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William Bryant

Senior Lecturer

William Bryant

Senior Lecturer

Academic Appointment(s)

Pamplin College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Department of Communication

Administration
Department of Instruction & Innovation: Honors Program

  • (706) 667-4428
  • AH E110

Education

  • Ph.D., Cultural Studies/Critical Theory and Analysis University of North Carolina -, 2013

  • MA, Speech Communication and Rhetoric University of North Carolina -, 2008

  • BA, Speech Communication and Rhetoric Augusta State University, 2006

Awards & Honors

  • Honors Program Student Association Certificate of Excellence The Honors Program Student Association (HPSA), 2024

  • RSCA Summer Grant Pamplin College: Research, Scholarship & Creative Activity, 2023

  • Communication Department Outstanding Teaching Award Communication Department, 2022

  • CURS Research Grant Center for Undergraduate Research & Scholarship, 2022

  • Excellence in Honors Instruction Award Honors Program, 2022

Courses Taught Most Recent Academic Year

  • HONR 3900H

    Honors: Breaking Boundaries

  • COMM 1110H

    Honors: Public Speaking

  • HONR 4500H

    Honors Capstone

Teaching Interests

Honors Breaking Boundaries: Meditation and the Interior Life
Honors Breaking Boundaries: Stoicism and the Beautiful Life
Honors Breaking Boundaries: Subjectivity and Objectivity in the Modern World
Honors Intro Seminar: The Nature of Inquiry
Honors Fundamentals of Academic Inquiry
Honors Public Speaking
Honors Capstone
Advanced Public Speaking
Introduction to Research in Communication
Persuasion
Communication for Professionals
Communication and Culture
Jr. Seminar: Ethnography and Autoethnography
Public Speaking
Fundamentals of Academic Inquiry
Cultural Studies in Education (Graduate Course)

Research Interests

The philosophical and cultural foundations of education
Teacher immediacy
Identity construction
Mindfulness
Meditation
Listening
Silence
Rhetoric

Department Service

  • 2021 - 2023

    Role: Other