faculty
Megan Fletcher, PhD she/her/hers
Assistant Professor
English & Communication
Contact
508-999-8274
mfletcher@umassd.edu
Liberal Arts 305A
Education
2022 | North Carolina State University | PhD |
2016 | North Carolina State University | MS |
2013 | Bridgewater State University | BA |
Teaching
Programs
Programs
Teaching
Courses
Introduction to principles and theories of strategic communication. Students will develop practices for researching, defining, and engaging strategic communication as a rhetorical effort to persuade and identify audiences in/through various media environments.
Capstone study. The course focus will change with the instructor, but topics may include professional writing and communication, mass communication, strategic communication, technical communication, and others.
The course includes intensive research into funding sources, analysis and interpretation of guidelines and writing several drafts of grant proposals. This specialized rhetorical form involves analyzing complex audiences and learning persuasive techniques unique to grants writing.
Development of intermediate level of communication skills about health-related concerns. Students learn to communicate effectively with diverse professional and public audiences and to connect the development of communication strategies to social, cultural, and political context. The course is organized around a semester-specific theme pertaining to the social determinants of health, health disparities, and public health concerns.
Development of intermediate level of communication skills about health-related concerns. Students learn to communicate effectively with diverse professional and public audiences and to connect the development of communication strategies to social, cultural, and political context. The course is organized around a semester-specific theme pertaining to the social determinants of health, health disparities, and public health concerns.
Research
Research interests
- Strategic Communication
- Intimate Partner Violence
- Media & Technology
- Autoethnography
- Community-Based Research
Select publications
- Megan Alyssa Fletcher (2018).
We to Me: An Autoethnographic Discovery of Self, In and Out of Domestic Abuse
Women's Studies in Communication, 41(1), 42-59.
National Communication Association: Stephen E. Lucas Debut Publication Award (2019)
Dr. Megan Alyssa Fletcher is a feminist scholar of media, technology, and violence. She incorporates narrative-driven and intersectional approaches to craft interdisciplinary interventions for studying (and ultimately preventing) violence against women broadly, and intimate partner violence specifically.