializes in teaching Effective Communication: Message Analysis (CAS 100C), but has also taught and assisted with a wide variety of other courses in the department, including: Public Speaking (CAS 100A), Collaborative Communication (CAS 100B), Persuasion and Propaganda (CAS 175), Advanced Speechwriting (CAS 214W), Foundations of Civic and Community Engagement (CAS 222N/CIVCM 211N), Rhetorical Theory (CAS 301), and Rhetoric of Film and Television (CAS 415). As the Assistant Director of Graduate Studies and a CAS 100 Teaching Mentor, Robin draws on all of her teaching experience to help graduate student instructors with their pedagogical development.