William Bryant

Senior Lecturer

William Bryant

Senior Lecturer

Academic Appointment(s)

Pamplin College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Department of Communication

Administration
Department of Instruction & Innovation: Honors Program

  • (706) 667-4428
  • AH E110

Education

  • Ph.D., Cultural Studies/Critical Theory and AnalysisUniversity of North Carolina -, 2013

  • MA, Speech Communication and RhetoricUniversity of North Carolina -, 2008

  • BA, Speech Communication and RhetoricAugusta State University, 2006

Awards & Honors

  • Honors Program Student Association Certificate of ExcellenceThe Honors Program Student Association (HPSA), 2024

  • RSCA Summer GrantPamplin College: Research, Scholarship & Creative Activity, 2023

  • Communication Department Outstanding Teaching AwardCommunication Department, 2022

  • CURS Research GrantCenter for Undergraduate Research & Scholarship, 2022

  • Excellence in Honors Instruction AwardHonors Program, 2022

Courses Taught Most Recent Academic Year

  • HONR 3900H

    Honors: Breaking Boundaries
  • COMM 1110H

    Honors: Public Speaking
  • HONR 4500H

    Honors Capstone

Teaching Interests

Honors Breaking Boundaries: Meditation and the Interior Life
Honors Breaking Boundaries: Stoicism and the Beautiful Life
Honors Breaking Boundaries: Subjectivity and Objectivity in the Modern World
Honors Intro Seminar: The Nature of Inquiry
Honors Fundamentals of Academic Inquiry
Honors Public Speaking
Honors Capstone
Advanced Public Speaking
Introduction to Research in Communication
Persuasion
Communication for Professionals
Communication and Culture
Jr. Seminar: Ethnography and Autoethnography
Public Speaking
Fundamentals of Academic Inquiry
Cultural Studies in Education (Graduate Course)

    Research Interests

    The philosophical and cultural foundations of education
    Teacher immediacy
    Identity construction
    Mindfulness
    Meditation
    Listening
    Silence
    Rhetoric

    Department Service

    • 2021 - 2023

      Role:Other
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