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Kathleen Glenister Roberts
Kathleen Glenister Roberts (Ph.D., Indiana University-Bloomington 2001) is professor of communication and rhetorical studies and director of the Honors College at Duquesne University. Dr Roberts has published several monographs, including Alterity and Narrative (SUNY Press, 2007), which won the 2008 Intercultural and International Communication Book of the Year Award from the National Communication Association. Her other books include The Limits of Cosmopolis (Peter Lang, 2014) and edited volumes Communication Theory and Millennial Popular Culture (2015) and A Body Living and Not Measurable: How Bodies Are Constructed, Scripted and Performed through Time and Space (Brill, 2016). Her published articles appear in national and international journals such as Communication Theory, Text and Performance Quarterly, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Argumentation & Advocacy and Solidarity. She has won numerous top paper prizes and teaching awards, is an International Folklore Fellow and a graduate of the HERS Wellesley leadership institute. Dr Roberts’ current monograph is tentatively titled Epideictics and Eternity: Functions of the Time-Present in Ritual Discourse, and gave rise to this article on nostalgia.