Education
PhD: University of Iowa Iowa City, IA, 2020 (Communication Studies - Rhetoric )
MA: Ball State University Muncie, IN, 2014 (Communication Studies)
BA: Ball State University Muncie, IN, 2012 (Psychological Science)
Publications
Peer Reviewed Publications
Michelle Colpean (2020. ) Muslim Women Against FEMEN: Asserting Agency in Online Spaces .Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, , 13 (3 ) ,274
Michelle Colpean & Meg Tully (2019. ) Not Just a Joke: Tina Fey, Amy Schumer, and the Weak Reflexivity of White Feminist Comedy .Women's Studies in Communication, , 42 (2 ) ,161
Invited Publications
Michelle Colpean & Rebecca Dingo (2018. ) Beyond Drive-By Race Scholarship: The Importance of Engaging Geopolitical Contexts .Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 15 (4 ) ,306
Book Chapter
Michelle Colpean & Meg Tully (2018 ) The Hunger Games for Orphans?: Angelina Jolie and the Limits of Celebrity Philanthropy How Celebrity Lives Affect Our Own: Understanding the Impact on American's Public and Private Lives .Rowman & Littlefield
Additional Publications
Presentations
Lecture
Michelle Colpean (2019. ) Making Space: Balancing the Personal and Political in Academia .Muncie, IN. Other Institution. Level:University
Paper Presentations
Michelle Colpean (2022. ) Textual and Autoethnographic Reflections on the Social Media Performance of Maternal Grief and Personal Identity .New Orleans, LA. Conference. Level:National
Michelle Colpean (2022. ) Textual and Autoethnographic Reflections on the Social Media Performance of Maternal Grief and Personal Identity .New Orleans, LA. Conference. Level:National
Michelle Colpean & Meg Tully (2021. ) Witnessing White Feminist Apologia .Norfolk, VA. Conference. Level:National
Co-Authoring in Critical Rhetorical Studies (2020. ) Co-Authoring in Rhetorical Studies .Indianapolis, IN. Conference. Level:National
Michelle Colpean (2020. ) Kurdish Women Combatants, US Popular Media, and the Rhetorical Power of "Badass Women" .Denver, CO. Conference. Level:Regional
Michelle Colpean & Meg Tully (2019. ) Justice Will Be Punative (I’ma Smash)’: Satirizing the Patriotic Libido through the Lonely Island’s "Finest Girl" .Cincinnati, OH. Conference. Level:National
Michelle Colpean (2019. ) Womentoring: Imposter Syndrome .Baltimore, MD. Conference. Level:National
Michelle Colpean (2019. ) Womentoring: Student to Student: How to Get the Most Out of This Conference .Baltimore, MD. Conference. Level:National
Michelle Colpean (2019. ) Sheetcaking for Social Justice: Tina Fey and White Feminist Apologia .Omaha, NE. Conference. Level:Regional
Michelle Colpean (2018. ) Problematizing Punjammies: Rescue Branding, Global Sisterhood, and Sexual Labor .Salt Lake City, UT. Conference. Level:National
Michelle Colpean (2018. ) Pledging Allegiance: Performative Hyperpatriotism and the Protest Politics of the American Flag Hijab .Salt Lake City, UT. Conference. Level:National
Michelle Colpean & Rebecca Dingo (2018. ) Racial Rhetorical Criticism: Theory, Method, Ethics .Minneapolis, MN. Conference. Level:National
Michelle Colpean (2018. ) Rescue Branding: Sexual Labor, Commodity Activism, and Global Connectedness .Minneapolis, MN. Conference. Level:National
Michelle Colpean & Matthew Houdek (2017. ) Across Hallowed Grounds: The Violent Circulation of Racial Scripts and the Rhetoric of Relational Racisms .Dallas, TX. Conference. Level:National
Michelle Colpean & Meg Tully (2017. ) Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Indeed: Tina Fey, Amy Schumer, and White Feminist Comedy .Dallas, TX. Conference. Level:National
Michelle Colpean (2016. ) "Meet the Badass Women Fighting ISIS": Western Media Coverage of Kurdish Women Combatants .Philadelphia, PA. Conference. Level:National
Michelle Colpean (2016. ) Picturing the Middle East: Female Fighters and the Power of the Photograph .Philadelphia, PA. Conference. Level:National
Michelle Colpean (2016. ) Laverne Cox Bares All: Transgender Bodies, Online Discourse, and the Historical Influences of Anti-Transgender Feminist Theorizing .Atlanta, GA. Conference. Level:National
Michelle Colpean (2015. ) Muslim Women Against FEMEN: Online Spaces and the Construction of Feminist Alliance .Las Vegas, NV. Conference. Level:National
Michelle Colpean (2014. ) More than Headscarves and Hymens: A Feminist Analysis of Western Discourse Surrounding Muslim Women .Chicago, IL. Conference. Level:National
Michelle Colpean (2014. ) Solidarity is for White Women: Racial Exclusion in the Online Feminist Community .Chicago, IL. Conference. Level:National
Michelle Colpean (2014. ) “‘Reject the Fraud’: A Voice for Men and the Transcendent Rhetoric of the Men's Rights Movement .Chicago, IL. Conference. Level:National
Courses Taught
Business Communication Level:Undergraduate
Communication Research Methods Level:Undergraduate