Elizabeth Porto

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, Consumer Studies Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 9/1998-8/2002 Lecturer, Commonwealth Honors College, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 9-2002-8/2008

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.