DR. CHRISTINA S. BECK

Ohio University

School of Communication Studies

210 Lasher Hall

Athens, OH 45701

E-mail:

Phone: (740) 593-9167

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA: Doctor of Philosophy

Norman, OK Major: Communication

August, 1989-May, 1991

(Dissertation Completed: 3/92)

BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY: Master of Arts

Bowling Green, OH Major: Interpersonal and

August, 1984-July, 1985 Public Communication

(Thesis Completed: 12/86)

BALL STATE UNIVERSITY: Bachelor of Science

Muncie, IN Major: Speech Communication

September, 1980-May, 1984 Major: Journalism (PR)

Minor: Marketing

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

OHIO UNIVERSITY Professor

School of Communication Studies August, 2005-Present

OHIO UNIVERSITY Associate Professor

School of Communication Studies August, 1999-August, 2005

(formerly School of Interpersonal Communication)

Athens, OH

OHIO UNIVERSITY Assistant Professor

School of Interpersonal Communication August 1993-August, 1999

Athens, OH

WILKES UNIVERSITY Assistant Professor

Department of Communication August, 1991-May, 1993

Wilkes-Barre, PA

UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA Graduate Assistant

Department of Communication August, 1989-May, 1991

Norman, OK

RADFORD UNIVERSITY Instructor

Department of Communication January, 1988-May, 1989

Radford, VA

HOLLINS COLLEGE Instructor

Department of Communication January, 1989-May, 1989

Hollins, VA

VIRGINIA TECH Instructor

Department of Communication May, 1988-July, 1988

Blacksburg, VA

NATIONAL BUSINESS COLLEGE Director*

Career Placement Center July, 1985-January, 1988

Roanoke, VA

*Served as the administrator of all career planning and placement activities and policies for all six campuses of National Business College as well as the consultant for placement activities for Fugazzi College and the five campuses of Kentucky College of Business, both based in Lexington, KY.

BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY Graduate Assistant

Department of Interpersonal and August, 1984-July, 1985

Public Communication

Bowling Green, OH

SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY

Scholarly Contributions as Editor:

Communication Yearbook: Served as Editor for Volumes 30-33 (2005-2008).

Journal of Health Communication: International Perspectives: Served as Contributing Book

Review Editor (June, 2002). From June, 2002 to February, 2008, I edited 41 book reviews.

Books:

Beck, C. S., Aubuchon, S., Ruhl, S., Simmons, N., & Tenzek, K. (under contract). Not Just My

Story: The role of celebrity health narratives in public health conversations. McFarland & Company, Inc.

Beck, C. S. (Ed.). (2009). Communication yearbook 33. New York: Routledge.

Beck, C. S. (Ed.). (2008). Communication yearbook 32. New York: Routledge.

Beck, C. S. (Ed.). (2007). Communication yearbook 31. New York: Erlbaum.

Beck, C. S. (Ed.). (2006). Communication yearbook 30. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Harter, L., Japp, P., & Beck, C. S. (Eds.). (2005). Narrative, health, and healing:

Communication theory, research, and practice. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Winner of the Sue Dewine Distinguished Book Award, Applied Communication Division of the National Communication Association, 2006, and the Outstanding Scholarly Book for the Health Communication Division of NCA, 2009

Beck, C. S. (2001). Communicating for better health: A guide through the medical mazes.

Boston: Allyn & Bacon. Winner of the Sue Dewine Distinguished Book Award, Applied Communication Division of the National Communication Association, 2002.

[This book includes 11 original chapters that feature an acclaimed autoethnography and theoretically and empirically-driven discussions of the complexities of contemporary health care.]

Beck, C. S. with Ragan, S., & Dupre, A. (1997). Partnership for health: Building relationships

between women and health caregivers. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Winner of the

Distinguished Book Award, Applied Communication Division of the National Communication Association, 1999. [This book includes six original chapters that discuss the ways in which women and their health caregivers co-accomplish relational, medical, and educational goals during health care interactions.]

Ragan, S., Bystromm, D., Kaid, L., & Beck, C. S. (Eds.) (1996). The lynching of language:

Gender, politics, and power in the Hill-Thomas hearings. Urbana-Champaign: University

of Illinois Press. Named an Outstanding Book on the subject of human

rights in North America by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America, 1998.

Book Chapters:

Beck, C. S. (2009). Editor’s introduction. In C. S. Beck (Ed.), Communication yearbook 33 (pp.

xv-xix). New York: Routledge.

Beck, C. S. (2008). Editor’s introduction. In C. S. Beck (Ed.), Communication yearbook 32 (pp.

xv-xx). New York: Routledge.

Beck, C. S. (2007). Editor’s introduction. In C. S. Beck (Ed.), Communication yearbook 31 (pp.

xvii-xxv). New York: Erlbaum.

Beck, C. S. (2006). Editor’s introduction. In C. S. Beck (Ed.), Communication yearbook 30 (pp.

xi-xvi). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Beck, C. S. (2005). Becoming the story: Narratives as collaborative, social enactments of

individual, relational, and public identities. In L. Harter, P. Japp, C. S. Beck (Eds.), Narrative, health, and healing: Communication theory, research, and practice (pp. 61-82). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Beck, C. S. (2005). Section introduction. In L. Harter, P. Japp, & C. S. Beck (Eds.), Narrative,

health, and healing: Communication theory, research, and practice (pp. 317-324). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Beck, C. S., Harter, L., & Japp, P. (2005). Continuing the conversation: Reflections on our

emergent scholarly narratives. In L. Harter, P. Japp, & C. S. Beck (Eds.), Narrative, health, and healing: Communication theory, research, and practice (pp. 433-443). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Harter, L., Japp, P., & Beck, C. S. (2005). Vital problematics of narrative theorizing about health

and healing. In L. Harter, P. Japp, & C. S. Beck (Eds.), Narrative, health, and healing: Communication theory, research, and practice (pp. 7-30). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Beck, C. S. (2005). Personal stories and public activism: The implications of Michael J.

Fox’s public health narrative for policy and perspectives. In E. Ray (Ed.), Case studies in health communication (pp. 335-345). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Ragan, S., & Beck, C. S. (1996). Introduction to a communication event: The Hill-Thomas

hearings. In S. Ragan, D. Bystromm, L. Kaid, & C. S. Beck (Eds.), The lynching of language: Gender, politics, and power in the Hill-Thomas hearings (pp. xv-xiii). Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press.

Beck, C. S., Ragan, S., & Kaid, L. (1996). He said-she said: The doing of gender through cross-

examination. In S. Ragan, D. Bystromm, L. Kaid, & C. S. Beck (Eds.), The lynching of language: Gender, politics, and power in the Hill-Thomas hearings (pp. 24-43). Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press.

Beck, C. S., & Ragan, S. (1995). The impact of relational activities on the accomplishment of

practitioner and patient goals in the gynecologic exam. In G. Kreps & D. O'Hair (Eds.), Communication and health outcomes (pp. 73-86). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Ragan, S., Beck, C. S., & White, M. (1995). The interactional achievement of patient education

during the gynecologic exam. In G. Morris & R. Chenail (Eds.), The talk of the clinic: Explorations in the analysis of medical and therapeutic discourse (pp. 185-208). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Journal Articles:

Acquah, S., & Beck, C. S. (In press). Language barriers to health care: Negotiating

multilingualism and vocabulary challenges. Ohio Communication Journal.

Beck, C. S., Aubuchon, S., McKenna, T., Ruhl, S., & Simmons, N. (2013).

Blurring personal health and public priorities: An analysis of celebrity health narratives in the public sphere. Health Communication, 1-13.

Beck, C. S. (2012). Intersecting narratives: Enjoying daytime drama as viewers (and actors)

experience the days of their lives. Communication Studies, 63, 152-171.

Beck, C. S., Benitez, J., Edwards, A., Olson, A., Pai, A., & Torres, M. (2004). Enacting ‘health

communication’: The field of health communication as constructed through publication in scholarly journals. Health Communication, 16, 475-492.

Shue, L., & Beck, C. S. (2001). Stepping out of bounds: Performing feminist pedagogy within a

dance education community. Communication Education, 50, 125-143.

dupre, A., & Beck, C. S. (1997). "How can I put this?": Exaggerated self-disparagement as

alignment strategy during problematic disclosures by patients to doctors. Qualitative Health Research, 7, 487-503.

Beck C. S. (1996). I'd like to make a point here: The achievement of social face through turn

management in the 1992 vice-presidential debate. Political Communication, 13, 165-

180.

Smith-Dupre, A., & Beck, C. S. (1996). Enabling patients and physicians to pursue multiple

goals in health care encounters: A case study. Health Communication, 8, (1), 73-90.

Beck, C. S. (1995). You make the call: The co-creation of media text through interaction in an

interpretive community of Giant fans. La Revue de Electronique (the Electronic Journal of Communication, 5.

Aden, R., Rahoi, R., & Beck, C. S. (1995). 'Dreams are born on places like this': The process of

interpretive community formation at the Field of Dreams site. Communication Quarterly, 43, 368-380.

Beck, C. S. (1994). How can I tell you this?: The interactional nature of narratives. Journal

of the Northwest Communication Association, 22, 5-26.

Beck, C. S., & Ragan, S. (1992). Negotiating relational and medical talk: Frame shifts in the

gynecologic exam. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 11 (1), 47-61.

Beck, C. S. (1992). An analysis of relational communication patterns between young soap opera

couples. Florida Communication Journal, 20 (1), 16-77.

Beck, C. S. (1992). Why be nice?: Politeness strategies and face threats between parents and

their offspring on daytime drama. Journal of the Oklahoma Speech Theatre Association,

13, 45-64.

Beck, C. S. (1992). An analysis of the most frequent individual and institutional producers of

organizational communication journal articles. ACA Bulletin, 80, 46-55.

Meyers, R., Brashers, D., Center, C., Beck, C. S., & Wert, S. (1992). Intellectual linkages and

information sources: A citation analysis of organizational communication research 1979-1989. Southern Communication Journal, 57, 241-246.

Book Review:

Beck, C. S. (1998). Review of Health Communication: Lessons from Family Planning and

Reproductive Health. Journal of Health Communication, 3.

Featured Presentation

Beck, C. S. (2013, November). Faith, civility, and participation in the academy. Scholarly

address at the annual banquet of the Religious Communication Association, Orlando, FL.

Convention Papers:

Acquah, S., & Beck, C. S. (2013). Language barriers to health care: Negotiating

multilingualism and vocabulary challenges. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Central States Communication Association, Kansas City, MO. (Top Five Paper)

Beck, C. S., & Walton, J. (2012). One Life to Live’s love letter to fans. The case of Fraternity

Row. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Popular Culture Association, Columbus, OH.

Beck, C. S., Aubuchon, S., McKenna, T., Ruhl, S., & Simmons, N. (2012). Blurring personal

health and public priorities: An analysis of celebrity health narratives in the public sphere. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Central States Communication Association, Cleveland, OH. (Top Three Paper)

Beck, C. S. (2011). Intersecting narratives: Enjoying daytime drama as viewers (and actors)

experience the days of their lives. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, New Orleans.

Beck, C. (2004). Personal stories and public activism: The implications of Michael J.

Fox’s public health narrative for policy and perspectives. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Central States Communication Association, Cleveland, OH.

Beck, C., Benitez, J., Edwards, A., Olson, A., Pai, A., & Torres, M. (2003). Enacting ‘health

communication’: The field of health communication as constructed through publication in scholarly journals. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association (Health Communication Division), Miami, FL.

Beck, C. (1997). The role of client assessment in service-learning projects. Paper presented at

the annual meeting of the National Communication Association (Commission for Experiential Learning), Chicago, IL.

Beck, C. (1997). Service-learning in health communication courses. Paper presented at the

annual meeting of the National Communication Association (Commission for

Experiential Learning), Chicago, IL.

Beck, C., Hale, C., Thomas-Maddox, C, & Graham, E. (1997). Juxtaposing orientations to

interpersonal communication: The value of team-teaching for addressing multiple

perspectives of interpersonal communication. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association (Instructional Communication Interest Group), Montreal, Canada.

Westerfelhaus, R., Nix, C., & Beck, C. (1997). From new members to new people: The

fraternity pledge process as a rite of passage and ritual of transformation. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western States Communication Association (Language and Social Interaction Interest Group), Monterey Bay, CA.

Beck, C. (1996). Into the community: Interpersonal communication for youth groups. Paper

presented at the annual meeting of the Speech Communication Association (Commission for Experiential Learning), San Diego, CA.

dupre, A., & Beck, C. (1996). 'How can I put this?': Exaggerated self-disparagement as

alignment strategy during problematic disclosures by patients to doctors. Paper presented

at the annual meeting of the Speech Communication Association (Health Communication Division), San Diego, CA.

Aden, R., Beck, C., & Smith, M. (1996). The co-construction and management of multiple

identities as relational bond on Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Speech Communication Association (Language and Social Interaction Division), San Diego, CA.

Beck, C. & Hipson, T. (1996). Does this really work?: Evaluating the effectiveness of service-

learning projects in communication courses. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Speech Communication Association (Commission for Experiential Learning), San

Diego, CA.

Shue, L., & Beck, C. (1996). Walking the talk in toe shoes: Performing pedagogical philosophy

within a performance community. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association (Instructional and Developmental Division), Chicago, IL.

Smith-Dupre, A., & Beck, C. (1995). Enabling patients and physicians to pursue multiple goals

in health care encounters: A case study. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Speech Communication Association (Health Communication Division), San Antonio, TX.

Beck, C. (1995). Posting like a 'real soap fan' on the Internet: An analysis of face preservation

and community identification on television bulletin boards. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Speech Communication Association (Interpersonal and Small Group Communication Division), San Antonio, TX.

Beck, C. (1995). Putting our knowledge to work: Integrating a service-learning component into

advanced interpersonal communication courses. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Speech Communication Association (Experiential Learning in Communication

Commission), San Antonio, TX.