- Shana Bridges: Political Rhetoric in general, rhetorical construction of citizen, especially post-9/11, strongly connected to department
- Cara Buckley-Ott (Colorado State University): Rhetoric and queer theory with a particular interest in queer kinship and queer identity; the resistive potential of mediated representations of fag hags
- Robert Clift: Media, rhetorical and ethnographic theory, documentary film, race, identity negotiations
- Byron Craig: Rap, rhetoric, race
- Emily Cram: Rhetoric of social movements, feminist activism
- Emily Downing: Relationship between rhetoric and philanthropy through studying the language, visual images, and body rhetoric that non-profit organizations use to contrain and construct the identity of their audiences
- Danielle Fernandez: Advocacy, social justice, human rights, and higher education
- Jeremy Gordon: Discourse of protest, framing in mass media, how forms ofdissent are accepted or rejected. Media criticism, influence of media on perception of societies, cultures, and individuals
- Shana Heinricy: Rhetorical theory, television studies, gender and ethnicity studies, American studies, consumer culture
- Jennifer Heusel: Critical race theory; Black Power; rhetoric
- Melanie Loehwing: Themes of rhetoric, law, homelessness, and citizenship, legal policies passed on local, state, and national levels as they characterize and criminalize the homeless; competing notions of the home as a primary site for cultivating citizenship
- Kathleen McConnell: Rhetoric and public culture, schools and schooling, communication technologies, technologies of the self
- Korryn Mozisek: Rhetoric of sport and citizenship
- David Naze: rhetorical studies, social protest rhetoric, rhetoric of race in sport
- Kara Patterson: The intersection of rhetoric and media and how the fields impact/deal with teen pregnancy and single motherhood; metaphors representing sexuality in movies that deal with sexually active teen/college age people
- Stephen Rahko: Economic rhetoric, discourses of wealth formation, foreign policy and normative values
- Jessica Rudy: Advocacy, feminism and GLBT issues, diversity
- April Smith: Rhetoric and media, global capitalism, American empire, dissent, and progressive activism in the 21st century
- Isaac West: Rhetoric, performance, queer theory and the law, transsexuals and their everyday experiences with/in law
- Valerie Wieskamp: Gender, race, and ethnic representations in public discourse
