Rate My Professor Elissa Foster

Foster has authored over thirty academic articles, a dozen book chapters, and the book Communicating at the End of Life: Finding Magic in the Mundane (Routledge, 2017; originally Lawrence Erlbaum, 2007). Select publications include “Commitment, communication, and contending with heteronormativity: An invitation to greater reflexivity in interpersonal research” (Southern Communication Journal, 2008), “Preferences for medical marijuana over prescription medications among persons living with chronic conditions: alternative, complementary, and tapering uses” (The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 2018), “Physicians’ stories: Autoethnography, presence, and rhizomatic inquiry” (International Review of Qualitative Research, 2014), “End of Life and Families” (The International Encyclopedia of Health Communication, 2022), and “There Was an Old Woman Who... Lost Patience With the Academy and Performed Her Frustration at a Public Meeting” (Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 2023). She contributes to DePaul’s Dialogue Collaborative, fostering compassionate communication, and engages in faculty development. Through her teaching, Foster instills confidence in students to improve the world via effective communication.