Patty Sotirin
Associate Professor of Communication

Patty Sotirin
Associate Professor of Communication

Humanities Dept.
Michigan Technological Univ.
1400 Townsend Dr.
Houghton, MI 49931-1295

Contact Me
Email: pjsotiri@mtu.edu
Office: Walker 345
Phone: (906) 487-3264
Fax: (906) 487-3559
Phone: (906) 487-3264

Advising
I am the advisor for the Communication and Culture Studies Major and the Communication Minor
Recent Publications
Articles
P. Sotirin and L. Ellingson. “Rearticulating the Aunt: Feminist Alternatives of
Family, Care, Kinship and Agency in Popular Aunt Figures.” Cultural
Studies<=>Critical Methodologies, 7:4, (2007), 442-459.
P. Sotirin, P.M. Buzzanell, and L. Turner. “Colonizing Family: A Feminist
Critique of Family Management Texts.” Journal of Family Communication, 7:4
(2007), 245-263.
L.L. Ellingson and P. Sotirin. Exploring Aunt-niece/nephew Communication.
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 23:3, (2006), 499-517.
Book Chapters
P. Sotirin. “Secretarial dirty work.” In S. Drew, B.M. Gassaway & M. Mills
(Eds.), Dirty work. Baylor U. Press, 2007, pp. 95-112.
P.J. Sotirin and L.L. Ellingson. “The ‘Other’ Women in Family Life: Recognizing
the Significance of Aunt/Niece/Nephew Communication.” In K. Floyd & M. T.
Morman (Eds.), Widening the Family Circle: New Research on Family
Communication. Sage, 2005, pp. 81-100.
P. Sotirin. “Becoming-Woman.” In C.J. Stivale (Ed.), Gilles Deleuze:
Key Concepts, Continuum Press, 2005, pp. 98-109.