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.


 
 
 
 
Communication Minor
 
Visit the 2007 NCA Ethnography Preconference Websitehttp://www.hu.mtu.edu/~pjsotiri/preconference/