Faculty Profiles

Michael R. Kramer

Professor

Communication Studies

109 Moreau Center for the Performing Arts

mkramer@saintmarys.edu

Education

PhD, University of Minnesota
JD, University of Wisconsin, Madison
MA, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
BS, Winona State University

Research Interests

Courses Recently Taught

Professional Experience

Spent seven years working in state and federal courts after earning a law degree from the University of Wisconsin and prior to becoming a professor

Creative and Scholarly Work

"Image Repair Rhetoric and Shock Radio: Don Imus, Al Sharpton, and the Rutgers Women’s Basketball Team Controversy." Journal of Radio & Audio Media, 21(2) (2014): 247-257.
"Strict Father or Nurturant Parent? President Jimmy Carter’s Rhetoric of Morality in Support of the Panama Canal Treaties." Carolinas Communication Annual, 28 (2012): 61-90.
"Temporal Ethos: A Shifting Rhetorical Resource in Arguments about War and Peace." Florida Communication Journal, 37 (2008): 12-26.
Kramer, M., K. Olson. "The Strategic Potential of Sequencing Apologia Stases: President Bill Clinton's Self-Defense in the Monica Lewinsky Scandal." Western Journal of Communication, 66 (2002): 347-368.
“Myth and Accountability: The Negotiation of Rhetorical Tensions in the Korean War Veterans Memorial.” In US Public Memory, Rhetoric, and The National Mall, (R. Aden, Ed.) (2018) :47-63. (Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield).
Book Review: Reconsidering Obama: Reflections on Rhetoric. Presidential Studies Quarterly, 49.1,(2018): 251-252
Empowerment as Transgression: The Rise and Fall of the Black Cat in Kevin Smith’s The Evil That Men Do. In M. Bajac-Carter, N. Jones & B. Batchelor (Eds.), Heroines of Comic Books and Literature: Portrayals in Popular Culture. (2014): 233-243. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield.

Professional Memberships

National Communication Association
State Bar of Wisconsin 1990-2024