Lisa Burns, Ph.D.

lisa.burns@quinnipiac.edu

Quinnipiac University

Phone: 2035828548

Address: 275 Mount Carmel Ave., Quinnipiac University

City: Hamden, Connecticut - 06518

Country: United States

About Me:

Dr. Lisa M. Burns is a Professor of Media Studies at Quinnipiac University. She holds a Ph.D. in political communication from the University of Maryland at College Park. Her latest project, Media Relations and the Modern First Lady: From Jacqueline Kennedy to Melania Trump (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020), is an edited collection of essays examining first lady media relations. Her book First Ladies and the Fourth Estate: Press Framing of Presidential Wives was published in 2008. She has contributed chapters on first ladies Ellen Axson Wilson and Lady Bird Johnson to several edited collections, including A Companion to First Ladies (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016), A Companion to Lyndon B. Johnson (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), Gender and Political Communication in America: Rhetoric, Representation, and Display (Lexington Studies, 2009), and Inventing a Voice: The Rhetoric of American First Ladies of the 20th Century (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003). Her work has also appeared in academic journals such as White House Studies Journal and Rhetoric & Public Affairs. Her research interests include political communication, particularly media coverage of U.S. first ladies and presidents; public memory; and media criticism. She teaches classes including Political Communication, which is crosslisted as a Political Science course, and works closely with colleagues from Quinnipiac's Political Science department. The topic of her Fall 2018 section of Political Communication was "Strategic Communication in the Trump Era." She also teaches a campaign communication strategies class during presidential election years. She frequently serves as a media expert on topics including first ladies, women in politics, and presidential campaign coverage.

Research Interests

Political Communication

American Presidency And Executive Politics

Gender and Politics

Women In Politics

First Ladies

Campaign Coverage

Political Journalism

Entertainment Media

Countries of Interest

United States