Courtney Dreyer

Assistant Teaching Professor of Communication Studies

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About Courtney Dreyer

Courtney Dreyer is an Assistant Teaching Professor in Communication Studies. Dr. Dreyer is a skilled educator promoting student success across a variety of educational modalities and content areas including interpersonal communication, intercultural communication, popular culture, and rhetoric. She is passionate about mentorship and enjoys helping students connect their coursework to their interests and future goals. Her research explores the intersections of rhetoric and media studies.

Education

Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln
M.A., Syracuse University
B.A., Western Michigan University

Research Interests

• Film & Pop Culture
• Rhetorical Criticism
• Gender and Sexuality
• Christian Popular Media

Teaching

COMM 240: Interpersonal Communication
COMM 290: Intercultural Communication
COMM 322: Communication & Popular Culture

Selected Publications

• Dreyer, Courtney J. & Casey Ryan Kelly. “The Reliant (2019) and the Rhetoric of Necropolitical
  Christianity.” Quarterly Journal of Speech (2024). DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2024.2357119
• Dreyer, Courtney J. & Dakota J. Sandras. “The Godly Girlboss.” Celebrity Studies 15.2 (2024).
  DOI: 10.1080/19392397.2024.2341600
• Dreyer, Courtney J. “The Right to Believe: Constructions of White Christian Victimhood in the
  God’s Not Dead Series.” Critical Studies in Media Communication 40.4 (2023). DOI: 10.1080/15295036.2023.2249076
• Dreyer, Courtney J. “(Eco)horror of Masculinity: Confronting Abject Nature in the Films of
  Robert Eggers.” Southern Communication Journal 88.5 (2023). DOI: 10.1080/1041794X.2023.2190605