Michelle Rodino-Colocino

Ph.D.: University of Pittsburgh
Master's degree: Northwestern University
Bachelor's degree: UCLA

An award-winning teacher, Michelle Rodino-Colocino serves as an assistant professor in the Department of Film-Video and Media Studies.

She previously taught for three years at the University of Cincinnati. She also taught mass communications and communications processes at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Washington.

Along with her teaching honors, including the Darwin Turner Recognition for Outstanding Teaching by the University of Cincinnati in 2006, she has been lauded for her research as well. In 2005, a panel of outstanding assistant professors organized by the National Communication Association cited her paper “Domestication the PDA: When Moore’s Law Meets Parkinson’s Law.”

She has been a guest speaker at conferences conducted by the National Communication Association, the Association of Internet Researchers, the Cultural Studies Association and the American Association for Rhetoric of Science and Technology.

Rodino-Colocino’s articles have been refereed in such journals as Critical Studies in Media Communications, New Media & Society and Feminist Media Studies.

Rodino-Colocino is a member of the Association of Internet Researchers, the International Communication Association, the National Communication Association and the Union for Democratic Communications.