
Elizabeth Porto
Senior Lecturer II Business Communication Program
Office: Isenberg 337
Tel: 413.577.3161
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Academic Background
Education
MFA Fiction, University of Massachusetts Amherst
MA History, University of Southern California
MA English and American Studies, Columbia
BA English, Barnard College
Academic Appointments
Senior lecturer, Business Communication Program, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 9/2003-Present
Lecturer, Consumer Studies Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 9/1998-8/2002
Lecturer, Commonwealth Honors College, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 9-2002-8/2008
Research Interests
- Strategic Storytelling in Business
- Intercultural Communication
- Visual Rhetoric and Visual Literacy
- Leadership Rhetoric
- Historical Geography
- Entomology
Teaching Interests
- Communication Strategy
- Finance Communication
- Management Communication
- Visual Rhetoric
- Rhetoric and Argumentation
- Public Speaking
- Corporate Communication
- Intercultural Communication
- Business Ethics
Selected Publications
Western Humanities Review, Massachusetts Review, Willow Springs, Southern California Anthology
With Friedman et al., "Inside Business Writing," Kendall Hunt Publishing, 2006.