Why Marquette?
The opportunity to work with students and faculty within an intellectual environment that stresses cura personalis and service to others. What a wonderful combination!

Research Interests
Cultural Studies and Popular culture including issues related to race, gender, class and children.

Professional Affiliations
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
National Communication Association
International Communication Association
Organization for the Study of Language, Communication and Gender

Professional Experience
Artist and Freelance Graphic Designer (1978-present)
Editorial and Design Consultant (1978-present)
Alternate Media Representative for the Milwaukee County Local Emergency Planning Committee (1994-1998)

Recent Publications
Slattery, K. and Garner, A. C. “Mothers of Soldiers in Wartime: A National News Narrative.” Critical Studies in Media Communication. Vol. 24(4), 2007, pp. 429-445.

Garner, A. and Slattery, K. “Patriotic Motherhood and the Iraq War.” Communication Currents. Vol. 2: 6, 2007. Retrieved December 17, 2007 from <http://www.communicationcurrents.com>.

Garner, A. "Negotiating our Positions in Culture: popular adolescent fiction and the self images of professional women." Women's Studies in Communication. Vol. 22, No. 1 (1999), pp. 85-111.

Garner, A., Sterk, H. & Adams, S. "Narrative Analysis of Sexual Etiquette in Teenage Magazines." Journal of Communication. Vol. 48. No. 4 (Autumn 1998), pp. 59-78.

Garner, A. & Huff, W. A. "The Wreck of Amtrak's Sunset Limited: Newspaper Coverage of a Mass Transportation Disaster," Disasters. Vol. 21, No. 1 (March 1997), pp. 4-19.

Garner, A. "Reconstructing Reality: Interpreting the airplane disaster news story." Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal. Vol. 5, No. 3, (1996) pp. 5-15.

Garner, A. "The Cost of Fighting Mother Nature: News Coverage of the 1993 Midwest Floods." Journal of Communication Inquiry, (Spring 1996), Vol. 20, No. 1. pp. 83-98. Reprinted in: Shay Sayre and David Horne, (eds.),(1996) Earth, Wind, Fire and Water: Approaching Natural Disaster, Open Door Publishers. pp. 85-104.

Garner, A. "The Common Disaster and the Unexpected Education: Delta Flight 1141 and the discourse of aviation safety." International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters. Vol. 14. No. 2 (August 1996). pp. 155-174.

Garner, A. "News Coverage of Airplane Disasters and Reader Interpretations: The case of Delta Flight 1141" In: P. Quigley & P. McElwain (eds.). Proceedings of 1997 Aviation Symposium Aviation Communication: AMulti-Cultural Forum." Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Prescott, AZ.(1997) pp. 233-246.

Garner, A. & Dyer, C.S. (1987) Iowa Guide: Scholarly Journals in Mass Communication and Related Fields (Iowa City: Iowa Center for Communication Studies). Also edited and expanded subsequent editions #2-4 in 1988, 1989, and 1991 respectively.