Father Dominic Maximilian Ofori, PhD
Senior Lecturer
About
2011-2016: Duquesne University (Pittsburgh, PA, USA), Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, PhD Degree conferred in May 2016
Dissertation: Rebuilding the Catholic Brand in America: An Isocratean Perspective, 2007-2010: Middle Tennessee State University (Murfreesboro, TN, USA), Department of English, MA Degree conferred in May 2010
Thesis: The Use of English in Socio-Religious Contexts in Accra, Ghana
1997-1998: University of Cape Coast (Cape Coast, Ghana), Department of Education Diploma conferred in August 2000
1993-1997: University of Ghana (Accra, Ghana), Department of Sociology, and Department of Religions
BA Degree (First Class Honors) conferred in June 1997
Education
2011-2016: Duquesne University (Pittsburgh, PA, USA), Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, PhD Degree conferred in May 2016
Research Interest
Public Relations, Organization Rhetoric, Organizational Branding, Communication/Media Ethics, Religious Communication, Integrated Marketing Communication.
Publications
Ofori, D. M. (2019). Grounding twenty-first-century public relations praxis in Aristotelian ethos. Journal of Public Relations Research, 31(1-2), 50-69. https://doi.org/10.1080/1062726X.2019.1634074
Ofori, D. M. (2017). The Papal visit and rhetoric of conciliation: An epideictic perspective. The Journal of Communication and Religion, 40(2), 79-99.
Ofori, D. M. (2016). Making Meaning of the colonial experience: Reading Things Fall Apart through the prism of Alfred Schutz’s phenomenology. Janus Head, 15(1), 157-177.
Ofori, D. M., & Albakry, M. (2012). I own this language that everybody speaks: Ghanaians’ attitude toward the English language. English World-Wide, 33(2), 165-184. Albakry, M., & Ofori, D. M. (2011). Ghanaian English and code switching in Catholic churches. World Englishes: Journal of English as an International and Intranational Language, 30(4), 515-532.
Conference Presentations
Ofori, D. M. (June, 2016). Papal visit and the rhetoric of conciliation: An epideictic perspective. 14th National Communication Ethics and International Association for Dialogue Analysis Conference. Pittsburgh, PA.
Ofori, D. M. (April, 2013). The effects of modern technique on the human being through the prism of Ellul’s The technological society. 104th Annual Eastern Communication Association Convention. Pittsburgh, PA.
Ofori, D. M. (May, 2013). Ambivalence in Achebe’s meaning-making of the colonial experience: Reading Things fall apart through the prism of Alfred Schutz’s phenomenology. The Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American Phenomenologists (ICNAP V) Conference. Mahwah, NJ.
Ofori, D. M. (October, 2013). Narrative-paradigm approach to rebranding public relations. 74th Annual Pennsylvania Communication Association Convention. Erie, PA.
Ofori, D. M. (November, 2013). Grounding twenty-first-century public relations praxis in Aristotelian ethos: The case of priests’ sex abuse scandals and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB). National Communication Association 99th Annual Convention. Washington, DC.
Ofori, D. M. (November 2013). The ideal Christian rhetor of St. Augustine’s De doctrina Christiana. National Communication Association 99th Annual Convention. Washington, DC.
Awards
2010—Winner of the 2010 William R. Wolfe Graduate Writing Award, Middle Tennessee State University
Grants
2011-2014: Teaching Assistantship, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA
2007-2010: Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN