Dr. Bochner joined the faculty in 1984. He served as chair of the department for 8 years while developing our doctoral program. His current projects investigate narratives surrounding aging, especially the aging of family members. He is co-director of the Institute for Interpretive Human Studies, editor of two book series, and serves on the editoral boards of several journals.

curriculum vitae (April 2007)

Undergraduate course offerings

• Advanced Interpersonal Communication
• Communication and Aging
• Love on the Internet
• Relationships on Film
• Writing Lives

Graduate course offerings

• Narrative Inquiry
• Social Construction of Reality
• Writing Workshop
• Communicating Close Personal Relationships

Representative publications

• Bochner, A. (2001). “Narrative’s Virtues,” Qualitative Inquiry, (Lead article), March 2001, 7, 2, 131-157.


• Bochner, A. (2000). “Criteria Against Ourselves,” Qualitative Inquiry, 2000, 6, 266-272. (Reprinted in: The Qualitative Inquiry Reader, Norman Denzin and Yvonna Lincoln (Eds.) Sage 2002.)


• Bochner, A. (1997). “It’s About Time: Narrative and the Divided Self,” Qualitative Inquiry, 3, 418-438.


• Composing Ethnography: Alternative Forms of Qualitative Writing co-edited with Carolyn Ellis AltaMira Press, 1996


• "Perspectives on Inquiry II: Theories and Stories" Handbook of Interpersonal Communication(2nd edition, eds. M. Knapp and G.R. Miller) Sage Publications, 1994, pp. 21-41


• "Relationships as Stories" with Carolyn Ellis and Lisa Tillman-Healy Handbook of Personal Relationships (ed. S. Duck) John Wiley and Sons, Ltd., 1996, pp. 307-324

Awards

• (2006) Received the University of South Florida’s Outstanding Research Achievement Award.


• (2006). Received Ohio University’s Elizabeth Andersch Award for sustained contributions to Speech Communication Education and Research over one’s entire career.


• (2005) Received NCA’s Bernard J. Brommel Award for Distinguished Scholarly Contributions to Family Communication.


• Elected 2nd Vice-President of the National Communication Association (NCA). Will be President of NCA in 2008.

Education

• Ph.D., Communication, Bowling Green State University, 1971


• M.A., Speech Communication, Syracuse University, 1969


• B.S., Speech Communication, California State University, 1968