Andrew E Rudd

Director of Fundamentals of Communication and Graduate Student Pedagogical Development

Associate Professor

Basic Course

Dr. Andrew Rudd serves as the Interim Director of the Fundamentals of Communication program and is a Faculty Mentor supporting Graduate Teaching Assistants, Graduate Lecturers and new Adjunct Faculty members who also teach COMM 101 - George Mason's University-wide introduction to the Communication. He is a term associate professor in the Department of Communication at GMU.

He earned a B.A. in Communication Arts from Cedarville College in Ohio. His M.A. in Communication and Writing was completed at Andrews University in Michigan. He earned his Ph.D. from Bowling Green State University.

Andrew has taught courses like COMM 101 for three decades various institutions. He has also taught courses focused on persuasion, culture, media and film. Before coming to George Mason, he served as Department Chair, Director of General Education, Chair of Faculty Development Committee.

As a filmmaker he’s made award-winning short films that have played at dozens of film festivals around the world. He is a screenwriter, director and producer. He founded a 20-year-running film festival to showcase student work, developed a community project creating and curating local oral histories, he served as a Film Festival Juror, Programmer and Director at various film festivals. He also developed several Community Based Arts initiatives - mentoring community members of all ages in filmmakers and building a community archive of local portrait documentaries.

Andrew has taught courses including Instructional Communication and Communication Theory at George Mason University. In this upcoming Fall, he'll be teaching COMM 101 (as always! he loves it!) and Communication Theory. In spring of 2026, he will also be teaching Rhetorical Criticism.

This Fall, Dr. Rudd will teach COMM 101 and COMM 653 Instructional Communication