Arthur Bochner
Distinguished University Professor of Communication

Narrative inquiry, Interpretive research, Close relationships

Office: CIS 3048
Phone: 813/974-2145
Email:

Dr. Bochner joined the faculty in 1984. He served as chair of the department for 8 years while developing our doctoral program. His current projects investigate narratives surrounding aging, especially the aging of family members. He is co-director of the Institute for Interpretive Human Studies, editor of two book series, and serves on the editoral boards of several journals.

Curriculum Vitae
(April 2011)

Undergraduate Course Offerings

• Advanced Interpersonal Communication
• Communication and Aging
• Love on the Internet
• Relationships on Film
• Writing Lives

Graduate Course Offerings

• Narrative Inquiry
• Social Construction of Reality
• Writing Workshop
• Communicating Close Personal Relationships
• Interpretive Social Science

Representative Publications

• Bird on the Wire: Freeing the Father Within Me. Qualitative Inquiry 18.2 (2012): 168-73. [pdf]


• Terms of Perfection. The Review of Communication 12.1 (2012): 3-20. [pdf]


• Warm Ideas and Chilling Consequences. International Review of Qualitative Research 3.3 (2009): 357-70. [pdf]


• Vulnerable Medicine. Journal of Applied Communication Research 37.2 (2009): 159-66. [pdf]


• Narrative's Virtues. Qualitative Inquiry 7.2 (2001): 131-157. [pdf]


• Criteria Against Ourselves. Qualitative Inquiry 6 (2000): 266-272. (Reprinted in: The Qualitative Inquiry Reader, Norman Denzin and Yvonna Lincoln (Eds.) Sage 2002.) [pdf]


• It's About Time: Narrative and the Divided Self. Qualitative Inquiry, 3 (1997): 418-438. [pdf]


• Composing Ethnography: Alternative Forms of Qualitative Writing co-edited with Carolyn Ellis AltaMira Press, 1996


• Relationships as Stories. with Carolyn Ellis and Lisa Tillman-Healy Handbook of Personal Relationships (ed. S. Duck) John Wiley and Sons, Ltd., 1996, pp. 307-324


• Perspectives on Inquiry II: Theories and Stories. Handbook of Interpersonal Communication(2nd edition, eds. M. Knapp and G.R. Miller) Sage Publications, 1994, pp. 21-4. [pdf]

Books

Honors and Awards

• (2006) Received the University of South Florida's Outstanding Research Achievement Award.
• (2006). Received Ohio University's Elizabeth Andersch Award for sustained contributions to Speech Communication Education and Research over one's entire career.
• (2005) Received NCA's Bernard J. Brommel Award for Distinguished Scholarly Contributions to Family Communication.
• Elected 2nd Vice-President of the National Communication Association (NCA). Will be President of NCA in 2008.

Education

• Ph.D., Communication, Bowling Green State University, 1971
• M.A., Speech Communication, Syracuse University, 1969
• B.S., Speech Communication, California State University, 1968

Current Courses

Graduate Students

Nathan Hodges , Nicholas Riggs