Academia in Conflict

Adrienne P. Lamberti is Professor of Languages & Literatures at the University of Northern Iowa, where she coordinates its Professional Writing Program. She has published extensively on the rhetoric of professional and technical communication.Anne R. Richards is Professor of English at Kennesaw State University, where she has directed the peace studies and religious studies programs and where she helped found the PhD program in International Conflict Management.

• Part I Introduction.- Transformational Crisis Communication and the Mission of Academia.- Part II Exploring Academic Conflict in International Contexts.- Humanities’ Battlefronts: A Discursive “Is the Enemy of My Enemy My Friend?”.- Campus Hate Crimes During the Trump Era: The Rhetoric of Conflict During the 2017 Unite the Right Rally at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.- Part III Responding Ethically to Stakeholder Activism.- Mace, Memes, and Myopic Management: The University of California, Davis Pepper-Spray Scandal as a Transformational Crisis Communication Case Study.- Signals of Solidarity: Communication in Collective Action at Kennesaw State University.- Complaint, Free Speech, and “Inclusive” Campus Culture: One Transgender Student’s Experience.