cnpoulos@uncg.edu
115 Ferguson Building
336-334-5297
Specializations: Ethnography/Autoethnography, Family Communication, Communication and Friendship, Dialogue,Film and Relationships, Communication Ethics
CURRICULUM VITAE
Christopher N. Poulos, Ph.D.
Department of Communication Studies
UNC Greensboro
109 Ferguson Building
Greensboro, NC 27402
(336)686-2514 — cnpoulos@uncg.edu
Ph.D. Human Communication Studies, University of Denver: June, 1999. Dissertation: Leaping toward infinity: Embodied knowing and the ethical movements of communicative praxis.
M.A. Religious Studies, University of Denver: June, 1993. Thesis: Rotations: Memory, forgetting, individuation, and intersubjectivity in selected fiction of Walker Percy.
B.A. Philosophy and the Arts, University of Colorado: May, 1982.
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Relational and family communication, family secrecy, autoethnographic/narrative ethnographic methods, dialogue, philosophy of communication, communication ethics, and film studies.
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
August 2023-? Professor and Department Head, Communication Studies, UNC Greensboro
August 2019-2023: Professor, Department of Communication Studies, UNC Greensboro.
August 2015-August 2019: Professor and Department Head, Department of Communication Studies, UNC Greensboro.
August 2011—August 2015: Associate Professor and Department Head, Department of Communication Studies, UNC Greensboro.
August 2007-August 2011: Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, UNC Greensboro.
August 2001-2006: Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies, UNC Greensboro. Director of Graduate Studies, 2003-2006
August 1999-July 2001: Full-time Lecturer, Arts & Humanities Core and the Women’s College, University of Denver.
August 1997-July 1999: Adjunct Instructor, Arts & Humanities Core, School of Communication, and the Women’s College, University of Denver
AWARDS AND HONORS
RESEARCH
Books
Poulos, C. N. (2021). Essentials of Autoethnography. American Psychological Association Qualitative Research Book Series.
Poulos, C. N. (2008/2018). Accidental Ethnography: An inquiry into family secrecy. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press. (2nd Classic Edition 2018. New York: Routledge).
Journal Articles
Poulos, C.N. (2023). I don’t know why I swallowed that lie. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies. https://doi.org/10.1177/15327086231186590
Poulos, C.N. (2023). One love, this time. In special issue on Laurel Richardson’s poetry collection “For Better or Worse.” International Review of Qualitative Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/19408447231158085
Poulos, C.N. (2022). The eyes (ayes?) have it. International Review of Qualitative Research. DOI: 10.1177/19408447221114849
Poulos, C.N. (2022). Autoethnography and Resistance: A Rant in Haiku. International Review of Qualitative Research. DOI: 10.1177/19408447221081095
Alhayek, K., Alexander, B. K., Foster, E., Hernandez Ojeda, C., Mackie-Stephenson, A., Moreira, C., Pelias, R. J., Poulos, C., Sutton, T. and Twishime, P. I. (2022). “Collaborative Autoethnographic Writing as Communal Curative.” International Review of Qualitative Research. DOI: 10.1177/19408447211068193
Alexander, B.K., Hernandez, C., Pelias, R., Alhayek, K., Poulos, C.N., Moreira, C., Sutton, T. Stephenson, A., Foster, E., & Tishime, P. (2021). Inter and Enter: An Invitation to Collaboration Thru Autoethnography. International Review of Qualitative Research 0:0, 1-33. (Equal collaboration by all authors).
Poulos, C.N. (2021). From True Grit to “Big Damn Heroes”: Cowboys, Pirates, and Relational Ethics. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies 1–8, DOI: 10.1177/1532708620968298
Poulos, C.N. (2021). Walking With/Through a Savage History. Journal of Autoethnography 2:1, pp. 78-82. DOI: htttps:doi.org/10.1525/joae.2021.2.1.78.
Poulos, C. N. (2021). A Bad Moon A-rising: Raising our Voices Against Racism, Hatred, Violence, and Oppression in Troubled Times. IRQR, Volume 13:4 (February), pp. 438-449.
Poulos, C. N. (2020). The Perils and the Promises of Autoethnography: Raising Our Voices in Troubled Times. Journal of Autoethnography 1 (2): 208–211.
https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2020.1.2.208
Poulos, C. N. (2019). Trouble in Paradise. International Review of Qualitative Research. 12:3, 268-277. DOI: 10.1525/irqr.2019.12.3.268
Poulos, C. N. (2018). Stand up! A performance autoethnography of resistance. Qualitative Inquiry. DOI: 10.1177/1077800418806611
Poulos, C. N. (2017). Autoethnography: A manifestory. International Review of Qualitative Research. 10:1, pp. 33-38.
Poulos, C. N. (2017). Under pressure. Cultural Studies – Critical Methodologies. 17:4, 308-315 (https://doi.org/10.1177/15327086177061).
Poulos, C. N. (2016). Coming home. International Review of Qualitative Research. 9:1, pp. 86-101.
Poulos, C. N. (2016). An autoethnography of memory and connection. Qualitative Inquiry. DOI: 10.1177/1077800415622506.
Poulos, C. N. (2016). A narrative jag: The living legacy of Bud Goodall. Qualitative Inquiry: 22(1): 5-11. DOI: 10.1177/1077800415603393.
Poulos, C. N., Hamilton, C., Jovanovic, S., & Morretto, K. (2015). Our work is not done: Advancing democratic engagement as purpose and product of higher education. The Journal of Community Engagement in Higher Education (online).
Poulos, C. N. (2014). Rockin’ the Ethnographic Mystery. Storytelling, Self, Society. 10(1): 26-44.
Poulos, C. N. (2014). Writing a bridge to possibility. International Review of Qualitative Research 7(3): 342-358.
Poulos, C. N. (2014). My father’s ghost: A story of encounter and transcendence. Qualitative Inquiry 20(8): 1005-1014.
Poulos, C. N. (2012). The liminal hero. Cultural StudiesÛ Critical Methodologies. 12(6): 484 – 489.
Poulos, C. N. (2012). Writing through the memories: Autoethnography as a path to transcendence. International Review of Qualitative Research. 5(3): 313-324.
Poulos, C. N. (2012). Joy Notes. Qualitative Communication Research 1(2): 169-180.
Poulos, C. N. (2012). Life, interrupted. Qualitative Inquiry. 18(4): 323-332.
Poulos, C. N. (2012). Stumbling into relating: Writing a relationship with my father. J. Wyatt & T. Adams (Eds). (Special issue on father-son relationships). Qualitative Inquiry: 18(2): 197-202.
The Ethnogs, the Femnogs, and Rip Tupp*. (aka Trujillo, N.; Krizek, R.; Poulos, C. N.*; Drew, S.; Mills, M.; Sotirin, P.,& Ellingson, L.) (2011). Performing Mythic Identity: An Analysis and Critique of “The Ethnogs.” Qualitative Inquiry, 17(7): 664-674.
Poulos, C. N. (2010). Performance is a good breakfast: Metaphorical plays on the meanings of performance. International Review of Qualitative Research. 3(2): 209-216.
Jovanovic, S.; Poulos, C. N. & LeGreco, M. (2010). Waiting for the bus: Awakening a social justice sensibility through communication activism. Carolinas Communication Association Annual XXVI.
Poulos, C. N. (2010). Transgressions. International Review of Qualitative Research, 3(10): 67-88.
Poulos, C. N. (2010). Spirited Accidents: An autoethnography of possibility. Qualitative Inquiry, 16(1): 49-56.
Poulos, C. N. (2008). Accidental Dialogue: The search for dialogic moments in everyday life. Communication Theory, 18(1): 117-138.
Poulos, C. N. (2008). Narrative Conscience and the autoethnographic adventure: Probing memories, secrets, shadows, and possibilities. Qualitative Inquiry 14(1): 46-66.
Poulos, C. N. (2006). The ties that bind us, the shadows that separate us: Life and death, shadow and (dream)story. Qualitative Inquiry. 12(1): 96-117.
Poulos, C. N. (2004). Disruption, Silence, and Creation: The search for dialogic civility in the age of anxiety. Qualitative Inquiry. 10(4): 534-547.
Poulos, C. N. (2003). Fire and ice: Flaming passion, reified structure, and the organizing body. American Communication Journal. 6(2).
Poulos, C. N. (2002). The death of ordinariness: Living, learning, and relating in the age of anxiety. Qualitative Inquiry. 8(3): 288-301.
Book Chapters
Poulos, C.N. (2023). A liminal awakening. In A. Grant (Ed.) Writing philosophical autoethnography. New York: Routledge.
Poulos, C. N. (2021). “Coming home to narrative autoethnography: Encounters with Bochner and Ellis” in Advances in Autoethnography and Narrative Inquiry: Reflections on the legacy of Carolyn Ellis and Arthur Bochner. New York: Routledge.
Poulos, C.N. (2021). Poking Around the Neighborhood: Autoethnography and the Search for….
Handbook of Autoethnography, 2nd Edition. New York: Routledge.
Poulos, C. N. (2020). Navigating the narrow spaces: A critical autoethnography of life in the (postmodern) neoliberal university. In Herrmann (Ed.) The Routledge international handbook of organizational autoethnography. New York: Routledge.
Poulos, C. N. (2019). The liminal leader: Narrative conscience and critical-hermeneutic leadership in the neoliberal academy. In Myers, B. & Brower, J. (Eds.) Critical Administration in Higher Education: Negotiating Political Commitment and Management Practice. New York: Lexington Books.
Poulos, C. N. (2019). Echoes of your presence. In L. Peterson and C. Kiesinger (Eds.), Narrating midlife. New York: Lexington Books.
Poulos, C. N. (2017). The voice of white male privilege and power. In P. Leavy (Ed.), Privilege through the looking glass. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
Poulos, C. N. (2013). Writing my way through: Memory, autoethnography, identity, hope. In C. Ellis, T. Adams, & S. Holman-Jones (Eds.), Handbook of Autoethnography. Left Coast Press (invited and peer reviewed).
Poulos, C. N. (2013). Autoethnography. In A. Trainor & E. Graue (Eds.), Reviewing qualitative research in the social and behavioral sciences: A guide for reviewers and researchers. New York: Routledge (invited and peer reviewed).
Poulos, C. N. (2006). Dreaming, writing, teaching: Stories from within thin places. In W. Ashton & D. Denton (Eds.), Spirituality, ethnography, and teaching: Stories from within. New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishers (invited and peer reviewed).
Poulos, C. N. (2004). Spirited teaching: A pedagogy of courage. In W. Ashton & D. Denton (Eds.), Spirituality, action & pedagogy: Teaching from the heart. New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishers (invited and peer reviewed).
Poulos, C. N. (2003). The death of ordinariness: Living, learning, and relating in the age of anxiety. In N. K. Denzin & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.). 9/11 in American culture. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press. (Article selected for reprint).
Conference Proceedings
Poulos, C.N. Echoes of the past, traces of possibility: Grief, memory, openings (2023). International Association of Autoethnography and Narrative Inquiry (ISAN Symposium).
Poulos, C.N. (2022). Cool Autoethnography. International Association of Autoethnography and Narrative Ethnography (online: www.IAANI.org).
Encyclopedia entry
Poulos, C. N. (2016). Evocative writing. In C. Davis & R. Potter (Eds.). International Encyclopedia of Communication Research Methods. Vienna, Austria: Wiley-Blackwell. The International DOI: 10.1002/9781118901731.iecrm0094
Festschrift
Poulos, C. N. (2012). How Bud Goodall saved my life. In S. de la Garza, R. Krizek, & N. Trujillo (Eds). Celebrating Bud: A festschrift honoring the life and work of H.L. “Bud” Goodall, Jr. Tempe AZ: Center for Innovative Inquiry.
Academic Essays
Poulos, C.N. (2019). Introduction: Special Issue on Promotion, Tenure, and Qualitative Inquiry in Troubled Times. 12:3, 213-214. DOI: 10.1525/irqr.2019.12.3.213
Poulos, C. N. (2017). Autoethnographic reflections on the neoliberal academy: Stories of resistance, resilience, and remembrance. Cultural Studies Û Critical Methodologies. https://doi.org/10.1177/15327086177061
Poulos, C. N. (2016). Writing our way home. International Review of Qualitative Research. 9:1, pp. 1-3.
Poulos, C. N. (2016). A giant sandwich: Reflections on Laurel Richardson and qualitative inquiry. In White, J. (Ed.). Permission: The international interdisciplinary impact of Laurel Richardson’s work. Boston: Sense Publishers.
Poulos, C. N. (2015). Autoethnography: Past, Present, and Future. In N.K. Denzin & M. Giardina (Eds). Qualitative inquiry: Past, present, and Future. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.
Poulos, C. N. (2014). Writing autoethnographic bridges. International Review of Qualitative Research 7(3): 275-278.
Poulos, C. N. (2012). The Memory/voice/journey/call of autoethnography. International Review of Qualitative Research. 5(3): 293-294.
Poulos, C. N. (2009). Worlds of Meaning, Memory, Identity, and Contradiction. Iowa Journal of Communication, 41:1, i-ii.
Poulos, C. N. (2008). Autoethnography and the human spirit: Probing method, identity, silence, and memory. Iowa Journal of Communication, 40:1, i-ii.
Other Academic Writing
Poulos, C. N. (2017). Truth’s last stand: Why we must win the war on truthfulness, accuracy, honesty, and reason. In B. Ballard and M. Farrington (Eds.), special issue of Ethica, NCA Communication Association’s Communication Ethics Division newsletter. Refereed.
Editorials
Poulos, C. N. (2012). A new kind of discourse. Greensboro News & Record, Wednesday, January 25 (http://www.news-record.com/content/2012/01/25/article/a_new_kind_of_discourse).
Poulos, C. N. (2011). The value of a liberal arts education. Greensboro News & Record, Sunday, October 2.
Book Reviews
Poulos, C. N. (2015). The road to Sweetwater. Departures in Critical Qualitative Research. Vol. 4, 1: pp. 114-116.
Poulos, C. N. (2012 [Review of the Book, Death: The Beginning of a Relationship]. Journal of Loss and Trauma: International Perspectives on Stress and Coping, 17: 200-202.
Poulos, C. N. (2010). [Review of the Book, Cancer and death: A love story in two voices]. Southern Communication Journal, Vol. 75:4, p. 462.
Poulos, C. N. (2003). [Review of the book, Moments of meeting: Buber, Rogers, and the potential for public dialogue]. Southern Communication Journal, Vol. 68:2, 168-169.
Poulos, C. N. (2002). [Review of the book, Prejudiced communication: A social psychological perspective]. Southern Communication Journal, Vol. 67:3, 295-296.
Publications prior to UNCG
Poulos, C. N. (1999). Shvitzing/kibitzing: Bodies, communication, and “communion” in a men’s locker room. Cultural Studies: A Research Volume, Vol. 4, 193-215 (refereed collection).
TEACHING
Undergraduate CST Courses
CST 207: Relational Communication
CST 210: Communication Ethics
CST 305: Persuasion in Western Culture
CST 333: Independent Research
CST 415: Family Communication
CST 416: Communication and Ethnography: Writing Life
CST 417: Communication and Friendship
CST 460: Communicating Common Ground: Diversity, Story, and Dialogue
Mixed graduate/upper-division undergraduate (500-level) CST Courses
CST 455/655: Relational Communication and the Hollywood Feature Film
Graduate CST Courses
CST 612: Seminar in Autoethnography; Seminar in Interpersonal Relationships
CST 650: Independent Research
CST 663: Seminar in Relational Communication
CST 698: Capstone
Graduate MLS Courses
MLS 610: Writing your Life
MLS 610D: Ethical Decision Making
MLS 620A: Film and the American Dream
MLS 620: Heroism, Villainy, and Violence in Contemporary Culture
Continuing Education (Emeritus) Courses
Film and Relationships
Great speeches in History
Free speech?
Writing your life
Workshops
Writing Qualitative Inquiry: Embracing the Mystery. ½ day pre-conference workshop presented at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana, IL, May 16, 2019.
Writing Qualitative Inquiry: Embracing the Mystery. ½ day pre-conference workshop presented at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana, IL, May 17, 2018.
Writing Qualitative Inquiry: Embracing the Mystery. ½ day pre-conference workshop presented at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana, IL, May 18, 2017.
Autoethnography and Memory. 90-minute writing workshop presented at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana, IL, May 19, 2016.
Writing Qualitative Inquiry: Embracing the Mystery. ½ day pre-conference workshop presented at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana, IL, May 19, 2016.
Writing in Various Academic Genres. 2-hour professional development workshop for CST graduate students. January 2017.
Writing for Academic Audiences. 2-hour professional development workshop for CST graduate students. March 2016.
Building Positive Workplace Relationships. 2-hour workshop for UNCG Human Resources Department. September 2016.
Coaching and Engagement for Employee Success. 2-hour workshop for UNCG Human Resources Department’s Supervisory Certificate program. March 2016.
Writing Qualitative Inquiry: Embracing the Mystery. ½ day pre-conference workshop, presented with Lisa Tillmann at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana, IL, May 21, 2015.
Creating a positive workplace climate. 2-hour workshop for UNCG Human Resources Department. March 2015.
Embracing the Mystery in Qualitative Inquiry. (½ day pre-conference workshop, presented with Sarah Tracy), International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana, IL, May 22, 2014.
Creating Resonance in Qualitative Research. (½ day pre-conference workshop, presented with Sarah Tracy), International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana, IL, May 16, 2013.
Civility and Dialogue and Race: A Workshop on Effective Communication About Race. Guilford County Interfaith Council, March 21, 2013.
Civility and Dialogue: A Workshop on Effective Communication in Marriage, College Park Baptist Church, September 19, 2012.
Civility and Dialogue: A Workshop on Effective Communication in Politics, New Garden Friends School, August 31, 2012.
Writing Qualitative Inquiry. (A 2-day workshop with Research Talk and The Odom Institute), Chapel Hill, NC July 30-31, 2012.
Accidentally on Purpose: The inconsistency, dialectic, and dialogue of improvisation and structure in ethnography. (½ day pre-conference workshop, presented with Sarah Tracy), International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois, May 2012.
Raising our Ethnographic Voices. Full-day Ethnography Division Preconference at the National Communication Association Conference, New Orleans, November, 2011.
The Secrets of Accidental Ethnography (½ day pre-conference workshop), International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois, May, 2011.
Writing Qualitative Inquiry (½ day pre-conference workshop), International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois, May 2010.
Communicating Common Ground in Leadership Contexts, NC Triad Leadership Academy, September 15, 2007.
Wait, are those canons loaded? Cicero’s approach to great public speaking! National Association of Communication Centers Mini-Conference, April 13, 2007.
Creating Effective Speaking Intensive Courses (2005) co-facilitator, with Kim Cuny and (2003-04) co-facilitator with Joyce Ferguson, Speaking Across the Curriculum Faculty Development Workshops.
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