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Michael Delayo

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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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Michael Delayo

Ph.D. Candidate in Communication Arts and Sciences
mud528@psu.edu
316 Sparks Building University Park , PA 16802

Education

B.A., Rowan University, 2018
M.A., Pennsylvania State University, 2021
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, Anticipated 2026

Professional Bio

Mike Delayo studies the rhetoric of sport and popular culture. He is currently writing his dissertation about the intersection of sport, data, and rhetoric. After graduating from Rowan University in 2018, he worked at a communications agency in New York City before joining the CAS team in 2019. In Spring 2024, he designed and taught AFAM/CAS 297: Communicating Race and Sport, which used interdisciplinary scholarship and public media to engage with presentations of and discourses about sport. He welcomes any and all conversations about baseball, video games, or the last great thing you watched.

Advisors: Dr. Michele Kennerly, Dr. Debra Hawhee