Biography
Nora ("Norie") Singer, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Communication and an award-winning teacher and researcher specializing in the study of public discourses of modern social movements. Singer has written extensively about U.S. environmental and food movement struggles related to cultural identities, social justice coalition building, public health, human interspecies relationships, and global sustainability.
Education
Central Michigan University
Master of Arts
Central Michigan University
Doctor of Philosophy
Bowling Green State University
Teaching Interests
Singer's courses at SVSU examine various public communication issues, including but not limited to message strategies, ethical dilemmas, ideology, identity and power, corporate-consumer culture, and democracy in the public sphere. Dr. Singer teaches courses on rhetoric in civic life, argumentation and debate, persuasion and attitude change, media and society, social movement communication, and communication theory.
Research
Selected Works
“Conclusion: Environmental Communication’s Intersectionality,” in Intersectional Activism in Environmental Communication: Changemakers Respond to Ecological Crisis, eds. Emma Frances Bloomfield and José Castro-Sotomayor (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, forthcoming), 297-311.
"Intersectional Ecofeminist Food Rhetoric," in The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminist Rhetoric, eds. Jacqueline Rhodes and Suban Nur Cooley (New York: Routledge, 2025), 216-25.
"Affect and Melodramatic Resistance," Quarterly Journal of Speech 110, no. 1 (2024): 120-29.
“Communicating Transformation in Food and Agricultural Ecologies” [co-editors' special issue introduction w/ Silje Kristiansen], Environmental Communication 17, no. 8 (2023): 861-67.
“Toward Intersectional Ecofeminist Communication Studies,” Communication Theory 30, no. 3 (2020): 268-89.