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UNC Charlotte | Graduate Communication Studies





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Dr. Margaret M. Quinlan


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Colvard 5003

704.687.6900

 

 

 

Education

  • B.S., Marist College
  • M.S., Illinois State University
  • Ph.D., Ohio University

Areas of Interest

  • Intersections between health and organizational communication
  • Narrative and feminist sensibilities
  • Social justice issues that affect marginalized populations including disability-rights and gender inequities
  • Use of interpretive, critical and rhetorical methodologies as well as interdisciplinary quantitative methods

Teaching-Courses

  • Narratives of Health and Illness
  • Introduction to Communication Theory

Research-Projects

  • Across projects, Dr. Quinlan explores organizing of health care resources and work opportunities for people with lived differences like disability, age, and gender. Dr. Quinlan's research agenda is shaped by questions such as:
  • How organizations do the work of social movements?
  • How do organizations stretch beyond biomedical approaches to redress health related concerns and inequities?
  • How can aesthetic rationalities and embodied performances integrate under-represented populations in community life?
  • How do organizations define and create difference through their communicative practices?
  • What subject positions arise or are deterred by organizing practices?
  • How do material, corporeal, and broader social forces shape organizing possibilities?
  • What are the material consequences of organizing patterns and practices?
  • Dr. Quinlan has published in Text & Performance Quarterly, Health Communication, Management Communication Quarterly, Communication Teacher, Communication Research Reports, Journal of Research in Special Education Needs, The Braille Monitor, and Review of Communication