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Beth Boser
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Associate Professor
Communication Studies
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Beth Boser Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Associate Professor
Communication Studies
Specialty area(s)
Public Communication and Advocacy, Media Studies, Gender and Feminism
Current courses at UWL
CST 190: Introduction to Communication Studies
Education
Ph.D. University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
M.A. California State University, Long Beach
B.A. Gustavus Adolphus College
Career
Teaching history
CST 412: Community Advocacy and Social Change
CST 211: Communication and Civic Engagement
CST 419: Media & Identity
CST 271: Media and Society
CST 415: Advanced Topics in Public Communication and Advocacy -- Discourses of Resistance and Reconciliation (Study Abroad in Cape Town, South Africa)
CST 190: Introduction to Communication Studies
CST 315: Communication Criticism
CST 499: Senior Project in Communication Studies
CST 230: Interpersonal Communication
CST 110: Communicating Effectively
Previous Institutions: Rhetorical Criticism, Rhetorical Theory, Reproduction and Social Change, Communication Theory, Introduction to Communication Studies, Gender and Media, Communication and Culture, Interpersonal Communication, Small Group Communication, Public Speaking.
Research and publishing
Lake, R. A., Bloomfield, E. F., Boser, B. L., Hardin, A., & Pickering, B. A. (2022). "Spanning the abyss": Graduate student steps and tasks. In B. W. Bach, D. O. Braithwaite, & S. Ganesh (Eds.). By Degrees: Resilience, Relationships, and Success in Communication Graduate Studies. San Diego, CA: Cognella.
Boser, B. L. (2020). Defining “birth rape”: Networked argument resources for mothers’ advocacy. In C. Winkler (Ed.). Networking Argument. New York, NY: Routledge.
Boser, B. L. (2020). “Overcoming postpartum depression”: Pathologizing motherhood in self-help discourse. In E. Frost and M. Eble (Eds.), Interrogating Gendered Pathologies. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press.
Boser, B. L. & Anderson, R. B. (2018). America, meet your new dad: Tim Kaine and subordinate masculinity. In C. Kray, T. Carroll, & H. Mandell (Eds.). Nasty Women and Bad Hombres: Gender and Race in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election (88-103). Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press.
Boser, B. L. (2018). Recovering trust: Mothers’ anti-vax to pro-vax conversions. In R. Lake (Ed.). Recovering Argument (138-43). New York, NY: Routledge.
Boser, B. L. (2016). “I forgot how it was to be normal”: Decompensating the binary of good/bad motherhood. In S. Hayden and H. Hundley (Eds.), Mediated Moms: Contemporary Challenges to the Motherhood Myth (161-81). New York, NY: Peter Lang.
Boser, B. L. & Lake, R. A. (2014). “Enduring” incivility: Sarah Palin and the Tucson tragedy. Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 17, 619-52.
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