Adam Schrag
Senior Lecturer
Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship
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Education:
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Ph.D. 2013English, University of Minnesota
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B.A. 2001English & Philosophy, Bethel College (Kansas)
Expertise:
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management communication, Plain English, International English, slide design, visual rhetoric, intercultural communication, multimedia storytelling, military visuality, network ecologies, meme culture, and visual culture
Biography
Adam Schrag teaches business communication, influence, and executive presentations at the Carlson School of Management.
He has a background in media studies and philosophy of technology. His areas of expertise include plain language, slide design, visual rhetoric, and multimedia storytelling. His research explores how technology shapes communication and perception. He has published and presented nationally and internationally on photography in the age of Instagram, early cinema and animated GIFs, and PowerPoint’s role in communicating risk amid technological accidents.
Selected Works & Activities
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“Duraciones precarias: las tomas largas de Alfonso Cuarón.” (“Precarious Durations: Alfonso Cuarón’s Long(ing) Takes”). Literaturas a través de las “culturas” de las Américas. Ed. Gina Ponce De León. Bogotá, Colombia: Diente de León, 2017. 256-271.
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“War & Art in the Screenic Era.” Spec. Iss. ISEA Istanbul 2011. Ozden Sahin, Editor. Leonardo Electronic Almanac 18.4: n.pag.
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“(Photo)Graphic Death: The Economy of Shooting in Larry Burrows’ ‘One Ride with Yankee Papa 13.’” Images of War, War of Images. Eds. Karine Hildenbrand and Gérard Hugues. Newcastle, UK: Oxford Scholars Publishing. 159-167.