/filters:quality(90)/prod01/production-cdn-pxl/media/umassdartmouth/profiles/arts-and-sciences/english/Megan-Fletcher-Headshot1.jpg?text=945+WebP)
faculty
Megan Fletcher, PhD she/her/hers
Assistant Professor
English & Communication
Contact
508-999-8274
mfletcher@umassd.edu
Liberal Arts 305A
Education
| 2022 | North Carolina State University | PhD |
| 2016 | North Carolina State University | MS |
| 2013 | Bridgewater State University | BA |
Teaching
Programs
Programs
Teaching
Courses
Capstone study. The course focus will change with the instructor, but topics may include professional writing and communication, mass communication, strategic communication, technical communication, and others.
Emphasis on combining textual and graphic components to accomplish production-oriented, informative, instructional, and persuasive tasks. Students will acquire a broad understanding of the fundamentals of visual communication and document design. Students will then evaluate the effectiveness of design choices for particular rhetorical situations and apply those principles to specific projects using industry-standard design/publishing software.
Research
Research interests
- Strategic Communication
- Intimate Partner Violence
- Media & Technology
- Autoethnography
- Community-Based Research
Select publications
- Megan Alyssa Fletcher (2018).
We to Me: An Autoethnographic Discovery of Self, In and Out of Domestic Abuse
Women's Studies in Communication, 41(1), 42-59.
National Communication Association: Stephen E. Lucas Debut Publication Award (2019)
Dr. Megan Alyssa Fletcher is a communication scholar of women’s health and media. Through community engaged research she incorporates narrative-driven and intersectional feminist approaches to craft interdisciplinary interventions for studying (and ultimately preventing) violence against women broadly, and intimate partner violence specifically. The aim of her research is to actively improve the conditions for women who have experienced abuse, a goal rooted in effective strategic communication. Her first research project, “We to Me: An Autoethnographic Discovery of Self – In and Out of Domestic Abuse”, was published in Women’s Studies in Communication. For this manuscript, she received the Stephen E. Lucas Debut Publication Award from the National Communication Association (NCA) in 2019. Dr. Fletcher earned her Ph.D. in Communication, Rhetoric and Digital Media from North Carolina State University in 2022. Born in New Bedford, Dr. Fletcher is thrilled to partner with local organizations for research endeavors and student engagement opportunities. As a first-generation college student who attended UMass Dartmouth, Dr. Fletcher is keenly interested in supporting our students in their academic and professional pursuits.