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Justin Bonanno, PhD is currently the Chair of the Department of Communications and Literature at ɫ��ӰƬ. Prior to joining AMU, Dr. Bonanno worked in digital advertising, marketing, and strategic communication. He recently published a book on the philosophy of communication entitled Walker Percy and the Crisis of Meaning (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023). His work has appeared in PR Review, The Journal of Dialogic Ethics, The Imaginative Conservative, St. Austin Review, and  Listening/Journal of Communication Ethics, Religion, and Culture. Dr. Bonanno also serves as the Communications Internship Coordinator and A/V Studio Director.

PEER-REVIEWED BOOKS

• Bonanno, Justin N. Walker Percy and the Crisis of Meaning: Communication in the Ruins. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37023-6. Available on Amazon.

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES

• Bonanno, Justin N. “Capital as the Lens that Bourdieu Pierres through: Public Relations, Social Theory, and Rhetoric.” Public Relations Review, vol. 44, no. 3, 2018, pp. 385-392. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2018.04.008.

INVITED PUBLICATIONS

• Bonanno, Justin N. “Leading with the Good: The Role of Rhetorical Commonplaces in Communication Ethics.” The Journal of Dialogic Ethics: Interfaith and Interhuman Perspectives, vol. 3, no. 1, 2024, pp. 37-43.
• Bonanno, Justin N. “Christ’s Life is a Demand: Reflections on A Hidden Life.” St. Austin Review, vol. 24, no. 4, 2024, p. 29.

NON-PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

• Bonanno, Justin N. “An Essential Business: Satisfying the Needs of the Soul.” The Imaginative Conservative, 12 June 2020. https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2020/06/essential-business-satisfying-needs-soul-justin-bonanno.html.
• Bonanno, Justin N. “The Rhetoric of Secularization: Irving Babbitt and the Idyllic Imagination.” Listening/Journal of Communication Ethics, Religion, and Culture, vol. 54. no. 2, 2019, pp. 111-128.