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  90 Lower College Road
  Kingston, RI 02881
  Phone: 401.874.5932
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Faculty and Staff

Degrees: University of Iowa; University of Illinois at Chicago

Teaching Interests:
community-based writing; environmental communication; rhetorical theory

Courses Recently Taught: WRT 106: Seminar in Environmental Communication; WRT 304: Writing for Community Service; WRT 104: Currents, Coastlines, and Quahogs

Selected Publications:

• Druschke, Caroline Gottschalk. "Watershed as Common-Place: Communicating for Conservation at the Watershed Scale." Special Issue: The Symbolic Transformation of Landscape Space: The Role of "Place" in Environmental Communication. Ed. James G. Cantrill and Jessica L. Thompson. Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture. In press (Issue 7.1, March 2013).
• Druschke, Caroline Gottschalk, Evan Dunphy, Linda Green, Elizabeth Herron, and Molly Hunt. "What is a Watershed?" University of Rhode Island Watershed Watch. 2012.
• Bleeden, David, Caroline Gottschalk-Druschke, and Ralph Cintron. "Minutemen and the Subject of Democracy." ¡Marcha!: Latino Chicago and the Immigrant Rights Movement. Ed. Amalia Pallares and Nilda Flores-Gonzalez. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2010. 179-197.
• Henningsen, Timothy, Diane Chin, Ann Feldman, Caroline Gottschalk-Druschke, Tom Moss, Nadya Pittendrigh, and Stephanie Turner Reich. "A Hybrid Genre Supports Hybrid Roles in Community-University Collaboration." Going Public: What Writing Programs Learn from Engagement. Ed. Shirley K. Rose and Irvin Weiser. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2010. 85-109.
• Gottschalk-Druschke, Caroline. Review of Paula Mathieu's Tactics of Hope: The Public Turn in English Composition. Community Literacy Journal 2.1 (2007): 127-129.
• Gottschalk-Druschke, Caroline, Nadya Pittendrigh, and Diane Chin. "Community-based Critique: No Walk in the Park." Reflections: A Journal of Writing, Service-Learning, and Community Literacy 6.1 (2007): 151-168.

Professional Activities: Senior Fellow, Coastal Institute, University of Rhode Island; Statewide Presidential Faculty Fellow, Rhode Island Campus Compact; Cluster Coordinator, Communicating Science Interdisciplinary Cluster, Harrington School of Communication and Media, University of Rhode Island; Project mentor in the NSF-EPSCoR Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow program; Regular presenter at the Rhetoric Society of America and National Communication Association national conference.

Current Research Interests: agricultural conservation outreach; commercial fishing policy; environmental communication; citizen science .

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