Cheyenne Zaremba

Cheyenne Zaremba

Graduate Assistant in Communication Arts and Sciences
316 Sparks Building University Park, PA 16802

Curriculum Vitae

Education

B.A., Roberts Wesleyan College, 2019
M.A., Villanova University, 2021
Ph.D., Penn State University, anticipated 2025

Professional Bio

Cheyenne Zaremba studies the rhetoric of death and dying through the frameworks of cultural studies, performance studies, materiality, and identity. Cheyenne interrogates the presumed whiteness of death to understand how performances in spaces of death and dying, such as cemeteries, hospices, sacred spaces, and funeral homes, represent and reinforce cultural norms for meaning making at end-of-life and postmortem. Additionally, Cheyenne is committed to pursuing inclusive, accessible, and adaptive pedagogical approaches to teaching communication. Through critical and reflective engagement with teaching methods they strive to create a learning environment that is generative, compassionate, and ethical.