Lilless McPherson Shilling, associate professor at the College of Health Professions at the Medical University of South Carolina, specializes in educational and health communications. With Linda Fuller, she is coauthor of Communicating Comfortably: Your Guide to Overcoming Speaking and Writing Anxieties (1990) and coeditor of Communicating about Communicable Diseases (1995).Linda K. Fuller, PhD, is professor of communications at Worcester State College. She is the author/(co-)editor of more than 20 books, including The Cosby Show (1992), Community TV in the U.S. (1994), and Dictionary of Quotations in Communications (1997). Awarded Fulbright scholarships to teach in Singapore in 1996 and do AIDS research Senegal in 2002, she has also been a visiting scholar at Northeastern University.

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