Associate Professor
PhD, Ohio University
MS, Ohio University
PhB, Miami University
Office: McMurran 263
Phone: (757) 594-7495
Email: mmeyer@cnu.edu
Teaching Responsibilities
Gender Communication, Media Criticism, Interviewing, Communicating Identity, Senior Research
Research Interests
identity, rhetoric of relationships, emerging adulthood, sexuality, gender
Meyer, M.D.E., (in press). The fantasy of Sex and the City: a postcolonial critique of the romantic imaginary, consumerism and globalization. Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Meyer, M.D.E., Fallah, A., & Wood, M. (2011). Gender media & madness: Reading a rhetoric of women in crisis through Foucauldian Theory. Review of Communication, 11(3), 216-228.
Meyer, M.D.E. (2010). Representing bisexuality: Exploring intersectionality in television targeted to emerging adults. The Journal of Bisexuality, 10(4), 366-387. [lead article]
Lee, P.W., & Meyer, M.D.E. (2010). "We all have feelings for our girlfriends:" Progressive (?) representations of lesbian lives on The L Word. Sexuality & Culture,14(3), 234-250.
Meyer, M.D. E., & Baughman. L. (in press). Examining the role of relational aggression in understanding sexual experience. In J. Manning, C. Noland, & J. MacLennan (Eds.), Case studies of communication about sex (pp. forthcoming). Cambridge Scholars.
Meyer, M.D.E. (2009). "I'm just trying to find my way like most kids": Bisexuality, adolescence and the drama of One Tree Hill. Sexuality & Culture, 13(4), 237-351.
Meyer, M.D.E., Spencer, M., & French, N.T. (2009). The identity of a "college student": Perceptions of academic rigor among first-year college students. College Student Journal, 43(4), 1070-1079.
Meyer, M.D.E. (2008). "Maybe someday I could play a hooker in something!": Asian-American identity, gender and comedy in the rhetoric of Margaret Cho. In L. Mao & M. Young (Eds.), Representations: Doing Asian American Rhetoric (pp. 279-292). Logan: Utah State University Press.
Meyer, M.D.E. (2007). On remembering the queer self: The impact of memory, trauma and sexuality in interpersonal relationships. Sexuality & Culture, 11, 18-30
Meyer, M.D.E., & Stern, D.M. (2007). The modern(?) Korean woman in prime time: Analyzing the representation of Sun on the Television series Lost. Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 36(5), 313-331. [lead article]
Meyer, M.D.E. (2007). Women speak(ing): Forty years of feminist contributions to rhetoric and an agenda for feminist rhetorical studies. Communication Quarterly, 55, 1-17.
