Katrina Marks
Lecturer of Communication Studies

Katrina Marks has been a Lecturer in the Communication Studies department at Longwood since 2023. She teaches courses in public speaking and introductory media writing every semester, as well as additional courses such as Media & Society, NewsU: Media Literacy, and Media Criticism of Video Games. She also serves as a co-advisor for the university’s student-run newspaper, The Rotunda.

Dr. Marks received her Ph.D. in 2024 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she completed her dissertation on the material rhetoric of plantation memorial museums that aim to represent slavery as part of public discourses on race. As a teacher, Dr. Marks loves getting students involved in the local community, whether that’s interviewing local residents for timely news stories or defeating all the Pokémon Go gyms on campus for a paper on video games and public space. As a critical scholar-educator, Dr. Marks aims to help students develop critical thinking skills and ethical perspectives that set them up to contribute positively to their communities at Longwood and beyond.

Stop by her office to chat about philosophy, politics, video games, or travel experiences.