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.

Pezzullo has been an award-winning teacher for decades, including recognition with a Lamba Pi Undergraduate Teaching Award (2015), a Trustee’s Teaching Award (2005), the William R. Payden Award for Faculty Excellence (2022), and more recently a Faculty Mentor Award for graduate teaching (2026). She also has directed eight doctoral students (with four more currently enrolled) 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 2022 and 2026, Pezzullo was the lead faculty coordinator of a competitive interdisciplinary campus-wide workshop on teaching Climate Across the Curriculum and Sustainability Across the Curriculum. She also publishes on pedagogy, including multiple editions of an award-winning textbook, and has earned pedagogy grants.

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. Pezzullo has extensive guest teaching experience on and off her campus.

University of Colorado Boulder (Fall 2015-present)
Undergraduate Courses Taught:
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