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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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Talia Kibsey

Graduate Assistant in Communication Arts and Sciences
tek5257@psu.edu
316 Sparks Building

Curriculum Vitae

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Education

B.A. Hons., University of Winnipeg, 2017
M.A., Florida Atlantic University, 2022
Ph.D., Penn State University, anticipated 2027

Professional Bio

Talia Kibsey studies the cultural and material dimensions of settler-colonial and anti-colonial community formations. Her research primarily involves issues of social and ecological (in)justice and is inspired by scholarship in more-than-human rhetoric, critical-cultural studies, environmental communication, Indigenous epistemologies, anti-/de-/post-coloniality, embodiment, and affect. Talia grew up and trained as a dancer in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and holds a B.A. Honours in English from the University of Winnipeg. They moved to the United States in 2018 and earned an M.A. in Communication Studies from Florida Atlantic University before joining Penn State University as a Ph.D. student in 2022. In addition to research, Talia is passionate about teaching and is published in Communication Teacher (Taylor & Francis, 2021). A true Northerner, Talia’s heart beats for snow days, good poutine, and walking in the woods.