Sophie Downing, M.A.

Sophie Downing (B.S., University of Portland) is a third-year PhD student at Ohio University. She graduated from the University of Portland in 2021, where she majored in organizational communication and English, with a minor in social justice. During her undergraduate studies, she wrote her communication and English capstones on the functions of narratives in relation to questions of gender and sexual assault, respectively. Sophie’s research interests currently include the intersections of narrative and identity, communication in instructional contexts, the creation and maintenance of power structures, family communication, and the constructive power of language. Her work can be found in Communication Education and Communication Teacher. Outside of academics, she enjoys being in community, reading novels and memoirs, and decompressing with bad reality television.

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