Faculty Highlights
Our faculty have had work screened on PBS and Netflix, had feature films receive a limited worldwide theatrical release, directed plays on and off-Broadway, and performed works at major international fringe festivals, including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
They've appeared as guest experts on over 100 local and national radio and television shows, have published opinion pieces in the Washington Post, and have contributed hundreds of blog posts and other online writing for public and academic audiences, several of which have been accessed by over 100,000 readers.
And, have decades of professional experience working in the film and television industries as writers, producers, and directors, in journalism and public relations, in strategic communication, and for professional dance and theatre companies, including in the roles of creative director.
- 12 books published
- 16 anthologies edited
- 141 peer-reviewed journal articles published
- 114 peer-reviewed essays in book collections published
- 156 works screened/performed at juried dance, film and theatre festivals (62 at international festivals)
- 27 invited performances
- 55 commissioned works
- 51 external grants in excess of $611,000, including monies from:
- The National Endowment for the Arts,
- The National Endowment for the Humanities,
- The Andrew Mellon Foundation,
- NASA,
- The Virginia Film Commission,
- The Virginia Commission for the Arts,
- The Virginia Commission for the Humanities
- Bernard J. Brommel Award for Excellence in Research in Family Communication, National Communication Association
- A Discovery Institute Fellowship at University College Dublin
- A Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Award
- A Professional Grand Prize Winner for Projection Mapping: Tupac Martir's Lux Festival
- A KCACTF Technical Design Award
- A John L. Caubel National Short Play Award
- A Best of Festival Award at the 2018 Broadcast Education Association Festival of Media Arts
- A Plank Fellowship from Public Relations Society of America
- An Innovation in Teaching Award from the Association of Theatre in Higher Education/Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Region IV
- An "Effective Practice Award," from the Online Learning Consortium
- 2 National Academic Advising Association Region 2 Excellence in Advising Faculty Advisor Awards
- 2 State Council of Higher Education for Virginia Finalists (2-time and 4-time nominees respectively)
- A Hampton Roads Public Relations Society of America Practitioner of the Year Award
- Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities Humanitarian Award
- The Martin Luther King Jr. Community Service Award from the Urban League of Hampton Roads
- 1 University Professor
- 2 University Distinguished Teachers
- 1 President's Diversity Champion Award recipient
- 5 Diversity Champion recognition recipients
- 1 Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award recipient
- 2 Entsminger Fellows in Entrepreneurship
- 1 Provost's Fellow
- 1 ODU Resilience Collaborative Grant recipient
- 1 Teaching with Technology Award recipient
- 2 Excellence in Adjunct Instruction recipients
- 12 Faculty Development Grant recipients
- 3 Faculty Innovation Grant recipients
- 3 PURS Grant recipients
- 4 University Summer Research Fellowship recipients
- 1 University Adviser of the Year recipient
- 1 Burgess Award for Excellence in Research Award recipient from College of Arts & Letters
- 3 Joel S. Lewis Award for Faculty Mentoring recipients from College of Arts & Letters
- 1 Stern Award for Excellence in Teaching recipient from College of Arts & Letters