* Dana Cloud’s research interests lie in the areas of rhetoric and social movements, critique of representations of race and gender in the mass media, and the defense of historical materialist theory and method in communication studies.
* Cloud’s work has appeared in the scholarly journals Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, and the Western Journal of Communication. She has published one book, Control and Consolation in American Culture and Politics: Rhetorics of Therapy (1998). And with Lee Artz and Steve Macek, Cloud co-edited the volume Marxism and Communication Studies: The Point Is To Change It (2006).