Rate My Professor Chelsea Slack

Dr. Chelsea Slack is an Assistant Professor and John Alario Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at Southeastern Louisiana University. She joined the faculty as an instructor in 2018 and was promoted to assistant professor in 2023. Hailing from Arkansas, she earned her Ph.D. in Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design from Clemson University in 2021, a Master of Arts from the University of Memphis, and her undergraduate degree from Southern Arkansas University. Her career in education began in 2008 with roles as a TRIO Supplemental Instructor, Library Sciences Graduate Teaching Assistant, and high school teacher for four years, followed by four years in the University of Arkansas System before arriving at Southeastern.

Slack serves as faculty adviser for The Lion’s Roar student newspaper since Spring 2021 and Le Souvenir yearbook. She designs flipped asynchronous courses and project-based curricula emphasizing recognition of conditioning by the media environment, the influencer-influenced dynamic, algorithmic control, intensive peer-review systems simulating professional feedback, and ethical leveraging of AI for creative innovation. A McLuhanist scholar with a background in media ecology and media effects, Slack is primarily an AI researcher focusing on AI pedagogy and the changing nature of converging technologies; she occasionally pursues writing on feminism. She chronicled the university’s modern era (2000–2025) in the centennial history book Southeastern 100: The Story of Southeastern Louisiana University’s First Century and has published three peer-reviewed articles, including her dissertation Cultivation 2.0: The Mediated Environment as Message (2021). Slack received a 2022 Elizabeth Dole Foundation grant and was selected as a 2026 Faculty Champion by the Center for Community News at the University of Vermont. Based in New Orleans, she freelances as a content creator and Mardi Gras artist for multiple krewes.