Communication at Louisiana State University

32 faculty and 25 courses in Communication at Louisiana State University.

Faculty

• Renee Edwards, Professor h-index 20
  Message Interpretation and Misunderstanding in Interpersonal Communication: Factors that influence the ways that individuals interpret messages, including message variables (e.g., equivocation, powerlessness) and individual-level variables
  Notable: “Imagined interactions, family money management patterns and coalitions, and attitudes toward money and credit” (2006) · 103 citations
• Raquel Robvais, Senior Instructor h-index 2
  Considers the preoccupation and durability of blackness as a marker of difference in disease processes. I question the epistemic authority of race to inform and make possible certain knowledge claims about black bodies. In doing
• Amy Fannin, Distinguished Instructor, Undergraduate Advisor
  Interpersonal and Organizational Communication Undergraduate Courses CMST 2010 : Interpersonal Communication CMST 2064 : Small Group Communication CMST 3113 : Conversation LSU Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, Louisiana
• Andrew King, Professor Emeritus
• Ashley Mack, Associate Professor, Director of Forensics
  Media and Cultural Studies, Queer and Feminist Critique, Rhetoric and Ideology, Coalition and Solitary Building in Social Environments, and Gendered Violence LSU Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803 Website Feedbac
• Bryan J. McCann, Professor, Department Chair
• Cynthia Sampson, Senior Instructor
• Danielle Vignes, Instructor
• Emily Graves, Senior Instructor, Undergraduate Advisor
• Ethan Hunter, Instructor
• Gwen Zywicke, Distinguished Instructor
• Harold Mixon, Professor Emeritus
• James M. Honeycutt, Professor Emeritus
• Johanna Broussard, Instructor
• John Hal Lambert, Instructor, Hopkins Black Box Manager
  Experimental Music, Video Art, Collaborative Performance, Improvisation Undergraduate Courses CMST 2010 - Interpersonal Communication CMST 2040 - Introduction to Performing Literature CMST 2200 - Practicum in Communication Studies CMST 3900
• Joni Butcher, Distinguished Instructor
  Television and popular culture. I am particularly interested in TV sitcoms. I also serve as a faculty member for the Screen Arts department and am a member of the Screen Arts steering committee. Areas of Interest Television studies
• Joquina Reed, Instructor
• Julie Cressy, Instructor
• Kellie Brisini, Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
• Kent Filbel, Distinguished Instructor
  Ancient Greek Religion and Rhetoric Gay Spiritualities and Rhetoric Silent Film Comedy Undergraduate Courses CMST 1150 : Introduction to Communication Studies (2) CMST 2064 : Small Group Communication CMST 3013 : Topics In Film Genres: &nbs
• Lisa Hebert, Distinguished Instructor
• Loretta Pecchioni, Professor Emerita
  The development and maintenance of interpersonal relationships across the lifespan, focusing on aging and health-related issues within the family. Undergraduate & Graduate Courses CMST 7910 : Communication and Aging CMST 7910 : He
• Lyman Hunt, Distinguished Instructor
  Taxonomy of conservative rhetoric Fatalist/Individualist paradox Economic conservative discourse Undergraduate Courses CMST 2060 : Public Speaking CMST 2862 : Honors Public Address CMST 3167 : Rhetoric and Civilization CMST 3168 : Rhetoric
• Patricia Suchy, Professor Emerita
• Sandra Pride-Shaw, Distinguished Instructor
• Sanela Osmanovic Maggs, Senior Instructor
  Interpersonal communication in and around the computer-mediated environment; video games as a communication platform, in particular intergenerational gaming, and the role of video games in family communication and successful aging. Un
• Stephanie Houston Grey, Associate Professor
  Science and Technology Studies and the Rhetoric of Sciences (Environment, Food, Risk) Consumption (Food Cultures, Corporeality, Industrialism) Trauma Studies Undergraduate & Graduate Courses Graduate CMST 7900 : Introduction to Graduate
• Susan Sykes, Instructor
• Taylor Dawson, Instructor, Course Director
• Tracy Stephenson Shaffer, Professor Emerita
  Performance Methodologies, Popular Culture, Performing/Theorizing Icons, The Horror Genre, Performance Art/Solo Performance, Gender Studies, Ethnography/Oral History Undergraduate & Graduate Courses Undergraduate Courses CMST 2012: Intr
• Travis Brisini, Assistant Professor
  Performance theory and methodology, autoethnographic and performative writing, the ontological turn (posthumanism, new materialism, neo-vitalism, etc.), multispecies studies, bioregionalism, new thalassology, and non-human performan
• Yuwei Li, Assistant Professor

Courses

• Fundamentals of Communication CMST 1061
• Introduction to Communication Studies CMST 1150
• Interpersonal Communication CMST 2010
• Introduction to Film CMST 2012
• Introduction to Performing Literature CMST 2040
• Public Speaking CMST 2060
• Communication for Business and the Professions CMST 2061
• Argumentation and Debate CMST 2063
• Small Group Communication CMST 2064
• Practicum in Communication Studies CMST 2200
• History of Film CMST 3012
• Performance in Everyday Life CMST 3041
• Advanced Public Speaking CMST 3060
• Rhetoric of the Contemporary Media CMST 3107
• Personal Relationships and Social Networks CMST 3112
• Communication Research CMST 3114
• Rhetoric of Propaganda CMST 3168
• Computer Mediated Communication CMST 3210
• Independent Study CMST 3810
• Selected Topics in Communication Studies CMST 3900
• Theories of Communication CMST 4114
• Advanced Topics in Performance Studies CMST 4142
• Visual Rhetoric CMST 4169
• Special Topics in Mass Communication CMST 4971
• + 1 more courses

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.