Dr. Janis Teruggi Page

Janis Teruggi Page, Ph.D. is professorial lecturer in the Public Relations and Communications master’s program. Prior to joining academia in 2005, she directed strategic communications for U.S. business and consumer magazines before starting a PR consultancy, MediaWerks.

Dr. Page is the author of more than 50 book chapters, journal articles and conference papers. Her doctoral dissertation, “Toward a theory of visual narrative” advanced analysis of multimodal visuals. She has produced research on political campaign visual messaging and issue advertising in social media. Her work appears in Routledge’s Handbook of Strategic Communication and Handbook of Visual Communication, 2nd ed and in edited volumes on PR ethics, visual persuasion, international public opinion and postmodern culture.

Together with former program director Professor Lawrence Parnell, she co-authored two editions of the textbook Introduction to Public Relations: Strategic, Digital, and Socially Responsible Communication (Sage 2019, 2021). She is also co-author of a book on the application of visual theory to strategic communication: Visual Communication Insights and Strategies (Page and Duffy, Wiley 2022).

She has taught more than 20 diverse public relations, strategic communications, and media studies courses as a full-time faculty member at various universities, including the University of Florida, American University in D.C., and the University of Illinois at Chicago where she is currently is a Communication Department faculty member.

In fall 2018, she held a Fulbright distinguished chair appointment at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic, and in May 2023, a Fulbright Specialist appointment at Transilvania University, Romania.