Faculty

Mariaelena Bartesaghi

Associate Professor

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Office: CIS 3037

BIOGRAPHY

Mariaelena Bartesaghi’s work in discourse studies addresses the relationship between action, agency and accountability in health, crisis, and academic settings. Her recent book is the co-edited anthology Disability in Dialogue (John Benjamins). Mariaelena served as the Editor-in-Chief of Qualitative Research in Medicine and Healthcare from 2017 to 2012 and has guest edited two special issues of The Electronic Journal of Communication. She was one of 12 scholars invited to speak at the Annenberg Scholars Symposium on Discourses in Action at the University of Pennsylvania in 2016. In 2005, she was awarded the National Communication Association (NCA), Language and Social Interaction Division Top Dissertation Award. In 2018, 2014 and 2012, Mariaelena received the Department Faculty Recognition Award. And in 2012, the Florida Communication Association Best Teacher Award, the USF Communication HUB Award and NCA's award Teachers on Teaching. She is currently working on a monograph and an edited collection.

RESEARCH AREAS

Authority, Institutionalization, Communication Theory

RESEARCH clusters

Organizational Communication, Interpersonal and Relational Communication