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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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Pamela VanHaitsma

Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Science and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Sherwin Early Career Professor in the Rock Ethics Institute
prv5@psu.edu
226 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/VanHaitsma-CV-082824.pdf

Education

B.A., 2000, Saginaw Valley State University
M.A., 2002, Ohio State University
M.A., 2009, San Francisco State University
Ph.D., 2014, University of Pittsburgh

Websites

https://pamelavanhaitsma.com/

Professional Bio

Pamela VanHaitsma is an associate professor of Communication Arts and Sciences and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Dr. VanHaitsma’s interdisciplinary scholarship bridges rhetoric, archives, and gender and sexuality studies. She is the author of Queering Romantic Engagement in the Postal Age: A Rhetorical Education (University of South Carolina Press, 2019) and The Erotic as Rhetorical Power: Archives of Romantic Friendship between Women Teachers (Ohio State University Press, 2024). Her scholarship has been recognized with the 2015 Charles Kneupper Award from the Rhetoric Society of America, the 2020 Winifred Bryan Horner Book Award Honorable Mention from the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, and the 2021 Randy Majors Memorial Award from the National Communication Association’s Caucus on GLBTQ Concerns. She is currently writing her third book about Rachel Carson, queer public memory, and intersectional environmentalism.