Office Location:
Deane Hall 107A
Office Available
By appointment.
Specialization(s)
Interpersonal Communication, Health Communication, Research Methods
Research Interests
- Interpersonal Communication (resilience, gossip, human-robot interaction)
- Rhetorical Figures in Advertising (hyperbole and body distortion images)
- Assessment in Higher Education and Non-Profits (program evaluation)
Biography/Details
Dr. Stern graduated from UCLA and earned a master’s degree and doctorate in communication
from the University of Arizona. She joined the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ faculty in 2007 after teaching
13 years at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Her areas of expertise and
research include interpersonal communication and the uses of images in advertising.
Her current interpersonal research projects explore the role of interpersonal communication
and its impact on one’s own and others’ resilience. Dr. Stern is also the lead interpersonal
communication specialist on a robotics team studying human-robot interaction and adaptation.
She has published articles on listening to gossip, one of the first scholarly studies
of Facebook, and articles on the effects of rhetorical figures in advertising (the
impact of hyperbole and body distortion images in advertising).