Samuel Jay

Samuel Jay, Ph.D., is a professor of Communication Studies and executive director of Online Learning at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Jay also serves as executive director of Emergent Technology and Academic Transformation, a role that involves exploring the integration of generative AI. 

His research focus areas include how digital communication technologies and their users generate and circulate emotional energy and how that energy adds rhetoric effectiveness to disparate discourses, including politics, sports, and economics.

He joined MSU Denver in 2011 as an adjunct professor and went full-time in 2014. Jay opened his own consulting company in 2015 called Jay Communication Solutions helping individuals and small businesses market themselves. He has developed and implemented content marketing campaigns, handled social media accounts of NCAA Division I sports teams, and coached and managed projects for varied clients.

Jay received his doctorate in communication studies with a focus on rhetoric and a minor in emergent digital practices from the University of Denver in 2014, a master’s in radio-television-film from the University of North Texas in 2009, and a bachelor’s in cinema and comparative literature from University of Iowa in 2006.