Biography
Nora ("Norie") Singer, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Communication and Coordinator of the SVSU Pride Center, the campus's LGBTQ+ programming and support office. An award-winning teacher and researcher, Dr. Singer's expertise is in the public discourse and collective organizing practices of modern social movements. Singer has written extensively about U.S. environmental and food movement struggles intersecting with social justice coalition building, cultural identities, structural public health disparities, human interspecies relationships, neoliberal capitalism, 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. Professor 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, 2025), 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, with Stephanie Grey Houston and Jeff Motter (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2020).