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Amy King

Liberal arts professor

Education

  • Ph.D., communication studies, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
  • M.A., communication studies, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
  • B.A., communication studies, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Credentials

  • Professor of liberal arts, Fall 2023–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  • Associate professor of communication studies, 2020–23,
    Assistant professor of communication studies, 2015–20,
    Division director, 2018–23,
    Department chair, 2018, communications and media arts, Charleston Southern University
    Oversaw budget for division consisting of Communication, Graphic Design, Art, and Foreign Language. Supervised and reviewed department chairs. Basic course director for Public Speaking (LAC course at CSU). Trained adjunct faculty. Completed annual reviews on 8–11 faculty members. Advocated for various departmental changes and needs with the university. Mediated student-professor/instructor conflicts. Presided over department curricular changes and resulting faculty conflicts. Served on Academic Council which included interaction and collaboration with university leaders and administrators.
  • Communication instructor 2008–16
    Communication discipline chair, 2009–12. Central Piedmont Community College
    Managed schedule of all Communication classes for 9 full-time faculty and 30 part-time faculty. Supervised 30 adjunct instructors. Led monthly departmental meetings. Adjudicated instructor-student conflicts such as grade appeals.

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • College Fellows, Central Piedmont Community College, August 2012–May 2013
  • Teaching Excellence, Central Piedmont Community College, May 2008

Organizations

  • Legislative assembly representative, National Communication Association

Publications and presentations

Selected publications

  • "Tomorrowland Around the World 2020: A Virtual Pilgrimage," Journal of Communication Technology 4, no. 3 (2021): 80–103.
  • "This Music is My Religion; This Place is My Church," Journal of Communication and Religion 43, no. 4 (2020): 39–59.
  • "Advocate for All Neighbors," An Essential Guide to Public Speaking: Serving Your Audience with Faith, Skill, and Virtue, 2nd Edition. Quentin J. Schultze. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2020.
  • Pauley, John, and Amy King, "Evangelicals' Passion for The Passion of the Christ," Evangelical Christians and Popular Culture, ed. Robert H. Woods Jr. Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2013.

Selected conference presentations

  • "'Tonight, God is a DJ': How Electronic Music DJs used Natural Space, Urban Locations, Live Audience Events, and the Virtual to Minister to their Flock during Pandemic Times," presented at Religious Communication Association Conference, November 2022.
  • "From Dystopia to Euphoria, DJ Eric Prydz's Reimagination of the Electronic Music Festival Space: Connection and Transcendence Facilitated through Technology at Tomorrowland Around the World 2020," presented at Critical and Cultural Studies Division, National Communication Association, November 2021.
  • "Popular (U.S. American) Music and the Survival of Identity, Place, Form, and Channel," presented at Critical and Cultural Studies Division, National Communication Association, November 2019.
  • "Embracing the Opportunity to Examine the 'Public' in an Online 'Public Speaking' Course: Part 2 of a 2 Part Discussion" (roundtable discussion), presented at Community College Section, National Communication Association, November 2015.
  • "The Dangerous Memory of Mary Magdalene: What Her Memory Reveals about Women's Voices in the Public Sphere and Empowerment that is within Our Grasp," presented at Religious Communication Association pre-conference, November 2014.
  • "Sacred Profanity," presented at Religious Communication Association, National Communication Association, 2013.
  • "Fostering Community in the Online Public Speaking Class Through Peer Connection," presented at Community College Section, National Communication Association, 2013.
  • "Connecting Students in the Online Public Speaking Course Through Virtual Speeches," presented at Carolinas Communication Association, October 2013.
  • "A Publisher-generated Rubric: Using CONNECT for Evaluating Speeches," presented at NCA Educational Policies Board, National Communication Association, 2012.
  • "What do we do with those gay and feminist evangelicals?" Presented at Public Sphere Theory Preconference, National Communication Association, 2011.
  • "Everything Must Change: Brian McLaren's Radical Proposition for Evangelical Capitalists," presented at Religious Communication Association, National Communication Association, November 2010.
  • "Divine Messengers: An Interpretation of the Evangelical Dialectic on Climate Change," presented at Scholar to Scholar, National Communication Association, November 2009.