Cal State Long Beach assistant professor of communications Ragan Fox is currently spending his summer on television sets across the nation, as a houseguest on the CBS reality competition “Big Brother.”
Fox was among 13 contestants chosen to compete for the grand prize of $500,000. The show is now in its fourth week and 10 houseguests ― including Fox ― remain.
Fox, 34, earned his Ph.D. in communications at Arizona State University. He has been teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in rhetoric and performance studies at CSULB for the past four years.
Fox was named one of the “Ten Best Teachers in Long Beach” by the Long Beach Post in 2009.
Aside from his work at CSULB, Fox is a poet, an author of two books and the host of a popular podcast which is regularly featured on iTunes comedy, entitled “Fox and the City.”
Upon returning from “Big Brother,” Fox is scheduled to teach a class during the fall semester although the competition will not conclude until mid-September.
The communications department declined to comment on Fox’s involvement with the show.
New episodes of “Big Brother 12” air on CBS Thursdays, Sundays and Wednesdays at 8 p.m.
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