Sonja Mayrhofer is an Associate Professor of Instruction who received her Ph.D. from the University of Iowa’s English Department, where she wrote a dissertation that focused on medieval medical ideas about bodies and emotions. Emotional complexity and its rhetorical expressions in any age and/or context continue to fascinate her and influence her teaching and writing. She especially enjoys teaching public speaking strategies, where bodies and emotions intersect all the time. Prior to joining Tippie, she taught in the UI's Rhetoric Department, where her teaching explored many of her interests: the rhetoric of self-hood (both in advertising and memoirs), forensic rhetoric (how we use the past to make arguments), and intercultural empathy, especially in her work co-directing the UI Conversation Center and advising UI Fulbright applicants. She grew up in Austria, and has studied in Canada, France, and the US, and her teaching incorporates this international perspective. At the Tippie College of Business, she teaches Business Communication and Protocol.