- Phone:
- 765-455-9567
- Email:
- darrc@iuk.edu
- Department:
- Communication and Performing Arts
- Campus:
- IU Kokomo
Main Building (KO), Room 238A
Main Building (KO), Room 238A
Biography
I am Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of Communication Arts. I am also currently serving as Interim Dean of the School of Education.
My favorite classes to teach include Argumentation and Debate, Communication Theory, and Research Methods, and my research currently focuses on how teenagers use social media platforms to create “authentic” online personas. I have published journal articles and book chapters on a variety of topics, including Instagram and authenticity, civility in American politics, Supreme Court confirmation hearings, and the theory of Dramatism by Kenneth Burke.
Teaching Awards and Honors
- Trustees Teaching Award, Indiana University Kokomo, September 2017
- Member, Faculty Academy on Excellence in Teaching. Inducted 2016.
- Outstanding Educator Award, Student Government Association, Indiana University Kokomo, 2013
- Claude Rich Excellence in Teaching Award, Indiana University Kokomo, 2012
Representative Publications
Darr, C. R., & Doss, E. F. (2022). The fake one is the real one: Finstas, authenticity, and context collapse in teen friend groups. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 27(4), 1-10.
Heath, S. E., Darr, C. R., & Acharya, L. (2022). Banking on the future: Student academic performance, retention, graduation, and instructor type. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 22(4), 1-13.
Darr, C. R., & Cook, P. (2018). Confirming ideology: The Ideological State Apparatus and “anti-ideology topoi” in Supreme Court confirmation literature. Communication Law Review, 18, 29-57.
Darr, C. R., & Strine IV, H. C. (2017). Natural disasters and the construction of American values: Community exceptionalism as representative anecdote.” Atlantic Journal of Communication, 25, 293-304.
Darr, Christopher R. “Teaching Political Communication in Hyper-Partisan Times.” Panel discussion, National Communication Association annual convention, Seattle, WA, November 2021. (Panel facilitator).
Darr, Christopher R. “Judicial Speech in the Classical Roman Style.” Presentation (virtual) at the National Communication Association annual convention, Indianapolis, IN, November 2020.
Darr, Christopher R., and Erin F. Doss. “The Finsta Phenomenon: Identity Management and Alternative Personas.” Paper presented at the National Communication Association annual convention, Baltimore, MD, November 2019.
Darr, Christopher R. “Communication for Survival Through Social Media: Teen Identity, Relationships, and Self-Expression.” Chair. National Communication Association annual convention, Baltimore, MD, November 2019.