Brooke Phipps
Assistant Professor of Communication, Film & Media Studies
- Professional
- Biography
- Personal
Additional Titles/Roles
- Director, Center for Media Studies
- Faculty Advisor for MediaLab
Education
- Ph.D., Rhetoric and Political Culture, University of Maryland, 2024
- M.A., Communication Studies, Colorado State University, 2019
- B.A., Communication Studies, Wheaton College (IL)
Areas of Emphasis or Expertise
- Media Studies
- Digital Media
- Platform Studies
Selected Presentations
- Conference Paper, Association of Internet Researchers, Resistance Live!: Historically Marginalized Content Creators and Their Organized Response to Hate Raids on Twitch.TV (2023)
- Conference Paper, Association of Internet Researchers, Trolling as Liberal Youth Resistance to Misinformation Online (2022)
- Conference Paper, National Communication Association, Understanding Transplatform Digital Place & Protest through Animal Crossing: New Horizons (2022)
- Conference Paper, Rhetorical Society of America, Trolling Teens vs. Trump: TikTok and the 2020 Presidential Campaign (2022)
- Competitive Paper – Visual Communication Division, National Communication Association, Visual Hyper-enthymemes: The Transformative Harm Behind Gendered Horror and Editing in Donald Trump’s YouTube Attacks (2021)
- Conference Paper, National Communication Association, Getting Back up Again After Being Knocked Down’: Capturing Undergraduate Students’ Language of Resilience (2021)
Selected Articles
- Phipps, E. B. and Montgomery, F.. "“Only YOU Can Prevent This Nightmare, America”: Nancy Pelosi as the Monstrous-Feminine in Donald Trump’s YouTube Attacks.”." Women's Studies in Communication Vol. 45(3), 2022: 316-337.
- Phipps, E.B.. "Victoria C. Woodhull, “‘And the Truth Shall Make You Free,’ A Speech on the Principles of Social Freedom.”." Voices of Democracy Vol. 15(1), 2020: 1-18.
Accolades
- Top Paper, National Communication Association, Game Studies Division 2024
- Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Maryland, 2022
- Outstanding Service Award, University of Maryland, 2022
- Summer Teaching Curriculum Development Fellowship, University of Maryland, 2022
- Twitch 2021 Research Fellowship Finalist, Twitch Interactive Inc., 2021
- COMM Public Good Fellowship for Curriculum Development, University of Maryland, 2022
- Bob and Linda Haskins Award for Graduate Teaching, Colorado State University, 2018
Biography
Dr. E. Brooke Phipps is originally from central Pennsylvania. She attended Wheaton College, outside of Chicago IL, earning a B.A. in Communication studies with an emphasis in Rhetoric and Theater. Upon graduation, she worked in marketing and finance as a copywriter, account manager, and licensed financial advisor.
In 2017, she began the Master’s program in Communication Studies at Colorado State University, earning her M.A. in 2019. She earned her Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Political Culture from the University of Maryland in 2024. In Fall 2024, Brooke joined the faculty of Pacific Lutheran University.
Dr. Phipps’s scholarship engages rhetorical perspectives on digital media, networks, platforms, and activism. As an educator, Dr. Phipps desires to cultivate enthusiasm in their students for the incredibly diverse field of rhetorical theory by applying rhetorical frameworks to their daily lived experiences. Much of her published and current work in-progress synthesizes rhetorical theory with subfields such as digital media studies, feminist criticism, and game studies. She is a member of the National Communication Association and the Association of Internet Researchers.
Fun Facts
- I have lived in every time zone (yes including Mountain) in the continental United States within the past ten years.
- I have more than 90 platinum trophies on my PlayStation 5. You could say I’m a type A personality.
Service
As part of my commitment to embedded digital ethnographic studies, I have raised more than $15,000 for various charities (Black Girls Code, the ACLU, etc.) as part of my charitable live streaming content on Twitch.
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