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Dana M. Walden

Students Teaching Students

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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Dana M. Walden

Graduate Assistant in Communication Arts and Sciences
Preferred Pronouns: she/her/hers
dwalden@psu.edu

Education

B.A., Whitman College, 2022
M.A., The Pennsylvania State University, 2026

Websites

https://www.theorhetical.com/

Professional Bio

Dana M. Walden is a doctoral student studying rhetoric in the Communication Arts and Sciences department at the Pennsylvania State University. Her primary research interests reside in the rhetorical interstices of liberation and learning. Most of Dana's work focuses on race and radicality, and she is especially invested in delineating the role of pedagogy in resistance movements. The majority of her work is historically located in the 1960s and 1970s, but on occasion, Dana forays into research on present day politics of schooling and curricular media. For the 2026-2027 school year, Dana will serve as the Penn State Center for Democratic Deliberation (CDD) Research Assistant; she will also be teaching one section of CAS 215: Argumentation in the fall.