Faculty & Staff
Beth M. Waggenspack - Director of Graduate Programs
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Associate Professor
Office: 130B Shanks Hall
Phone: (540) 231-7625
Email: bwaggens@vt.edu
Education
Ph.D., The Ohio State University (Rhetoric and Public Address)
M.A., Texas Tech University (Communication)
B.A., Muskingum College (Speech and Secondary Education) cum laude
Recent Virginia Tech Awards:
Spring 2007 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 2006-2007 Excellence in Undergraduate Advising Award
Spring 2007 Office of Residence Life
Favorite Faculty 2007
Spring 2006 Nominated for Undergraduate Alumni Advising Award for Excellence in Advising
Spring 2006 Alpha Chi Omega sorority
Favorite Professor 2006
Spring 2006 Office of Residence Life
Favorite Faculty 2006”
Panhellenic Council recognition 2005 and 2006 (selection as one of the most valuable professors at VT)
VT Sigma Kappa Sorority selection as “favorite professor at VT 2005
Alumni Teaching Award 2000 (one of two given university-wide)
Inducted into Virginia Tech Academy of Teaching Excellence 2000
College of Arts and Sciences Certificate of Teaching Excellence 1998, 1993 and 1989
Teaching Interests
Rhetorical history, theory, and criticism; Persuasion; Social Movements; Introduction to Communication Theory
Beth Waggenspack received a 2007 Provost Office Summer Session Grant Program to develop an on-line summer course. The grants were for $5,000.
Waggenspack developed an online version of COMM 1014, Introduction to Communication Studies, which extends the opportunity to apply to the communication major to students who could not enroll during the regular academic year.
Recent Scholarship
Dr. Waggenspack's scholarship involves women and their rhetorical efforts. Recent critical essays include analysis of the persuasive communication of American First Ladies (Helen Herron Taft, Eleanor Roosevelt) to women who argue for social change, such as children's rights activist Marian Wright Edelman and women's rights advocates Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, and Lucretia Mott. Her analysis of the contributions of women to the span of rhetorical theory and history are featured in The Rhetoric of Western Thought (eighth edition), a leading textbook on rhetorical theory. In addition, her scholarly interests are in the basic communication course as well as communication and adoption issues.
Waggenspack, Beth M. (in press) Six entries: Awards, Former Sports Stars as Media Celebrities, Celebrity Humanitarians, Cult Film Figures, Reality Television, Talk Show Hosts.
Star Struck: An Encyclopedia of Celebrity Culture, ed. Sam Riley (Greenwood)
Wallace, Samuel P., Beth M. Waggenspack, and Kimberly Hubbert. (2009) Communication: Principles of Tradition and Change. Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt.
Waggenspack, Beth M. and Samual P. Wallace.(2008) Basic Course Instructors' Perceptions of Web-based Ancillary Materials with Sam Wallace. Selected for "Looking at Ourselves: Top Papers in the Basic Course Division"
Waggenspack, Beth M. (2007) Eleanor Roosevelt: Social Conscience for the New Deal. ed. Thomas W. Benson, American Rhetoric in the New Deal Era, 1932-1945 (Volume 7 of A Rhetorical History of the United States). East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, pp. 157-209.
Waggenspack, Beth M. (2007) Reflections on April 16. American Communication Journal (Vol.9, no.1, Spring 2007) http://acjournal.org/holdings/vol9/spring/articles/reflections.html
Waggenspack, Beth M. and Marla Chisholm (2007). A Decade Away from the Detsky Dom: Russian-American Teenage Adoptees Reflect on the Motherland. Presented to the Russian-American Communication Association, National Communication Association National Convention.
-----. (2005) Marian Wright Edelman in American Voices. ed. Bernard Duffy and Richard Leeman, Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing. pp. 133-140.
-----. Casting a Critical Eye: The Pioneer Punditry of Dorothy Fuldheim presented to the Political Communication Division, 96th Annual Conference of the Eastern Communication Association, April 2005
Preston, Marlene; Holloway, Rachel; Waggenspack, Beth; and Hickerson, Corey (co-presenters). Panel discussion: Eportfolio implementation and assessment presented to the Southern States Communication Association, April 2005
Waggenspack, Beth M. The Adoption Triad's Response to Fox's "Who's Your Daddy": A Case Study in Adoption Activism presented to the Family Communication Division, National Communication Association National Convention November 2006
----- (2004). "Helen Herron Taft: Opportunity and Ambition." Inventing Their Voices: The Rhetoric of American First Ladies of the Twentieth Century. Molly Wortheimer and Nicola Gutgold,eds. Rowman & Littlefield.
-----. (2004) "Women's Role in Rhetorical Traditions;" "Women's Rhetoric from Medieval to Enlightenment Times;" "Prelude to the Platform: Woman's Transition to the Public Sphere;" "Women Emerge as Speakers: Nineteenth-Century Transformations of Women's Role in the Public Arena;" "Into the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Directions in Women's Rhetoric." The Rhetoric of Western Thought, Eigth Edition. James L. Golden, Goodwin F. Berquist, William E. Coleman, and J. Michael Sproule, eds. Kendall/Hunt.
----. "I Found Her on E-bay: Popular Culture Collectibles and the First Lady." Paper presented to Political Communication Division, Eastern Communication Association Convention 2004
----. "Marian Wright Edelman: Champion of Social Responsibility."
Paper presented to Women's Studies Caucus, Eastern Communication Association Convention 2004
----. "Eleanor, the Youth Movement, and Peace: Compatriots, Communists, and the Coming of War." Paper presented to the American Society for the History of Rhetoric, NCA National Convention, Miami 2003
Marlene Preston, John C. Tedesco, and Beth M. Waggenspack. Student Apprehension and Project CommLab: A Case Study. Paper presented to Basic Course Division, Eastern Communication Association (2003)
Works in progress:
Deception Narratives in the 2008 Presidential Campaign for Robert E. Denton, ed. Studies of Identity in the 2008 Presidential Campaign, Lexington Books
Policy Brief, Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute http://www.adoptioninstitute.org/index.php Topic: Adoption and the Media
Currently working on an article about Dorothy Fuldheim, one of the earliest television female political pundits. She also conducts research into the communication of adoption issues via language and the media.
Professional Affiliations
National Communication Association (Chair, Basic Course Division 2008; NCA Legislative Committee 2008-2010; NCA Nominating Committee 2009)
Eastern Communication Association
Central Communication Association
Basic Course Directors Conference
Virginia Tech Academy of Teaching Excellence
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