Wernecke, Christopher

Assistant Professor

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Assistant Professor, Communication Studies , College of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts

Wernecke, Christopher

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werneckec@uncw.edu

910.962.7744

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- Stop Bringing Citations to a Knife Fight. Rhetoric, Politics, & Culture. 2026-01-01
- “Prayer Warriors Needed!” The Warrior-Priest Archetypal Metaphor in American Cancer & COVID Rhetorics. -- special issue: Religious Rhetoric Will Set You Free: The Conceit of Liberation in the Religious Discourse of Contemporary America.. Journal of Contemporary Rhetoric. 2025-01-01
- Priming "American Carnage:" Reality Television and Donald J. Trump. Critical Studies in Media Communication. 2024-09-01
- “Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?” The Wizarding World of Harry Potter as a Constructed Site of (Artificial) Collective Memory, Identity, and Resistance.. Communication & Democracy. 57:230-251. 2023-01-01
- Mythologizing Madiba: Myth, Resistance, and the Globalized Post-Presidency in Barack Obama’s Nelson Mandela Lecture Series Address.. Howard Journal of Communications. 34:132-150. 2022-01-01
- Gazing into the Past: Post-Presidential Collective Memory and Political Scopophilia at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Museum.. Western Journal of Communication. 85:507-526. 2021-01-01
- “A New Moonshot:” Exploring the Metaphoric Shift in American Cancer Discourse.. Southern Communication Journal. 86:335-348. 2021-01-01
Book
- Connecting Communication Theory and Practice: From Classroom to Boardroom.. Kendall Hunt Publishing. 2024-08-01
Chapter
- “That Was the First Time in History That Anyone Bothered to Write That Down”: Mythologizing the Declaration of Independence in The West Wing. -- Used, Abused, and Sidelined: Debating the Declaration.. Pennsylvania State University Press. 2025-08-01
- Apologia, Argument, and Philosophical Pairs in American Political Discourse -- Local Theories of Argument. Routledge. 142-148. 2021-03-01

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