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Biography

I am from the Pacific Northwest originally. I love teaching and researching. You can find me practicing shin rin yoku out in a forest on the weekends and I love to explore. Or I'm holed up in my kitchen baking or trying new recipes. I am also a huge fan of '80s new wave and adore all things '90s as wel. Spooky season is all year for me and I write about horror films/series on a regular basis in academic and popular publications.

Education Background

• Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University
• M.A., Syracuse University 
• B.A., Willamette University
   

Teaching Interests

I focus on popular culture (particularly film and series), the opioid epidemic, law/policy, environmental/sustainability, media, technology, public memory and visual rhetoric.
 

Research Interests

• Opioid Epidemic and rhetorics of pain
• Deaths of Despair
• Horror genre
• Soldier reintegration
• Presidential justifications for war/force
• Advertising and Society
• Public/cultural memory
• Environmental and policy rhetoric
• Metaphors
• Visual/Spatial Rhetoric
• Communication and Law
• Object-oriented Ontology
• Media and popular culture
• Technology
   

Publications

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Books

Understanding Ads: Media, Meaning, and Communication. Cognella Press

Rhetorical Pain: Collective, Healing, and Hope. Bloomsbury

Deaths of Despair: Rhetoric of the Opioid Epidemic. Lanham: Lexington Books

Peer-reviewed book chapters

Good, Tiara and Aiden Privitera. “Seeing Red: Kubrick and Muschietti’s Vision of King’s Work for the Demands of the Present.’” In Roxanne Harde and Jeanie Willis, eds. The Everyday Horror of American Life: The Rhetorical Vision of Stephen King. Routledge Taylor and Francis.

Engels, Jeremy, Tiara Good, John Minbiole, William Sass, and Frank Stec. “Rhetorical Criticism as the Art of Questioning What We Take for Granted: An Inquiry into the ‘American Dream.’” In Nathan Crick, ed. The Routledge Handbook of Rhetoric and Power. Routledge Taylor and Francis.

“Nostalgic Senses in Stranger Things.” In Barna Donavan, ed. The End of the World on Film and Television. McFarland & Company Inc.

Journal Articles

Curry, Alex and Tiara Good. “Talking Baseball When There’s No Baseball: Reporters and Fans During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” International Journal of Sport Communication, (Summer 2020): 22-35.

Review of Lara C. Stache’s Breaking Bad: A Cultural History, Popular Culture Studies Journal, 47, no. 1 (2019).