Tatyana Dumova
Associate Professor, Multimedia
School of Communication
Point Park University
Pittsburgh, PA 15222-1984
tel.: 412.392.4701
e-mail: tdumova@pointpark.edu,
tdumova@fastmail.net
Tatyana Dumova is an Associate Professor at Point Park University's School of Communication where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in digital media and mass communication research methods. She has extensive curriculum development experience and works on designing new courses and programs in visual and interactive communication and emerging media technologies.
Before coming to Point Park, Dr. Dumova served as deputy chair of the curriculum committee for the School of Communication and Media Arts Coordinating Task Force at Montclair State University in New Jersey and co-chaired the curriculum committee at the University of North Dakota. At UND, Dr. Dumova received the 2006 Outstanding Teaching Award and was named Bush Teaching Scholar in 2007. She was successful in developing a digital media course sequence at the University of North Dakota and designed a social media concentration for Montclair State University.
Dr. Dumova is the editor of an interdisciplinary scholarly journal, the International Journal of Interactive Communication Systems and Technologies (Point Park University News). She serves on the editorial boards of Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, International Journal of Learning Technology, and International Journal of Online Pedagogy and Course Design.
She chairs the Communication Education Interest Council of the Pennsylvania Communication Association, the Applied Communication Interest Group of the Eastern Communication Association, and serves as Vice Chair Elect of the Communication Assessment Division of the National Communication Association.
Dr. Dumova was invited to serve as an external reviewer for tenure and promotion in the United States and abroad and is a certified online course reviewer. She judges competitive research papers and panels for the Pennsylvania Communication Association, Eastern Communication Association, National Communication Association, and Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, chairs panels, and serves as respondent during the conventions. Dr. Dumova was named to a panel of international experts of the New Eurasia Foundation to evaluate grant proposals in information technologies.
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