Elizabeth J. Natalle

Dr. Elizabeth "Jody" Natalle, Associate Professor, has a B.A. in foreign language—with a major in Spanish, a second major in communication, and a minor in secondary education—from the University of Central Florida and an M.A. and Ph.D. in communication from Florida State University. She has taught in the Department of Communication Studies at UNC Greensboro for twenty-three years and is affiliated with International Programs, Honors, and Women's and Gender Studies. Natalle teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in communication theory, gender and communication, semiotics, and relational communication. She is the UNCG Director of our exchange program with Vaxjo University in southern Sweden . Her consulting, research, and teaching have taken her to Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Estonia, and Russia. Her research specialization in gender and communication has included work on gender and interpersonal process, conflict, feminist criticism, women's communication networks in Scandinavia, feminist metatheory, and first ladies communication. Natalle regularly consults on issues regarding gender and communication with corporate managers, state government managers, hospital social workers, university supervisors, law firms, federal court administrators, and the Federal Judiciary. Dr. Natalle is an award winning teacher-scholar who has received several honors in recognition of her contributions to the field: * 2007: Theodore Sorensen Fellow at the John F. Kennedy Library. * 2006: Linda Arnold Carlisle Faculty Research Grant in Women's and Gender Studies * 2004: Betty Jo Welch Service Award from the Carolinas Communication Association for continuing and outstanding service to the association and the profession. * 2003: UNCG College of Arts & Sciences Teaching Excellence Award. * 2003: Teaching Exchange Fellow at Vaxjo University in Vaxjo, Sweden. * 1999: Scholar in Residence at Lulea University of Technology in Lulea, Sweden. * 1996: First Woman of Distinction Awards at UNCG for her service and mentoring to students.

There are 4 included publications by Elizabeth J. Natalle :

TitleDateViewsBrief Description
Deconstructing Gender Differences in Persuasibility: A Bricolage 1993 2581 The study of persuasion long has been a central preoccupation of communication theorists and critics. As a cornerstone in communication theory. persuasion research has provided the impetus for inquiries into how symbolic behavior effects social and p...
Fusing horizons: Standpoint hermeneutics and invitational rhetoric 2001 4825 This essay emends Foss, Foss, and Griffin's invitational rhetoric to strenghten its philosophical undergirdings and release it from unfounded criticisms Standpoint hermeneutical rhetoric is the framework offered to position the theory more solidly in...
Information Literacy and Communication Research: A Case Study on Interdisciplinary Assessment 2012 2875 This report offers an interdisciplinary approach for conducting assessment on learning outcomes in undergraduate communication research skills where information literacy is embedded in the expected outcome. A Communication Studies department and the ...
Sex differences, organizational level, and superiors' evaluation of managerial leadership 1997 4174 Leadership in a business context has been under scrutiny as a research topic for almost 30 years. Fiedler's (1967) least preferred coworker contingency model, Hersey and Blanchard's (1972) situational leadership theory, and Mintzberg's (1973) landmar...