Degrees
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana – Ph.D., August 1996
Program: Communication (Focus - Interpersonal Communication)
Additional Focus Areas: Organizational Communication and Methodology
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana – Master of Arts, August 1991
Program: Communication (Focus - Public Affairs/Issue Management)
Additional Focus Areas: Public Communication and Methodology
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana – Bachelor of Arts with Distinction, May 1988
Major: Communication/Public Relations Minors: Fine Arts and Management
Background Information
ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Kutztown University, July 2021 to present
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, SUNY New Paltz, July 2016 to August 2019
Dean, College of Communication and Creative Arts, Rowan University, July 2010 to July 2016
Interim Dean, College of Communication, Rowan University, January 2009 to July 2010
Chair, Department of Communication Studies, Rowan University, Summer 2007 to January 2009
Course Director, Public Speaking, Rowan University, Spring 2005 to Summer 2007
Interim Chair, Department of Communication Studies, Rowan University, Fall 2004
FACULTY APPOINTMENTS
State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
August 2016 – August 2021 – Professor of Communication
August 2016 – August 2021 – Associated Faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ
September 2007 to July 2016 – Professor of Communication Studies
September 2003 to September 2007 – Associate Professor of Communication Studies
September 1998 to September 2003 – Assistant Professor of Communication Studies
University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, Johnstown, PA
August 1996 to August 1998 – Assistant Professor of Communication
Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
August 1995 to January 1996 - Adjunct Faculty of Communication
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
August 1988 to May 1996 – Graduate Assistant Faculty of Communication
Publications
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Arnold, L. B. (upcoming). Just like a freefall: The freedoms and pitfalls of metaphor analysis. In A. R. Örtenblad (Ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Metaphor in Organization Studies. Oxford: Oxford University.
Arnold, L. B. (2021). “I know I’m not supposed to say these things. It is very not maternal of me.”: Rhetoric of maternal resentment. In A. O’Reilly (Ed.) Maternal Regret: Resistances, Renunciations, and Reflections. Ontario: Demeter.
Arnold, L. B. and Martin, B. A. (2021). The digital maternal: Mothers and social media. In A. O’Reilly (Ed.) Maternal Theory: Essential Readings. Ontario: Demeter.
Arnold, L. B. (2017). Making marital Face(book): Husband posts and face management on Facebook. In L. R. Ennis (Ed.) After the Happily Ever After: Empowering Women & Mothers in Relationships. Ontario: Demeter.
Arnold, L. B. & Martin, B. A. (2016). Taking the Village Online: Mothers, Motherhood, and Social Media. Ontario: Demeter.
Arnold, L. B. (2016). Confession in 140 characters: Intensive mothering and the bad mom online. In L. B. Arnold and B. A. Martin (Eds.) Taking the Village Online: Mothers, Motherhood, and Social Media. Ontario: Demeter.
Arnold, L. B. (2015). Meeting myself for dinner: Negotiating the multiplicity of positionality while feeding the family. In T. Cassidy and F. I. P. Guignard (Eds.) What’s Cooking Mom? Narratives about Food and Family. Ontario: Demeter.
Arnold, L. B. (2014). I don’t know where I end and you begin: Challenging boundaries of self and intensive mothering. In L. Ennis (Ed.) Intensive Mothering: The Cultural Contradictions of Modern Motherhood. Ontario: Demeter.
Arnold, L. B. (2012). Empowerment. In M. Kosut (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Gender in Media. Thousand Oaks, CA; Sage.
Arnold, L. B. (2012). Liberal Feminism. In M. Kosut (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Gender in Media. Thousand Oaks, CA; Sage.
Arnold, L. B. (2012). Susan Bordo. In M. Kosut (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Gender in Media. Thousand Oaks, CA; Sage.
Arnold, L. B. (2011). 10 years out – Presence and absence in a long-term online mothers’ community. In M. Moravec (Ed.) Motherhood Online. Toronto: Cambridge Scholars Press.
Arnold, L. B. (2009). Review of: Opting Out: Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home, by Pamela Stone. Journal of Family Communication, (9), 2.
Arnold, L. B. (2009). Locating the self and other in place and time: An autoethnographic and critical reading of Yellowstone Park past and present. The Review of Communication.9 (3).
Arnold, L. B. (2008) Family Communication: Theory and Research. Boston: Allyn & Bacon. Primary author and acquisition editor.
Arnold, L. B. (2008). Social support and empowerment for mothers on a pregnancy bulletin board. In L. B. Arnold (Ed.) Family Communication: Theories and Research. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
Arnold, L. B. (2008). Empowered self. In A. E. Kinser (Ed.) Feminism and Mothering in the Third Wave: Contemporary Feminist Journeys. Toronto: Demeter Press.
Arnold, L. B. (2007). “But that’s not how my family does it!:” Reducing the “weird!” of cultural difference in family communication. In J. Branche, E. R. Cohn, and J. Mullennix (Eds.) Diversity Across the Curriculum. Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing Company.
Arnold, L. B., & Doran, E. (2007). Stop before you hurt the kids: Communicating self-control and self-negation in femininity, mothering, and eating disorders. Women’s Studies in Communication, 30 (1).
Arnold, L. B. (2005). Don’t you know what causes that? Advice, celebration, and justification in a large families bulletin board. Communication Studies, 56 (4).