Molly J. Scanlon

Molly J. Scanlon, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts in the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences (HCAS) at Nova Southeastern University. She teaches a variety of undergraduate courses in writing, composition, and university (UNIV) first-year seminars. She also teaches research methods and visual media to graduate students in the department’s M.A. in Composition, Rhetoric, and Digital Media (CRDM).

As the Experiential Education & Learning (ExEL) Faculty Coordinator, Dr. Scanlon leads the Experiential Education and Learning Advisory Council (EELAC), a collaborative group of faculty and professional staff charged to build and implement an innovative college experience at the undergraduate level. Dr. Scanlon supports faculty and college leadership through this initiative, working to provide increasingly engaging, authentic, and transformative learning experiences for students.

Dr. Scanlon's research interests center on visual rhetoric and rhetorics of identity. For her doctoral dissertation, Scanlon studied teams of comics writers and artists and their collaborative multimodal composing processes. Her findings were published in Composition Studies (2015). Currently, she is engaged in a collaborative research project funded by the Conference on College Composition and Communication's 2015 Research Initiative Grant and a 2017 President’s Faculty Research and Development Grant (PFRDG) to study how faculty construct professional identities through the transition from graduate school to the professoriate. Her work has also appeared in Reflections and ImageText.