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EDUCATION
Ph. D. University of Minnesota, June 2002
Major: Rhetorical Studies
Minor: Cultural Studies with an emphasis in Media
GPA: 4.0/4.0
Dissertation: "Rhetorics of Darkness: Modern Occultism and the Popular Imaginary"
Advisor: Robert L. Scott
Dissertation Committee: Robert L. Brown, Karlyn Kohrs Campbell (chair), Edward Schiappa, Robert L. Scott, and Kirt H. WilsonM. A. University of Minnesota, March 1998
Major: Rhetorical Studies
Advisor: Robert L. ScottB. A. The George Washington University, May 1996
Major: (double) Philosophy and Communication Studies
Advisors: Andrew Altman (philosophy) and Kerry Riley (communication)
APPOINTMENTS
Associate Professor: University of Texas at Austin, Communication Studies (to begin Fall 2010); Assistant Professor: University of Texas at Austin, Communication Studies (2005-2010); Affiliate Faculty, Department of Rhetoric and Writing (2007-Present); Affiliate Faculty, Cultural Studies, Bridging Disciplines Program (2007-Present).
Assistant Professor: Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge (2002-2005); Adjunct Graduate Faculty (2005-2008); Associate Graduate Faculty, Communication Studies (2002-2005); Affiliate Faculty, Audio-Visual Arts Program (2004-2005); Affiliate Faculty, Women's and Gender Studies (2004-2005)
Ordained Minister, Universal Life Church (2004-Present)
Graduate Teaching Assistant: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (1996-2002)
Graduate Research Assistant (Karlyn Kohrs Campbell): University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (Summer 2000)
Writing Tutor: Summer Institute for Minorities, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (Summers 1998-1999)
CONSULTING EXPERIENCE
Expert and consultant to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice on lawsuits related to freedom of religious expression (2007-Present)
SELECT AWARDS AND HONORS
2009 Outstanding Faculty Award, presented by the Graduate Students of the Department of Communication Studies, University of Texas at Austin.
2009 Vice-Presidential Spotlight Panel: "Whither Speech? The Scholarship of Joshua Gunn." Southern States Communication Association Convention, Norfolk, Virginia, April 2009.
2008 Hutton Series Lecturer, Department of Rhetoric and Composition, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana.
2007 Outstanding Faculty Award, presented by the Graduate Students of the Department of Communication Studies, University of Texas at Austin.
2007 Top Four Paper (with Mirko Hall), Media Studies Interest Group, Central States Communication Association Conference, Minneapolis.
2007 Mark Knapp Research Fellowship (spring semester course release), Department of Communication Studies, University of Texas at Austin.
2006 New Investigator Award, Rhetoric and Communication Theory Division, National Communication Association.
2006 Dewitt C. Reddick Regents Chair in Communication Fellow, College of Communication, University of Texas at Austin.
2005 Co-recipient of the Rhetoric Society of America Kneuper Award for the Best Article(s) of the year (with Chris Lundberg).
2003 Top Faculty Paper. Popular Culture Communication Division, Southern Communication Association Convention, Birmingham.
2002 Top Four Paper, Visual Communication Division, National Communication Association Convention, New Orleans.
2002 Top Paper, Rhetorical Theory Interest Group, Central States Communication Association Conference, Milwaukee.
2001-02 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Minnesota
2001 George Montgomery and Anna Florence Frizelle Reid Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement in Speech and Professional Conduct, Communication Studies Department, University of Minnesota.
2001 Graduate Research Grant, Communication Studies Department, University of Minnesota.
2001 Grant for Archival Research, Communication Studies Department, University of Minnesota.
2000-01 Communication Studies Departmental Teaching Service Award, University of Minnesota.
2000 Arle and Bill Haeberle Award for Outstanding Achievement in Studies Related to the Media, Communication Studies Department, University of Minnesota.
2000 Fellowship, Summer Institute 0n Cultural Studies and the Problem of Method, Northwestern University.
1999 Graduate Award for Scholarly Excellence ("Old Buffalo Prize"), Communication Studies Department, University of Minnesota.
1998 Graduate Research Grant, Department of Communication Studies, University of Minnesota.
1995 Eaton Communication Scholar, Communication Program, George Washington University.
1987 Eagle Scout
BOOK
Modern Occult Rhetoric: Mass Media and the Drama of Secrecy in the Twentieth Century. University of Alabama Press (July 2005).
Reviewed in Austin American-Statesman (newspaper); The Journal of American Culture, Quarterly Journal of Speech, The Pomegranate, Rhetoric & Public Affiars, Rhetoric Review, Rhetoric Society Quarterly; Review of Communication; Southern Communication Journal, and Texas Books in Review.
PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES
Joshua Gunn, "On Speech and Public Release," Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 13 (2010): forthcoming.
Joshua Gunn and Dana Cloud, "Agentic Orientation as Magical Voluntarism," Communication Theory 20 (2010): forthcoming.
Joshua Gunn and Thomas S. Frentz. "Fighting for Father: Fight Club as Cinematic Psychosis," Western Journal of Communication 74 (2010): forthcoming.
Joshua Gunn and Thomas S. Frentz, "The Da Vinci Code as Alchemical Rhetoric," Western Journal of Communication 72 (2008): 213-238. [download]
Joshua Gunn, "Death By Publicity: U.S. Freemasonry and the Public Drama of Secrecy." Rhetoric and Public Affairs 11 (2008): 243-277. [download]
Revised and reprinted as "The Two Rhetorics of Freemasonry, or, On the Function and Necessity of Masonic Secrecy." Heredom 15 (2007): 1-33.
Joshua Gunn and Mirko M. Hall, "Stick It In Your Ear: The Psychodynamics of iPod Enjoyment," Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 5 (2008): 135-157. [download]
Joshua Gunn, "For the Love of Rhetoric, with Continual Reference to Kenny and Dolly." Quarterly Journal of Speech 94 (2008): 131-155. [download pdf]
Joshua Gunn, "Father Trouble: Staging Sovereignty in Spielberg's War of the Worlds." Critical Studies in Media Communication 25 (2008): 1-27. [download pdf]
Joshua Gunn, "Size Matters: Polytoning Rhetoric's Perverse Apocalypse." Rhetoric Society Quarterly (2008): 82-108. [download pdf]
Joshua Gunn, "Answering Machines and the Voice Abject." Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies 3 (March 2007): available http://liminalities.net/3-1/machine/machine.htm (.)
Joshua Gunn, "Hystericizing Huey: Emotional Appeal, Desire, and the Psychodynamics of Demagoguery." Western Journal of Communication 71 (2007): 1-27. Lead article. [download pdf]
Tracy Stephenson Shaffer and Joshua Gunn, "'A Change is Gonna Come': The Haunting of Music and Whiteness in Performance." Theatre Annual 59 (2006): 39-61.
Joshua Gunn, "ShitText: Toward a New Coprophilic Style." Text and Performance Quarterly 25 (January 2006): 79-97. [download pdf]
Joshua Gunn and Shaun Treat, "Zombie Trouble: A Propaedeutic on Ideological Subjectification," co-authored with Shaun Treat. Quarterly Journal of Speech (May 2005): 144-174. [download pdf]
Joshua Gunn, "Prime Time Satanism: Postmodern Occultism and the Rumor-work of Iconic Topoi." Visual Communication 4 (February 2005): 93-120.
Joshua Gunn, "Mourning Speech: Haunting and the Spectral Voices of Nine-Eleven." Text and Performance Quarterly 24 (April 2004): 91-114.
Reprinted in Rhetoric and Performance: Readings, edited by Phaedra Pezzullo and Stephen Olbrys Gencarella (State College, PA: Strata, 2010), forthcoming. [download pdf]
Joshua Gunn, "Refitting Fantasy: Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, and Talking to the Dead." Quarterly Journal of Speech 90 (February 2004): 1-23. [download pdf]
Joshua Gunn, "An Occult Poetics, or, the Secret Rhetoric of Religion." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 34 (Spring 2004): 29-54. [download pdf]
Joshua Gunn, "The Rhetoric of Exorcism: George W. Bush and the Return of Political Demonology." Western Journal of Communication 68 (Winter 2004): 1-23.
Reprinted in Rhetorical Criticism: Exploration and Practice, 4th ed., edited by Sonja K. Foss (Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, 2009), 148-166. [download pdf]
Joshua Gunn, "A Vow to be Faithfully Ironic: Materialism and the Magical Rhetoric of Feet." The American Communication Journal 7 (March 2004): http://www.joshiejuice.com/articles/footfetish.html (.)
Joshua Gunn and David E. Beard, "On the Apocalyptic Columbine." Southern Communication Journal 68 (Spring 2003): 198-207.
Joshua Gunn, "Refiguring Fantasy: Imagination and Its Decline in U.S. Rhetorical Studies." Quarterly Journal of Speech 89 (February 2003): 41-59. [download pdf]
David E. Beard and Joshua Gunn, "Paul Virilio and the Mediation of Perception and Technology." Enculturation 4 (Fall 2002): available http://enculturation.gmu.edu/4_2/beard-gunn/
Joshua Gunn, "H.P. Blavatsky and the Magic of Esoteric Language." Journal of Communication and Religion 25 (September 2002): 193-227. [download pdf]
Joshua Gunn, "Benjamin’s Magic." Telos: A Quarterly Journal of Critical Thought 119 (Spring 2001): 58-74.
Joshua Gunn and David E. Beard, "On the Apocalyptic Sublime." Southern Communication Journal 65 (Summer 2000): 269-286.
Joshua Gunn, "Marilyn Manson Is Not Goth: Memorial Struggle and the Rhetoric of Subcultural Identity." Journal of Communication Inquiry 23 (October 1999): 408-431. [download pdf]
Joshua Gunn, "Gothic Music and the Inevitability of Genre." Popular Music & Society 23 (Spring 1999): 31-50. [download pdf]
PEER REVIEWED BOOK CHAPTERS AND OTHER ESSAYS
Joshua Gunn, "Regulation Through the Postfeminist Pharmacy: Promotional Discourse and Menstruation," co-authored with Mary Vavrus. Governing the Female Body: Health, Gender, and Networks of Power, edited by Lori Reed and Paula Saukko (New York: State University of New York Press, 2010): forthcoming.
Joshua Gunn, "Agency," Encyclopedia of Communication Theory, edited by Stephen Littlejohn and Karen Foss (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2009): 27-30.
Joshua Gunn, "Genre Theory," Encyclopedia of Communication Theory, edited by Stephen Littlejohn and Karen Foss (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2009): 442-443.
Joshua Gunn, "Ideology," Encyclopedia of Communication Theory, edited by Stephen Littlejohn and Karen Foss (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 20o9): 497-501.
Joshua Gunn, "Dark Admissions: Gothic Subculture and the Ambivalence of Misogyny and Resistance," for a collected volume titled, Goth: Undead Subculture, edited by Michael Bibby and Lauren Goodlad (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007): 41-64. Lead chapter.
Joshua Gunn, "Commemorative Rituals." Encyclopedia of Religion and Ritual, edited by Frank Salamone (New York: Routledge, 2004): 93-96.
Joshua Gunn, "Scatological Rituals." Encyclopedia of Religion and Ritual, edited by Frank Salamone (New York: Routledge, 2004): 343-345.
REVIEW ESSAYS
Joshua Gunn, "Speech is Dead; Long Live Speech," Quarterly Journal of Speech 94 (2008): 340-361. [download]
Joshua Gunn, "Mourning Humanism, or, the Idiom of Haunting," Quarterly Journal of Speech 92 (2006): 77-102.[download]
BOOK CHAPTERS, INVITED ESSAYS, AND MINOR PUBLICATIONS
Joshua Gunn, "Drunk Dialing Naida," Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies 5 (2009): (http://liminalities.net/5-4/dialing.html).
Joshua Gunn, Morgan Reitmeyer, David Blakesley, and William Covino, "Get Agrippa: A Comment Miles' on 'Occult Retraction,'" Rhetoric Society Quarterly (2009): 380-387. [download]
Joshua Gunn, "Eclectic Criticism," short essay for The Art of Rhetorical Criticism, ed. Jim Kuypers (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Allyn & Bacon, 2009): 371-373 .
Dale Smith and Joshua Gunn, "'VIII. Lowghost Publicity, or, My Vocabulary Did This To Me,'" an Excerpt from The Seminar of Jack Spicer, Book III: On Dead Letters, Freakish Noises, Necropolitics, Fire-engines, and the Missing Couch," Public Modalities, eds. Dan Brouwer and Rob Asen (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, fall 2010): forthcoming.
Joshua Gunn and Jenny Edbauer Rice, "About Face/Stuttering Discipline," Forum essay edited by Barbara Biesecker for Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 6 (2009): 219-219. [download]
Joshua Gunn, "A Rejoinder to Mark Smith on the Contribution of His Book," short essay for Rhetoric Review 28 (2009): 82-83. [download]
Joshua Gunn, "iPod Appeal: The Sexual Allure of a Gadget." Communication Currents 3 (April 2008): available http://www.communicationcurrents.com.
Joshua Gunn, "Holes, God-Shaped and Otherwise." Short "Burkean Parlour" essay for Rhetoric Review 27 (April 2008): 212-215. [download]
Joshua Gunn, "The Importance of Secrecy." Scottish Rite Journal (March/April 2008): 8-11. [available here]
Joshua Gunn, "Apology [to Lauren Alleyne]." Communication Studies 58 (2007): 339. [download]Joshua Gunn, "Gimme Some Tongue (On Recovering Speech) " Essay for a forum dedicated to disciplinary history, edited by William Keith and David E. Beard, Quarterly Journal of Speech 93 (2007): 361-364. [download]
Joshua Gunn, "Why I am Not Radical Enough." Inside Higher Ed (25 July 2006); available http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2006/07/25/gunnhttp://www.insidehighered.com/views/2006/07/25/gunn
Christian Lundberg and Joshua Gunn, "Ouija Board, Are There Any Communications?' Agency, Ontotheology, and the Death of the Humanist Subject, or, Continuing the ARS Conversation," co-authored with Christian Lundberg. Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Fall 2005): 83-105. 2005 Kneuper Award Essay. [download]
Joshua Gunn and Barry Brummett, "Popular Communication After Globalization?" Journal of Communication (December 2004): 705-721. [download]
Joshua Gunn, "On Dead Subjects: A Rejoinder to Lundberg on (a) Psychoanalytic Rhetoric." Quarterly Journal of Speech 90 (Novemeber 2004): 501-513. [download ]
Joshua Gunn, Response to "Defending Symbolic Convergence Theory from an Imaginary Gunn." Forum essay. Quarterly Journal of Speech 89 (November 2003): 373. [download]
Joshua Gunn, "Publishing Peccadilloes and the Idioms of Disposition: Views from the Habitus of Scholarly Adolescence." Communication Studies 54 (Fall 2003): 370-377. [download]
Joshua Gunn, "Gothic Music in the United States," for The Goth Bible by Nancy Kilpatrick (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2004), 87-91.
Joshua Gunn, Response to George W. Bush's Remarks at the Memorial Service for Columbia Astronauts. PresidentialRhetoric.com (February 2003), available at http://www.presidentialrhetoric.com/speeches/02.04.03.responses.html
BOOK REVIEWS
Joshua Gunn, rev. of Davin Allen Grindstaff, Rhetorical Secrets: Mapping Gay Identity and Queer Resistance in Contemporary America (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006), Review of Communication 9 (2009): 114-119. [download]
James J. Brown, Jr. and Joshua Gunn, rev. of Thomas Rickert, Acts of Enjoyment: Rhetoric, Zizek, and the Return of the Subject (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007), Philosophy and Rhetoric 42 (2009): 183-189. [download]
Joshua Gunn, rev. of Barry Brummett, The World and How We Describe It: Rhetorics of Reality, Representation, Simulation (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003); and Edward Schiappa, Defining Reality: Definitions and the Politics of Meaning (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2003), Rhetoric Review, 23 (2004): 188-191.
Joshua Gunn, rev. of Peter Knight, Ed., Conspiracy Nation: The Politics of Paranoia in PostwarAmerica (New York: New York University Press, 2002), Rhetoric and Public Affairs 6 (Fall 2003): 600-602. [download]
Joshua Gunn, "Oh My Goth! A Review of Kerry Acker's Everything You Need to Know About the Goth Scene, Gavin Baddeley's Goth Chic: A Connoisseur's Guide to Dark Culture, Paul Hodkinson's Goth: Identity, Style, Subculture, and Mick Mercer's 21st Century Goth," Journal of Popular Culture 37 (Summer 2003): 136-138.
Joshua Gunn, "Lucifer Rising (Yet Again): A Review of Michael W. Cuneo's American Exorcism: Expelling Demons in the Land of Plenty, Gareth J. Medway's Lure of the Sinister: The Unnatural History of Satanism, and Bill Ellis' Raising the Devil: Satanism, New Religions, and the Media, "Rhetorical Society Quarterly 32 (Fall 2002): 105-111. [download]
Joshua Gunn, rev. of Alain Cabantous, Blasphemy: Impious Speech in the West from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001), Rhetoric and Public Affairs 6 (Spring 2003): 194-199. [download]
Joshua Gunn, rev. of Steven Conner, Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), Quarterly Journal of Speech 89 (February 2003): 84-87. [download]
Joshua Gunn, "The Rhetoric of Monstrosity: Review of Edward J. Ingebretsen’s At Stake: Monsters and the Rhetoric of Fear in Public Culture," Argumentation & Advocacy 39 (Summer 2002): 72-74. [download]
Joshua Gunn, "On Mythic Mimesis: Review of David Pan's Primitive Renaissance: Rethinking German Expressionism," Telos: A Quarterly Journal of Critical Thought (Winter 2002): 178-183.
BOOKS IN PREPARATION
Joshua Gunn, "Haunting Voices: Mourning Speech in Postmodernity." Scholarly book manuscript; four of eight chapters drafted.
Joshua Gunn, "Speechcraft." Textbook proposal in preparation for submission to Bedford/St. Martin's Press.
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLIC LECTURES
Invited Research Presentations at Other Colleges and Universities
"For the Love of Communication." Presentation delivered by invitation to the Department of Communication Studies, Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, 18 November 2009.
"On Vocalic Projection: EVP, Backmasking, and the Archival Impulse." Presentation delivered by invitation to the Department of Communication Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence, 2 September 2009.
"On Vocalic Projection: EVP, Backmasking, and the Archival Impulse." Presentation delivered by invitation to the Department of Communication, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, 20 March 2009.
"On Vocalic Projection: EVP, Backmasking, and the Archival Impulse." Presentation delivered by invitation to the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 11 March 2009.
"On Speech and Public Release." Presentation delivered by invitation to the Department of Communication at the University of Missouri, Columbia, 6 February 2009.
"On Vocalic Projection: EVP, Backmasking, and the Archival Impulse." Presentation delivered to the Rhetoric and Composition Program at Purdue University, West Lafayette, 12 December 2008.
"Cries, Grunts, Screams, and Yawps: Some Remarks on Uncontrolled Speech and Public Feelings." Presentation delivered by invitation to the Department of Communication at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 6 October 2008.
"On Speech and Public Release." Presentation delivered by invitation at the biannual Public Address Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 26 September 2008.
"For the Love of Communication." Paper delivered by invitation to the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University, College Station, 18 April 2008.
"For the Love of Rhetoric." Paper delivered by invitation to the seminar on Rhetoric at Democratic Theory led by Jeremy Engels at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 2 April 2008.
"The Big O: A Psychoanalytic Account of Roy Orbison's Voice." Presentation delivered by invitation at the Roy Orbison Tribute Symposium sponsored by the Center for Film, Media, and Popular Culture at the Arizona State University, Tempe, 26 January 2008.
"For the Love of Communication." Paper delivered by invitation to the Hugh Downs School of Communication, Arizona State University, 25 January 2008.
"For the Love of Communication." Keynote address delivered by invitation at the University of North Texas Communication Studies Student Conference, Denton, 21 April 2007.
"Prime Time Satanism: Rumor Panic and the Work of Iconic Topoi.” Presentation delivered by invitation to the Communication Studies Department, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 6 December 2004.
“'Devils on the TV': On Rumor Panic and Iconic Topoi.” Presentation delivered by invitation to the Communication Studies Department, University of Texas at Austin, 1 December 2004.
"Mourning Speech." Presentation delivered by invitation at the research colloquium of the Communication Department, Georgia State University, Atlanta, 5 October 2004.
"Finding Our Religion: Why We Talk to the Dead." Presentation delivered by invitation at the weekly research colloquium of the Speech Communication Department, University of Georgia, Athens, 6 November 2003.
"George W. Bush’s 2002 State of the Union Address as Exorcism." Presented as an invited lecture for the Communication Department at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, 27 February 2002.
"Ideology and The Matrix." Presented as an invited lecture for the Rhetoric of Mass Media course at Vanderbilt University, Nashville; John Sloop, instructor, 10 December 2001.
"Narratology, Ideology, and ‘The Gaze.’" Presented as an invited lecture for the Narrative Theory course at Willamette University, Salem, OR; Catherine Collins, instructor, 5 December 2001.
Research Presentations to Other Departments and Groups on Campus
"A Rhetoric of Music." Paper delivered by invitation to the Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, 3 September 2008.
Research Presentations to Corporations and Community Groups
"The Importance of Speech in Freemasonry." Paper delivered by invitation to Enlightenment Lodge #198, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 20 June 2009.
"On Importance of Speech in Freemasonry." Paper delivered by invitation to the Annual Festive Board Meeting of Masonic Lodge #12, Austin, Texas, 23 June 2008.
“The Decline of the Occult Tradition in the Twentieth Century." Presentation delivered by invitation to the Baton Rouge High Twelve Club (a Masonic body), Baton Rouge, 7 April 2005.
Intra-departmental Research Presentations
"A Critique of Magical Voluntarism." Presentation co-delivered with Dana Cloud by invitation to the Fall Research Colloquy Series ("081") of the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, 7 November 2008.
"Shits, Shoots, and Leaves." Presentation delivered by invitation to the Fall Research Colloquy Series ("081") of the University of Texas at Austin, 15 September 2006.
"Rhetoric: What's Love Got to Do with It?" Presentation co-delivered with Barry Brummett by invitation to the Fall Research Colloquy Series ("081") of the University of Texas at Austin, 4 November 2005.
"Psychoanalytic Criticism and the Abject Voice." Presentation delivered by invitation to the Modern Rhetorical Criticism seminar at the University of Texas at Austin, Roderick Hart, instructor. 28 September 2005.
"Rhetoric and Rock n’ Roll." Lecture presented by invitation to the Introduction to Communication Studies course at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Greg Cavanaugh, instructor. 4 October 2004.
"Haunting, Crisis Consumption, and the Spectral Voices of Nine-eleven." Paper presented by invitation at the Wednesday Noon Research Meeting of the Communication Studies Department, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 10 September 2003.
"Gorgias and the Sophists." Lecture presented by invitation to the Introduction to Communication Studies course at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Ross Lewis, instructor. 17 June 2003.
Commentator for "Across Disciplines: Research and Response," an event hosted by the HopKin's Black Box Theatre, featuring graduate student research conceived and presented in terms of performance. Critics and commentators from many disciplines offered their responses to the performed research. Louisiana State University, April 2003.
"Gaze Theory and The Matrix." Lecture presented by invitation to the Introduction to Communication Studies course at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Ross Lewis and Wesley Buerkle, instructors. 15 October 2002
"Uncanny Repetition: The Spectral Voices of Nine-eleven." Paper presented by invitation at the Department of Communication Studies Colloquy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 9 October 2002.
"The Fruits and Failures of Fantasy Theme Criticism." Paper presented by invitation at the Wednesday Noon Research Meeting of the Department of Speech Communication, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 28 November 2001.
"Prime Time Satanism: Stock Footage and the Death of Modern Occultism." Paper presented by invitation at the Wednesday Noon Research Meeting of the Department of Speech Communication, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 11 April 2001.
"Isocrates and Political Oratory." Presented as an invited lecture to the Introduction to Rhetorical Theory course at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, instructor, 3 October 2000.
"Freud and the Semiotics of Advertising." Presented as an invited lecture to the Argumentation course at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; Edward Schiappa, instructor, 24 April 2000.
"Rhetoric Responds to the Enlightenment: Locke, Sheridan and Vico." Presented as an invited lecture to the History of Rhetorical Theory (Interactive Television Course) at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; Edward Schiappa, instructor, 4 April 2000.
"St. Augustine and the Christianization of Rhetoric." Presented as an invited lecture to the Introduction to Rhetorical Theory course at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, instructor, 3 February 2000.
"The Great Divorce Debate of 1860 (at the National Woman’s Rights Convention)." Co-presenters: Dianne Blake, Julie Mactaggart, Angela Ray, Jonathan Ruis, E. Sue Weber, and Sara Enerson Wolff. Reader’s Theatre presented by invitation at the Wednesday Noon Research Meeting of the Department of Communication Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 10 November 1999.
"Exorcising an Evangelical Reflex: Cultural Ethnography and the Problem of Reflexivity," co-authored with Corey Schlosser-Hall. Paper presented by invitation at the Wednesday Noon Research Meeting of the Department of Communication Studies, University of Minnesota, 20 October 1999.
"The Rhetoric of Gothic Subculture." Presentation based on my Masters thesis, presented by invitation at the Wednesday Noon Research Meeting of the Department of Speech Communication, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 17 March 1999.
"Modern American Occultism: Blavatsky, Darwin, and the Problem of Evolution at the Century’s Turn" Presented as an invited lecture to the Twentieth Century Culture (Aesthetic Responses to Scientism) course at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul; David E. Beard, instructor, 13 February 1999.
POPULAR MEDIA PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLIC RELATIONS
I routinely do interviews for local and national newspaper and television outfits for stories related to various aspects of popular culture; listed here are stories in which my expertise is more prominently featured.
Interview for television segment, "Why People Love to Watch Psychics," with Joe Bickett. Good Morning Austin, Fox News 7 (KTBC Austin, TX). 20 June 2008, 7:30 a.m. Videostream available here.
April Brandon, "Fame's Fallout: UT Professor Sees Loss of Civil Liberties in a YouTube World." Victoria Advocate (10 February 2008): available http://www.victoriaadvocate.com/847/story/193785.html
Interview for story about youth and low-riding pants with Velda Hunter, "Shreveport City Council to Consider Saggy Pants Ban." Shreveport Times (28 August 2007): Local & State sec., 1. Available: http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070828/NEWS01/708280322/1060/NEWS01
Interview for story with Lorraine A. DarConte, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Sex, Bi's and Videotape." The Desert Leave (Arizona magazine) 21 (June 2007): 40-42.
Interview for story about religious jewelry with Tara Swords, "Fashion Faithful: Among the Religious, Symbolic Jewelry Always has Been Popular, But Now It's a Statement for Everyone." Chicago Tribune (20 June 2007): Style Sec., 1.
Interview for story about "blended names" for Hollywood celebrity couples with Karen Thomas, "Coined in the Realm of Celeb Couples," USA Today (6 April 2007): Life sec., 1. Available: http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/
2007-04-05-celeb-nicknames_N.htm?csp=34Interview for story about holiday kitsch with Nikki Moore, "Kitsch Kringle: What We Really Want When We Want Santa," Austin Chronicle (8 December 2006): 44. Available: http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A426522
Interview for story about the film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan with Robert Lopez, "I Like You. Do You Like Me?" Beaumont Enterprise (25 November 2006): available http://www.zwire.com/site/index.cfm?newsid=17511281&BRD=2287&PAG=461&dep
Interview for story about Chuck Norris mythology with A.J. Bauer, "Under the Dome: That's One Tough Perry Youth Pitch," Austin American-Statesman (28 October 2006): available http://www.statesman.com/search/content/news/stories/local/10/28/28underthedome.html
Interview for story about my research for the University of Texas webpage, "Ghost in the Machine," 24 October 2005. Available http://www.utexas.edu/features/2005/ghost/index.html
Interview for story about Modern Occult Rhetoric in the Austin American-Statesman Newspaper, "Professor's Magical Mystery Tome," 21 August 2005: K5.
Panelist on Critical Response, a 30-minute talk show that airs on public access cable in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. The show is devoted to the critical examination of the mass media. The program in which I participated concerned network television coverage of the terrorist attacks on 9/11/01.
Interview for story about gothic subculture in relation to the mass shooting at Columbine High School, Time, 23 April 1999.
Expert Commentator, televised interview for segment concerning gothic subculture and the mass shooting at Columbine High School, KSTP News (Minneapolis ABC affiliate), 22 April 1999.
Letter to the Editor regarding the sexist undertones of an article on The West Wing, Atlantic Monthly (June 2001): 10.
CONFERENCE & CONVENTION PRESENTATIONS
Respondent, "'Ad Bellum Purficandum': The Therapeutic Turn in Midcentury Rhetoric and Communication Theory." Panel sponsored by the Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division of the National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, 2009.
Panelist, "Mentors and Masters: Stability and Change in Teacher-Student Relationships." Roundtable discussion competitively selected by the Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division of the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Chicago, 2009.
Panelist, "Stability and Change in NCA: A Report from the 2008 'UNconvention' in San Diego." Roundtable discussion competitively selected by the Critical and Cultural Studies Division of the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Chicago, 2009.
Panelist, "The Rhetorical Subject of Violence." Roundtable discussion competitively selected by the Critical and Cultural Studies Division of the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Chicago, 2009.
"Whither Speech? The Scholarship of Joshua Gunn." Vice President's "Spotlight" paper delivered at the invitation of the Southern States Communication Association at the annual meeting of the Southern States Communication Association, Norfolk, VA, April 2009.
Panelist, "Toasting Tom: Roasting, Razzing, and Respecting the Scholarship, Teaching, and Service of Thomas S. Frentz." Roast competitively selected by the Rhetoric and Public Address Division and the Ethnography Interest Group at the annual meeting of the Southern States Communication Association, Norfolk, VA, April 2009.
"Phronesis Trouble in The Secret and Run Lola Run, or, Agentic Orientation as Magic," co-authored with Dana Cloud. Paper competitively selected for the bi-annual Rhetoric Society of America Convention program, Seattle, 2008.
"Repetition, Rinse, Repeat: On Wooden Paneling: Four Years Later." On panel competitively selected by the Ethnography Division of the National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, 2007.
"Still More Zombie Trouble: The Rhetorical Unconscious and Ideological Interpellation Reconsidered in 28 Days Later," co-authored with Shaun Treat. On panel competitively selected by the Critical and Cultural Studies Division of the National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, 2007.
"The Relevance of 'Disciplining the Feminine' Today." Invited presenter on the 2007 Woolbert Award Panel sponsored by the NCA Research Board of the National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, 2007.
Respondent, "The Haunting of American Subjectivity: Traumatic Hermeneutics in Answering 'What is To Be Done?'" Panel sponsored by the Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division of the National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, 2007.
Respondent, "Modernity, Alterity, Identity." Panel sponsored by the Association for Psychoanalysis Division of the National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, 2007.
"Stick It In Your Ear: The Psychodynamics of iPod Enjoyment," coauthored with Mirko Hall. Paper selected by the Media Studies Interest Group of the Central States Communication Association Convention, Minneapolis, 2007. Competitively refereed paper; Top Four paper.
"The Rhetoric and Death of Freemasonry." Paper selected by the Rhetorical Theory and Criticism Interest Group of the Central States Communication Association Convention, Minneapolis, 2007. Competitively refereed paper.
Panelist, "Manuscript Rejection Letters: A Reader's Theatre." Performance and roundtable discussion competitively selected by the Critical and Cultural Studies Division the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, San Antonio, 2006.
"Repetition, Rinse, Repeat: On Wooden Paneling: Three Years Later." On panel competitively selected by the Rhetoric and Communication Theory Division of the National Communication Association Convention, San Antonio, 2006.
Respondent, "Haunting Bodies, Haunting Histories." Panel sponsored by the Performance Studies Division of the National Communication Association Convention, San Antonio, 2006.
Respondent, "Rhetoric and Popular Music." Panel sponsored by the Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division of the National Communication Association Convention, San Antonio, 2006.
"Polytoning Rhetoric's Perverse Apocalypse: Size Matters." On panel competitively selected for the bi-annual meeting of the Rhetoric Society of America, Memphis, 2006.
"Gothspotting: Adventures Studying Them White Kids in Black Clothes, or, Mapping Subcultural Ambivalence." On panel competitively selected by the Popular Communication Division for the annual meeting of the Southern States Communication Association, Dallas, 2006.
Respondent, "Specters of Performance: Bodies, History, Hauntology." Panel sponsored by the Performance Studies Division of the Southern States Communication Association Convention, Dallas, 2006.
"More On Answering Machines and the Voice Abject." On panel competitively selected by the Critical and Cultural Studies Division for the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Boston, 2005.
"Repetition, Rinse, Repeat: On Wooden Paneling: Two Years Later." On panel competitively selected by the Rhetoric and Communication Theory Division of the National Communication Association Convention, Boston, 2005.
"Supercolon (:) Kandoo!" On panel competitively selected by the Performance Studies Division for the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Boston, 2005.
Respondent, "Three Attempts at Theoretical Innovation." Panel sponsored by the Rhetoric and Communication Theory Division of the National Communication Association Convention, Boston, 2005.
Respondent, “One More Time for the People: The Convergence of Writing and Repetition.” Panel at the Merging Word and Image Conference sponsored by the English Graduate Student Association, Baton Rouge, 2 February 2005.
“On Answering Machines and the Voice Abject.” On panel competitively selected by the Performance Studies division for the annual meeting of the Southern States Communication Association, Baton Rouge, 2004.
“Reanimating the Dead: Robo-Huey and the Historical Uncanny.” On panel competitively selected by the Public Address division for the annual meeting of the Southern States Communication Association, Baton Rouge, 2004.
"Repetition, Rinse, Repeat: On Wooden Paneling: One Year Later." On panel competitively selected by the Performance Studies Division of the National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, 2004.
Panelist, "What Constitutes Publishable Rhetorical Scholarship?" Roundtable discussion competitively selected for the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Chicago, 2004.
"Speech Melancholia, or, the Stuttering Discipline." Position paper delivered at the Issues in the History of Speech Communication in the 20th Century Preconference, Chicago, 2004.
"Dispelling the Demagogic Phallacy." Paper competitively selected for the annual meeting of the Louisiana Communication Association, New Orleans, 2004. Competitively refereed paper.
"Ernst Bloch's Imagined Interactions." On panel competitively selected for the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, New Orleans, 2004.
"Regulation Through the Postfeminist Pharmacy: Promotional Discourse and Menstruation," co-authored with Mary Vavrus. On panel competitively selected for the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, New Orleans, 2004.
Panelist, "The State of Media Studies Theory and the Public Interest." Roundtable discussion competitively selected for the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, New Orleans, 2004.
"Using Paranormalism to Teach the Rhetoric of Religion." On panel competitively selected for the bi-annual meeting of the Rhetorical Society of America, Austin, 2004.
"Hystericizing Huey: Charismatic Monumentalism and Southern Demagoguery." On panel competitively selected for the annual meeting of the Southern States Communication Association, Tampa, 2004.
"Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, and Talking to the Dead." Paper competitively selected by the Public Address division for the annual meeting of the Southern States Communication Association, Tampa, 2004. Competitively refereed paper.
"I Am (Not) a Zombie: The Ideological Work of Voodoo Fantasy," co-authored with Shaun Treat. On panel competitively selected by the American Studies Division of the National Communication Association Convention, Miami, 2003.
"An Occult Poetics, or, the Secret Rhetoric of Religion." Paper selected by the Public Address Division of the National Communication Association Convention, Miami, 2003. Competitively refereed paper.
"Repetition, Rinse, Repeat: On Wooden Paneling." On panel competitively selected by the Performance Studies Division of the National Communication Association Convention, Miami, 2003.
Respondent, “Rhetorical Visions of Contemporary Religious Issues.” Panel jointly sponsored by the Religious Communication Association and the Pubic Address Division of the National Communication Association Convention, Miami, 2003.
"The Fantastic Rhetorical Agent Debate." Short position paper delivered at The Alliance of Rhetorical Societies Conference on the Status and Future of Rhetorical Studies," Northwestern University, Evanston (IL), 2003.
"Arguing Immanence: Can Dialectic Be Saved?" On panel competitively selected by Critical/Cultural Studies Division of the 13th Bi-Annual NCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation, Alta (UT), 2003.
"Haunting, Crisis Consumption, and the Spectral Voices of Nine-eleven." Top faculty paper selected by the Popular Communication Division of the Southern States Communication Convention, Birmingham, 2003. Competitively refereed paper.
"Exorcizing Evil: George W. Bush and the Return of Political Demonology." Paper selected by the Public Address Division of the Southern States Communication Convention, Birmingham, 2003. Competitively refereed paper.
"The Racial Ideology of Voodoo Fantasy," co-authored with Shaun Treat. On panel competitively selected by the Folklore Interest Area of the Popular Culture Association Convention, New Orleans, 2003
Panelist, "Views From the Fringe: Charting the Cultural Geography of Deviance." On round table discussion panel competitively selected by the Ethnography Division of the National Communication Association Convention, New Orleans, 2002.
"Satanic Panic and the Rumor-Work of Iconic Topoi." Top Four Paper of the Visual Communication Division of the National Communication Association Convention, New Orleans, 2002. Competitively refereed paper.
"Materialism and the Magic Rhetoric of Feet." On panel competitively selected by the Rhetorical Theory Division of the National Communication Association Convention, New Orleans, 2002.
"On Textual Occultism." Rhetoric Society of America Biannual Conference, Las Vegas, 2002.
"Commodity Terrorism." On panel competitively selected by the Rhetorical Theory and Criticism Interest Group of the Central States Communication Association. Central States Communication Association Conference, Milwaukee, 2002.
"Euphantasiotos: An Imaginative Retelling of the Story of Rhetorical Studies." Top paper in the Rhetorical Theory Interest Group of the Central States Communication Association Conference, Milwaukee, 2002. Competitively refereed paper.
"Benjamin’s Concept of Criticism, with Some Reference to the Arcades Project." On panel competitively selected by the Rhetorical Theory Division of the National Communication Association Convention, Atlanta, 2001.
"Gothic Subculture and the Ambivalence of Misogyny and Resistance." On panel competitively selected by the Performance Studies Division of the National Communication Association. National Communication Association Convention, Atlanta, 2001.
"H.P. Blavatsky and the Magic of Jargon." Paper selected by the Religious Communication Division of the National Communication Association. National Communication Association Convention, Atlanta, 2001. Competitively refereed paper.
"Prime Time Satanism: Stock Footage and the Death of Modern Occultism." On panel competitively selected by the Journalism and Media Culture division of the Popular Culture Association. Popular Culture Association Convention, Philadelphia, 2001.
"Descartes ‘Befogged by the Black Vapors’: Cognitive Science and the New Rationality," co- authored with Robert L. Scott. Paper presented at the American Society for the History of Rhetoric Preconference, Seattle, 2000.
"On the Apocalyptic Columbine," co-authored with David E. Beard. On panel competitively selected by the American Studies Division of the National Communication Association. National Communication Association Convention, Seattle, 2000.
"Girl Under Glass: Ruth Snyder and the Delivery of Misogyny." Rhetoric Society of America Biannual Conference, Washington (DC), 2000.
"Benjamin’s Magic Rhetoric." On panel competitively selected by the Rhetorical Theory Division of the National Communication Association. National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, 1999.
"Toward a Virtue Ethics for Rhetorical Studies." Rhetoric Society of America Biannual Conference, Pittsburgh, 1998.
"Dark Entries: On Describing Gothic Subculture." Southeastern Speech Communication Conference on Graduate Research, Athens (GA), 1997. Competitively refereed paper.
"Fin de Siecle Too: The Interested Straight and Gothic Subculture." Paper selected by the American Studies Division of the Speech Communication Association. Speech Communication Association Convention, Chicago, 1997. Competitively refereed paper.
"Agency and Purpose in the Bedroom: A Neo-Burkean Analysis of the New Joy of Sex." Paper selected by the Kenneth Burke Division of the Speech Communication Association; Speech Communication Association Convention, Chicago, 1997.
GRANTS APPLIED FOR
2009 College of Communication Junior Faculty Fellowship ($6,000); received.
2008 National Endowment for the Arts Summer Stipend ($5,000 + UT matching contribution); unsuccessful.
2008 National Endowment for the Arts Faculty Fellowship ($50,000); unsuccessful.
2008 College of Communication Dean's Fellowship (one semester release from teaching); received.
2007 National Endowment for the Arts Summer Stipend ($5,000 + UT matching contribution); won university competion; unsuccessful.
2007 Summer Research Assignment Fellowship ($10,000), University of Texas at Austin; received.
2006 National Endowment for the Arts Summer Stipend ($5,000 + UT matching contribution); unsuccessful
2005 National Endowment for the Arts Summer Stipend; $5,000; unsuccessful.
2004 LSU Faculty Grant for Archival Research (Berlin, Germany); $1,000; received.
2004 LSU Council of Research Grant/Summer Stipend; $5,000; received.
2003 LSU Council of Research Grant/Summer Stipend; $5,000; unsuccessful.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Texas at Austin (2005-Present)
Undergraduate:
Introduction to Rhetorical Theory
Celebrity Culture
Rhetoric and Popular Music
Rhetoric and Religion
Undergraduate/Graduate Hybrid:
Rhetoric and Film
Graduate:
Basic Rhetorical Criticism
Rhetoric and Psychoanalysis
The Subject
The Idiom of Haunting
The Object
Louisiana State University (2002-2005)
Undergraduate:
Advanced Public Speaking
Communication and Popular Culture
Interpersonal Communication
Rhetoric and Religion
Rhetoric and Civilization
Rhetoric and the Mass Media
Advanced Undergraduate and Masters:
Advanced Argumentation
Basic Concepts of Cinema Studies
Communication and Cultural Studies
Nietzsche, Marx, Freud, and Burke
Graduate:Contemporary Rhetorical Theory (The Poststructural Critique of Communication)
Cultural Haunting and Ghosts of the Real (Fall 2004)
Independent Study: The Rhetoric of Attention Deficit Disorder (Roger Pippin)
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (1996-2002)
Undergraduate:Introduction to Argumentation
Introduction to Media Production and Criticism
Introduction to Public Speaking
Introduction to Rhetorical Theory
Introduction to U.S. Electronic Media (TA for Mary D. Vavrus)
Persuasive Speaking and Writing
Rhetoric and Popular Music
GRADUATE ADVISING AT UT
Adam Avramescu, Undergraduate Honors Thesis reader, defended (Fall 2008)
Adria Battaglia, Ph.D. committee member (Spring 2006-Present).
Roger Gatchet, M.A. committee member, defended (Spring 2007).
Ph.D. advisor (Spring 2007-Present).Kathleen Feyh, Ph.D. committee member (Spring 2006-Present).
Douglas Freeman, Ph.D. committee member (Spring 2006-Present).
Kevin Johnson, Ph.D. committee member, defended (Summer 2007).
Raechelle Manis, Ph.D. committee member (Spring 2008-Present).
Diana Martinez, Ph.D. committee member (Summer 2008-Present).
Bryan McCann, Ph.D. committee member (Spring 2008-Present).
Nick Muntean, M.A. committee member, defended (Summer 2007).
Lisa Glebatis Perks, Ph.D. committee member, defended (Spring 2006).
Jillian Sayre, Ph.D. committee member (Fall 2006-Present).
Dale Smith, Ph.D. committee member, defended (Fall 2009).
Sean Tiffee, Ph.D. advisor (Fall 2007-Present).
Sunshine Webster, Ph.D. committee member, defended (Fall 2009).
GRADUATE ADVISING AT LSU
C. Wesley Buerkle, Ph.D. committee member, defended (Winter 2003-Fall 2004).
Chris Dalbom, Ph.D. committee member (Winter 2004-Fall 2004).
Kevin Ells, Ph.D. committee member (Fall 2004-Summer 2005).
Melissa Hopson-Sparks, Ph.D. committee member, defended (Spring 2003).
Christina L. Moss, Ph.D. committee member (Fall 2003-Fall 2005).
Roger Pippin, M.A. advisor, defended (Summer 2003-Spring 2006).
Danielle Sears, Ph.D. committee member (Fall 2004-Fall 2007).
Gretchen Stein-Rhodes, Ph.D. committee member (Fall 2004-Present).
David Terry, M.A. committee member, defended (Spring 2005).
Shaun Treat, Ph.D. committee member, defended (Fall 2003).
PROFESSIONAL AND DISCIPLINARY SERVICE AND ACTIVITIES
Leadership and Committee Work
Award Committee, Rhetoric and Communication Theory Division of the National Communication Association, 2006-Present.
Nominating Committee, Rhetoric and Communication Theory Division of the National Communication Association, 2006.
Various positions , Association for Psychoanalysis and Communication (registered interest group in the National Communication Association), 2006-Present.
Review and Editing Responsibilities
Associate Editor, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. John Sloop, editor, 2005-present.
Associate Editor, Communication Monographs. Mike Allen, editor, 2007-present.
Associate Editor, Critical Studies in Media Communication. Eric King Watts, editor, 2007-2008.
Associate Editor, Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies. Marcyrose Chvasta and Michael LeVan, editors, 2005-present.
Associate Reviewer, Rhetoric Review. Theresa Enos, editor, 2006-present.
Associate Editor, Western Journal of Communication. Cheree Carlson, editor, 2005-2008; Brian Ott, 2008-present.
Guest reviewer for Communication Theory, Communication Yearbook, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Philosophy & Rhetoric , Rhetoric Review, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Southern Communication Journal, and Text & Performance Quarterly.
Paper reviewer for the Rhetoric and Communication Theory Division of the National Communicaiton Association Convention, 2005-present.
Other
Resolution Committee, Rhetoric and Public Address Division of the Southern States Communication Association, Winter 2003-present.Commentator for "Across Disciplines: Research and Response," an event hosted by the HopKin's Black Box Theatre, featuring graduate student research conceived and presented in terms of performance. Critics and commentators from many disciplines offered their responses to the performed research. Louisiana State University, 9 April 2003.
Organizing Committee, Association for Psychoanalysis and Communication, Fall 2002-present.
Letter to the Editor regarding the sexist undertones of an article on The West Wing, Atlantic Monthly (June 2001): 10.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Guest speaker for the New Faculty Orientation program organized by the DIIA, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2006.
Senator At-Large, College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Senate, Louisiana State University, Fall 2004-2006.
Member, Science and Religion Collegium, Louisiana State University, Spring 2004-present.
DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE
Interpersonal Communication Search Committee, University of Texas at Austin, Summer 2008-Present.
Interpersonal Communication Search Committee, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2007.
Grant Proposal Review Committee ($50,000 seed money for a research center); University of Texas at Austin, Summer 2006.
Undergraduate Scholarship Award Committee, University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2006.
Political Communication Search Committee, University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2006.
Rhetorical Studies Search Committee, Louisiana State University, Fall 2004-Spring 2005.
Giles Wilkeson Gray Lecture Committee, Louisiana State University, Spring 20o4.
Performance Studies Search Committee, Louisiana State University, Spring 2004.
Departmental Research Colloquy Organizer, Fall 2003-present.
Press Relations Committee for the National Communication Association Convention, Louisiana State University, Fall 2002.
Rhetoric Curriculum Committee, Department of Communication Studies, Louisiana State University, Fall 2002-Present.
Awards Committee, Department of Communication Studies, University of Minnesota, 2002. This four-person committee vets applications for research and travel funding.
Orientation Committee, Department of Communication Studies, University of Minnesota, Summers 1997-2000. This three-person committee was responsible for planning a three day orientation for all new and returning students and faculty.
Commie-Bowl Organizer, Department of Communication Studies, Louisiana State University, 2002-Present; Department of Communication Studies, University of Minnesota, 1998-2000. In this capacity I organize an annual bowling competition for graduate students and colleagues.
Assistant Webmaster, Department of Communication Studies web pages, University of Minnesota 1998-1999.
Graduate Student Representative, Departmental Council (SPECOM), Donald Browne, chair, Department of Communication Studies, University of Minnesota, 1998-99.
MEMBERSHIPS
National Communication Association, Rhetoric Society of America, Scottish Rite Research Society, Western States Communication Association.
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