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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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Oliver Tripp

Graduate Assistant in Communication Arts and Sciences
Preferred Pronouns: they/them
otripp@psu.edu
316 Sparks Building
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Curriculum Vitae

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Curriculum Vitae

https://cas.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2022/08/Tripp-Oct24-CV.docx

Education

B.A., San Francisco State University, 2018
M.A., San Francisco State University, 2022
Ph.D., Penn State University, anticipated 2027

Professional Bio

As a dual-title student in both Communication Arts and Sciences and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Oliver locates their research in both more-than-human rhetorics and trans studies. They are especially interested in embodiment and affect, art and aesthetics, trans ecologies, and mushroom and plant communication. They have taught several styles of collegiate debate, Fundamentals of Oral Communication, Effective Speech, and Argumentation, and they have served as a TA for Transgender Communication Studies.

Advisors: Joshua Trey Barnett and Debra Hawhee