Janis Teruggi Page

Assistant Professor Office: BRNG 2274F
Office Phone: (765) 494-3335
Email: jtpage@purdue.edu

Specialization: Visual Theory; Visual Rhetoric in Political Communication

Professional Experience and Teaching:

Prior to joining academia, Dr. Page’s 20-year career focused on the management of strategic communication for U.S. magazine publishers; she also co-founded a Chicago-area public relations consultancy.  Joining Purdue in 2009, she teaches COM 253, Introduction to Public Relations. She has also taught management, strategic campaigns, crisis communication, visual communication, and writing as a member of the public relations faculty, University of Florida, and graduate-level courses in issues management, advanced writing, PR principles, and magazine publishing as an adjunct.

Representative Publications:

• “A battle of visions: Dueling images of morality in US political campaign TV ads.” Communication, Culture and Critique, 2, 1 (2008). With Margaret Duffy. 
• “The presentation of self in everyday life” and “Feminist movement.”  Encyclopedia of Political Communication. Eds. Lynda Lee Kaid and Christina Holtz-Bacha (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2008).
• “A public journalism response to organizational ethics violations: A case study of a public health crisis in an American school.” Journalism Practice, 1, 2 (2007): 261-276.
• “Myth and photography in advertising: A semiotic analysis.” Visual Communication Quarterly, 13, 2 (2006): 90-109.