Biography

Dr. Stevie M. Munz (Ph.D., Ohio University) is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at Utah Valley University. Her research program focuses on exploring how human beings understand and communicate their identity experiences in everyday life, with a special focus on the contexts of classrooms, small-town communities, and mediated spaces. To accomplish her research endeavors, she draws on intercultural, identity, and instructional communication literature as well as, utilizes storytelling, ethnographic, oral history, and narrative interviewing practices.

Undergraduate Level Courses Taught:

COMM 1020: Public Speaking (face-to-face; online; large lecture)
COMM 2110: Interpersonal Communication (online)
COMM 207G: Introduction to Gender and Communication
COMM 3020: Communication Research Methods
COMM 319G: Intercultural Communication
COMM 350R: Special Topics in Performance Theory
COMM 317G Ethnographic Methods for Communication Research
COMM 401G: Communication Education
COMM 4930: Communication Capstone (face-to-face; online)
COMM 4120: Advanced Group: A Dark Side and Narrative Approach
COMM 290C: Independent Study (Readings in Critical Culture Studies & Training and Development)
COMM 479RC: Independent Study (Readings in Narrative Studies)

Education
Ph.D. Ohio University, School of Communication Studies, 2016
M.A. Illinois State University, School of Communication, May 2012
B.A. Northern Illinois University, May 2009
Major: Organizational Communication Studies
B.A. Northern Illinois University, May 2009
Major: German Business/Translation

Teaching

Scholarly/Creative Works