University of Pittsburgh Ph.D
Arizona State University
Alessandra Von Burg is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Wake Forest University. She is the Program Director for Casa Artom, Wake Forest University’s residence in Venice. She is affiliated faculty for American Ethnic Studies, Jewish Studies, and steering committee member for the Race, Inequality, and Policy Initiative (RIPI) at Wake Forest University. She is the current President of the American Society for the History of Rhetoric (ASHR). From 2010 until 2018, she was co-principal investigator and co-director for the Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellows (BFTF) Summer Institute, a Department of State-funded summer program for international and American students. She is the co-founder of the Every Campus a Refuge (ECAR) chapter at Wake Forest University, residential programs for refugees and asylum seekers. Her research focuses on rhetorical theory, citizenship, mobility, noncitizens and nonplaces. Her most recent publications include two student-authored books, Rhetoric in Everyday Life and Feeling Rhetoric.