Graduate Teaching Assistant

About

  • Office Hours:

    Wednesdays, 1pm-4pm

  • Role:

    Graduate Student

  • Position:

    • Graduate Teaching Assistant
    • Ph. D. Candidate

  • Concentration:

    • Rhetoric and Civic Engagement
    • Organizational Communication

  • Department:

    • Communication Studies

  • Education:

    • B. S. in Communication Studies, South Dakota State University, 2019
    • B. S. in Political Science, South Dakota State University, 2019
    • M. A. in Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2021

  • Curriculum Vitae:

Biography

Lauren Buisker (she/her) is a Ph. D. Candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant at Colorado State University. She earned her undergraduate degrees in Communication Studies and Political Science from South Dakota State University in 2019, and her master's degree in Communication from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2021. Her research uses feminist rhetorical perspectives to understand discourses about sexual violence, particularly as they relate to organizing and organizational life. Lauren has been the instructor of record in classes on argumentation, debate, introductory writing, public speaking, interpersonal communication, political communication, pop culture, and rhetorical criticism. Additionally, she has worked as a teaching assistant in a workplace communication course. Lauren currently serves as an instructor for SPCM 335: Gender and Communication, and she also co-teaches a graduate-level course called SPCM 675: Communication Pedagogy.

Publications

Buisker, Lauren L. “Weaponizing Apologia in Response to Me Too: Organizational Silencing in CBS Coverage of Charlie Rose.” Women & Language 46, no. 2 (2023): 331-362. doi:10.34036/WL.2023.019

Buisker, Lauren L. Review of “What It Feels Like: Visceral Rhetoric and the Politics of Rape Culture.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 109, no. 2 (2023): 199-200. doi:10.1080/00335630.2023.2201433

Courses

  • SPCM 675: Communication Pedagogy

  • SPCM 335: Gender and Communication

  • SPCM 420: Political Communication

  • SPCM 412: Rhetorical Criticism

  • SPCM 200: Public Speaking