Theresa Donofrio is the Esther and Robert Armstrong Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at Coe College, where she teaches media studies and public discourse courses. She has participated in multiple teaching initiatives designed to promote civic engagement, including serving as one of the 2016-2017 Iowa Campus Compact Engaged Scholar Faculty Fellows.  In 2017, her work in the classroom was recognized with the Iowa Communication Association Outstanding New Teacher Award. Her research primarily examines rhetorics surrounding atrocities and has appeared in the Western Journal of Communication and Women’s Studies in Communication. She received her Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Maryland. Prior to her graduate work, she worked for the Office of Survivor Affairs and Speakers Bureau at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.