Dr. Susan Poulsen
Associate Professor
Office: NH 23 B
Phone: 503.725.3544

Email: poulsens@pdx.edu

Dr. Susan Poulsen is the Supervisor of the Teaching Assistant Program.  Her areas of research include cultural communication studies; intra-, inter-, and cross-cultural research utilizing qualitative approaches, particularly the ethnography of communication. Her interests are in the speech cognate area configurations such as culture/communication/cognition, time/space and place and metaphor analysis.

Courses:

Sp 415/515 Problems in Intercultural Communication

Sp 416/516 Theories of Human Communication


Sp 418/518 Advanced Interpersonal Communication

Sp 437/537 Urban Communication

Sp 531: Analysis of Qualitative Data


Dr. Poulsen teaches courses in Urban Communication, Intercultural Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Communication Consultation, Qualitative Methods and Data Analysis, and Metaphor and Narrative Analysis.  She also holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Urban Studies and has links with the Institute for Metropolitan Studies and Applied Linguistics.

Credentials:
Ph.D. in Speech Communication, University of Washington, 1988