A Full Professor in the Department of Communication, at NC State University, Dr. Gallagher teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in visual and material rhetoric, rhetorical theory and criticism, communication ethics, and organizational communication and consulting. Dr. Gallagher's primary area of publication and scholarship is rhetorical criticism, particularly of civil rights-related discourse, commemorative sites (museums and memorials), visual and material culture, and public art. She is the principle investigator of the award winning Virtual Martin Luther King project, a digital humanities project funded and supported by the North Carolina Humanities Council, the college research office, and the NC State Libraries.
2023 journal article
Crafting a technology of recovery: the story of the Virtual Martin Luther King Project
COMMUNICATION AND CRITICAL-CULTURAL STUDIES, 20(2), 200–206.
2022 journal article
Of Sound, Bodies, and Immersive Experience: Sonic Rhetoric and its Affordances in The Virtual Martin Luther King Project
Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric. https://enculturation.net/Sound_Bodies_ImmersiveExperience
2021 chapter
vMLK 9-12 History Lesson Plan
In EDSITEment: The Best of the Humanities on the Web. National Endowment for the Humanities.
2021 chapter
vMLK 9-12 Language Arts Lesson Plan
In EDSITEment: The Best of the Humanities on the Web. National Endowment for the Humanities.
2020 journal article
Crafting A Necessary Space: The Virtual MLK Project
A Digital Project Handbook, 8.
2020 chapter book
FROM “DEAD WRONG” TO CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY:
2020 journal article
Painting publics: Transnational legal graffiti scenes as spaces for encounter, by Caitlin Frances Bruce
Argumentation and Advocacy, 57(2), 140–142.
2020 journal article
Public address as embodied experience: using digital technologies to enhance communicative and civic engagement in the communication classroom
Communication Education, 69(3), 281–299.
2020 journal article
Unearthing deep roots: tapping rhetoric’s generative power to improve community and urban development projects
Review of Communication.
2019 journal article
Race and Visibility: How and Why Visual Images of Black Lives Matter
VISUAL COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY, 26(4), 195–207.
2018 journal article
Genre: Permanence and Change
Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 48(3), 269–277.
2018 journal article
Improving SET Response Rates: Synchronous Online Administration as a Tool to Improve Evaluation Quality
RESEARCH IN HIGHER EDUCATION, 59(6), 812–823.
2018 journal article
Paradoxes, Perils, and Promises: Communication and Higher Education in the 21st Century
SOUTHERN COMMUNICATION JOURNAL, 83(4), 209–214.
2018 journal article
Student evaluations of teaching: the impact of faculty procedures on response rates
Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 44(1), 37–49.
2016 chapter book
Collected Debris of Public Memory: Commemorative Genres and the Mediation of the Past
2014 chapter
From “conflict” to “Constitutional question”: Transformations in early American public discourse
In D. Zarefsky (Ed.), Political Argumentation in the United States: Historical and contemporary studies (pp. 11–30).
Ed(s): D. Zarefsky
2014 chapter
Martin Luther King, the American Dream, and Vietnam: A collision of rhetorical trajectories
In D. Zarefsky (Ed.), Political Argumentation in the United States: Historical and contemporary studies (pp. 347–364).
Ed(s): D. Zarefsky
2013 book
2013 chapter
Communicative Spaces and Rhetorical Enactments: How and Why Urban Parks Enhance (or Fail to Enhance) Public Life
In M. Matsaganis, V. J. Gallagher, & S. Drucker (Eds.), Communicative Cities in the 21st Century: Urban Communication Reader III. London: Peter Lang.
2013 journal article
You Make it Amazing: The Rhetoric of Art and Urban Regeneration in the Case ofThe Public
Journal of Visual Literacy, 32(1), 51–72.
2012 chapter
Materiality and Urban Communication: The Rhetoric of Communicative Spaces
In J. Packer & S. Wiley (Eds.), Communication Matters: Materialist Approaches to Media, Mobility, and Networks. Oxford: Routledge.
Ed(s): J. Packer & S. Wiley
2012 chapter
Memory and Reconciliation at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
In B. Ott & G. Dickinson (Eds.), The Routledge Reader in Rhetorical Criticism. London: Routledge.
Ed(s): B. Ott & G. Dickinson
2011 journal article
Visual Wellbeing: Intersections of Rhetorical Theory and Design
DESIGN ISSUES, 27(2), 27–40.
2010 journal article
A Review of: “Lester C. Olson, Cara A. Finnegan, & Diane S. Hope (Eds.), Visual Rhetoric: A Reader in Communication and American Culture.”
A Review of: “Lester C. Olson, Cara A. Finnegan, & Diane S. Hope (Eds.), Visual Rhetoric: A Reader in Communication and American Culture.” Southern Communication Journal, 75(5), 547–551.
2010 chapter
Sparring with Public Memory: The Rhetorical Embodiment of Race, Power, and Conflict in the Monument to Joe Louis
In G. Dickinson, C. Blair, & B. Ott (Eds.), Places of Public Memory: The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorial. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press.
Ed(s): G. Dickinson, C. Blair & B. Ott
2009 journal article
Rhetoric and Materiality in the Museum Park at the North Carolina Museum of Art
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SPEECH, 95(2), 171–191.
2007 chapter
The power of agency: Urban communication and the rhetoric of public art
In S. J. D. G. Burd & G. Gumpert (Eds.), Urban communication reader (p. 159+). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
Ed(s): S. G. Burd & G. Gumpert
2007 journal article
Visibility and Rhetoric: Epiphanies and Transformations in the Life Photographs of the Selma Marches of 1965
Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 37(2), 113–135.
2006 chapter
Displaying race: Cultural projection and public memory
In Rhetorics of display (p. 177+). Columbia: University of South Carolina Press.
2005 journal article
Visibility and rhetoric: The power of visual images in Norman Rockwell's depictions of civil rights
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SPEECH, 91(2), 175–200.
2004 chapter
Memory as social action: Cultural projection and generic form in civil rights memorials communities
In P. A. Sullivan & S. R. Goldzwig (Eds.), New Approaches to Rhetoric (p. 149+).
Ed(s): P. Sullivan & S. Goldzwig
2003 chapter
Integrated approaches to teaching rhetoric: Unifying a divided house
In J. Petraglia & D. Bahri (Eds.), The realms of rhetoric: The prospects for rhetoric education (pp. 209–228). Albany: State University of New York Press.
Ed(s): . J. Petraglia & D. Bahri
2001 journal article
Black power in Berkeley: Postmodern constructions in the rhetoric of Stokely Carmichael
Quarterly Journal of Speech, (May), 144–157.
2000 journal article
Cooperative learning in chemical engineering workgroups: Dynamics of peer teaching and learning
Journal of Engineering Education, (July).
2000 journal article
Dynamics of peer interaction in cooperative learning workgroups
Journal of Engineering Education, 89(3), 285–293.
1999 conference paper
Dynamics of peer interactions in cooperative learning
1999 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, ASEE, June 1999. Washington, D.C.: American Society for Engineering Education.
1999 journal article
Reconciliation and amnesia in the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 2, 303–320.
1997 journal article
University repositioning: A review of four cases
Journal of College Admissions, 154(1997 Winter), 12–17.
1996 chapter
Instructor's resource manual and test item file
In Public speaking: Strategies for success. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon.
1995 journal article
Remembering together?: Rhetorical integration and the case of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial
Southern Communication Journal, 60, 109–119.
1995 chapter
Teaching annotations
In Public speaking: Strategies for success. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon.
1992 journal article
Ethical considerations in college admissions practices: A proposal for dialogic involvement
Journal of College Admissions, 137, 9–12.
1992 journal article
Martin Luther King, the American dream and Vietnam: A collision of rhetorical trajectories
Western Journal of Communication, 56, 91–107.
1990 journal article
FROM CONFLICT TO CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTION - TRANSFORMATIONS IN EARLY AMERICAN PUBLIC DISCOURSE
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SPEECH, 76(3), 247–261.
1990 chapter
The role of the TA in the interactive classroom
In Preparing the Professoriate of Tomorrow to Teach: Selected Readings in TA Training. Dubuque, IA: Kendall-Hunt Publishing.
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1990 - present
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1986 - 1990
1979 - 1983
Funding history based on the linked ORCID record. Updated: April 22nd, 2023 11:52
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