Associate Professor - Writing & Communication
Halmos College of Arts and Sciences
Melissa Bianchi, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts in NSU's Halmos College of Arts and Sciences. She teaches graduate courses in the M.A. in Composition, Rhetoric, and Digital Media program alongside undergraduate game studies and composition courses.
Dr. Bianchi’s scholarship bridges rhetoric and composition, media studies, and ecocriticism.
Her works address conversations in ecomedia studies about how video games simulate
and complicate perspectives on environmental agency, ecological responsibility, and
the posthuman. She has presented her scholarship on these topics at national and international
conferences, and her research is published in refereed journals, such as Ecozon@:
European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment (2017), Green Letters: Studies
in Ecocriticism (2014), and others. Her recent publications can be found in edited
collections including Ecogames (Amsterdam University Press, forthcoming), EcoComix
(McFarland, 2020), Mediating Nature (Routledge, 2019), and more.