Matthew Ingram

His teaching interests include public speaking, interpersonal and intercultural communication, and conflict and mediation.

He has taught several online, hybrid, and face-to-face courses in communication studies courses:

• CMST 101: Foundations of Communication
• CMST 201: Interpersonal Communication
• CMST 215: Honors Public Speaking
• CMST 410: Organizational Communication
• CMST 470: Intercultural Communication

His research is interdisciplinary, spanning linguistic anthropology, applied linguistics, rhetorical studies, semiotics, and philosophy, with a particular interest in how people use their bodies and voices to externalize thinking and represent their worlds to others. As a social interaction researcher, he examines video recordings of face-to-face interaction across diverse settings, from conflict mediation to dance rehearsals. Across these projects, his work explores how embodied and vocal communication makes thought, meaning, and experience available to others.

• 2016 - Graduate of the Year Award: The University of Texas at Austin

• Advanced Certificate in Effective College Instruction, Association of College and University Educators

• 2022 - Peer-to-Peer Faculty Development Grant (Awarded $250): Dakota State University
• 2021 - Peer-to-Peer Faculty Development Grant (Awarded $250): Dakota State University
• 2017 - Graduate School Dissertation Writing Fellowship (Awarded $10,000): The University of Texas at Austin
• 2013 - Graduate School Recruitment Fellowship (Awarded $10,000): The University of Texas at Austin

• Hillewaert S, Hothi RS, Ingram MB, Mendoza-Denton N, Sawyer K, Streeck J. Roundtable: Afterthoughts on the Semiotics of Improvisation. Signs and Society. 2026;14(1):135-142. doi:10.1017/sas.2025.10045
• Ingram, M. B., & Wallace, I. M. (2026). Diagramming the possible: Situated improvisation as a way of inhabiting professional worlds. Signs and Society, 14(1), 29-54. doi:10.1017/sas.2025.10038
• Maxwell, M. M., & Ingram, M. B. (2026). Make the case: A structured discussion format for classes. In D. Sellnow & M. Strawser (Eds.), Teaching communication (Vol. 4, 742-781). Cognella.
• Ingram, M. B., & Bradford, K. E. (2025). Cite it! Oral citations with the DATA framework. Communication Teacher, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/17404622.2025.2450358
• Ingram, M. B., & Wallace, I. M. (2022). Making a mark: Transforming everyday work of city arborists into dance. Frontiers in Communication, 7, Article 958646. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2022.958646
• Maxwell, M. M., & Ingram, M. B. (2021). How mediators use reformulation practices to de-escalate risky moments. Conflict Resolution Quarterly, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1002/crq.21319
• Goldstein, D., Hall, K., & Ingram, M. B. (2020). Trump's comedic gestures as political weapon. In J. McIntosh & N. Mendoza-Denton (Eds.), Language in the Trump era: Scandals and emergencies (pp. 97–123). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108887410
• Ingram, M. B. (2019). YouTube commentaries on trans time-lapse videos: Transforming misgendering stances into pedagogical moments. Somatechnics, 9(1), 32–57. https://doi.org/10.3366/soma.2019.0264
• Ingram, M. B., & Maxwell, M. M. (2017). A listener's stance-taking in mediation. Mediation Theory and Practice, 2(2), 93–130. https://doi.org/10.1558/mtp.33373
• Hall, K., Goldstein, D., & Ingram, M. B. (2016). The hands of Donald Trump: Entertainment, gesture, spectacle. Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 6(2), 71–100. https://doi.org/10.14318/hau6.2.009 

• Ingram, M. B., & Wallace, I. (November 2022). Situational improvisation in dance rehearsal sessions as a means of dance creation. [Panel Participant]. 2022 American Anthropological Association, Seattle, Washington.
• Konda-Varilek, K., & Ingram, M. B. (September 2022). Discourse journal updates & how YOU can get involved [Conference Presentation]. The Speech Communication Association of South Dakota, Brookings, South Dakota annual meeting.
• Ingram, M. B. (July 2022). Whose gesture is it anyway? Co-operative transformation of mimetic depictions in improvisational comedy [Poster]. The 7th International Society for Gesture Studies Conference, Chicago, Illinois.
• Maxwell, M. M. & Ingram, M.B. (November 2021). Make the case: A structured discussion format for classes [Round-Table Discussion]. The 107th annual meeting of the National Communication Association Convention, Seattle, Washington.
• Ingram, M. B., & Maxwell, M. M. (November 2021). Embodied formulations of mediators during risky moments [Conference Presentation]. The 107th annual meeting of the National Communication Association Convention, Seattle, Washington.
• Ingram, M. B. (October 2021). A Langarian approach to the living form of gestural depiction [Online Conference Presentation]. The 45th annual meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, Virtual Conference.
• Ingram, M. B., & Wallace, I. (November 2019). Gestural depiction in dance rehearsals: Choreographing the skilled movements of city arborists [45-minute Conference Presentation]. The 35th meeting of the Visual Research Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
• Bradford, K., & Ingram, M. B. (October 2018). Integrating smartphones into family dinner conversations [Conference Presentation]. The 8th meeting of the Language and Social Interaction Working Group (LANSI), New York City, NY, United States.
• Ingram, M. B. (July 2018). How Trump ideologizes difference through multimodal viewpoints [Conference Presentation]. The 8th biannual meeting of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS), Cape Town, South Africa.
• Ingram, M. B. (July 2018). Mimesis on the campaign trail: How Clinton and Trump personified one another [Conference Paper]. The 8th biannual meeting of the International Society for Gesture Studies, Cape Town, South Africa.
• Alford, A., & Ingram, M. B. (November 2017). Weighted and measured: Stancetaking in baby bump posts on Instagram [Conference Presentation]. The 103rd annual meeting of the National Communication Association Convention, Dallas, Texas, United States.
• Ingram, M. B. (July 2017). Stance attribution through mimetic enactments in political campaigns [Panel Contribution]. The 15th biannual meeting of the International Pragmatics Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
• Ingram, M. B. (December 2016). Trans worldmaking practices on YouTube through gender timeline videos [Conference Presentation]. The 10th meeting of the International Somatechnics Conference, Byron Bay, Australia.
• Ingram, M. B., & Maxwell, M. M. (November 2016). Mediating bodies: How conflict mediators use bodily practices to achieve institutional goals [Conference Presentation]. The 102nd annual meeting of the National Communication Association Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
• Ingram, M. B. (July 2016). Deconstructing the embodied knowledge of city arborists through choreography and co-operative transformation zones [Conference Presentation]. The 19th biannual meeting of the International Society for Gesture Studies, Paris, France.
• Ingram, M. B. (November 2015). Embodied communicative practices and conflict communication. [Conference Presentation]. The IS Peace: International Symposium on Peace Education, Toluca, Mexico.
• Ingram, M. B., & Maxwell, M. M. (November 2015). On the physicality of 'pre-disagreements': How speakers project verbal disagreements in the institutional space of conflict mediation [Conference Presentation]. The 101st annual meeting of the National Communication Association Convention, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.
• Ingram, M. B. & Maxwell, M. M. (July 2015). Clashing preference systems in a conflict mediation session: The complexity of working towards progressivity [Conference Presentation]. The 14th biannual meeting of the International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, Belgium.
• Ingram, M. B., & Allison Alford (April 2015). Exploring conflict through global perspectives: The UT Global Ethics and Conflict Resolution Symposium for High School Students [Conference Presentation]. The 2nd annual meeting of the Conflict Conference, Austin, Texas.
• Ingram, M. B. (March 2013). The multi-functionality of the limp wrist and its usage in a spontaneous interaction [Conference Presentation]. The meeting of the Dialogue in Multilingual, Multimodal, and Multicompetent Communities of Practice Conference, Austin, Texas, United States.
• Hall, K., & Ingram, M. B. (June 2012). Gorillas, guns, and gays: A sociohistorical account of the limp wrist gesture in U.S. popular culture [Conference Presentation]. The 7th biannual meeting of the International Gender and Language Association Conference, São Leopoldo, Brazil.
• Ingram, M. B., & Hall, K. (February 2012). Embodying queerness: Transformations of the limp wrist gesture in American comedy [Conference Presentation]. The 19th annual meeting of the Lavender Language and Linguistics Conference, Washington, District of Columbia, United States.