Bio

Julia Reimer is an associate professor and chair of the Contemporary Communication department. She has gained her first MA degree in Theater from Bowling Green State University, her second MA degree in Applied Theater from City University of New York and her Ph.D. in Speech Communication/Performance Studies from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. With an interdisciplinary background, her teaching at LCC has spanned such areas arts and culture, dramatic literature, community-based theater, communication research methods, and visual rhetoric.  Her specializations are in cultural performance, ritual, community studies, and creative analytic practices.