Holly Lawrence

Director, Business Communication Program

Telephone: 413-577-2110

Email: lawrence@som.umass.edu

Office: SOM 208

Currently teaching: SOM 316, SOM 390N

Education:

Ph.D., University of Massachusetts
M.A., American Studies, University of Massachusetts
B.A., English, George Mason University

Research/Teaching Interests:

Leadership Communication
Contrastive Rhetoric
Emerging Trends in Business Communication

Selected Presentations:

"UMilan and UMass Meet: Tales of a Cross-cultural Experiment," Association for Business Communication European Meeting, June 2006.

"Getting Personal: Using Personal, Reflective Writing in Leadership Communication," Association for Business Communication, March 2005.

"The Classic Isocratean First Step: Using Personal Writing to Identify Ethical Positions and Develop Leadership Goals," Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 2004.

"The Place of Personal Writing in Business Communication Classrooms," Association for Business Communication, October 2003.

Academic and Professional Activities:

Secretary, Massachusetts Society of Professors, 2005-
   present.
Bargaining Team Member, Massachusetts Society of
   Professors, January 2007-present.
Executive Advisory Committee, Faculty Senate, present.
Chair, Non-Tenure Track Committee, Association for
   Business Communication, 2006-present.

Publications:

With Friedman et al., "Inside Business Writing," Kendall Hunt Publishing, 2006.