Ph.D., University of Washington, 2002

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Dr. JODY KOENIG KELLAS, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, conducts research and teaches classes on interpersonal and family communication. Her main interest is on the ways in which people communicate to make sense of their relational lives. With this interest, her scholarship focuses on relational narratives, storytelling, accounts, attributions, and memorable messages. She conducts observational research with couples and families in order to understand how communicated sense-making and perspective-taking predict individual and relational health. Dr. Kellas' research has been published in Communication Monographs, Human Communication Research, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Western Journal of Communication,Journal of Family Communication, Communication Quarterly, Narrative Inquiry, and several edited volumes.

RePRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Koenig Kellas, J., & Trees, A. (In Press). Family stories and storytelling: Windows into the family soul. In A. L. Vangelisti (Ed.) Handbook of Family Communication, 2nd ed. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Koenig Kellas, J., Trees, A. R., Schrodt, P., LeClair-Underberg, C., & Willer, E. (2010). Exploring links between well-being and interactional sense-making in married couples' jointly told stories of stress. Journal of Family Communication, 10, 174-193.

Koenig Kellas, J. (2010). Transmitting relational world views: The relationship between mother-daughter memorable messages and adult daughters' romantic relational schemata. Communication Quarterly, 58, 458-479.

Koenig Kellas, J. (2010). Narrating family: Introduction to the special issue on narratives and storytelling in the family. Journal of Family Communication, 10, 1-6.

Trees, A. R., & Koenig Kellas, J. (2009). Telling tales: Enacting familyrelationships in joint storytelling about difficult family experiences. Western Journal of Communication, 73, 91-111.