Gerri E. McCulloh
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- School: New Mexico State University
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Las Cruces, NM - 88003 - Dates at New Mexico State University: March 2016 - August 2018
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Biography
New Mexico State University - English
Sustainability Discourse; Tech &Scientific Com; Business & Prof. Com; Rhetoric & Composition; Media Ecology, CommJourn
Gerri Elise
McCulloh, PhD
Las Cruces, New Mexico
DISSERTATION ABSTRACT
TOWARD AN ACOUSTIC RHETORIC: VITAL MATERIALISM’S DIFFRACTIONS
Doctor of Philosophy
New Mexico State University
We live our lives in what Pythagoras recognized as acoustic fields. Waves of material-discursive diffractions are our surround. Posthumanist, feminist and new materialist science from quantum physics (Karen Barad), material-semiotics (Donna Haraway), and microbiology (Myra J. Hird), challenge Western epistemologies, including objectivism’s representationalism, human-centered interpretations, and fixed ontologies. Pythagorean and feminist materialist science intra-act to unmoor patriarchal assumptions offering acoustic entrance into complexities born in nonlinearity. Objectivism’s totalizing narratives limit complex entangled nonlinear histories and meaning making, which are the organizing principles of a living planet. Matriarchal organizing principles destabilize Western ideologies so complex conversations emerge. Ideals from Golden Age philosophers are challenged to reengage rich acoustic diffractions toward more harmonic entanglements. Kairos, Logos, and Chora act as palimpsests offering moving frameworks to argue matter’s diffractions initiate acoustic rhetoric. Matter is not inert, but diffracts in relational waves. Classical rhetoric, composition, philosophy of science, rhetoric of science, feminist rhetoric, indigenous studies, cultural studies, critical identity theories, and management studies are enriched and informed by acoustic material approaches. Pythagoras’ philosophy did not endorse knowledge as an object. Instead he engaged kairos and intra-active wisdom through matter’s acoustic tones. Timespacematter’s acoustic manifold destabilizes assumptions to rework time, histories, logics, identity, and entanglements of place through fluid acoustic relations. Discernment through echo-locution navigates affinity, alterity, multiplicity, fluidity and tone to engage acoustic performances of matter and discourse ethically.
Experience
Education
New Mexico State University
MA: Communication Studies: Minor- Government
New Mexico State University
PhD
Rhetoric and Prof Comm: Minor- Business Management
Title: TOWARD AN ACOUSTIC RHETORIC: VITAL MATERIALISM'S DIFFRACTIONSNew Mexico State University
Instructor: Environ Discourse; Tech & Scientific Comm; Bus & Prof Comm; Doc Film; Rhetoric & Comp.
I teach rhetoric and composition across the disciplines at New Mexico State University. I have special training with QUALTY MATTERS for online course improvement. I have extensive experience in curriculum development with attention to objectives and scaffolding of assignments for student success. My minor is in Business Management and I have worked with the internationally recognized scholar, Dr. David M. Boje on narrative and story in institutions for nearly a decade. I am currently designing classes in: History of Rhetoric Rhetoric of Science Rhetoric and Composition of Identity Processes Environmental Discourse: Rhetoric and Literacy of the Anthropocene (Assigned for Fall 2016) Courses currently or recently taught: Technical and Scientific Communication Business and Professional Communication Documentary Film Rhetoric and Composition My Publications include: McCulloh, G. E. (2016) "Songs of the pika and others at the Bighorn Medicine Wheel" In Tribal Wisdom for Business Ethics. Edited by Grace Ann Rosile. Bangles, UK: Emerald Publishing. McCulloh, G. E. (2014) "Summoning KAIROS: Atavistic Processes in Quantum Adaptive Rhetoric." In Being Quantum: Ontological Storytelling in the Age of Antenarrative. Edited by David M. Boje and Tonya L. Henderson. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Hacker, Coombs, Weaver, & McCulloh, (2006). “Possible use of blogs and Computer-Mediated- Communication (CMC) for depolarizing political discourse.” Online Journal of Intelligence: Community Research and Development, (classified journal). Available at http://web.nmsu.edu/~comstudy/ICAJUNE2006.PDF My dissertation title: TOWARD AN ACOUSTIC RHETORIC: VITAL MATERIALISM’S DIFFRACTIONS (2015)
