Education
PhD | Communication Studies, University of Minnesota |
BA | Communication, Macalester College |
Selected Publications
The Public Image: Photography and Civic Spectatorship, co-authored with John Louis Lucaites (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016)
Culture, Catastrophe, and Rhetoric: The Texture of Political Action, co-edited with Ralph Cintron, Studies in Rhetoric Culture, vol. 7 (New York: Berghahn Books, 2015)
No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy, co-authored with John Louis Lucaites (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007)
Prudence: Classical Virtue, Postmodern Practice, edited volume, (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003)
Post-Realism: The Rhetorical Turn in International Relations, co-edited with Francis A. Beer (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1996)
Political Style: The Artistry of Power (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995)
Popular Trials: Rhetoric, Mass Media, and the Law, edited volume (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1990)
“Finding the Yes in No: Persistence, Astonishment, Resonance, and Abundance in Ivo’s World,” Anthropology as Homage: Festschrift for Ivo Strecker, ed. Felix Girke, Sophia Thubauville, and Wolbert Smidt, (Cologne: Rüdiger KöppeVerlang, 2018), 189-198
“Image Appropriation and the Co-production of Meaning,” with John Louis Lucaites, in Rhetorical Audience Studies and Reception of Rhetoric: Exploring Audiences Empirically, ed. Jens E. Kjeldsen (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2018), 285-308
“Love in the Ruins? Or, Photography’s Radical Promise,” Explorations in Media Ecology 17 (2018): 491-497
“Predicting the Present: Iconic Photographs and Public Culture in the Digital Media Environment,” with John Louis Lucaites, Journalism & Communication Monographs 20 (2018): 318-324
“Public Culture,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication, ed. Jon Nussbaum (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), http://communication.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.001.0001/acrefore-9780190228613-e-32
“Photography: The Abundant Art,” with John Louis Lucaites, Photography and Culture 9 (2016): 39-58
“What is a Chiasmus? Or, Why the Abyss Stares Back,” in Chiasmus and Culture, ed. Boris Wiseman and Anthony Paul (New York: Berghahn Books, 2014), 45-68
“Political Parody and Public Culture,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 94.3 (2008): 247-272
“Allegory and Democratic Public Culture in the Postmodern Era,” Philosophy and Rhetoric 35 (2002): 267-296
Courses
- 294 The Public Image
- 310 Rhetoric, Democracy, and Empire in Classical Athens
- 404 Classical Rhetoric and Its Afterlives
- 412 Modern Rhetorical Theory
- 453 Visual Rhetoric