Introduction

My interests lie with how communication and social interaction work to create, maintain, and perpetuate community and culture whether online or off. I am particularly interested in queer studies, Latinx studies, popular culture, the rhetoric of identity and alterity, performance studies, and Internet studies. My other interests include public memory and the social construction of language and meaning.

Bio

My interests lie with how communication and social interaction work to create, maintain, and perpetuate community and culture whether online or off.

I am a scholar, artist, playwright, theatre producer, performer, and educator. I have performed all over the United States in venues such as the Nuyorican Poets Café, the Tilles Center for the Performing Arts and Highways Performance Space. I studied theatre and film at Yale University, and I earned my M.A. in Media Studies at Long Island University. I completed all the coursework to earn the M.A. in Strategic Communication from Regent University and plan to do the final project in 2023. I am a second-year doctoral student at Texas A&M. I was raised in California. I lived in New York City for 18 years before crash landing in Bryan-College Station in July of 2021. My trusty companion is a miniature schnauzer named Scout.

Courses Taught

Public Speaking

Oral Communication 1

Voice and Diction

Theatre History

Acting

Representative Publications

Pulos, R. (2022). Phyllis Diller and Her Fictional Husband Fang. Comedy Studies, 13 (1).    https://doi.org/10.1080/2040610X.2022.2040766 

Pulos, R. (2021). Pepsi-Cola’s Number Fever Fiasco: How the Media Portrays the Actors of a Crisis. Proceedings of the New York State Communication Association, 2020 (1). https://docs.rwu.edu/nyscaproceedings/vol2020/iss1/8/ 

Pulos, R. (2020, November 21). Mixing Ingredients or How to Make an American by Checking

Off Boxes [Performance]. National Communication Association’s Convention, Virtual.

Sponsored by the Second VP. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuQGPaAi1iY&t=267s

Pulos, R. (2020). COVID-19 crisis memes, rhetorical arena theory and multimodality. JCOM, 19 (07), A01. https://doi.org/10.22323/2.19070201

Pulos, R. (2021). Madonna and Her Multicultural Fan Community [Multimedia]. In P.J. Booth & R.Y. Lee (Eds.), “Fan Studies Pedagogies.” Transformative Works and Cultures, 35. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2021.2073