Myles W. Mason, PhD.

• Affiliate Faculty 2025-Present
  • Georgia State University, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Institute
• Lecturer and Course Director 2023-Present
  • Georgia State University, Department of Communication
  • Course Director for Public Speaking
• Post-Doctoral Instructor 2022-2023
  • University of Colorado, Boulder, Department of Communication
• Graduate Instructor 2017-2021
  • University of Colorado, Boulder, Department of Communication
• Graduate Instructor 2015-2017
  • Syracuse University, Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies

• PhD in Communication 2021
  • University of Colorado—Boulder
  • Dissertation title: Affective Atmospheres of Public Controversy: The Intersectional Rhetorics of Media Surveillance, White Feminine Performance, and Digital Publicity of BBQ Becky
  • Committee: Lisa A. Flores, Laurie E. Gries, Rachel Hall (Syracuse University), Tiara R. Na’puti (University of California—Irvine), and Phaedra C. Pezzullo (Director)
• MA in Communication and Rhetorical Studies 2017
  • Syracuse University
  • Thesis Title: “Good Mourning: Structured Feelings and Queering the Affective Potential of Grief.”
  • Committee: Dana L. Cloud, Rachel Hall, Charles E. Morris III, Gwendolyn D. Pough, and Erin J. Rand (Chair)
• BA in English (Writing and Rhetoric) 2015
  • Georgia Gwinnett College
• Certificate in Mastering Online Teaching 2024
  • Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning & Online Education, Georgia State University
• Muslim Women and the Media Institute 2018
  • University of California—Davis
    • *Part of inaugural cohort
• Certificate of Advanced Study in Women’s and Gender Studies 2017
  • Syracuse University
• Certificate in University Teaching 2017
  • Future Professoriate Program, Syracuse University

• “Caucasity’s Affective Inertia: Gender and Property in Scenarios of Emboldened Whiteness.” Rhetoric and Public Affairs 26, no. 4 (2023): 63-94. DOI:10.14321/rhetpublaffa.26.4.0063.
• “Establishing 911: Media Infrastructures of Affective Anti-Black, Pro-Police Dispositions.” Critical Studies in Media Communication 39, no. 5 (2022): 394-407. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2022.2086991.  
• “Embracing a ‘Big, Black Ass’ at a ‘Tiny, Tiny Ass Desk’: Lizzo’s Affective Performance of Choric Self-Love.” WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly 50, no. 1 (2022): 267-282. doi:10.1353/wsq.2022.0022.
• “Considering Meme-Based Non-Fungible Tokens’ Racial Implications.” M/C Journal 25, no. 2 (2022): n.p. https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2885.

In-Progress:

• “(Wo)Manning the Phones: Gendered, Affective Labor in Burgeoning 911 Infrastructures.” [under second round review]

Book reviews:

• “Violence and Trolling on Social Media: History, Affect, and Effects of Online Vitriol (Review).” International Journal of Communication, vol. 15, March 2021, pp. 1879–1882.
• “Time Slips: Queer Temporalities, Contemporary Performance, and the Hole of History (Review).” QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, vol. 5, no. 2, Nov. 2018, pp. 128–30.

• Top Four Student Paper in Critical and Cultural Studies, NCA 2021
• Outstanding Graduate Teacher Award, Dept. of Communication 2021

Courses Taught (as Instructor/Professor of Record)

At Georgia State University:

• Public Speaking: 11 sections
• Argumentation: 3 sections
• Communication and Diversity: 3 sections
• Rhetorical Criticism: 1 section
• Introduction to Human Communication: 2 sections

At University of Colorado:

• First-Year Writing: 8 sections
• Public/Presentational Speaking: 2 sections
• Argumentation: 4 sections
• Perspectives in Human Communication: 4 sections
• Social Movements: 3 sections
• Rhetorical Research Methods: 2 sections

Program Assistant 2020–2021

• McNeill Academic Program, CU—Boulder

Instructor for CMCI Pathways to Excellence 2019–2021

• College of Media, Communication, and Information, CU—Boulder

• “(Wo)Manning the Phones: Gendered Affective Labor in Burgeoning 911 Infrastructures.” Rhetoric Society of America Bi-Annual Convention (Feminist Rhetorics Division), Denver, CO. May 2024.
• Panel Organizer and Chair/Respondent: “W(h)ither Posting?: Deciding If, When, and Where to Post on Social Media.” National Communication Association Convention (Critical/Cultural Studies Division), National Harbor, MD. November 2023.
• “The Rise of Karen: White Femininity and Digital Publics.” National Communication Association Convention (Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division), New Orleans, LA. November 2022.
• “Developing Media Infrastructures for Racialized Imaginaries: An Affective Historiography of 911 Emergencies.” National Communication Association Convention (Critical and Cultural Studies Division), Seattle, WA. November 2021. *Top Student Paper Panel*
• Panel Organizer: “Blue Georgia on My Mind: Discussing the 2020 Georgia Senate Elections.” National Communication Association Convention (Public Address Division), Seattle, WA. November 2021.
• “A ‘Big, Black Ass’ and a ‘Tiny, Tiny Desk’: Cripping Racial Rhetorical Criticism through Lizzo’s Performance of Self-Love.” National Communication Association Convention (Rhetoric and Communication Theory), Bloomington, IN. November 2020.
• “Settler Colonialism and Caucasity: Non/Belonging and Denial in the cases of BBQ Becky and Permit Patty” Western States Communication Association Convention (Rhetoric, Culture, and Advocacy) Denver, CO. February 2020.

• Public Speaking Course Director. 2023–Present, Dept of Communication, GSU.
• Doctoral Education Committee. 2025-2028, National Communication Association.
• Nominated by Leadership Development Committee and Approved/ Appointed by the Legislative Assembly.
• Invited Manuscript Reviewer for:
  • Communication and Race
  • Deliberately Queer Journal
  • Environmental Communication
  • M/C Journal
  • QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking
  • Rhetoric, Publics, and Culture
• CommUNITY committee member. 2024–2025, Dept of Communication, GSU.
• Conference Program Committee member. 2023–2024, RSA.
• DEI Committee Member for Public Address Division. 2023-2024, NCA.
  • Planned and hosted “Re-Discovering Public Address” social event at the convention.
  • GSU Dept of Communication was a co-sponsor of the event.
• Chair of Public Address Division Nominating Committee. 2021-2022, NCA.
• Lead Workshop Designer. “From Seminar Paper to Article: A Workshop on Publications.” April 2022, Communication Department, CU—Boulder.
• Lead Workshop Designer. “Digital Pedagogical Practices.” 2020, 2022, Communication Department, CU—Boulder.
• Reviewer, chair, and respondent. NCA, RSA, ICA, ECA, & WSCA, 2017–Present.
• Copyeditor. enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, & Culture. 2020–2024.