University of Pittsburgh - Communication
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Communication and Rhetoric
The University of Texas at Austin
Moody College of Communication
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
Communication and Media Studies
Phi Beta Kappa \nLambda Pi Eta
Macalester College
summa cum laude
National Communication Association
English
Spanish
German
Swedish
Latin and Classics
University of Gothenburg
Rhetorical Criticism
Political Communication
Academic Advising
Digital Rhetoric
Writing
Text Editing
Critical Thinking
Immigration Debates
Curriculum Innovation
Visual Rhetoric
Higher Education
Professional Communication
Critical Reading
Public Address
Public Expertise
Rhetorical Analysis
Political Theory
Strategic Communication
University Teaching
Public Speaking
“‘Leave a Message of Hope or Tribute’: Digital Memorializing as Public Deliberation”
The National September 11 Memorial and Museum is at once a physical site in Lower Manhattan and a digital space for public deliberation and memorializing. I examine the construction of public memory on memorial websites in order to explicate the impact on deliberation of a paradigmatic skifl toward publicity. First
I locale memory and online authorship as distinct
but confluent
processes in the context of a productive dialectic. Both are constituted by
on one hand
the assertion of personal experience through singular authorship
and
on the other
the subversion or subordination of individuality to collective experience and production. Online memorializing reflects a culture in which meaningful experiences are found in public. Fashioning ourselves as publicly knowable subjects
we authenticate our experiences. Moreover
in publicizing our memories in virtual forums
we use them as resources for rhetorical invention in the practice of online deliberation.
“‘Leave a Message of Hope or Tribute’: Digital Memorializing as Public Deliberation”
“Face-ing Immigration: Prosopopeia and the ‘Muslim-Arab-Middle Eastern’ Other\"
This essay complements and complicates research on immigration discourse by intersecting two\npost-humanist understandings of ‘‘face.’’ Analyzing post-9=11 news media’s enfacements of the\n‘‘Muslim-Arab-Middle Eastern immigrant
’’ I employ the works of Paul de Man and Emmanuel\nLevinas to explicate
on one hand
the inscription of subjectivity onto alterity
and
on the other
the\nslippage of this inscription. I demonstrate that figurations of immigrants rely on the tandem\nrhetorical operations of apostrophe and prosopopeia
the giving of voice and face. Public rhetorics\nimpose a mask
an intelligible signifier onto the unknowable Other. Inevitably
however
alterity\nspeaks
and ‘‘face’’ in another sense breaks through; the mask that mediates immigrants in public\nculture is exceeded. The essay concludes with implications for a posthumanist immigration ethics
\nnot motivated by a personal commitment to the Other
but discoverable in the Leviansian\nconversation and the ‘‘experience’’ of exposedness.
“Face-ing Immigration: Prosopopeia and the ‘Muslim-Arab-Middle Eastern’ Other\"
“Wikipedia and the Emergence of Dialogic Expertise”
Wikipedia’s popularity as an online encyclopedia calls attention to fundamental\nassumptions about the management and dissemination of information. Drawing on a\nBakhtinian framework
this article posits a model of dialogic expertise. Specifically
it\nargues that
by facilitating an ongoing chain of interdependent and multivocal ‘‘utterances
’’\nWikipedia challenges traditional ‘‘monologic’’ expertise. Nonetheless
the site’s\npurportedly democratic defiance of knowledge elites (of encyclopedic publishing
\nacademe
etc.) is compromised by the establishment of a ‘‘technocratic’’ hierarchy. Implications\nextend to the scholarly debate surrounding dialogue and rhetoric and to our\nunderstanding of Wikipedia’s success in the context of a cultural anxiety—Americans\nare at once dependent on an extensive system of experts and uneasy about the deferential\ndistribution of power within that system.
“Wikipedia and the Emergence of Dialogic Expertise”
Sentimentalism in Online Deliberation: Assessing the Generic Liability of Immigration Discourses
Analyzing the video archive of personal narratives curated by the Where Are You From? project
the author argues that public immigration discourses are conditioned by sentimentalism. Two effects of this generic conditioning are explicated. First
through the displacement of attention from a conflicted present to an imagined past
Americans may commemorate mythic immigrants while passing anti-immigration laws. Second
sentimentalism transposes immigration from a potentially deliberative to a perennially epideictic register. The author’s first implication is a rationale for generic awareness. If and when the only genre in which the public is able or willing to engage the subject of immigration is sentimentalism
moderating this impulse is prudent. A second implication pertains to the genre’s impact on spaces that are conceived and celebrated for public engagement.
Sentimentalism in Online Deliberation: Assessing the Generic Liability of Immigration Discourses
The Rhetoric of Expertise
Reliance on expertise has become so commonplace in American culture that it is virtually impossible to avoid. Relying on expertise is one way we delegate the contents of our busy lives and defer to authority in the interest of being efficient. In The Rhetoric of Expertise
E. Johanna Hartelius investigates how expertise is negotiated as a function of the rhetorical situation
its participants and constraints. Specifically
she asks: What rhetorical strategies do different groups employ to compete for expert authority and legitimacy when they conflict with one another? Each chapter focuses on a particular context-politics
history
medicine
and information. By demonstrating that expertise is managed through argumentation
The Rhetoric of Expertise informs a number of practical issues: how the nation's political world is run
why some forms of medical expertise are deemed credible while others are derided
what the differences are between historical scholarship and the memory of lived experience
and why new information producers are causing such a stir.
The Rhetoric of Expertise
Among immigrant rights activists
journalists
and scholars the term\n“undocumented” has gained support as an alternative to the\ncriminalizing and dehumanizing “illegal.” By contrast
this essay\ncritiques so-called DREAMers’ articulation of an “undocumented”\nsubjectivity
arguing that the term
invoking a Weberian\nbureaucracy
undermines activists’ cooptive intent and subversive\nagenda. To be undocumented in what Robert Hariman calls “a\npolity of offices
” which privileges the written text
is to be both\nunintelligible and powerless. These constraints
however
may be\ncircumvented by the use of web-text for mobilization
recruitment
\nand networking. Informed by Gregory Ulmer’s notion of\n“electracy
” I posit web-text as transitional
potentially capable of\ncontesting the authority of the bureaucracy.
“‘Undocumented and Unafraid’: Challenging the Bureaucratic Paradigm\"
The Rhetorics of US Immigration: Identity
Community
Otherness
In the current geopolitical climate—in which unaccompanied children cross the border in record numbers
and debates on the topic swing violently from pole to pole—the subject of immigration demands innovative inquiry. In The Rhetorics of US Immigration
some of the most prominent and prolific scholars in immigration studies come together to discuss the many facets of immigration rhetoric in the United States.\n\nThe Rhetorics of US Immigration provides readers with an integrated sense of the rhetorical multiplicity circulating among and about immigrants. Whereas extant literature on immigration rhetoric tends to focus on the media
this work extends the conversation to the immigrants themselves
among others. A collection whose own eclecticism highlights the complexity of the issue
The Rhetorics of US Immigration is not only a study in the language of immigration but also a frank discussion of who is doing the talking and what it means for the future.\n\nFrom questions of activism
authority
and citizenship to the influence of Hollywood
the LGBTQ community
and the church
The Rhetorics of US Immigration considers the myriad venues in which the American immigration question emerges—and the interpretive framework suited to account for it.\n\nAlong with the editor
the contributors are Claudia Anguiano
Karma R. Chávez
Terence Check
Jay P. Childers
J. David Cisneros
Lisa M. Corrigan
D. Robert DeChaine
Anne Teresa Demo
Dina Gavrilos
Emily Ironside
Christine Jasken
Yazmin Lazcano-Pry
Michael Lechuga
and Alessandra B. Von Burg.
The Rhetorics of US Immigration: Identity
Community
Otherness
On November 9
2015 I served as a deliberation facilitator during a meeting at the University of Pittsburgh that convened 40 patients
clinicians
and health system leaders from Johns Hopkins University
Pennsylvania State University
Temple University
the University of Utah
the Geisinger Health System
and Pitt. Sponsored by the PaTH Network
the event served to prioritize a set of research topics for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to explore. As an expert on public deliberation processes
particularly in the context of varying levels of specialized knowledge and experience
my task was to facilitate productive dialogue among stakeholders with radically different viewpoints. The event was a success
and resulted in a report to the National Academy of Medicine in January 2016. The eventual outcome will be another deliberative event in Washington
D.C. identifying future funding policies for PCORI. \n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZr-bOARyh8\n\nOn April 7
2016 during the Humanities in Health Conference
sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Honors College
The Year of the Humanities initiative
and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
I presented findings during a panel titled “Health Deliberation and Stakeholder Engagement” with other scholars and professionals from the event. The topics of my presentation: experts and nonexperts in the context of medical research
the functions of narrative in deliberative models
and small group facilitation during deliberation. \n\nThe PaTH network is one of eleven Clinical Data Research Networks (CDRNs). The CDRNs are funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI
an independent nonprofit
nongovernmental organization
which was authorized by Congress in 2010)
to develop the capacity to conduct research for improving patient-centered care in real-world patient populations.
Hartelius (Ph.D.)
Johanna
Hartelius (Ph.D.)
The University of Texas at Austin - Moody College of Communication
Northern Illinois University
The University of Texas at Austin
McCombs School of Business
The University of Texas at Austin
University of Pitt
University of Pittsburgh
University of Texas at Austin
Pittsburgh
At the graduate level I teach a seminar in Rhetorical Criticism
which trains scholars in multiple methods of textual and cultural analysis
and a seminar in Digital Rhetoric
which surveys network culture and communication using classical and modern rhetorical theory. I also advise doctoral and master's students on independent research and professionalization. The Pitt graduate program in Rhetoric and Communication is a top-tier program in quality and job placement.\n\nAt the undergraduate level I teach courses in Rhetoric and Public Memory
Political Communication
and the Rhetorical Process
which is a survey course in the cultural and civic functions of public communication. For this large lecture class
I teach a unique honors level Recitation (or small-group supplement) in which students develop independent research projects
allowing them to pursue engaged professional
intellectual
and personal commitments and goals.C
Assistant Professor
University of Pittsburgh
University of Pitt
Associate Professor
University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin - Moody College of Communication
Taught undergraduate seminars in Speechmaking and Society
Professional Communication Skills
and Interviewing Principles and Practices
Assistant Instructor
Austin
Texas Area
Intellectual Entrepreneurship Consortium
Lead campus-wide engagement program facilitating credit-based mentoring relationships between undergraduate and graduate students; expanded enrollment from 12 to 120 per semester; coordinated departments and colleges\nhttps://moody.utexas.edu/ie
Director of the Pre-Graduate School Internship
The University of Texas at Austin
DeKalb
IL
Taught graduate seminars in Rhetorical Criticism and Classical Rhetorical Theory\n\nTaught undergraduate seminars and lecture courses in Argumentation and Debate (25 students per section)
and Freedom of Speech and Communication Ethics (30 students per section)\n\nDeveloped and delivered undergraduate online course in Freedom of Speech and Communication Ethics\n\nAwarded Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor (December 2012)
Assistant Professor
Northern Illinois University
Lead advanced communication skills module for incoming MBA students\n\nProvided one-on-one coaching for MBA students in professional communication skills \n\nInstructor
McCombs Academy for Future Executives (2006)\nLead basic communication skills module for underprivileged high school students of central Texas
McCombs School of Business
The University of Texas at Austin
Associate Pro
Pitt
University of Pitt