CU Boulder is an incomparable place to learn about the challenges and possibilities for sustainable futures. Raised by two teachers, Prof. Pezzullo values classrooms as opportunities to discover, reflect, and engage timely topics through improving critical thinking and communication (both oral and written). With interdisciplinary training, her primary areas of expertise include climate and environmental justice, environmental communication, social movements, and tourism.

Raised by two teachers, Pezzullo takes teaching seriously. She has been awarded a Lamba Pi Undergraduate Teaching Award, a Trustee’s Teaching Award, a Faculty Mentor Award for graduate teaching, and has received competitive teaching grants. She also has directed over half a dozen doctoral students and three Master’s students, as well as served on the committee of over 70 MA and PhD students. In 2022, she was nominated by graduate students (current & former) and competitively recognized with the national Daniel C. Brouwer Faculty Mentorship Award. In 2023, she received the William R. Payden Award for Faculty Excellence. She also publishes on pedagogy, including three editions of an award-winning textbook. In 2022, Pezzullo was the lead faculty coordinator of a competitive interdisciplinary campus-wide workshop on teaching Climate Across the Curriculum.

Pezzullo directs the Sustainability and Storytelling Lab, which involves undergraduate paid interns and course credit opportunities, as well as graduate student research and practices from departments across the university; the SAS Lab aligns with the public service mission of the university both locally and globally. She can direct graduate students in the Department of Communication and co-direct in Environmental Studies. She also is affiliated with Ethnic Studies and Media Studies.

University of Colorado Boulder (Fall 2015-present)
Undergraduate Courses Taught:
Advanced Topics in Storytelling, Culture, & Climate Justice
Environmental Communication
Advanced Senior Seminar (topics vary, including: Environmental Tourism and Plastics)
Rhetorical Foundations of Communication

Graduate Courses Taught:

• Foundations of Environmental Justice (cross-listed with Environmental Studies, Geography, & Political Science), which is required for the Graduate Environmental Justice Certificate
• Environmental Communication, Topics vary, including: Toxic Bodies, Racial Ecologies
• Rhetorics of Transgression and Resistance
• Rhetoric and Civic Community: Vulnerability and Public Life
• Contemporary Rhetorical Theory
• Writing, Reporting, and Publishing

Indiana University-Bloomington (Fall 2002-Spring 2015)
Undergraduate Courses Taught:

Human Biology B300: Human Dilemmas: Living Downstream
Communicating Sustainability
Public Advocacy
Environmental Communication and Public Spheres
Environmental Communication: Environmental Tourism
The Rhetoric of Social Movements
Gender and Communication

Graduate Courses Taught:                         

• Environmental Communication and Public Culture
• Rhetorics of Transgression and Resistance
• Feminism and Rhetorical Theory: On Bodies
• Feminism and Rhetorical Theory: An Introduction
• Introduction to Pedagogy in Communication and Culture
• Introduction to Rhetoric and Public Culture

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (Spring 1998-Fall 2001)

Undergraduate Courses Taught:

• Environmental Advocacy
• Social Theory & Cultural Diversity
• Rhetoric of Social Movements
• Rhetoric & Social Controversy
• Oral Communication/Argument
• Gender, Communication, and Culture
• Environmental Communication & the Public Sphere