Q&A WITH NEW FACULTY

By Hayden Flinn

Nathan Bedsole Colin Whitworth Molly Wilkins

1. What brought you to Georgia College & State University?

1. What brought you to Georgia College & State University?

1. What brought you to Georgia College & State University?

Rhetoric Faculty

Janice Pillay Advisor, RHET and MSCM

Vonya Miller Advisor, MSCM

Makhalath Fahiym Advisor, MSCM

Mass Communication Faculty

Bill Burke

Lecturer

Advisor to The Colonnade and Bobcat Multimedia Network

Nah Ray Han, Ph.D. Assistant Professor

Molly Wilkins

Lecturer

Amanda Respess Senior Lecturer

Scott Dillard, Ph.D. Professor RHET Coordinator

Janet Hoffmann, Ph.D. Professor

Nathan Bedsole, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Advisor to Forensics Team

Christina Smith, Ph.D. Associate Professor MSCM Coordinator Internship Coordinator

Chad Whittle, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Advisor to Podcasting Club

Michael Crews, M.F.A. Assistant Professor Advisor to Bobcat Media Productions

Colin Whitworth, Ph.D. Lecturer

Michael Dreher, Ph.D. Professor

Jamie Downing, Ph.D. Associate Professor Advisor to Lambda Pi Eta

Mikkel Christensen, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Advisor to PRSSA

Angela Criscoe, M.F.A. Excecutive Director, School of Continuing and Professional Studies

Mary Jean Land, Ph.D. Emeritus Faculty

Ginger Carter-Miller, Ph.D. Emeritus Faculty

I came to Georgia College to join the faculty in the Department of Communication and to direct the new Forensics (Speech & Debate) team. I love beautiful, historic architecture and the student-focused instruction of our liberal arts campus. Georgia College is a special place, and I consider myself unbelievably fortunate to work here.

2. What are you teaching?

I teach courses in the RHET program in the Department of Communication, including but not limited to public speaking, senior capstone, American public discourse and informative speaking.

3. List a fun fact about you. I have an identical twin brother.

4. If you could teach one class that’s not offered at GCSU, what would it be?

I think an upper-division “philosophy & rhetoric” course would be great fun for our majors, and I think a GC1Y on “the art of argumentation” would be tremendously fun and useful for our incoming students.

5. Favorite college mascot? Thunder. Paws up, baby.

I really love the area and the colleagues. I’m coming (most recently) from teaching at The University of South Florida in Tampa. When I visited Milledgeville, I was really excited that it didn’t take me 20 minutes to get everywhere. I’m originally from a small town in North Alabama, so this is much more my speed!

2. What are you teaching?

I teach a rotation of courses in the rhetoric major/minor that include some of our performance studies courses, small group communication and some of our GC1Y courses.

3. List a fun fact about you. Most of my students probably know this, but I was a marching band kid. I got to go to several national championship games while a student at Alabama, and I marched in two different sections (drumline and alto sax).

4. If you could teach one class that’s not offered at GCSU, what would it be?

Right now, I would really like a class housed in communication and performance where I would work collaboratively with my students to write, direct and stage a full-length performance around a theme

5. Favorite college mascot? Big Al. Roll tide.

I am from the Middle Georgia area, so it was a natural fit to come to GCSU. I was lucky enough that a position opened up, and I went for it.

2. What are you teaching?

I am teaching professional media writing, writing for advertising & PR, PR, PR planning and branding for digital media.

3. List a fun fact about you. I’m a licensed yoga teacher and am exploring ministry work. There’s not a whole lot that others don’t know about me. I’m an open book and have a decent social media following, so I tend to put it all out there.

4. If you could teach one class that’s not offered at GCSU, what would it be?

We teach a theory class here, but I’d love to teach a more specific media theory class.

5. Favorite college mascot?

I should say the Bobcat; however, I will be starting a Ph.D. program at UGA in the Fall so I’ll have to say Georgia’s Uga.