Associate Professor
English

Staci Defibaugh

4032 BATTEN ARTS & LETTERS
NORFOLK, 23529

Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (2015)

M.A. in Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (2014)

M.A. in TESOL and Linguistics, Ball State University, (2010)

B.A. in English, University of South Carolina, (2001)

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Defibaugh, S. "Nurse Practitioners and the Performance of Professional Competency" $3,500. Old Dominion University. 2017 - 2017

Articles

Defibaugh, S. (2019). “I talked to my doctor:” Constructing the neoliberal patient-consumer in direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising. Discourse, Context and Media 28 , pp. 1-7.
Defibaugh, S. (2018). Small talk as work talk: Enacting the patient-centered approach in nurse-practitioner-patient visits. Communication & Medicine 14 (2) , pp. 97-107.

Books

Defibaugh, S. (2018). Nurse Practitioners and the Performance of Professional Competency: Accomplishing Patient-centered Care. Palgrave MacMillan.