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David Steinweg

Liberal arts professor

Education

  • Ph.D., communication, University of South Florida
  • M.A., communication, Missouri State University
  • B.S., mass media, Missouri State University

Credentials

Academic employment history

  • Professor, liberal arts, 2015–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah GA
  • Adjunct instructor, 2013–14, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
    Taught Communication, Culture, and Community; Persuasion; Communication Theory; Popular Forms of Public Communication; and Public Speaking
  • Adjunct instructor, 2009–14, Hillsborough Community College, Tampa, FL
    Taught Public Speaking
  • Visiting instructor, 2012–13, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
    Course director for Introduction to Communication. Taught Communication Research Methods, Popular Forms of Public Communication, and Persuasion. Mentored two M.A. teaching assistants.
  • Adjunct instructor, 2007–08, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO
    Taught Mass Communication Theory, Media Analysis and Criticism, Sound Editing and Mixing, and intersession sections of Field Sound Techniques.

Media production employment

  • Technical adviser/actor, 2017–18, Odyssey: A Star Wars Story, Savannah College of Art and Design
    Worked with SCAD students to create a Star Wars fan film.
  • Sound designer, 2013–15, Jobsite Theatre
    Developed, implemented, and synched sound for professional live theater productions. Productions included Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, and The Hound of the Baskervilles.
  • Scenic dressing and prop manager, 2014–15, Jobsite Theatre
    Procured and fabricated set dressings and props for professional theater productions.
  • Production designer, 2008–13, USF’s Performance Studies Program
    Designed lighting and staging schemes for USF’s undergraduate Performance Studies program.
  • Music supervisor/live sound recordist, 2007, The Gilloiz Movie Palace: Theatre Beautiful
    Jaime Bihlmeyer (director/executive producer), Sprockethole Productions.
  • Sound intern, 2003, Larva
    Internship on a Sci-Fi Channel original movie set. Worked directly with sound crew as assistant to the sound mixer and as second boom operator, Tim Cox (director), Nu-Image Productions.

Professional service

  • Editorial assistant, 2009–11, University of South Florida
    Formatted, edited, and collaborated with the deployment and online publication of peer-reviewed essays in Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies.

Publications and presentations

Publications

  • MED 120: Mass Media and Society workbook, with Larson, D.L., Brown, B., and Carter, B., Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, 2008.

Research presented

  • "Spiritual Improvisations," presented at National Communication Association Conference, Washington, 2013.
  • "Improvising Ethnography," presented at International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana-Champaign, Ill., 2012.
  • "The Representation of Improvisation: A Modified Way of Capturing the Concept," presented at National Communication Association Conference, San Francisco, 2010.
  • "Governance of the Feminine in Popular Fantasy Fiction," presented at National Communication Association Conference, Chicago, 2009.
  • "For All the World to See: Exploring Self-Objectification in Facebook Picture Profiles," presented at National Communication Association Conference, San Diego, 2008.
  • "Do You Like What You Hear? A Turning Point Analysis on Music and Attraction," presented at National Communication Association Conference, San Diego, 2007.
  • "Inverted Crosses, Black Attire, and Headless Birds: A Semiotic Look into Black Sabbath's Paranoid," presented at Central States Communication Association Conference, Madison, Wisc., 2007.
  • "A Comparison and Call for Unification of Symbolic Convergence Theory and Weick's Theory of Organizing," presented at Sooner Communication Conference, Norman, Okla., 2007.