Nora Singer
Professor of Communication
SVSU Main Campus
Pioneer Hall 200
989-964-4642
nrsinger@svsu.edu
Biography
Nora ("Norie") Singer, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Communication and Coordinator of the SVSU Pride Center, the university's LGBTQIA+ student programming and support office. She is an award-winning teacher and researcher specializing in the study of public discourses of modern social movements. Singer has been primarily interested in U.S. environmental and food movement struggles related to cultural identity (especially gender), coalition building, public health, and just sustainability.
Education
Bowling Green State University
Master of Arts
Central Michigan University
Bachelor of Arts
Central Michigan 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 (most of Dr. Singer's research articles can be found at www.academia.edu)
“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.
Rooted Resistance: Agrarian Myth in Modern America (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2020, w/ Stephanie Houston Grey and Jeff Motter)