Author: John Dennis Anderson
Alternate names: John Anderson
Bio: Dr. Anderson, a performance studies scholar and Associate Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies, focuses his research in the area of narrative theory and performance. He is the author of The Student Companion to William Faulkner (Greenwood, 2007). His 2017 essay "The Medium is the Mother: Elsie McLuhan, Elocution, and Her Son Marshall" appeared in Text and Performance Quarterly and earned him the 2019 National Communication Association's Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies. In 2013, Dr. Anderson was co-recipient of the NCA's Leslie Irene Coger Award for Distinguished Performance, and he received the NCA's Performance Studies Division Distinguished Service Award in 2014.-faculty profile