Alexandra Balaram

Teaching Faculty, Communication

Education

Ph.D., Communication, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee (ABD; coursework and comprehensive exams completed, dissertation in progress)
M.A., Communication, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
- Graduate Certificate, Rhetorical Leadership & Ethics
B.A., Communication Studies, Kansas State University
B.A., Modern Languages: Spanish, Kansas State University
- Minor Certificate, Leadership Studies

Courses Taught

COMMUN 402: Gender and Communication
COMMUN 335: Critical Analysis of Communication
COMMUN 311: Communication and Leadership
COMMUN 103: Public Speaking
COMMUN 101: Interpersonal Communication

Research Interests

I am a critical rhetoric scholar specializing in rhetorics of mobility and race. My research examines mobility alongside questions of space and place, time and memory, and agency. My current work develops a processual ontology of mobility as a framework for rethinking rhetoric, materiality, and their co-constitution.

Selected Publications

Harris, Leslie J. & Alexandra Parr Balaram, “Differentiated Mobility and National Belonging in Gonzales v. Williams,” Special Issue: Cycles of (Im)Mobilities: Flowing through Race, ed. Kellie D. Hay, Communication & Critical Cultural Studies, 23 no. 1 (2026): 140-149. https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2026.2621698

Balaram, Alexandra Parr. “Rhetorical Altermobilities: A Framework for the Study of Discourse, Mobility, and Resistance.” Southern Communication Journal, 88 no. 4 (2023): 366-378. https://doi.org/10.1080/1041794X.2022.2147212

Balaram, Alexandra Parr. “Lewis, Tiffany. Uprising: How Women Used the US West to Win the Right to Vote.” Women’s Studies in Communication 46, no. 3 (2023): 339-341. https://doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2023.2227000.