Resume

• 2002

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

  Communication and Rhetoric

  The University of Texas at Austin

  Moody College of Communication

• 1999

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

  Communication and Media Studies

  Phi Beta Kappa \nLambda Pi Eta

  Macalester College

  summa cum laude

• 1998

  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