The Red Bouncy Ball, a story Rudd found in NUMBER OUR DAYS, often bookends the teaching he does in INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNICATION courses. The disposition that Schmuel advocates for is not only excellent advice for an ethnographer, but also a wonderful way to conceive of your audience and a vital way to consider your group members, colleagues, neighbors and the troubling strangers from the next school district over.
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Inspired by a grandmother who wrote regular missives to her faraway loved ones, Rudd has been collecting and archiving life stories in many contexts for decades. His belief in the value of sharing stories is matched by practices of recording, archivin and holding stories. The process of caring for the stories that you have shared and have been shared with you is soul-ish work. (more)
Rudd works as the Associate Director of Fundamentals of Communication at George Mason University in the DC area. While teaching first year students he also mentors new teachers and teaches a graduate class focused on "Instructional Communication." The thriving diverse community at GMU provides opportunities for mutual learning and new understandings about Public Communication.
When Andrew Rudd teaches about media, he invites students to experiment with new roles - media researchers, media makers, fans of texts they've never tried before. This playful improvisational approach opens up all kinds of conversations. (read more)
Andrew Rudd creates content in social media contexts both to learn and to play and to grow. His youtube channel always includes serial storytelling. His current series is called DEAR JUDY SCOTTS - a meditation on how strangers do and don't connect on the internet. (more)
RUE is a meditation on memory, regret and the fantasies we have about our future. Based on the real regrets of 23 people, improv actors compete for a chance to go back in time to change things. RUE is currently playing on the festival circuit. (view here)
SAFETY NET played at 18 festivals around the world, has been screened in many University classrooms and focuses on a man trying to save his house from foreclosure. Is the American Dream really available to everyone willing to work hard? (view here)
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