About me
Ellen M. Rigsby received her Ph.D. in Rhetoric in 2001 at UC Berkeley, after earning a B.A. in Political Philosophy from Johns Hopkins in 1991. She is a Professor in Communication at Saint Mary's College of California. Her areas of teaching are at the intersection of theories of the public sphere (Habermas, McLuhan, Warner) political theory, and media law. She teaches political and rhetorical theory, and writes on intersection of speculative fiction with politics, law and public discourse, and on qualitative methods. She has published recently on The Hunger Games Trilogy, and on the benefits of teaching mixed research methods to undergraduates. She has been a consultant for the NFP Human Energy on their education track since 2020.
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