Stephanie Kolberg

Lecturer of Rhetoric

Teaching Interests

Multimodal communication, the rhetoric of consumer culture and everyday spaces, writing

Research Interests

Time and temporality in American culture, space and place, the aesthetics of consumption

Selected Publications

“‘With Unhurried Ease’: Avon’s Affective Approach to Constructing Intimacy,” in Commercial Intimacy: Affinity and the Marketplace, Richard Popp, Brenton Malin, and Wendy A. Woloson (eds.), Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, June 2025.

“Exploring the Leisure Gap in Mother’s Day and Father’s Day Cards,” in NEPCA 2017: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture Association, Martin F. Norden and Robert E. Weir (eds.), Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.

“Constructing a ‘Democratic’ Dreamworld: Carnival Cruise Ships and an Aesthetic of Optimism,” Journal of Consumer Culture, first published online November 14, 2013 as doi:10.1177/1469540513509643.

“Crafting the Good Life in Irvine, California,” in City Dreams, Country Schemes: Community and Identity in the Twentieth-Century American West, Kathleen Brosnan and Amy Scott (eds.), University of Nevada Press, October 2011.

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