Patrick Shaou-Whea Dodge PhD

PhD, Culture and Communication, University of Denver
MA, Culture and Communication, University of Denver
BA, Intercultural Communication, San Jose State University

Patrick S-W Dodge is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication. His research interests focus on culture, communication, media, and rhetoric in international, intercultural, cross-cultural, and US-China contexts.

Patrick’s most recent book project is Communication Convergence in Contemporary China: International Perspectives on Politics, Platforms, and Participation (Michigan State University Press, 2020). His work has been published in the Journal of International & Intercultural Communication, the Chinese Journal of Communication, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, and Intercultural Communication Studies. Patrick is a Past-President (2020-2022) of the Association for Chinese Communication Studies (ACCS).

Patrick was previously Associate Professor in the Teaching Professor Track, teaching at our International Beijing Program (ICB) from 2007-2024. There he served as Associate Program Chair, China Operations Coordinator, and as our Internship Program Coordinator. Patrick was awarded ICB's "Excellence in Teaching Award" in 2013, and ICB's "Distinguished Teaching Award" in 2020.

Patrick served on the National Communication Association's Task Force to Foster International Collaborations in Research, Teaching, and Service (2015-2019). In 2018 he was the inaugural fellow for the NCA-CUC Visiting Fellows Program for Communication and Media Research. He has worked with the NCA and the Communication University of China to co-organize several international conferences hosted in China (2016, 2018, 2021, 2024), and with the NCA and Shenzhen University in 2019.

Book

Dodge, P. S-W., Editor. (2020). Communication Convergence in Contemporary China: International Perspectives on Politics, Platforms, and Participation. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press.

Peer-Reviewed Publications (Journal Articles & Book Chapters)

Hartnett, S. J. & Dodge, P. S-W. (2024) “Choose the Good and Be Stubborn”: Celebrating Nylon Cheng, Memory Activism, and the Fight for Democracy in Taiwan." Rhetoric & Public Affairs. 26:4.

Hartnett, S. J. & Dodge, P. S-W. (2022). “Memory Activism and the Rhetorical Politics of Public Secrets, Forced Forgetting, and Dangerous Remembering.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs. 24:4, 685-725. DOI: 10.2307/48657636

Hartnett, S. J., Dodge, P. S-W., & Keränen, L. (2019). “Postcolonial Remembering in Taiwan: 228 and Transitional Justice as “The End of Fear.”” Journal of International & Intercultural Communication. DOI: 10.1080/17513057.2019.1614206

Dodge, P. S-W. & Keränen, L. (2018). “Sixty Years of “Peaceful Liberation” at the Tibet Museum in Lhasa: Triumphant Modernization at the Rooftop of the World.” Chinese Journal of Communication. Volume 11, Issue 3. DOI: 10.1080/17544750.2018.1470543

Dodge, P. S-W. (2017). "Imagining Dissent: Contesting the Façade of Harmony Through Art and the Internet in China." In S. Hartnett, L. Keränen, & D. Conley (Eds.), Imagining China: Rhetorics of Nationalism in the Age of Globalization. Michigan State University Press.

COMM 1021: Introduction to Media Studies
COMM 3271: Communication & Diversity
COMM 4031: Perspectives on Communication (Communication Theory)
COMM 4270: Intercultural Communication