Christina Foust

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Christina Foust

Chair and Professor of Communication Studies

College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Biography

Dr. Foust earned her BS from Kansas State University, her MA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and her PhD from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Research Interests

    Christina Foust is Professor of Communication Studies at MSU Denver. Her work engages rhetoric, power, and social change in a variety of contexts, including social movements, pop culture, and political discourse. Dr. Foust’s recent projects explore the convergence of social movements with social media, including campus activism led by Black students at the University of Missouri in 2015 (#ConcernedStudent1950) and the ways the hashtag meme #JeffCoSchoolBoardHistory contributed to the successful recall of 3 school board members in Jefferson County, Colorado. Dr. Foust is passionate about environmental communication and education, and partners regularly with Denver Public Schools Sustainability office for community engaged learning. Dr. Foust is also the Co-Parent Coordinator of the Green Team at her kid’s elementary school, and enjoys participating in the Auraria Sustainable Campus Program.

Teaching Interests

    Dr. Foust teaches Foundations of Communication, Introduction to Rhetoric & Popular Culture, Social Movement Rhetoric, and Environmental Communication, among other classes. Dr. Foust is committed to meeting students where they are and fostering a classroom community of support and accountability to help students learn and engage their communities in and outside the classroom. Dr. Foust enjoys community engaged learning as a way to help students build career relevant skills while serving the needs of community partners. She also actively incorporates digital writing, portfolio-building, group projects and presentation work to allow students to build 21st Century communication skills.

Education

PhD in Communication Studies

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

MA in Communication Studies

University of Nebraska, Lincoln

BS in Speech Communication

Kansas State University

Published Works

    Foust, C., Rief, J., Varela, M. E. (). Between Debate and Dialogue: Performing Democratic Life Across the Curriculum. , C. S., Foust, C. (2024). Apocalyptic Rhetoric and Settler Power. Lessons for the End Times in Eruption. (). . Foust, C., Brannon, D., Bexell, S. (2024). Alignment thinking and complementary curriculum: A qualitative study supporting the urgent need for environmental education. Journal of Curriculum Studies. Foust, C. (2023). Digital Social Movement Rhetoric. (). Kendall Hunt. Soukup, C., Foust, C. (2023). Popular Culture in Everyday Life: A Critical Introduction. Routledge, Foust, C., Weathers, C. (2021). #JeffCoSchoolBoardHistory and the Tale of Conservative “Reformers” in Colorado: Evaluating the Consequentiality of Memes in Social Movement 2.0. (pp 135-155). Routledge. Alfonzo, K. P., Foust, C. (2019). Campus activism in the digital age: An ecological chronology of #ConcernedStudent1950. . Journal of Contemporary Rhetoric, 9(3/4), 87-111. http://contemporaryrhetoric.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Alfonzo_Foust_9_3_4_1.pdf. Foust, C., Lair, J. D. (2018). Reflections on casualization and pathways to re- professionalize the professoriate: A conversation between communication studies colleagues.. Review of Communication, 1812-128. . Foust, C., Drazner Hoyt, K. (2018). Social movement 2.0: Integrating and assessing scholarship on social media and movement. . Review of Communication, 187-55. . Foust, C., Alvarado, R. (2018). Rhetoric and Social Movements. Oxford University Press, https://doi.org/10.1093/acefore/9780190228613.013.656 Pason, A., Foust, C., Zittlow Rogness, K. (2017). Introduction: Rhetoric and the Study of Social Change. (pp 1-26). University of Alabama Press. Foust, C. (2017). Social movement rhetoric: A critical genealogy, post-1980. (pp 46-74). University of Alabama Press. Foust, C., Pason, A., Zittlow Rogness, K. (2017). What Democracy Looks Like: The Rhetoric of Social Movements and Counterpublics. (). University of Alabama Press. Molloy , K., Foust, C. (2016). Work calling: Exploring the communicative intersections of meaningful work and organizational spirituality. . Communication Studies, 6739-358. . Foust, C., Simon, M. J. (2015). Memories of movement in a post-feminist context: Conservative fusion in the rhetoric of Tammy Bruce and “Dr. Laura” Schlessinger. Western Journal of Communication, 79-21. . Cox, R., Foust, C. (2013). Social Movement Rhetoric. Strata, Foust, C., Lair, J. D. (2012). The political, cultural, and economic assault on higher education. Review of Communication, 1259-174. . Zittlow Rogness, K., Foust, C. (2011). Beyond rights and virtues as foundation for women’s agency: Emma Goldman’s rhetoric of free love. Western Journal of Communication, 7548-167. . Foust, C. (2011). Considering the prospects of immediate resistance in food politics: Reflections on The Garden. . Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, 550-355. . Foust, C. (2010). Meditations on immediate resistance.. Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies, 1008-220. . Foust, C. (2010). Transgression as a mode of resistance: Rethinking social movement in an era of corporate globalization. . Lexington Books, Foust, C., Murphy, O. W. (2009). Revealing and reframing apocalyptic tragedy in global warming discourse. . Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, 351-167. . Cox., Foust, C. (2008). . (pp 605-627). Sage. Foust, C. (2008). Aesthetics as weapons in the “war of ideas:” Exploring the digital and typographic in American conservative Web sites . Southern Communication Journal, 7322-142. . Jones, Jr., G. R., Foust, C. (2008). Staging and enforcing consumerism in the city: The performance of othering on the 16th Street Mall. . Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, 4 http://liminalities.net/4-1/16thstreet.pdf. Foust, C., Soukup, C. (2006). Do I exist?: Exploring transcendent subjects and secrets in The Sixth Sense. Western Journal of Communication, 7015-133. . Soukup, C., Foust, C. (2006). The privileged white man meets the other(s): Images of power in the postmodern films of the Coen brothers. Colorado State University-Pueblo, Foust, C. (2006). Toward degrees of mediation: Revisiting the debate surrounding Hardt and Negri’s multitude. . Review of Communication, 629-341. . Foust, C. (2004). A return to feminine public virtue: Judge Judy and the myth of the tough mother.. Women's Studies in Communication, 2769-293. .