
Associate Professor
English
Staci Defibaugh
4032 BATTEN ARTS & LETTERS
NORFOLK, 23529
Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (2015)
M.A. in Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (2014)
M.A. in TESOL and Linguistics, Ball State University, (2010)
B.A. in English, University of South Carolina, (2001)
Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research
- Defibaugh, S. "Nurse Practitioners and the Performance of Professional Competency" $3,500. 黑料不打烊. 2017 - 2017
Articles
- Defibaugh, S. and Onosato, L. (2025). 鈥淭hey just don鈥檛 have the 鈥渄octor鈥 in front of their name:鈥 Dimensions of trust of physician assistants. Qualitative Research in Medicine & Healthcare 9 (2) , pp. 100018.
- Defibaugh, S. (2019). 鈥淚 talked to my doctor:鈥 Constructing the neoliberal patient-consumer in direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising. Discourse, Context and Media 28 , pp. 1-7.
- Defibaugh, S. (2018). Small talk as work talk: Enacting the patient-centered approach in nurse-practitioner-patient visits. Communication & Medicine 14 (2) , pp. 97-107.
- Defibaugh, S. (2018). Small talk as work talk: Enacting the patient-centered approach in nurse-practitioner-patient visits. Communication & Medicine 14 (2) , pp. 97-107.
- Defibaugh, S. (2017). Qualitative Approaches to the Study of Medical Discourse: Combining Multiple Methodologies. SAGE Publications Ltd.
Books
- Defibaugh, S. (2018). Nurse Practitioners and the Performance of Professional Competency. Springer International Publishing.
- Defibaugh, S. (2018). Nurse Practitioners and the Performance of Professional Competency: Accomplishing Patient-centered Care. Palgrave MacMillan.
Book Chapters
- Defibaugh, S. (2018). Conclusion Nurse Practitioners and the Performance of Professional Competency (pp. 121-129) Springer International Publishing.
- Defibaugh, S. (2018). Frontstage/Backstage: Attending to Organizational Responsibilities Nurse Practitioners and the Performance of Professional Competency (pp. 27-51) Springer International Publishing.
- Defibaugh, S. (2018). Need to Know: Patient Education and Epistemic Responsibility Nurse Practitioners and the Performance of Professional Competency (pp. 53-77) Springer International Publishing.
- Defibaugh, S. (2018). Treading Lightly: Indirect Speech in Medical Directives Nurse Practitioners and the Performance of Professional Competency (pp. 79-99) Springer International Publishing.