Dr. David Terry’s podcast “Catalog of Ships” has been named a top podcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. An episode of the “funny, offbeat, sad, quirky” podcast is being rebroadcast on Australia’s national public radio. Congratulations to Dr. Terry for work that has a global reach!
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Dr. Spangler’s play opens in Boston to great reviews!
Dr. Matthew Spangler’s play based on Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner opened in Boston over the weekend. The Boston Globe’s preview coverage emphasizes the importance of the play’s messages about the human spirit, and the newspaper’s review calls the play “a compassionate, deeply moving, event-packed journey across eras, cultures, national boundaries, and the emotional terrain of tumultuous lives.” Congratulations to Dr. Spangler for another successful opening!
COMM Prof’s Play to Open in Boston
Professor Matthew Spangler’s play, The Kite Runner, opens at the New Repertory Theatre in Boston next week. The play, adapted from Khaled Hosseini’s highly-acclaimed 2003 novel about an Afghan boy and his father who flee Afghanistan first for Pakistan and then to Fremont, California. In a recent article in Boston.com, Professor Spangler had this to say about his play:
“One thing I came to really love about this book as I was writing this play was that it has a wonderful degree of humanity, and it’s very unapologetic about that,” playwright Matthew Spangler says by phone from California. “There’s hardly a cynical beat in the book or in the play, and I thought it was worthwhile to tell that story in a time of deep cynicism.”
The play’s world premiere was at the San Jose Repertory Theatre in 2009.
Two New Faculty Join COMM Dept!
Two new faculty have joined the Communication Studies Department!
Dr. Luis Felipe Gomez studies organizational learning and development through the social construction of time. He is developing the concept of temporal leadership, which involves promoting a future orientation through temporal framing and other organizational communication interventions. In his teaching, he strives to help students develop their critical thinking skills and relate the concepts and skills they are learning to their work and personal lives. Professor Gomez has taught organizational communication, intercultural communication, and quantitative inquiry at both graduate and undergraduate levels. Professor Gomez comes to SJSU from Texas State University, San Marcos, where he was an assistant professor. He earned his PhD in organizational communication from the University of Texas at Austin, his MBA in international finance and marketing from Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium, and his BA in business administration from ITESM Campus San Luis. San Luis Potosí, México. Contact Professor Gomez at luis.gomez@sjsu.edu.
Dr. Tabitha Hart studies communication in organizational and business settings, both online and offline. In particular she is interested the links between culture, communication, and technology; the transfer of communication products across national boundaries; and customer service communication. Her most recent project examined the exchanges that took place on an interactive web-based platform that connected English language learners in China with trainers in the United States. In between degrees she worked as a language and communication trainer in Japan, the Czech Republic, and Germany. She holds a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Washington, an M.A. in Communication Studies from California State University, and a B.A. in Communication from the University of California, San Diego. Read more about her work on her website. Contact Dr. Hart at tabitha.hart@sjsu.edu.