Professor - Corporate Communication
Office: Music Education 217
Visual and Performing Arts
College of Arts & Sciences
SusanMcFarlane-Alvarez@clayton.edu
Ph D, Communication, Georgia State University, 2006
MA, Communication, Georgia State University, 1993
BA, Communication, State University of New York , 1991
Creative Excellence - Below the Line - Financial, Advertising Agencies Association of Trinidad and Tobago, Award, 1999
Creative Excellence - Best Radio - Services, Advertising Agencies Association of Trinidad and Tobago, Award, 2000
Creative Excellence - Best Radio - Health, Advertising Agencies Association of Trinidad and Tobago, Award, 2001
Creative Excellence - Best Radio, Advertising Agencies Association of Trinidad and Tobago, Award, 2004
Creative Excellent - Best Campaign, Advertising Agencies Association of Trinidad and Tobago, Award, 2002
Susan L. McFarlane-Alvarez, “Go back where you come from!” Aesthetic identity, “This Land” and “Old Town Road”, Flow Online Journal of Television and Media Studies – September 16 2019
Susan L. McFarlane-Alvarez, Bim and Joebell: Filmic Representations of Colonial and Postcolonial Caribbean Identity, Ian Randle Publishers – September 25 2015
Susan L. McFarlane-Alvarez, Shandra McDonald, , Building Bridges with Big Brothers, Big Sisters: Service learning links between professional and civic engagement education at a Predominantly Black Institution, Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship – November 2020
Susan L. McFarlane-Alvarez, Caribbean Creativity in the North American Classroom: Deploying Difference and Ingenuity for Community-Engaged Pedagogy, Caribbean Educational Research Journal - University of the West Indies – April 2020
Susan L. McFarlane-Alvarez, Human Billboarding:Peopled Publicity and a New Space of “Agency” in Advertising, Advertising and Society Review – July 2014
Susan L. McFarlane-Alvarez, Human Billboarding: Corporate (Post-)Colonialism and the Evolution of Branded Neo-Tribes, CSA Annual Conference, Cultural Studies Association – April 2006
Susan L. McFarlane-Alvarez, “Transforming Relations Using Student Thinkers” for Big Brothers, Big Sisters: Using service learning in public relations to build bridges between professional and civic engagement education at a Predominantly Black Institution, Building Bridges: 2018 Annual Convention, Eastern Communication Association – April 29 2018
Susan L. McFarlane-Alvarez, RuAnn Keith, Freda Wynn, Conceptual Resonance: A Three-Phase Study Applying Chion's Theoretical Perspectives of Acousmetre and Sound en Creux, Visual Communication Conference, Visual Communication Association – June 2003
Susan L. McFarlane-Alvarez, Imagining the Nation through Neighbor Crisis: Venezuelan 'Revolution' Televised in Trinidad and Tobago, Trans-National Literature and Film: Cultural Production and the Claims of History. , Cultural Production and the Claims of History – January 2004
Susan L. McFarlane-Alvarez, , Social Activism and Resistance in Corporate TV Commercials: Uncovering rhetorical periods and catalytic events during the 2016/2017 Presidential Primary, Election and Inauguration, 32nd Annual Disciplinary Conference in the Humanities: Dichotomies / Schisms / Divisions, University of West Georgia – October 27 2017
University, College of Arts and Sciences Scholar of the Year Award, Committee Member – March 2014 to Fall 2015
College, College of Arts and Sciences Teacher of the Year Committee, Committee Member – August 15 2018 to May 15 2019
Department, Department of Visual and Performing Arts Creative Careers Job Fair Committee, Committee Member – Summer 2019 to Spring 2020
University, Marketing Advisory Committee, Committee Member – Spring 2017 to Spring 2019
College, Mini Grants Committee, Committee Member – Fall 2010 to Spring 2013
Member, Florida Communication Association Fall 2016 to Present
Member, Caribbean Studies Association, International – December 2019 to Present