Dr. Mallory Marsh is the Director of the Speech Team and an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication Studies.

Dr. Marsh graduated with a B.J. from the University of Nebraska, an M.A. from the University of Alabama, and a Ph.D. in rhetoric and public culture with a specialization in women’s and gender studies from the University of Nebraska. Prior to coming to JMU, Dr. Marsh taught and coached as a graduate student at both ‘Bama and Nebraska. She also served for four years as the Director of Forensics at Bethel College (KS) after receiving her M.A. and before pursuing her Ph.D. Her research employs critical rhetorical feminist inquiry to interrogate considerations of whiteness, white supremacy, gender, racialized violence, and public memory. Her work has appeared in Women’s Studies in Communication, Communication Teacher, Argumentation and Advocacy, and Communication Studies.

Dr. Marsh teaches coursework in SCOM and WGSS, including the basic course (123 and 123H), Intro to Research Methods (280), The Mobilization of Hate (300), Feminist Blogging (301), Oral Interpretation (344), Communication and Gender (348), Rhetorical Research Methods (381), Feminist Rhetorics (420), and Intro to WGSS (WGSS 200).

In her free time, Dr. Marsh enjoys gardening, kayaking, traveling, playing board games, and going on outdoor adventures in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley.