She holds a Ph.D in Communication from the University of Utah, is editor of the Journal of Business Communication and the textbook BCOM (Cengage) and is author of Strategic Business Communication for Leaders (Cengage). Jolanta Aritz is also an Associate Professor of Clinical Management Communication at the USC Marshall School of Business. She holds a Ph.D in Linguistics from the University of Southern California. Aritz has been published in numerous journals, and has a research grant from the USC Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences Initiative and the C.R. Anderson Research Fund for innovative research in the field of Business Communication.