Mark Allan Steiner is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Christopher Newport University. He received his Ph.D. in Communication and Culture from Indiana University and has published extensively on rhetoric and religion. The CV provides details on Steiner's education, professional appointments, publications, presentations, teaching experience, and service.

1. Mark Allan Steiner, Ph.D.
Department of Communication
Christopher Newport University
1 Avenue of the Arts
Newport News, Virginia 23606
(757) 594-8406 [office]
(757) 594-7141 [fax]
mark.steiner@cnu.edu
Education
Indiana University, Bloomington
Ph.D., Communication and Culture, 1999
Dissertation: “The Rhetoric of Operation Rescue: Representation and Evangelical
Christian Social Protest in the Abortion Controversy”
Dissertation Director: James R. Andrews
Texas A&M University, College Station
M.A., Speech Communication, 1994
Thesis: “Operation Rescue Rhetoric and the Rhetorical Goading to Violence in
the Abortion Controversy”
Thesis Director: Martin J. Medhurst
Willamette University
B.A., Philosophy and Speech Communication, 1991
Professional Appointments
2012-present Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Christopher
Newport University
2007-2012 Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Christopher
Newport University
2005-2007 Assistant Professor, School of Communication and the Arts,
Regent University
2001-2005 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, The
College of Wooster
1999-2001 Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Theatre
Arts, Saint Joseph’s College [Indiana]

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1998-1999 Visiting Instructor, Department of Communication, Loyola
University Chicago
1997-1998 Adjunct Instructor, Department of Communication, University of
Wisconsin-Parkside
1997 Adjunct Instructor, Department of Speech, College of Lake County
[Illinois]
1994-1997 Associate Instructor, Department of Communication and Culture,
Indiana University
1993-1994 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Speech
Communication, Texas A&M University
Books
Steiner, Mark Allan. The Rhetoric of Operation Rescue: Projecting the Christian Pro-Life
Message. New York: T & T Clark, 2006.
Book Chapters
Steiner, Mark Allan. “A Research Agenda for the Electronic Church in the Digital Age.”
In The Electronic Church in the Digital Age: Cultural Impacts of Mass Media, edited
by Mark Ward, Volume I. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger (in press).
Steiner, Mark Allan. “Looking along the Line between Good and Evil: Crash and
Evangelical Approaches to Popular Film.” In Evangelical Christians and Popular
Culture: Pop Goes the Gospel, edited by Robert H. Woods, Jr., Volume I, 71-85.
Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2013.
Journal Articles
Connable, Sean T., and Mark Allan Steiner. “The Altar of Experience: Image and
Mediation at a Contemporary Multi-Site Church.” Journal of Communication and
Religion (in press).
Lyne, John R., Joe Rhodes, Ron Von Burg, and Mark A. Steiner. “Seeking the Productive
Energy in Public Debates over Science and Religion.” Poroi 8.1 (2012): 1-5.

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Steiner, Mark Allan. “The Liability of the Enlightenment: ‘Modernism’ in the
Relationships among Religion, Politics, and American Public Life.” Explorations in
Media Ecology 8 (2009): 295-98.
Steiner, Mark Allan. “Reconceptualizing Christian Public Engagement: ‘Faithful Witness’
and the American Evangelical Tradition.” Journal of Communication and Religion
32 (2009): 289-318.
Steiner, Mark Allan. “The Humiliation of the Faith: Representation and Evangelical
Christianity in The Apostle.” Journal of Communication and Religion 24 (2001):
111-39.
Academic Book Reviews
Steiner, Mark Allan. Review of The Faithful Citizen: Popular Christian Media and Gendered
Civic Identities, by Kristy Maddux. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 14 (2011): 572-75.
Steiner, Mark Allan. Review of To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of
Christianity in the Late Modern World, by James Davison Hunter. Journal of
Communication and Religion 33 (2010): 257-61.
Steiner, Mark Allan. Review of Romancing the Difference: Kenneth Burke, Bob Jones
University, and the Rhetoric of Religious Fundamentalism, by Camille K. Lewis.
Journal of Communication and Religion 32 (2009): 410-15.
Steiner, Mark Allan. Review of Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural
Captivity, by Nancy Pearcey. Cultural Encounters 2 (2005): 113-15.
Steiner, Mark Allan. Review of Sex, Religion, and Media, edited by Dane Claussen.
Southern Communication Journal 68 (2003): 352-53.
Steiner, Mark Allan. “Remembering the Rhetorical Tradition of Social Protest
Scholarship.” Review of Readings on the Rhetoric of Social Protest, edited by
Charles E. Morris III and Stephen H. Browne. Review of Communication 2 (2002):
192-95.
Baxter, Nathan, Mark Allan Steiner, and Charles Conrad. Review of Organizational
Communication Imperatives: Lessons of the Space Program, by Phillip K. Tompkins.
Management Communication Quarterly 7 (1994): 317-26.

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Invited Lectures and Presentations
2012 “‘Faithful Witness’ as a Model for Faith and Politics.” Plenary address
given 25 February at the Renew Conference on Faith and Politics,
Westminster Reformed Presbyterian Church, Suffolk, Virginia.
2012 “Avoiding Pharisaism in Our Approach to Faith and Politics.” Plenary
address given 24 February at the Renew Conference on Faith and Politics,
Westminster Reformed Presbyterian Church, Suffolk, Virginia.
2007 “Rotten with Millenarian Perfectionism: The Abortion Controversy and
the Problems of Contemporary American Public Discourse.” Invited
paper presented 12 October at Abortion Controversy in Context: Protest and
Policy (conference), Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, University at
Buffalo [New York].
2007 “Proclaiming Isn’t Persuading: Why Should I Know Anything about
Rhetoric?” Regent University, 22 February.
2002 “The Problematic Rhetorical Legacy of Conservative Evangelical and
Fundamentalist Christianity in the United States.” Clergy Academy of
Religion, The College of Wooster, 26 February.
Conference Papers and Presentations
Steiner, Mark Allan. “Faithful Storytelling: Narrative and the Ontological and
Epistemological Dimensions of Religious Rhetoric.” Paper presented at the 2014
Meeting of the National Communication Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Steiner, Mark Allan. “Scholarship as Public Obligation: Joshua Gunn’s ‘Maranatha’ and
the Problem of Contemporary Professionalization.” Paper presented at the 2013
Meeting of the National Communication Association, Washington, DC.
Connable, Sean T., and Mark Allan Steiner. “The Altar of Experience: Image, Corporeal
Phenomenology, and Mediation at a Multi-Site Church.” Paper presented at the
2013 Meeting of the National Communication Association, Washington, DC.
Steiner, Mark Allan. “Mocking for the Enlightenment: American Public Discourse and
the Tragic Rhetorical Stance in Religulous.” Presented at the 2011 Meeting of the
Southern States Communication Association, Little Rock, Arkansas.
Steiner, Mark Allan. “Is God Not Great? Christopher Hitchens and the Rhetoric of
Contemporary Atheism.” Presented at the 2008 Meeting of the National
Communication Association, San Diego, California.

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Steiner, Mark Allan. “Reconceptualizing American Evangelical Christian Public
Engagement: The Metaphor of ‘Faithful Witness.’” Presented at the 2008 Meeting
of the National Communication Association, San Diego, California.
Petak, Heidi N., and Mark Allan Steiner. “The Evil of Drama? A Rhetorical Examination
of Contemporary Evangelical Christian Anti-Drama Polemic.” Presented at the
2006 Religious Communication Association Pre-Conference, San Antonio, Texas.
Steiner, Mark Allan. “The Prophet as Faithful Witness: The Attitude of Humility in the
Rhetorical Conception of the Prophetic Role.” Presented at the 2006 Meeting of
the National Communication Association, San Antonio, Texas.
Steiner, Mark Allan. “Revisiting Contemporary American Evangelicalism and Public
Dialogue: The Rhetorical Stance of Nancy Pearcey’s Total Truth.” Paper presented
at the 2006 Meeting of the National Communication Association, San Antonio,
Texas.
Steiner, Mark Allan. “Cultural Redemption in Film: Toward a Corrective Model of
Evangelical Cultural Engagement.” Paper presented at the 2006 Faith and
Communication conference, Campbell University, Buies Creek, North Carolina.
Steiner, Mark Allan. “Francis Schaeffer and the Problematic Rhetorical Legacy of
Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism.” Paper presented at the 2001 Meeting of
the National Communication Association, Atlanta, Georgia.
Steiner, Mark Allan. “Conceptualizing a Corrective to the Rhetorical Deficiencies of the
Evangelical Christian Tradition: ‘Humility’ as Representative Anecdote.” Paper
presented at the 1999 Meeting of the National Communication Association,
Chicago, Illinois.
Steiner, Mark Allan. “The Humiliation of the Faith: Representation and Evangelical
Christianity in The Apostle.” Paper presented at the 1999 Meeting of the National
Communication Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Steiner, Mark Allan. “‘A Clear Trumpet Has Been Sounded’: Christian Motivation in the
Theology of Operation Rescue.” Paper presented at the 1998 Meeting of the
National Communication Association, New York, New York.
Steiner, Mark Allan. “Maladroitness in the Culture Wars: Portraits of the Public in the
Internal Rhetoric of Operation Rescue.” Paper presented at the 1997 Meeting of
the National Communication Association, Chicago, Illinois.

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Steiner, Mark Allan. “Vilification and Pro-Life Social Protest: The U.S. Senate Hearing
over the Freedom of Access to Abortion Clinic Entrances Act of 1993.” Paper
presented at the 1995 Meeting of the National Communication Association, San
Antonio, Texas.
Academic Honors and Awards
2014 Hook Award for Teaching Excellence, Christopher Newport University
2012 Faculty Development Grant, College of Social Sciences, Christopher
Newport University
2010 Faculty Development Grant, College of Social Sciences, Christopher
Newport University
2008 Dean’s Office Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, Christopher Newport
University.
2007 Book of the Year Award, Religious Communication Association
2001 Article of the Year Award, Religious Communication Association
1997 Outstanding Competitive Paper, Public Address Division, National
Communication Association
1995 Top Four Debut Paper, Public Address Division, Speech Communication
Association
Teaching Experience
Graduate Courses
Communication Research: Historical/Critical Methodologies
Critical Approaches to Media and Culture
Introduction to Doctoral Studies
Media, Culture, and Public Life
Philosophy and Communication
Seminar: Academic Writing and Publication
Seminar: Evangelical Rhetoric

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Undergraduate Courses
Argumentation and Persuasion
Communication and the Evolution of Civilization
Communication Theory
Core 1: The Contemporary Situation
Core 2: The Modern World
Core 3: The Roots of Western Civilization
Honors Seminar: Arguing about Education
Honors Seminar: God Talk: Thinking about Religion and American Public Life
Introduction to Communication Studies
Introduction to Rhetoric
Junior Independent Study [Research Methods]
Media and Society
Persuasion
Public Speaking
Rhetoric and Politics
Rhetoric and Religion
Rhetorical Criticism
Senior Research Seminar: Critiquing Visual Rhetoric
Senior Research Seminar: Political Dimensions of Film
Senior Seminar in Communication
Social Protest Movements
Survey of Rhetorical Theory
Ph.D. Dissertations Directed
2010 Joy Andrick Qualls, “‘God Forgive Us for Being Women’: The Rhetorical
Negotiation and Renegotiation of the Role of Women in the Assemblies of
God” [Regent University]
2010 Jessica Ptomey, “A Rhetorical History of Postmodernism: A Condensation
Symbol Constructed by the American Evangelical Tradition” [Regent
University]
2007 Elizabeth McLaughlin, “Engendering the Imago Dei: A Rhetorical Study of
Quilts and Quiltmaking as Metaphor and Visual Parable in the
Anabaptist Peace Tradition” [Regent University]
2006 Heidi N. Petak, “Rhetoric and the Evangelical Christian Community:
Contemporary Opposition to Live Theater in Church Worship” [Regent
University]

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Departmental and Institutional Service
2014-present Undergraduate and Graduate Research Council, Christopher
Newport University
2014-present Curriculum Committee, Department of Communication,
Christopher Newport University
2013-2014 Assessment Committee, Department of Communication,
Christopher Newport University
2013-2014 Curriculum Committee, College of Social Sciences, Christopher
Newport University
2013-present Faculty Review Committee, Christopher Newport University
2011-present University Assessment and Evaluation Committee, Christopher
Newport University
2011-2014 Core Advisor, Christopher Newport University
2011-2013 Assessment Liason and Coordinator, Department of
Communication, Christopher Newport University
2010-2014 Library Advisory Committee, Christopher Newport University
2009-2014 Library Liason, Department of Communication, Christopher
Newport University
2008-present Honors Council, Christopher Newport University
2008-2009 Governing Board; Center for Faith, Citizenship, and Public Life;
Christopher Newport University
2006-2007 Chair, Search Committee [Standing], School of Communication
and the Arts, Regent University
2005-2007 Doctoral Program Committee, School of Communication and the
Arts, Regent University
2005-2006 Curriculum Committee, School of Communication and the Arts,
Regent University
2003-2004 Advisor, Lambda Pi Eta, The College of Wooster

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2002-2004 Judicial Board, The College of Wooster
2000-2001 Committee on Admissions, Retention, and Scholarships, Saint
Joseph’s College
1998-1999 Awards Committee, Department of Communication, Loyola
University Chicago
1998-1999 Public Speaking Course Committee, Department of
Communication, Loyola University Chicago
Editorial Service
Editorial Boards
2007-present Journal of Communication and Religion
2004-2006 Communication Studies
2000 Pennsylvania Speech Communication Annual
Ad Hoc Reviews
2012 External Referee, Rhetoric and Public Affairs
2011 Invited Reader, Rhetoric and Public Address Division,
Southern States Communication Association
2011 External Referee, Quarterly Journal of Speech
2010 External Referee, Rhetoric and Public Affairs
2009 Invited Reader, Political Communication Division,
Southern States Communication Association
2006-2007 External Referee, Journal of Communication and Religion
2006 External Referee, Rhetoric and Public Affairs
2006 Invited Reader, Rhetoric and Public Address Division,
Southern States Communication Association
2006 Invited Reader, Political Communication Division,
National Communication Association

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2006 Invited Reader, Rhetoric and Public Address Division,
Eastern Communication Association
2005-2006 Invited Reader, Rhetorical Studies Division, Religious
Communication Association
Disciplinary Service
2014-present Second Vice President, Religious Communication
Association
2012 Invited Reader, Book of the Year Award Committee,
Religious Communication Association
2009-2012 Executive Council, Religious Communication Association
2008-present Panel Respondent, Religious Communication Association
2008 Invited Reader, Student Paper of the Year Award
Committee, Religious Communication Association
2007-2013 Co-Chair, Rhetorical Studies Division, Religious
Communication Association
2006 Panel Respondent, Rhetoric and Public Address Division,
Eastern Communication Association
Professional Associations
National Communication Association
Religious Communication Association
Southern States Communication Association

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References
Martin J. Medhurst, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor
Department of Communication
Baylor University
Box 7000
Waco Texas 76978
(254) 710-7840
Martin_Medhurst@baylor.edu
Linda D. Manning, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Communication
Christopher Newport University
1 Avenue of the Arts
Newport News, Virginia 23606
(757) 594-7683
lmanning@cnu.edu
Calvin Troup, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Communication and Rhetorical Studies Department
Duquesne University
340 College Hall
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15282-1201
(412) 396-6444
troup@duq.edu
Ron Von Burg, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication
7347 Reynolda Station
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27106
(336) 758-5268
vonburrl@wfu.edu