
Madison Krall , Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Communication
Department of Communication Media and the Arts
(973) 275-3515
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Madison Krall, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Communication
Department of Communication Media and the Arts
Dr. Krall’s publications speak in diverse but interconnected ways to her interests in health and science communication, rhetorical history, gender studies, and the media. Most recently, she published a co-authored article in the American Journal of Sexuality Education as well as two solo-authored articles in the Rhetoric of Health & Medicine and Feminist Media Studies. She has also published several co-authored articles in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Health Communication, Science Communication, Public Understanding of Science, and Management Communication Quarterly. Dr. Krall holds a Higher Education Teaching Specialist Certificate and an Interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate in Gender Studies and her conference papers have been recognized with top paper awards from the National Communication Association.
Education
- Ph.D., University of Utah
- M.A., University of Colorado Denver
- B.A., Pepperdine University
Scholarship
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
- Jensen, R. E., Krall, M. A., Garza, G. Y., Aguilar, Lopez, J. A., & Jordan, M. (2024). Talking about fertility in sex education class: STIs, substance use, and reproductive technology as grounds for discussion. American Journal of Sexuality Education. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/15546128.2024.2431511
- Krall, M. A. (2023). Regulatory rhetoric and mediated health narratives: Justifying oversight in the Sherri Chessen Finkbine thalidomide story. Rhetoric of Health & Medicine, 6(3), 304-334. https://doi.org/10.5744/rhm.2023.3004
- Krall, M. A. (2023). “It’s my favorite kind of cake. Gigantic.”: Healthism, postfeminist disruptions, and rhetorical “Othering” in The Mindy Project. Feminist Media Studies, 24(6), 1231-1247. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2023.2229066
- Jensen, R. E. & Krall, M. A. (2023). Targeted invitations to tailor: Establishing fertility as relevant in U.S. sex education. Health Communication, 39(9), 1750-1759. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2023.2234591
- Cullinan, M. E., Maison, K., Parks, M. M., Krall, M. A., Krebs, E., Mann, B. W., & Jensen, R. E. (2022). "Seedlings in the corporate forest: Communicating benevolent sexism in Dow Chemical’s first internal affirmative-action campaign." Management Communication Quarterly. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/08933189221115748
- Krall, M. A., Parks, M. M., Krebs, E., Mann, B. W., Maison, K., & Jensen, R. E. (2022). "Chemistry in the mail: Stamps from around the globe and public science communication in the twentieth century." Public Understanding of Science, 31(2), 136-151.
- Mann, B. W., Krall, M. A., Parks, M. M., Krebs, E., Maison, K., & Jensen, R. E. (2021). "Strategic place-making and public scientific outreach in the American Chemical Society’s National Historic Chemical Landmarks program." Science Communication, 43(3), 336-357. https://doi.org/10.1177/10755470211006685
- Jensen, R. E., Maison, K., Mann, B. W., Krall, M. A., & Parks, M. M. (2019). "Medicalization’s communicative infrastructure: Seventy years of “brain chemistry” in the New York Times." Health Communication, 36(3), 272-279. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2019.1673951
- Jensen, R. E., Parks, M. M., Mann, B. W., Maison, K., & Krall, M. A. (2019). "Mapping Nature’s scientist: The posthumous demarcation of Rosalind Franklin and her crystallographic data." Quarterly Journal of Speech, 105(3), 297-318. https://doi.org/10.1080/00335630.2019.1629000
Book Chapters
- Krall, M. A. (2022). Negotiating public scientific regulatory controversies: Dr. Frances O. Kelsey’s positive postponement of Thalidomide in the United States. In K. Turner & J. E. Black (Eds.), Reframing rhetorical history: Cases, theories, and methodologies (131-150). University of Alabama Press.
- Krall, M. A., Hasian, M. A., & Clark, Y. K. (2021). Zika virus, Ebola contagion narratives, and the US Obsessions with securitizing neglected infectious diseases. In S. Becker, M. de Bruin-Molé, & S. Polak (Eds.), Embodying contagion: The viropolitics of horror and desire in contemporary discourse (pp. 61-84). University of Wales Press.
Pedagogical Manuscripts
- Bauer, L. M., Caywood, M., Choate, A., Hedman, S., Krall, M., Reiter, M., & Vandable, N. (conditionally accepted; under revision). Death, dying, and bereavement: A teaching resource manual. Society for the Teaching of Psychology.
Accomplishments
- OSCLG Cheris Kramerae Dissertation Award. (2023). Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender.
- Joanna Ploeger Memorial Essay Award. (2022). Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine. National Communication Association.
- 2020-2022 - Steffensen Cannon Graduate Dissertation Fellowship; University of Utah
- 2020 - Article of the Year Award; Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine
- 2020 - Graduate Teaching Award; University of Utah Department of Communication
- 2019 - Graduate Development Award; Rhetoric Society of America
- 2019 - Graduate Colleague of the Year Award; University of Utah Department of Communication
- 2019 – Outstanding Graduate Service Award; University of Utah Department of Communication
- 2017 – Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award; Rocky Mountain Communication Association
- 2016 - Exceptional Graduate Student Scholarship; Waveland Press and the University of Colorado Denver Department of Communication