- Brian Amsden: Adolescence in 20th century U.S. culture, rhetorical interrogations of intellectual property
- Shana Bridges: Political Rhetoric in general, rhetorical construction of citizen, especially post-9/11, strongly connected to department
- Cara Buckley-Ott (Colorado State University): Rhetoric and queer theory with a particular interest in queer kinship and queer identity; the resistive potential of mediated representations of fag hags
- Robert Clift: Media, rhetorical and ethnographic theory, documentary film, race, identity negotiations
- David Cochran: (Oklahoma Wesleyan University): American public discourse, American Christianity, American pragmatists, political theory, rhetorical theory
- Byron Craig: Rap, rhetoric, race
- Emily Cram: Rhetoric of social movements, feminist activism
- Emily Downing: Relationship between rhetoric and philanthropy through studying the language, visual images, and body rhetoric that non-profit organizations use to contrain and construct the identity of their audiences
- Danielle Fernandez: Advocacy, social justice, human rights, and higher education
- Whitney Gent: Rhetoric and social policy, issues of poverty, popular music studies, music fans and digital music distribution, web-based fan agency
- Jeremy Gordon: Discourse of protest, framing in mass media, how forms ofdissent are accepted or rejected. Media criticism, influence of media on perception of societies, cultures, and individuals
- Philip Handke: Narrative and metaphor theory, rhetoric of social movements, war, new technologies
- Shana Heinricy: Rhetorical theory, television studies, gender and ethnicity studies, American studies, consumer culture
- Jennifer Heusel: Critical race theory; Black Power; rhetoric
- Dixon Hollis: Rhetoric constructions and intersections of citizenship, education and food
- Melanie Loehwing: Themes of rhetoric, law, homelessness, and citizenship, legal policies passed on local, state, and national levels as they characterize and criminalize the homeless; competing notions of the home as a primary site for cultivating citizenship
- Kathleen McConnell: Rhetoric and public culture, schools and schooling, communication technologies, technologies of the self
- Jeffrey Motter: U.S. domestic and foreign policy discourse as it relates to issues of American Empire, democratic practice and globalization, the relationship between US interests and its democratic practice in times of war and possibilities for dissent
- Korryn Mozisek: Rhetoric of sport and citizenship
- David Naze: rhetorical studies, social protest rhetoric, rhetoric of race in sport
- Vernon O'Donnell: Racial identity, religon, and rhetoric
- Kara Patterson: The intersection of rhetoric and media and how the fields impact/deal with teen pregnancy and single motherhood; metaphors representing sexuality in movies that deal with sexually active teen/college age people
- Stephen Rahko: Economic rhetoric, discourses of wealth formation, foreign policy and normative values
- Anne Rohlman: Rhetoric, the female athlete; gender performance
- Jonathan Rossing: Critical race theory and critical theory; the role of comedy in navigating/addressing race and racism
- Jessica Rudy: Advocacy, feminism and GLBT issues, diversity
- April Smith: Rhetoric and media, global capitalism, American empire, dissent, and progressive activism in the 21st century
- Brittany Starr: Frames as rhetoric in mediated communication, narrative in film and other media, media rhetoric, globalization
- Margaret E. Van Blaricom: Critical discourse analysis that considers how the ideology of the American family is manifested in everyday discourse and helps to perpetuate the inequitable distribution of privilege in the U.S.
- Isaac West: Rhetoric, performance, queer theory and the law, transsexuals and their everyday experiences with/in law
- Valerie Wieskamp: Gender, race, and ethnic representations in public discourse
- Kelly Wilz : War rhetoric, media studies, religious studies
- Peter Zhang: Rhetorical/comic model of entrepreneurship; rhetorical and critical cultural studies of entrepreneurial discursive fragments in transitional China; entrepreneurial styles; rhetorical moments in pop media
