Kristine Cabral

Davis 405
Phone: (401) 874-9413
cabral@uri.edu

Education:
M.A. Com. Studies (emph.: Rhetoric), URI—2002.
B.A. Com. Studies, URI—2000.

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Kristine is a graduate of the Communication Studies graduate program here at URI. Since 2000, she has taught Public Speaking, Interpersonal Communication, Social and Cultural Aspects of Media, and Communication Fundamentals. Among her achievements at the University, Kristine received the Department Excellence Award, Doody Scholarship, Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Graduate Student Teaching Award, and authored three scholarly papers accepted to regional and national conference.

Her research interests lie in the area of postmodern thought, the rhetoric of pop culture, gendered communication, and communication ethics. She has authored papers on the social construction of personal identity, the ambiguity of language, and Burke's Dramatism.

Her desire to study and teach in the area of communication was inspired by the realization that the study of communication is the study of our meaning-making process. The symbol system we call "language" is the tool we use to communicate; and, through communication, we define, comprehend, manipulate, critique, complicate, limit, and often times, confuse the human condition. Ultimately, it is the tool we use (and, paradoxically, that uses us) to form identity and structure human reality. If we desire to better understand ourselves, and each other, we must begin with the study of language.