Christine Bala Burgoyne
Instructor

Assistant Director, MSE/ESM Engineering Communications Program

12 Holden Hall (0237)
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061

Phone: (540) 231-5305
Fax: (540)231-8919

E-mail: cbala@vt.edu

Personal Webpage: (Under Construction)

http://www.mse.vt.edu/faculty/cbala/Homepage/index.html

 

Recent Publications

 

 

• Globalization in Engineering Communications

  •  Technical and Professional Communications: Preparing the engineer for the workplace through current and changing standards

  •  Critical discourse analysis (CDA)--discursive patterns and reproduction of ideologies in technical professions--discourse communities in engineering cultures;

  •  Bakhtinian and Barthian Studies -- applications of dialogism, heterogeneity, carnivalesque , intertextuality, hybrid identities, in engineering, global, and communications

• B.A., University   of the Philippines, 1995

  •  M.A., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2001