The
School of Athens Raphael (1508)
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Professional Biography and Research Interests |
The
School of Athens
Raphael (1508)
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EDUCATION Doctor of Philosophy: Rhetoric
and Communication, 1994, University
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PUBLICATIONS "Phryne and the Rhetoric of Gesture." Upcoming essay in The Rhetoric of Western Thought. Kendall-Hunt Publishing, 2007. “Rhetorical Prototypes in Architecture: Measuring the Acropolis with a Philosophical Polemic.” Communication Quarterly 46.2, 1998: 194-213. “Return
of the Addressed: Rhetoric,
Gaston Bachelard, Subversive
Humanist by Mary McAllester Jones. Book
Review. Substance: A Review of
Theory and Literary Criticism. Vol. 72. 1994: 358-361. |
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Research Interests The agenda of my research encompasses rhetorical and cultural projects that engage in the study of language and society. I focus my research on how discourse intersects with, produces, and informs the subjective agency of the individual necessarily caught in the symbol-systems of hierarchical power. Scholars of cultural studies, with an awareness of the malleability and ambiguity of language, can shed light both on how power structures create divisions (class, ethnicity, gender, nation, race, religion and sexuality) and how the rhetoricity of language creates a juncture of resistance for disenfranchisement by political aggrandizement. My particular scholarly inquiry at this time looks at three discursive areas where the tensions between the marginalized expression of identity and the hegemonic recalcitrance of complicity emerge. These areas of study include: 1)
the themes of
rhetorical supplication in practices of Renaissance magic;
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"Phryne's Ethos: Seduction, Supplication and Silence" International Visual Communication Association Convention, Dublin, Ireland, August, 2005 “Classical Greek Rhetoric
and Architectural Prototypes: Investigating a Paradigm of Perception”
International Society for the Classical Tradition, “Aspasia and the Amazons: Aporia in the Athenian Erotic” National Communication Association, Chicago , November 1997 “Marie-Genevieve Bouliar’s ‘Aspasia’: The Courtesan as Nexus of Vice and Virtue” Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender, Chicago, October 1997 “Platonic
and Sophistic Knowledge”
Speech Communication Association, "Rhetorical
Prototypes in Architectural Texts: Measuring the Acropolis with a
Philosophical Polemic"
Eastern
Communication Association, "Plato and Aristotle on Architecture: A Rhetorical Recalcitrance of an Antisophistic Polemic" Speech Communication Association, San Antonio, November 1995 "Visual
Perception and Geometrical Inference: A Reductive Linguistic Process"
Speech Communication Association, "The
Sophists, Geometry and the Periclean Polis"
Speech
Communication Association, "Roland Barthes' A Lover's Discourse, Ancient Oratory and Eros" Speech Communication Association, Chicago, 1992 "The
Rhetorical Reduction of a Korean Peace Movement: A Burkean Critique"
Speech Communication Association, "Of
All Things, Language is the Measure: From Protagoras to the Linguistic
Turn"
Speech Communication Association,
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