Christina Black, PhD
| Academic Area | Business Communication |
|---|---|
| Academic Area | Law & Ethics |
| Academic Area | Management & Organization |
Christina Black teaches managerial communication with a focus on persuasion, ethics, and intercultural communication. Her research interests include the history of rhetoric and figures of speech related to the body and waste.
Previously, Dr. Black was an Assistant Professor at University of Virginia’s Mcintire School of Commerce, taught at Cornell University, and coached executive MBA students at UVa's Darden School of Business. She has published numerous cases; translated business research into popular press articles; and designed education materials with clients, including the prison business education program Resilience Education, the leadership coaching platform BetterUp, and the Warrior-Scholar Project. In addition to her work in academia, she has worked in finance, nonprofits, and startups.
Outside the United States, Dr. Black has lived and worked in Italy, South Korea, Poland, Germany, Serbia, England, and France.
Education
- PhD, English Language and Literature, Cornell University
- MA, English Language and Literature, Cornell University
- MS, English Literature 1660-1830, University of Oxford
- BA, English Language and Literature, Barnard College, Columbia University
Research
Working papers
- Black, C. (Forthcoming 2022). Anne Finch, Alexander Pope, and the melancholy spleen of playwriting. Women’s theater theory and dramatic criticism, eds. Burroughs C. and Gainor J.E. Routledge.
- Black, C. (In revision). Feminine contamination: Kristeva, Swift, Montagu, and the limits of close reading waste.
Teaching
Current
- Business Communication
- Business Leadership and Human Values
Honors and distinctions
- Teaching Innovation Fund Award, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, 2019-2020
In the media
- “What Mark Zuckerberg got wrong in his 1300-Word Facebook memo,” Forbes (October 5, 2021)
- “Courage in the workplace: Employee behavior that is linked to success,” Darden Ideas to Action. Featured on Forbes India (Feb. 4, 2019).
- “Darden’s eastern philosophy class yields three key insights for business leaders.” Darden Ideas to Action. Featured on UVA Today (2017)
- A U.S. presidential leadership lesson: Optimism. Darden Ideas to Action. Featured on UVA Today. (2017)
- On giving a shit: A book review of Peter Smith’s between two stools. Review31.co.uk. Featured Read on Arts and Letters Daily. (2015)