Dean of the School of Education,
Professor, and Director of Graduate Studies
OFFICE: EDHS 405
EMAIL: mlhatton@muw.edu
PHONE: 662-329-7177
About Dr. Hatton
Dr. Hatton has served since 1992 as faculty and in various administrative roles that have included department chair, institutional accreditation liaison, associate vice president for academic affairs, director of graduate studies and dean.
Areas of Specialization:
Higher education leadership, media literacy education, social cognition and interpersonal interactions.
Dr. Hatton teaches ED 294: Media Literacy Education.
Research Interests:
Media literacy education, specifically the impact of the uses of technology on interpersonal dynamics and learning.
Selected Publications & Presentations:
Rhetoric’s responsibility to media literacy: Critical impulse for judging visual metaphors in rhetorical texts. Paper presented at the 2002 Rhetorical Society of America’s annual conference, Rhetorical Democracy: Discursive Practices of Civic Engagement, Las Vegas, NV.
Technology, Adoption and Diffusion of. Macmillan Reference’s Encyclopedia of Communication and Information (2002, edited by Jorge Reina).
Enhancing Diversity in Higher Education: A Conversation with the Provosts. Invited to present as a panelist with IHL academic leaders before the inaugural Mississippi State University Diversity Conference, Starkville, MS, February 16, 2011.