Elizabeth Porto
Senior Lecturer II
Business Communication Program
Education
MFA Fiction, University of Massachusetts Amherst
MA History, University of Southern California
MA English and American Studies, Columbia
BA English, Barnard College
Academic Appointments
Senior lecturer, Business Communication Program, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 9/2003-Present
Lecturer, Commonwealth Honors College, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 9-2002-8/2008
Lecturer, Consumer Studies Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 9/1998-8/2002
Research Interests
Strategic Storytelling in Business
Intercultural Communication
Visual Rhetoric and Visual Literacy
Leadership Rhetoric
Historical Geography
Entomology
Teaching Interests
Communication Strategy
Finance Communication
Management Communication
Visual Rhetoric
Rhetoric and Argumentation
Public Speaking
Corporate Communication
Intercultural Communication
Business Ethics
Selected Publications
Western Humanities Review, Massachusetts Review, Willow Springs, Southern California Anthology
With Friedman et al., "Inside Business Writing," Kendall Hunt Publishing, 2006.