
Anne F. Mattina
Professor of Communication, Communication Department Chair
Biography
Anne Mattina's research interests are American Women's Public Activism, Rhetorical Criticism, Women's Role in the Labor Movement and Communication and Politics.
Education
- Ph.D., The Ohio State University, Department of Communication. Major area of study: Rhetoric
- Master of Arts, The Ohio State University, Department of Communication. Major area of study: Political Communication
- Bachelor of Arts, The University of Massachusetts, Amherst; cum laude. Major area of study: Interpersonal Communication
Accomplishments
- Student Government Association Faculty Member of the Year, Stonehill College, 2010
- Outstanding Faculty Member, awarded by Dept. of Athletics, Stonehill College, 2007
- Honorary Member of Alpha Sigma Lambda, National Honor Society for Students in Continuing Education, inducted 2004
Courses Taught
- Studies in Persuasion
- Rhetorical Theory
- Gender & Communication
- Political Communication
- Persuasion & Social Movements
- Family Communication
- Special Topics: The Rhetoric of American Women
Selected Publications, Articles & Presentations
- "Yours for Industrial Freedom": Women of the I.W.W., 1905-1930. Women's Studies, Spring 2013.
- Paying the Price for Pacifism: The Press's Rhetorical Shift from 'Saint Jane' to 'the most dangerous woman in America'" with S. Shepler; Feminist Formations Spring 2012, 154-171
- "Don't Let Them Step on You": Gender, Ethnicity & Class in the Great Strikes, 1909-1913", in Who Says? Working-Class Rhetoric, Class Consciousness and Community. William DeGenaro, editor, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007, 47-68.
- "Hillary Rodham Clinton" in Leading Ladies of the White House, Molly Wertheimer , editor, Rowman & Littlefield, 2004, 217-234
- Striking Women: Massachusetts Mill Workers & Rhetorical Agency, 1912 with Domenique Ciavattone '13 presented at the Centennial of the Bread & Roses Strike, April, 2012, Lawrence, MA
- Dr. Mattina presented "Strategies for Increasing Cultural Communication Competence" at the 2020 Academic Chairpersons Conference."