Vita
June 2008
James Arnt Aune
Professor of Communication
Texas A & M University
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Department of Communication
102 Bolton Hall
Texas A & M University
College Station, TX 77843-4234 |
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979-845-5507 |
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Education
Ph.D.: Northwestern University (Communication Studies), 1980.
M.A.: Northwestern University (Communication Studies), 1977.
B.A., summa cum laude: St. Olaf College (Speech Communication and Religion),
1975.
Employment History
Professor, Texas A&M University (2003-present)
Associate Professor, Texas A & M University (1996-2003)
Associate Professor, Penn State University (2000-2001)
Associate Professor, University of St. Thomas (1994-1996; promoted to Professor, 1996)
Associate Professor, St. Olaf College (1989-1994)
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa (Summer 1986)
Assistant Professor, University of Virginia (1981-1986)
Assistant Professor, Director of Forensics, Acting Department Head, Tulane University (1980-1981)
Instructor, St. Olaf College (1979-1980)
Teaching Fields and Special Interests
History of Rhetorical Theory (especially classical, 18th-century, and 20thcentury)
History of American Public Address (especially early republic, radical social movements, and economic rhetoric)
History of Marxism
Legal Rhetoric (especially rhetoric of judicial opinions and constitutional interpretation)
Languages: classical Greek (reading knowledge), German (reading and conversational), Spanish (reading and conversational), French (reading)
Honors and Grants
Texas A&M University Scholarly and Creative Activities Grant, "Millhands and Marxists: Narrative Representations of the 1929 Gastonia Textile Strike," $10,000, 2006
Distinguished Scholar Award, Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division, National Communication Association, November 2004
Association of Former Students Award, Texas A & M University, for Distinguished Achievement in Teaching (University-wide), May 2003
Diamond Anniversary Book Award, National Communication Association, November 2002 (for best book in Communication published in the past two years)
Program in Presidential Rhetoric Research Grant, George Bush School of Government and Public Affairs, Texas A & M University, "The White House and Civil Rights," $1000, Summer 2000
John Sisco Excellence in Teaching Award, Southern States Communication Association, April 2000
Program in Presidential Rhetoric Research Grant, George Bush School of Government and Public Affairs, Texas A & M University, "FDR and the Nomination of Hugo Black to the Supreme Court," $1000, 1998
Race and Ethnic Studies Institute, Texas A & M University, "Media Coverage of the Lani Guinier Nomination," $3000, 1998
Texas A & M University Program to Enhance Scholarly and Creative Activities Grant, "Hugo Black's Rhetorical Jurisprudence," $7500, 1997
Participant, National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar on Ethics Across the Curriculum, Marquette University, Summer 1992 and 1993
Sabbatical leave, St. Olaf College, 1992
Summer Research Grant, "Rhetoric in Contemporary Literary Theory," University of Virginia, 1983
Dissertation Award, Speech Communication Association, 1980
Phi Beta Kappa, St. Olaf College, 1974 (elected during junior year) Eta Sigma Phi (National Classics Honor Society), St. Olaf College, 1974
Publications
Books
James Arnt Aune and Martin J. Medhurst, eds., The Prospect of Presidential Rhetoric (College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 2008).
James Arnt Aune and Enrique Rigsby, eds., Civil Rights Rhetoric and the American Presidency (College Station, Tex.: Texas A & M University Press, 2005).
James Arnt Aune, Selling the Free Market: The Rhetoric of Economic Correctness (N.Y.: Guilford Press, 2001). Reviewed in: Washington Monthly, March 2001: 49-52; National Review, March 19, 2001: 60; Booklist, February 1, 2001: 1026; The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies 3, 1 (Fall 2001): 145-150; Reason, June 2001: 70-72.; Liberty, August 2001: 49-53; Rhetoric & Public Affairs 5, 1 (Spring 2002): 182-186; Southern Communication Journal 67, 3 (Spring 2002): 296-297; Quarterly Journal of Speech 88, 3 (August 2002): 342-358, Political Psychology 23, 4 (December 2002): 853-854.
James Arnt Aune, Rhetoric and Marxism (Boulder, Col.: Westview Press, 1994). Reviewed in: American Journal of Sociology 101, 5 (March 1996): 1461-1462; Quarterly Journal of Speech 82, 4 (November 1996): 402-426; Critical Studies in Mass Communication (March 1996): 83-89; Rhetorica 13, 4 (Autumn 1995): 457-464; Philosophy and Rhetoric 29, 4 (1996): 462-467; Political Studies 44, 4 (September 1996): 817; Review of Radical Political Economics 28, 4 (December 1996): 160-163.
Journal Articles
James Arnt Aune, "Modernity as a Rhetorical Problem," Philosophy and Rhetoric (forthcoming 2008).
James Arnt Aune, "The Democratic Style and Ideological Containment," Rhetoric & Public Affairs (forthcoming 2008)
James Arnt Aune, "'Only Connect': Between Ethics and Morality in Habermas' Communication Theory," Communication Theory 17, 4 (2007) , 329–332
James Arnt Aune, “The Politics of Rhetorical Studies: A Piacular Rite,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 92, 1 (2006): 69-76
Dana Cloud, Stephen Macek, and James Arnt Aune, “The Limbo of Ethical Simulacra,” Philosophy and Rhetoric 39, 1 (2006): 72-84
Jennifer R. Mercieca and James Arnt Aune, “A Vernacular Republican Rhetoric: William Manning’s Key of Libberty,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 91, 2 (2005): 119-143.
James Arnt Aune, “Justice and Argument in Judaism: A D’Var Torah on Shofetim,” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 7, 4 (2004): 449-460.
James Arnt Aune, “An Historical Materialist Theory of Rhetoric,” American Communication Journal 6, 4 (2003); online publication available at: http://acjournal.org/holdings/vol6/iss4/index.htm
Martin Carcasson and James Arnt Aune, "Klansman on the Court: Justice Hugo Black's 1937 Radio Address." Quarterly Journal of Speech 89 (2003): 154-170.
James Arnt Aune, “Witchcraft as Symbolic Action in Early Modern Europe and America,” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 6, 4 (2003): 765-777.
James Arnt Aune, "Three Justices in Search of Historical Truth: Romance and Tragedy in Establishment Clause Jurisprudence," Rhetoric & Public Affairs 2, 4 (1999): 573-589.
James Arnt Aune, "Tales of the Text: Originalism, Theism, and the History of the U.S. Constitution," Rhetoric & Public Affairs 1, 2 (1998): 257-279.
James Arnt Aune, "The Work of Rhetoric in the Age of Digital Dissemination," Quarterly Journal of Speech 83, 2 (1997): 230-242.
James Arnt Aune, "On the Rhetorical Criticism of Judge Posner," Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 23, 3 (1996); 658-669.
James Arnt Aune, "Karl Marx on 'The Gettysburg Address,'" Iowa Journal of Communication 25 (1993): 107-109.
James Arnt Aune, "Burke's Palimpsest: Rereading Permanence and Change," Communication Studies 42 (1991): 234-237.
James Arnt Aune, "Marxism and Rhetorical Theory," Communication 11 (1990); 265-276.
James Arnt Aune, "Lincoln and the American Sublime," Communication Reports 1 (1988): 14-19; reprinted in James R. Andrews, The Practice of Rhetorical Criticism, 2nd ed. (N.Y.: Longmans, 1990), 70-75.
James Arnt Aune, "Burke's Late Blooming: Trope, Defense, and Rhetoric," Quarterly Journal of Speech 69 (1983); 328-340.
James Arnt Aune, "Beyond Deconstruction: The Symbol and Social Reality," Southern Speech Communication Journal 48 (1983): 255-268.
James Arnt Aune, "The Contribution of Habermas to Rhetorical Validity," Journal of the American Forensic Association 16 (1979): 104-111.
Thomas B. Farrell and James Arnt Aune, "Critical Theory and Communication," Quarterly Journal of Speech 65 (1979): 93-107.
Book Chapters
(all single-authored)
“Coping with Modernity: Strategies of Twentieth Century Rhetorical Theory,” in Andrea Lunsford, ed., Handbook of Rhetorical Studies (Mountain View, Cal.: Sage Publications, forthcoming 2009).
“How to Read Milton Friedman on Corporate Social Responsibility,” in Stephen K. May, George Cheney , and Juliet Roper, The Debate Over Corporate Social Responsibility (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 105- 136.
“The Econo-Rhetorical Presidency,” in James Arnt Aune and Martin J. Medhurst, eds., The Prospect of Presidential Rhetoric (College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 2008), 46-69.
“Can the Alien Speak? The McCarran-Walter Act, Civil Liberties, and Cold War Multiculturalism,” in Vanessa Beasley, ed. Who Belongs in America? (College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 2006), 149-182.
"Rhetoric as a Vocation: A Weberian Meditation," in Frederick J. Antczak, ed., Professing Rhetoric (Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002), 1-11.
"Justice Holmes's Rhetoric and the Progressive Path of the Law," in J. Michael Hogan, ed., Protest and Reform in the Progressive Era (East Lansing, Mich.: Michigan State University Press, 2002), 145-184.
"A Literary Analysis of Animal Farm," in John Rodden, ed., Understanding Animal Farm (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999), 1-19.
"Catching the Third Wave: The Dialectic of Rhetoric and Technology," in
ThomasRosteck, ed., At the Intersection: Rhetoric and Cultural Studies (N.Y.:
Guilford Press, 1998), 84-100.
"'The Power of Hegemony' and Marxist Cultural Theory," in J. Michael Hogan,
ed., Rhetoric and Community (Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina
Press, 1998), 62-74.
"Prudence, Process, or Politics: The Counter-Majoritarian Problem and the
Nature of Judicial Expertise," in James F. Klumpp, ed., Argument in a Time
of Change (Annandale, Va.: National Communication Association, 1998),
328-332.
"Reinhold Niebuhr and the Rhetoric of Christian Realism," in Robert Hariman
and Francis Beer, eds., Post-Realism: The Rhetorical Turn in International
Relations (East Lansing, Mich.: Michigan State University Press, 1996), 75-93.
"Beyond PC: The Ethics of Classroom Controversy," in Robert Ashmore and
William Starr, eds., Ethics Across the Curriculum (Milwaukee: Marquette
University Press, 1994), 32-46.
"The Owl of Minerva and the New World Order," in Raymie E. McKerrow, ed., Argument and the Postmodern Challenge (Annandale, Va.: Speech
Communication Association, 1993), 321-326.
"Cultures of Discourse: Marxism and Rhetorical Theory," in Michael Hazen and
David Cratis Williams, eds., Argumentation and the Rhetoric of Assent (University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1990), 157-172; reprinted
in John Lucaites, Celeste Condit, and Sally Caudill, eds., Contemporary
Rhetorical Theory (N.Y.: Guilford Press, 1999), 539-551.
"Rhetoric after Deconstruction," in Richard Cherwitz, ed., Rhetoric and Philosophy
Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1990), 253-272.
"Time, Place, and Space: Notes on the Decay of the Conservative Rhetorical
Idiom," in Bruce E. Gronbeck, ed., Spheres of Argument (Annandale, Va.:
Speech Communication Association, 1989), 211-215.
"Candor, Rhetoric, and Interpretation in the Federalist Papers," in Bruce E.
Gronbeck, ed., Spheres of Argument (Annandale, Va.: Speech Communication Association, 1989), 361-365.
"Public Address and Rhetorical Theory," in Michael C. Leff and Fred J. Kauffeld, eds., Texts in Context (Davis, Cal.: Hermagoras Press, 1989), 43-51.
"Theory and Practice/Marxism and Argument," in Joseph W. Wenzel, ed., Argument and Critical Practices (Annandale, Va.: Speech Communication Association, 1987), 69-74.
"Argument and Consciousness in Labor History: A Case Study of the Gastonia
Strike," in J. Robert Cox, ed., Argumentation and Social Practices (Annandale, Va.: Speech Communication Association, 1985), 84-93.
"A Phenomenology of Rhetorical Utterance," in Stanley Deetz, ed., Phenomenology
in Rhetoric and Communication (Washington, D.C.: Center for Advanced
Research in Phenomenology and University Press of America, 1981), 101-108.
Minor Publications
"The Argument from Evil in the Rhetoric of Reaction," Rhetoric & Public Affairs 6.3 2003) 518-522
“Rhetorical Incorrectness?” Journal of Ayn Rand Studies 4, 1 (2002): 231-234.
"Perspective by Incongruity," in Thomas O. Sloane, ed., The Encyclopedia of Rhetoric N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2001), 572-575.
"Rhetoric versus Philosophy, Yet Again: A Response to Clark and Corcoran," Rhetoric & Public Affairs 3, 4 (Winter 2000): 649-651.
"The Webpage and the Job Candidate: Another Fad?" American Communication Journal 2, 3 (May 1999): online journal available at http://www.americancomm.org/~aca.acj.acj.html
"Notes of a Middle-Aged Marxist," Critical Studies in Mass Communication (March 1996); 89-91.
Book Reviews
Rev. of Bryan Garsten, Saving Pesuasion, Philosophy and Rhetoric 41, 1 (2008): 94-99
Rev. of E. Armstrong, Ciceronian Sunburn, forthcoming Rhetoric & Public Affairs (2008)
Rev. of Joshua Gunn, Modern Occult Rhetoric, Quarterly Journal of Speech 93, 2
(May 2007); 240-243
Rev. of Donald Ellis, Crafting Society: Ethnicity, Class, and Communication Theory,
Review of Communication 2.2 (April 2002): 187-191
Rev. of George Cheney, Values at Work, Quarterly Journal of Speech (May 2002):
258-260.
Rev. of John Sloop and James McDaniel, Judgment Calls, Rhetoric & Public Affairs (Fall 1999): 507-510.
Rev. of Edward Schiappa, The Beginnings of Rhetorical Theory in Classical Greece,
American Communication Journal 3, 1 (October 1999): online journal
available at: http://acjournal.org/holdings/vol3/lss1/curtain.html
Rev. of Richard Gaskins, Burdens of Proof in Modern Discourse, Argumentation and
Advocacy (Fall 1995): 108-110.
Rev. of Martin Bernal, Black Athena, Quarterly Journal of Speech 79 (February 1993):
119-122.
Rev. of John Rodden, The Politics of Literary Reputation, Text and Performance
Quarterly 11 (October 1991): 341-343.
Rev. of Jacques Derrida, Glas, Quarterly Journal of Speech 75 (August 1989): 355-357.
Rev. of W.F. Haug, Critique of Commodity Aesthetics, Quarterly Journal of Speech 73
(August 1987): 387-388.
Rev. of Douglas Kellner, Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism, Quarterly
Journal of Speech 73 (February 1987): 127-128.
Rev. of Jonathan Culler, On Deconstruction, Quarterly Journal of Speech 71 (May
1985): 241-243.
Rev. of F.G. Bailey, The Tactical Uses of Passion, Quarterly Journal of Speech 70 (May
1984): 221.
Conference Papers
"Rhetoric and Anti-Rhetoric in Rousseau's Social Contract," paper presented at
Rhetoric Society of America biennial conference, May 2008, Seattle
“St. Paul, Badiou, and Agamben: The Immigrant and the Time of the Exception,”
paper presented at NCA/AFA Summer Argumentation Conference, Alta,
Utah, August 1-3, 2007
"Republican Rhetorical Culture and the French Historians' Debate," paper
presented at NCA annual convention, San Antonio, November 2006
"Rhetoric and Dialectic in Marxism," paper presented at NCA annual convention, Chicago,
November 2004
"Everything's Bigger In . . . .: The Topos of Amplification in the Texas Sublime,"paperpresented at NCA annual convention, Chicago, November 2004
"The Politics of Rhetorical Studies: A Piacular Rite," keynote address,
Association of Rhetoric Societies, Northwestern University, September
2003
"A Positive Economic Theory of Rhetorical Action," paper presented at the
Rhetoric Society of America convention, Las Vegas, May 2002
“The New ‘Country Party’: Civic Republicanism in Paleoconservative Rhetoric,”
paper presented at the National Communication Association annual
convention, Atlanta, November 2001
"What Bourdieu Can Teach Us About Hegemony in Organizations," paper
presented at the National Communication Association annual convention,
Seattle, November 2000
"Killing the Public: Roe v. Wade and Legal Liberalism," paper presented at the
National Communication Association annual convention, Chicago,
November 1999
"The St. Louis General Strike," paper presented at the join Central/Southern
States Communication Association convention, St. Louis, April 1999
"From Corax to Coase: Rhetoric in Law and Economics," paper presented at the
Law and Humanities Conference, Wake Forest University Law School,
March 1999
"The 150th Anniversary of The Communist Manifesto," paper presented at the
National Communication Association annual convention, New York City,
November 1998
"Hegemony, Ideographs, and Structuration: What We Know About Ideology
and Communication," Sharing the Wealth presentation, National
Communication Association annual convention, Chicago, November 1997
"Stories of the Wall: Black, Rehnquist, and Souter on the Establishment Clause,"
paper presented at the National Communication Association annual
convention, Chicago, November 1997
"From Corax to Coase: Some Reflections on the Positive Economic Analysis of
Rhetoric," paper presented at the National Communication Association
annual convention, Chicago, November 1997
"Catching the Third Wave: The Dialectic of Rhetoric and Technology," paper
presented at the National Communication Association annual convention,
San Diego, November 1996
"Perversity and Inevitability: The Loci of Capitalist Economic Arguments," paperpresented at the National Communication Association annual convention,
San Diego, November 1996
"Eloquence, Transparency, and the Origins of the Populist Style," paper
presented at the University of Illinois Public Address Conference,
September 1996
"Burdens of Proof in Minneapolis Star and Tribune Company v. Minnesota
Commissioner of Revenue," paper presented at the Central States
Communication Association Convention, St. Paul, Minnesota, April 1996
"Time, Place, and Cultural Studies: The Legacy of Raymond Williams," paper
presented at the Speech Communication Association annual convention,
San Antonio, November 1995
"Neo-Marxist Debate about the Fall of Communism," paper presented at the
Speech Communication Association annual convention, San Antonio,
Texas, November 1995
"On the Rhetorical Criticism of Judge Posner," paper presented at the Summer
Argumentation Conference, Alta, Utah, August 1995
"Rhetoric, Candor, and Constitutive Metaphors for Freedom of Speech: A
Reading of the Federalist," paper presented at the Speech Communication
Association annual convention, New Orleans, November 1994
"The Intersection of Rhetorical and Cultural Studies: A Response to Campbell,"
paper presented at the Public Address conference, Indiana University,
October 1994
"The Owl of Minerva and the New World Order," paper presented at the
Summer Argumentation Conference, Alta, Utah, August 1993
"Pornography, Rhetoric, and Civic Virtue," (with Lisa Bates) paper presented at
the Speech Communication Association annual convention, Chicago,
November 1992
"Rhetoric and Poetic in Richard Wright's Native Son," paper presented at the
Speech Communication Association annual convention, Chicago,
November 1992
"The New Left and the New Class," paper presented at the Speech
Communication Association annual convention, Atlanta, November 1991
"The Languages of Labor from Debs to Reagan," public lecture at the Humanities
Center, Drake University, April 4, 1991
"Black Athena and the Fabrication of the Rhetorical Tradition," paper presented at the Speech Communication Association annual convention, Chicago,
November 1990
"Ideological Freefall: The Response of the CPUSA to Glasnost," paper presented
at the Speech Communication Association convention, Chicago,
November 1990
"The Languages of Labor," paper presented at the Northwestern University
Public Address conference, September 1990
"Rhetoric after Deconstruction," paper presented at the Speech Communication
Association annual convention, San Francisco, November 1989
"Jim Jones and the Adversary Culture," paper presented at the Speech
Communication Association annual convention, New Orleans, November
1988
"Public Address and Rhetorical Theory," paper presented at the University of
Wisconsin Public Address conference, June 1988
"Lincoln and the American Sublime," paper presented at the joint Central
States/Southern States Communication Association convention, St. Louis,
April 1987
"Reading Emerson Until You Fall Asleep," public lecture at the University of
Iowa, July 1986
"Marxism, Rhetoric, and Cultural Studies," paper presented at the Central States
Speech Association Convention, Cincinnati, April 1986
"Marxism and Cultures of Discourse," public lecture at the University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill, October 1985
"Labor and Its Representations," paper presented at the Southern Speech
Communication Association annual convention, Winston-Salem, April
1985
"Marxism and Cultures of Discourse," paper presented at the Wake Forest
University Symposium on Argumentation, November 1984
"Marxism and Rhetorical Theory," public lecture at the University of Maryland,
May 1984
"Marx, Rawls, and Burke" (with Eric M. Gander), paper presented at the Burke
Conference, Temple University, April 1984
"Herbert Marcuse and Marxist Aesthetics," paper presented at the Speech
Communication Association annual convention, Washington, D.C.,
November 1983
"Deconstructing Habermas: Ideal Speech and the Problem of Writing," paper
presented at the Summer Argumentation conference, Alta, Utah, July 1983
"In the Shadow of Emerson: Native Son and the American Creed," paper
presented at the Speech Communication Association Regional Research
Seminar, Birmingham, Alabama, May 1983
"Burke's Late Blooming," paper presented at the Speech Communication
Association annual convention, Louisville, November 1982
"The Symbol and Social Reality," paper presented at the Southern Speech
Communication Association convention, Hot Springs, April 1982
"The Prospect of Rhetoric and the Burden of the Past," paper presented at the
Speech Communication Association annual convention, Anaheim,
November 1981
"Augustine, Rhetoric, and the Liturgy," paper presented at the Speech
Communication Association annual convention, San Antonio, November
1979
"The Problem of the Will in the History of Rhetorical Theory," paper presented at
the Speech Communication Association Doctoral Honors Seminar,
University of Michigan, March 1978.
Invited Lectures
"Sustaining a Scholarly Research Program," lecture at the Humanities Center,
University of Minnesota, Duluth, May 4, 2008
"The Federal Reserve Conspiracy and Globalization Narratives," lecture
presented at the Department of Communication Studies Colloquium
Series, Northwestern University, April 6, 2001
"Selling the Free Market," lecture at the Robert Penn Warren Humanities Center Seminar on Labor and the Humanities, Vanderbilt University, February
1999
"Catching the Third Wave," the Piersol Lecture, Southwest Texas State University, May 1997
"The Locus of Inevitability," the Pace Lecture, Southern Illinois University, May
1997
Other Conference Activity
Participant, Roundtable on Resistance to Globalization, National Communication
Association, Boston, November 2005
Participant, Roundtable on the Bill for Academic Freedom Movement, National
Communication Association Convention, Boston, 2005
Participant, Roundtable on Rhetoric in the Health of the Humanities, National
Communication Association Convention, Boston, 2005
Participant, Seminar on Communication as Humanistic Inquiry, National
Communication Association Convention, Boston, 2005
Critic, Panel on "Disembodied Voices and Bodies Sonorous," National
Communication Association Convention,, Boston 2005
Faculty Member, NCA Doctoral Honors Seminar, University of Oklahoma,
August 2005
Critic, Panel "Revisiting Economic Policy Debates of the Early Republic, "National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, November
2004
Participant, Program Celebrating the Scholarship of Deirdre McCloskey,
National Communication Annual Convention, Chicago, November 2004
Participant, Liberty Fund Seminar on Johannes Althusius, San Antonio,
September 2002
Critic, panel on "Globalization and Its Discontents," Rhetoric Society of America
convention, Las Vegas, May 2002
Participant, roundtable on "Teaching Rhetoric after 9/11," Rhetoric Society of
America convention, Las Vegas, May 2002
Participant, roundtable on communication scholars as political pundits, National
Communication Association convention, Atlanta, November 2001
Participant, roundtable on “Pressing Questions in Rhetorical Theory,” National
Communication Association convention, Atlanta, November 2001
Critic, panel on immigration policy rhetoric, National Communication
Association convention, Atlanta, November 2001
Participant, Liberty Fund Seminar on Property Rights, Indianapolis, October
2001
Participant, roundtable on the future of graduate education, Southern States
Communication Association convention, Louisville, April 2001
Participant, roundtable on recent Supreme Court free speech cases, Southern
States Communication Association convention, Louisville, April 2001
Critic, panel of "Top Three Student Division Papers," National Communication
Association convention, Seattle, November 2000
Participant, roundtable on Violence in the Media, NCA convention, Seattle,
November 2000
Honors Faculty, National Communication Association Doctoral Honors Seminar
in Rhetorical Studies, Northwestern University, August 2000
Participant, roundtable on Presidential apologia, Joint Central States/Southern
States Communication Association convention, St. Louis, April 1999
Critic, panel on "Class and the Environmental Movement," NCA convention,
New York City, November 1998
Critic, panel on "Labor Rhetoric," NCA convention, Chicago, November 1997
Critic, debut panel in Public Address, SCA convention, Chicago, November 1997
Critic, panel on "Issues in Rhetorical Theory," Central States Communication
Association convention, St. Paul, April 1996
Critic, debut panel in Public Address, SCA convention, New Orleans, November
1994
Critic, panel on "Ethical Criticism in and of 'The Communication Century,'" SCA
convention, Chicago, November 1992
Critic, panel on "Rhetorical Criticism of Film," SCA convention, November 1991
Critic, panel on "Bias and Objectivity in Television News," SCA convention,
Chicago, November 1990
Critic, panel on "Rhetoric of Radical Social Theory: Marx and Engels," SCA
convention, San Francisco, November 1989
Critic, panel on "Narrativity and Argument," SCA convention, Boston,
November 1987
Critic, panel on "Religion and Critical Theory," SCA convention, Denver,
November 1985
Seminar leader, "Contemporary European Philosophy and American Rhetorical Theory," CA convention, Washington, D.C., November 1983
Seminar leader, "The Four Master Tropes," Southern Speech Communication
Association convention, Orlando, April 1983
Coinstructor (with Raymie McKerrow and Charles Willard), Short Course on
Argumentation Theory, SCA convention, New York City, November 1980
Theses and Dissertations Directed
Doctoral Dissertations Directed: Ravi Malipeddi (2007); Joseph Bailey (2006);
Martin Carcasson, (2004 co-directed with Martin Medhurst); David Gore (2004);
Rebecca Bridges Watts (2003); Gillian Teubner (2003, co-directed with M. Scott
Poole; Yogita Sharma (in progress, co-directed with Linda Putnam); Denise
Jodlowski (in progress, co-directed with Barbara Sharf); Jeremiah Hickey (in
progress); Ryan Malphurs (in progress); Marisa Hill (in progress); Jay Hudkins
(in progress)
Dissertation Committee Member: David Bailey (Communication 2008); Julie
Groesch (English 2008); Jeremy Evans (Philosophy 2007); Jung-Sik Park (English
2006); David Pruett (English 2005); Steven Hill (RPTS, 2003); Georgia
Carmichael (in progress); Amber Burkett (Communication 2003);
MA Theses Directed: Paul Stob (2005); Sarah Jurk (2003); Katherine DeMaria
(1998); Lauren Sacks (1998) George Spatz (1999); Katherine L. Langford (2000)
Department and University Service at Texas A & M
Departmental service: Rhetoric and Women's Studies Search Committee, 2007-2007; 2008-2009; Telecommunication Search Committee, 2003; Graduate
Committee (2001-present); Curriculum Committee (2001-present); Tenure
and Promotion Committee (2001-present); Colloquium Director (1996-
2000; 2007-present); Tenure and Promotion Committee (1996-2000);
Graduate Committee (1997-2000)
University service: College of Liberal Arts Journalism Department Review
Commitee (2003); College of Liberal Arts Curriculum Committee (2001-
present); Academic Standards Committee, College of Liberal Arts (1997-
2000; Chair, 1998-1999); Faculty Senator (1997-2000; 2005-present);
Chair, ad hoc subcommittee to develop administrative leave guidelines
(1999); Personnel and Welfare Committee (1998-1999); Planning
Committee (1999-2000); Review Panel, Scholarly and Creative Activities
Grants (1999-2000)
Professional Service
Editor, Free Speech Yearbook, 2005-2008
Associate Editor, Management Communication Quarterly, 2002-present
Associate Editor, Philosophy and Rhetoric, 2003-present
Associate Editor, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 1998-2008
Associate Editor, Communication Theory, 2002-present
Associate Editor, Journal of Communication and Religion, 2001-2003
Book Review Editor, Argumentation and Advocacy, 1997-2000
Associate Editor, Communication Studies, 1995-1998; 2002-2005
Associate Editor, Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1990-1992; 2001-present
Board of Directors, Rhetoric Society of America, 2002-2007
Member, National Communication Association Dissertation Award Committee, 2002
Chair, National Communication Association Diamond Anniversary Book Award
Commitee, 2005
Chair, National Communication Association Dissertation Award Committee,
2003
Member, Nominating Committee, Rhetoric Society of America, 2001-
Chair, Ehninger Award Committee, National Communication Association, 1999
Member, Ehninger Award Committee, NCA, 1997-1998
Chair, Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division of NCA, 1999
Vice-chair and Program Planner, Rhetorical and Communication Theory
Division of NCA, 1998
Legislative Council, NCA, 1998-2000
Nominating Committee, NCA, 1999-2000
Manuscript reviewer for University of Illinois Press, University of Alabama Press, University of Hawaii Press, Michigan State University Press, Westview Press, Penn State University Press
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