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	Name	Patricia Malesh
	Title	Assistant Professor
	Office	ENVD 1B61
	Office Phone	3037354385
	Office Hours	Currently on Research Leave
	Email	patricia.malesh@colorado.edu
	Biography
	Dr. Patricia Malesh is an assistant professor of Communication. In her research, she theorizes intersections of personal agency and social change. In particular, she focuses on movement studies as rhetorical-critical theory by blending performance studies, public/counterpublics theory, ethnography/auto-ethnography, and narrative theory with sociological and psychological insight. She recently co-edited the collection Active Voices: Composing a Rhetoric of Social Movements (SUNY Press, 2009) and is currently working on a manuscript that extends the scholarship on rhetorics of consumption (vegetarianism/veganism as socio-cultural movements) that she begin in her dissertation Rhetorics of Consumptions: Identity, Confrontation, and Corporatization in the American Vegetarian Movement, which won Rhetoric Society of America's Dissertation of the Year award in 2005. She has a dual faculty appointment with the Program for Writing and Rhetoric (PWR) and serves as the Associate Director of First-Year Writing. As associate director, she works with graduate students from a variety of disciplines who teach rhetoric and writing in the PWR, helping them to bridge their scholarly interests and their pedagogical praxis. She serves her community and bridges her scholarship with civic life as a board member of the Boulder County chapter of the ACLU of Colorado.