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Carol Wilder is Associate Dean of The New School and Chair of the Department of Media Studies and Film. She was formerly Professor and Chair of Communication Studies at San Francisco State University, and has also taught at Oberlin College, Emerson College, and Miami University. Wilder received a B.S. in English and M.A. in Communication and Theatre from Miami University, and a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Communication from Kent State.
Wilder has published dozens of articles on communication theory and political communication in journals such as Human Communication Research, Journal of Communication, Communication Education, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Family Process, and Atlantic Journal of Communication. She has served on the Board of Directors of the International Communication Association, as President of the New York State Communication Association, and as Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Communication Research and the Western Journal of Communication. She is currently a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Communication.
Wilder has contributed chapters to many books including the introduction to Hugh Duncan's Communication and Social Order (Transaction, 1985), The Dream of Reality ( Norton, 1986), Political Culture and Public Opinion ( Transaction, 1988), Media U.S.A. (Longman, 1990), The Dark Side of Interpersonal Communication ( Erlbaum, 1994), Women in Communication ( Greenwood, 1996), The Postmodern Presence (Sage/AltaMira, 1998), and Evolving Brief Therapies ( Geist & Russell, 1999). Her book Rigor and Imagination: Essays from the Legacy of Gregory Bateson (Praeger, 1982; with John H. Weakland) received the National Communication Association Book of the Year Award.
In 2002 she made her first 16mm film Puttin' on the Dog, screened at festivals including Woods Hole Film Festival, Bar Harbor Film Festival, The First International Dog Film Festival, and at the National Arts Club in New York. In 2005 she completed a six-DVD set Multiple Versions of the World, from the proceedings of the centennial conference on the work of Gregory Bateson. Selections from her book on Vietnam The War that Won't Die and other writings are available at http://homepage.newschool.edu/~wilder. |
