Joshua Abboud, first year
jmabboud@gmail.com

• B.A. Media Arts, Brigham Young U
• M.A. Media Arts, U of Arizona

Interests: Genre theory and narrative structure; spaces of media production, consumption and education; images of fathers and fatherhood in media; representations of childhood; children's interactive television; documentary film and visual ethnography.

Amanda K. Booher, third year
abooher@clemson.edu
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• B.A. English & Music, Case Western Reserve U
Minors: Psychology & Women's Studies
• M.A. English, Case Western Reserve U

Interests: Medical Rhetorics, Bodies, Gender, Bioethics, Identity, Media/Mass Communication, Boundary Crossing, Critical/Post-modern Theory

Publication: with Robert Biscup and Vinod Podichetty. "History of Spinal Fusion Surgery." Spinal Arthroplasty: The Preservation of Motion. Vaccaro AR, Papadopoulos S, Traynelis VC, Haid RW, Sasso RC, eds. Philadelphia: Saunders Elsevier, 2007. 21-35.

Presentations: "Simulation of Healing: Baudrillard and the Medicalized Body in House." 2006 National Communication Association Annual Convention. San Antonio, November 2006.

"Evaluating the Site of Entertainment: Student Section Papers in Rhetoric and Media," Panel Respondent. National Communication Association Annual Convention, 2006, San Antonio, TX.

"Writing the Prosthetic Body: Sampling and Remixing Constructions of Flesh and Technology." Research Network Forum, CCCC. March 2007, NYC.

"Perspectives on Information Design: Expanding the User Experience Design," Pop Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference. Boston, March 2007.

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Dev Kumar Bose, second year
dbose@clemson.edu

• B.A. English Education, emphasis in 20th Century American Literature, California State U, Long Beach: 2003.
• M.A. English: emphasis in Rhetoric and Composition, California State U, Long Beach: 2006.

Interests: Rhetorics of Surveillance and Political Ideologies, French Postmodernism, Marxist Theory and Criticism, Dominant Rhetorics of English Literatures

Alicyn Butler, second year
alicynb@clemson.edu

• B.A. Communication (Public Relations), U of Maryland, College Park
• M.A. Advertising, U of Texas, Austin

Interests: Entertainment Public Relations, Popular Culture Studies, Identity, Self-Esteem Development, Rhetorics of Fashion, Eating Disorders and Other Addictions, Public Service Announcements, University Relations, Pedagogy

Michelle Dacus Carr, second year
mdacus@clemson.edu

• BA English/Mass Communications, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA
• MFA Creative Writing (Poetry), Cornell U, Ithaca NY
• Northwestern University, ABD, Doctoral Program in Performance Studies, 1990-95; Admitted to candidacy, 1992

Interests: Creative Writing, Composition, the Humanities, Across the Curriculum Programs, Racial Rhetorics

Presentation: "WAC @ the HBCU: I," NCTE, November, 2006, Nashville, TN.

"WAC @ the HBCU: II," 6th Annual WAC Conference, May, 2006, Clemson U, SC.

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John Dinolfo, third year
dinolfo@clemson.edu

• B.A. English, Honors Program, Villanova U
• M.A. English and Writing, Florida State U

Interests: Medical rhetorics. Visual communication and information design in biomedicine and healthcare. Writing across the curriculum and within the disciplines. Technical communication in the health professions. Medical humanities. Rhetorics of cross-cultural dialogue between the biomedical sciences and religion.

Selected publications: Chapter in book, "Seeing and Re-Viewing the Human Body: Reflections on the Rhetorics of Medical Videography." In Rhetoric of Healthcare: Essays Toward a New Disciplinary Inquiry. Eds., Barbara Heifferon and Stuart Brown. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton P, 2008.

Article in journal: with Barbara Heifferon & Lesly Temesvari. "Seeing Cells: Teaching the Visual and Verbal Rhetoric of Biology. " Journal of Technical Writing an d Communication 37.4 (2007): 395-417.

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Sergio C. Figueiredo, first year
sfiguei@clemson.edu

• B.A. English, Rowan U
• M.A. English (Composition/Rhetoric), Marshall U

Interests: Visual Rhetorics and Self-representation Online; Rhetorics of Violence; Critical Pedagogies; Political Communication; Sports communication; Scientific and Technical Communication; Rhetorical Theories

Alicia Hatter, first year
ahatter@clemson.edu

• B.A. English; Minors: Psychology, Creative Writing (Fiction); College of Charleston
• M.A. Literary Studies; Concentration: Rhetoric and Composition; Georgia State U

Interests: Usability Theory, User-Centered Design, Technical Communication, Literary Criticism, Writing Center Studies

Jason Helms, second year
jmhelms@clemson.edu
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• B.S. Biology (Pre-Medicine); Minors: Theological Studies; English Literature; Master's College
• M.A. Literature (English); San Francisco State U

Interests: Rhetorics of Metatextuality (and vice-versa), Mechanical Reproduction and Identity, Classical Studies/Linguistics, Popular Culture, Graphic Novels, HTML, Film Theory

Presentation: "Mockt with Art: Readerial Transience and Authorial Immortality in Macbeth and Metamorphses," Part of the 'Gendering Humanism: Public and Private Selves in English Renaissance Literature' delivered to the Renaissance Society of America, San Francisco, March 25, 2006.

Publication: "Mockt with Art: Readerial Transience and Authorial Immortality in Macbeth and Metamorphses," Interpretations (Spring 2005).

Joshua C. Hilst, second year
jhilst@clemson.edu

• B.A. English (Magna Cum Laude), The Master's College; Minor in Theology
• M.A. English (Rhetoric & Composition), The Ohio State U

Interests: Composition theories; Rhetorical theories; Rhetorics of space and practice, and of the University; Graphic Novels; Film Theories

Justin Hodgson, third year
jhodgso@clemson.edu

• B.A. English: Creative Writing, Illinois College
• M.A. English: Teaching of Writing, Southern Illinois U, Edwardsville

Interests: Rhetorical Invention; Electronic Discourses; Critical and Cultural Studies; Visual Rhetorics; Multimedia Authoring; Digital Pedagogy and Learning Environments

Presentations: "Unfoundings: Going back to Move Forward." Research Network Forum, CCCC, NYC, 2007.

"Perspectives on Information Design: Expanding the User Experience Design." Annual PCA.ACA Conference, 2007.

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Xiaoli Li , third year
xiaoli@clemson.edu
Home, with CV

• B.A. English Language & Culture, Xian International Studies U, Xi'an, China
• M.A. English with a Scientific & Technical Communications emphasis, Bowling Green State U

Interests: Intercultural Communication, Professional Communication Pedagogy, Online Writing Environments and Styles, Information Design (not in any particular order)

Publications: "Collaborative Learning with Computer Technology in Business Communication Class," the ABC Tampa Conference Proceedings, 2006

"Living and Working in China: Understanding Communication Requirements," the STC's 48th Annual Conference Proceedings, 2001.

Presentations: "What Does a Localized Technical Communication Program in China Look Like," CCCC, Research Network Forum, March 2007, NYC.

"Perspectives on Information Design: Expanding User Experience Design," Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations, April 2007, Boston, Massachusetts.

"Assessing Students' Service-Learning Projects," 28th Association for Integrative Studies National Conference, October 2006, Atlanta, Georgia

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Mac McArthur, third year
jamcart@clemson.edu
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• B.S. Psychology & Religion, Furman U
• M.Ed. Higher Education Administration, U of South Carolina

Interests: Instructional Communication and Pedagogy, Issues in Space & Proxemics, User-Experience Design, Media & Popular Culture Studies

Selected publications: Rev. of Blogging for your Business (Byron & Broback, 2006) in Business Communication Quarterly. (September 2007).

"Composing Podcasts: Engaging 'digital natives' in the communication
classroom." Communication Teacher (2008, forthcoming).

"Digital Subculture: A geek meaning of style." Journal of Communication Inquiry (2009, January, forthcoming).

Presentations: "Orality: The Spoken Word, Panel Participant: Perspectives on Information Design: Expanding User Experience Design." Pop Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference. March 2007. Boston, MA.

"Instructional Proxemics." Work-in-Progress Presentation at the Research Network Forum, CCCC, March, 2007, NYC.

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Keith Morton, second year
keithm@clemson.edu

• B.A. Cinema and Photography, Southern Illinois U at Carbondale
• M.A. Communication Studies, U of Missouri at St. Louis

Interests: Film Theory, Children's Rhetorics, Cultural Studies, Video Game Criticism, and Disability Studies

Randy Nichols, first year
randyn@clemson.edu

• B.A. Pastoral Ministries (Bible & Theology): Southeastern U, Lakeland, FL.
• M.A. English Literature, Rutgers U, Newark, NJ.

Interests: Theatrical marginalization as an instrument of "re-education" and intellectual colonization; The "Christ-haunted" in literature, television and film; African-American male literary characters as figures of blues, jazz, and beyond.

Presentation: "Handling Dissonance in Writing Center Sessions." Southeastern Writing Center Association 2007 Conference, February 2007, Nashville, Tennessee.

Barbara J. Ramirez, second year
bjram@clemson.edu

• B.A., English Education, Clemson U
• M.A., Literature, Clemson U

Interests: The Rhetorics of Studio Space as it translates Across the Disciplines

Steven John Thompson, second year
stevent@clemson.edu

• B.A., Integrative Arts, New Media, with Honors in Media Studies and High Distinction, 1997, The Pennsylvania State U
• B.A., Media Studies--International Communication, with Honors and High Distinction, 1997
• Certificate, Minor in Science, Technology and Society (STS), College of Engineering, 1997
• A.A., Letters, Arts and Sciences, 1988
• Certificate, The Mass Media in Britain, 1995, The U of Manchester, UK
• M.S., Media Arts and Science, Indiana U, School of Informatics, New Media Program, 2004

Interests: Chaos Theory and Fractal Geometries, Ethics, Globalization, Iconicology, Media Iconics, New Media Informatics, Performance Aesthetics, Philosophy of STS, Online Rhetorics, Virtual Warfare, and Visual Rhetorics.

Presentations: "Bastard Media: New Media, Obscenity, and Public Access," presented at the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies Humanities Symposium at the U of Iowa, 2007.

"Internet Connectivity: Addiction and Dependency Study," presented at the Ronald McNair Conference of The State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, 1996.

"Iraqonics: Positing Media Iconics and Semiotics as Weapons on
Western Consciousness." International Conference on
Interdisciplinary Analyses of Aggression and Terrorism at the University of
Madrid, Spain, 2007.

Publication: Rev. of The Handbook of Visual Communication: Theory, Methods, and Media by Ken Smith, Sandra Moriarty, Gretchen Barbatsis, and Keith Kenney. Business Communication Quarterly (forthcoming 2007).

"Fearful Symmetries." Artciencia.com, Portfolio, Ano II, Numero 4. Agosto-Outubro, 2006. ISSN 1646-3463.

"Internet Connectivity: Addiction and Dependency Study." Penn State McNair Journal, 1996.

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Josephine Walwema, first year
jwalwem@clemson.edu

• B.A. Educ. English and Literature, Makerere U, Uganda
• M.Ed. Teaching English and Literature, Makerere U
• M.A. Rhetoric and Writing, U of New Mexico

Interests: Information Design, Instructional Design, Visual Rhetorics, Technical Writing and Editing, Classical Rhetorical Theory, and Communication.

Lin Wang, first year
Linw@clemson.edu

• B.A. Broadcasting and Television Science, Dalian U of Technology, P. R. China
• M.A. Philosophy, Dalian U of Technology, P. R. China

Interests: Media ethics; Marxist philosophy; Virtual community; Law, Order, and Conflicts in MMOG.

Mark Ward, Sr., first year
mlward@clemson.edu

• B.A. English Language and Literature, U of Virginia
• M.A. Communication, Spring Arbor U

Interests: Communication Theory, Intercultural Communication, Cultural Models/Cognitive Anthropology, Speech Codes/Ethnographies of Speech, Holocaust Studies, Leadership Studies, Media History, Religion and Media, Professional Writing

Selected Publications: Music in the Air: The Golden Age of Gospel Radio. Greenville, SC: Ambassador International, 2005.

Air of Salvation: The Story of Christian Broadcasting. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1994.

"The Banality of Culture? Reassessing the Social Science of the Goldhagen Thesis on Its Own Terms." Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History. In press, 2008.

"The Banality of Rhetoric? Assessing Steven Katz's 'The Ethic of Expediency' against Current Scholarship on the Holocaust." Journal of Technical Writing and Communication. In press, 2008.

"The Banality of Culture? (Part 2) Recovering Nazi-era Cultural Models through Discourse Analysis of 'Ordinary German' Autobiographies." Manuscript submitted for publication.

"The Banality of Culture? (Part 3) Ordinary Men, Ordinary Germans, 'Ordinary Communicators.' " Manuscript submitted for publication.

Presentations: "Becoming an Effective Communicator," Faculty In-Service Training for Eucon International College, July 31-August 4, 2006, Saipan, MP.

"Teaching Broadcast History in the Age of New Media," South Carolina Broadcast Educators Conference, January 17, 2003, Columbia, SC.

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Jake Wood, second year
wood5@clemson.edu

• B.A. Humanities, Bob Jones U
• M.A. English Literature, Bob Jones U

Interests: Rhetorical Criticism, The History of Rhetoric, J.R.R. Tolkien, Film Criticism, Philosophy

Dan Wu, first year
dwu@Clemson.edu

• B.A. English Language & Culture, Xi'an International Studies U, P.R. China
• M.A. Scientific & Technical Communication, Bowling Green State U

Interests: Technical & business communication and pedagogy; English/Chinese translation studies; inter-cultural communication; new media cultures.

Stephanie Barczewski
Professor of History
sbarcze@clemson.edu

Sample Publications:
• Myth and National Identity in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Legends of King Arthur and Robin Hood. Oxford UP, 2000.
• Titanic: A Night Remembered. Hambledon Continuum, 2004.

Interests: Modern British Cultural History

Andrew C. Billings
Associate Professor
Dept. of Communication Studies
acbilng@clemson.edu
home page

Sample publication:
• Billings, A.C. & Eastman, S.T. "Framing identities: Gender, ethnic, and national parity in network announcing of the 2002 Winter Olympics." Journal of Communication 53.4 (2003): 369-386.

Interests: Mass media content and effects, sport, gender, ethnicity, nationality, television promotion, popular culture

Bryan E. Denham
Associate Professor
Department of Communication Studies
bdenham@clemson.edu
home page

Sample publication:
• "Advanced categorical statistics: Issues and applications in communication research." Journal of Communication 52.1 (2002): 162-76.

Interests: Empirical research methods, political and sports communication, media ethics, public opinon, and public policy formation

Andrea Feeser
Associate Professor
Department of Art
afeeser@clemson.edu
home page

Sample Publications:
• Waikiki: A History of Forgetting and Remembering, with artist Gaye Chan,. U of Hawaii P, 2006.
• Public Art Project with Gaye Chan: Historic Waikiki at www.downwindproductions.com.

Interests: Modern and contemporary art history, theory, and criticism, history of place as represented in visual and material culture

Keith Evan Green
Associate Professor of Architecture
Director, Architectural Materials and Systems Research Unit (AM&S Research)
kegreen@clemson.edu
Home

Sample Publications:
• Green, K. E., Gugerty, L., Walker, I, and Witte, J. (2006). "Three Robot-Rooms / The AWE Project." Proceedings of 2006 CHI (Montreal, Canada): 809-814.
• Green, K. E., Gugerty, L., Walker, I, and Witte, J. (2005). "AWE (Animated Work Environment): Ambient Intelligence in Working Life." Proceedings for Ambience 2005, a Conference on Intelligent Ambience and Well-Being (Tampere, Finland): 1-7.

Interests: Intelligent Environments, Human Computer Interaction, Human Robot Interaction, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Ubiquitous Computing

Cynthia Haynes
Associate Professor
Department of English
Director of First-Year Composition
Co-Chair, Colloquium on Serious Games
texcyn@clemson.edu
home page

Sample Publications:
• High Wired: On the Design, Use, and Theory of Educational MOOs. U of Michigan P, 1998.
• MOOniversity: A Student's Guide to Online Learning Environments. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2000.
• "Writing Offshore: The Disappearing Coastline of Composition Theory." JAC 23.4 (Winter 2003). James L. Kinneavy Award for best article in JAC, 2003 (Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition).

Interests: rhetoric and composition, critical theory, digital/visual rhetorics, computer game studies, information design, serious design, feminist theory, architecture, continental philosophy

Kate Hawkins
Professor and Department Chair
Communication Studies
hawkin5@clemson.edu

Sample Publication:
• with A.C. Hane, "Adolescents' perceptions of print cigarette advertising: A case for counteradvertising." Journal of Health Communication 5 (2000): 83-96.

Interests: Health communication (particularly with adolescents), mediated health communication, group communication, gender and communication, empirical methods

Jan Rune Holmevik
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Co-Chair, Colloquium on Serious Games
jholmev@clemson.edu

Sample Publications:
• High Wired: On the Design, Use, and Theory of Educational MOOs. U of Michigan P, 1998.
• MOOniversity: A Student's Guide to Online Learning Environments. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2000.

Interests: interactive media, computer game studies, humanistic informatics, experience design

Tharon W. Howard
Professor
Department of English
Director, Usability Testing Facility
Director, Multimedia Authoring Teaching & Research Facility (Matrf)
tharon@clemson.edu
home page

Sample Publications:
• Visual Communication: A Writer's Guide. 2nd Ed. With Susan Hilligoss. NY: Longman, 2001.
• Electronic Networks: Crossing Boundaries. Co-Edited with Chris Benson, Dixie Goswami, and Walter Gooch. NY: Heinemann Boynton-Cook, 1999.

Interests: usability and user-experience design, visual communication and visual rhetorics, multimedia authoring and digital publishing, electronic community architectures, rhetorical and literary theories, professional and technical communication

Christina Nguyen Hung
Assistant Professor
Department of Art
Home page: christinahung.net

Selected Exhibitions and Performances:
• A Knock at the Door, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, and South Street Seaport Museum, New York, NY, 2005.
• X/Y, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD, 2005. Festival Intermediale, with subRosa, Mainz, Germany, 2001.
• Digital Secrets: a think-tank forum, with subRosa, Institute for Studies in the Arts (ISA), Arizona State U, Tempe, AZ, 2000.

Interests: bioart, public art, new media, and visual culture

Steven B. Katz
Roy Pearce Professor of Professional Communication
Department of English
skatz@clemson.edu
home page

Sample Publications:
• "The Phantom Machine: The Invisible Ideology of Email (A Cultural Critique)." With Myra Moses. Critical Power Tools: Technical Communication and Cultural Studies. J. Blake Scott, Bernadette Longo, and Katherine V Willis, eds. SUNY P (2006): 71-105.
• "The Ethic of Expediency: Classical Rhetoric, Technology, and the Holocaust." Republished in Central Works in Technical Communication, Stuart Selber and Johndan Johnson Eilola, eds. Oxford UP, 2004. 195-210.
• Writing in the Sciences: Exploring Conventions of Scientific Discourse. With Ann Penrose. 2nd Edition. NY: Allyn and Bacon Series in Technical Communication (Addison Wesley Longman), 2004.
• "Letter as Essence: The Rhetorical (Im)pulse of the Hebrew Alefbet." Journal of Communication and Religion 26 (2003): 125-160.
• The Epistemic Music of Rhetoric: Toward the Temporal Dimension of Reader Response and Writing. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1996.

Interests: Rhetorical analysis (rhetoric and poetics, rhetorics of style, poetics of science, biotech and medical communication with the public); rhetoric and ethics (ideologies of technologies, technical communication ethics, philosophies of ethics, ethics of style); ancient alternative rhetorics (Biblical, affectintuitive, Jewish/sophistic, kabbalistic); material rhetorics (alphabetic, poetic, mystical, digital)

Jeff Love
Associate Professor of German and Russian
Department of Languages
gjlove@clemson.edu

Sample publications:
• F.W. J. Schelling's Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom (Suny 2006), trans. with Johannes Schmidt;
• The Overcoming of History in War and Peace (Rodopi 2004).
• Tolstoy: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum, forthcoming May, 2008).

Interests: Narrative theory (in particular Russian formalism, the Prague school and Lotman); theory of the novel; the intersection of literature and philosophy; German idealism, modern German philosophy and critical theory; Russian philosophical thought (from the various forms of dialogism to Kojeve)

William Maker
Professor of Philosophy
Chair, Department of Philosophy and Religion
makerw@clemson.edu

Sample publications:
• Philosophy Without Foundations: Rethinking Hegel, SUNY Press, 1994
• "Identity, Difference, and the Logic of Otherness."In Identity and Difference, Ed. Philip T. Grier. Albany: SUNY P, 2007.
• "Hegel and Rorty, or How Hegel Saves Pragmatism from Itself." The Owl of Minerva (Spring-Summer 2006).

Interests: Issues in Modernity/Postmodernity, Postfoundational Philosophy, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Critical Theory

Todd May
Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy and Religion
mayt@clemson.edu

Sample publications:
• Between Genealogy and Epistemology, 1993;
• The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism, 1994;
• The Moral Theory of Poststructuralism, 1995;
• Reconsidering Difference, 1997;
• Our Practices, Our Selves, 2001;
• Gilles Deleuze: An Introduction, 2005;
• The Philosophy of Foucault, 2006.

Research Interests: Contemporary Continental Philosophy, especially recent French Thought; Anarchism; History of Philosophy

Judith M. Melton
Professor of German and Women's Studies
Co-Chair, Body Colloquium
jmlton@clemson.edu

Sample Publications:
• The Face of Exile: Autobiographical Journeys. U of Iowa P, 1998.
• "Body Obsessions: The Economic and Social Impact of Women's Body Image in the Popular Media." Against Ourselves. Eds. Keller Cushing Freeman, Jeanine Halva-Neubauer, Emrys P, 2003, 51-75.

Interests: autobiography, women's studies, women's body image in popular culture, Holocaust Studies

Lee Morrissey
Professor
Chair, Department of English
Chair, Theory-Criticism Colloquium
lmorris@clemson.edu
home page

Sample publications:
• From the Temple to the Castle: An Architectural History of English Literature, 1660-1760. U of Virginia P, 1999.
• "Eve's Otherness and the New Ethical Criticism" New Literary History, Spring, 2001.
• "Derrida's 'Nostalgeria': A Post-Colonial Reading of Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences," Historicizing Theory, ed. Peter Herman (SUNY P, 2004).
• Ed. Debating the Canon: A Reader, from Addison to Nafisi. Palgrave/MacMillan, 2005.
• "Restoration and Eighteenth-Century" section of English Literature in
Context, ed. Paul Poplawski. Cambridge UP, 2008.
• The Constitution of Literature: Literacy, Democracy, and Early English
Literary Criticism. Stanford UP, 2008.

Interests: Continental philosophy, cultural and literary theory, political philosophy and theory, post-structuralism, history of criticism, globalization, Restoration and eighteenth-century literature, The Enlightenment

Catherine E. Paul
Associate Professor
Department of English
cpaul@clemson.edu
home page

Sample publications:
• Poetry in the Museums of Modernism: Yeats, Pound, Moore, Stein. U of Michigan P, 2002.
• W. B. Yeats, A Vision (1925), ed. Catherine E. Paul and Margaret Mills Harper, Collected Works of W. B. Yeats. Scribner and Macmillan, forthcoming.
• "Fascist Cultural Administration and the Pound-Rudge Resuscitation of Vivaldi," Proceedings of the XXIst International Ezra Pound Conference, forthcoming.
• "Reclaiming Ritual Space: Museum Poems of the 1960s and 1970s." Crossings: A Counter-Disciplinary Journal of Philosophical, Cultural, Historical, and Literary Studies, forthcoming.
• "Margherita Sarfatti and Italian Cultural Nationalism: Five Articles from Il Popolo d'Italia." Co-authored with Barbara M. Zaczek. Modernism/Modernity 13:1 (January 2006): 143-70.
• "Italian Fascist Exhibitions and Ezra Pound's Turn to the Imperial." Twentieth-Century Literature 51:1 (Spring 2005): 64-97.
• "Poetry Across the Curriculum: Four Disciplinary Perspectives." Co-authored with Art Young, Patricia Connor-Greene, Jerry Waldvogel. Language and Learning Across the Disciplines 6:2 (June 2003): 14-44.

Interests: International modernisms, poetry and poetics, literature and visual culture, museums and curatorial theory

Diane Perpich
Department of Philosophy and Religion
dperpic@clemson.edu

Sample publications:
• The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas (forthcoming Stanford UP, 2008)
• "Moral Blind Spots and the Uncertainties of Ethics: Response to Bernhard Waldenfels," Interrogating Ethics, ed. James Hatley (Duquesne UP, 2006), 107-131.
• "Sensible Subjects: Levinas and Irigaray on Incarnation and Ethics," Addressing Levinas, ed. A. Kapust et. al. (Evanston: Northwestern UP, 2005), 296-309.
• "Corpus Meum: Nancy’s Ontology and Feminist Approaches to Body," Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 20.3 (Summer 2005), 75-91.
• "Universality, Singularity, and Sexual Difference: Reflections on Political Community." Philosophy and Social Criticism. 31.4 (June 2005), 445-460.
• "Figurative Language and the ‘Face’ in Levinas’s Philosophy," Philosophy and Rhetoric, 28. 2 (2005), 103-121.

Interests:
Contemporary European Philosophy, especially phenomenology and its reception in French thought; contemporary ethics; gender and sexuality studies; the intersection of bodies and technologies (somatechnics).

Johannes Schmidt
Associate Professor of German
Department of Languages
schmidj@clemson.edu
Skype: herr-schmidt

Sample Publication:
• F.W.J. Schelling: Philosophical Investigation into the Essence of Human Freedom (SUNY 2006), trans. with Jeff Love.
• Herder and Lessing on the Philosophy of Religion, in German (Libri 2000).

Interests: German (18th & 19th C) literature and philosophy, drama, performance/theater technology/aesthetics, literary criticism, dj-ing/hip hop culture

Elisa Kay Sparks
Associate Professor
Department of English
Director of Women's Studies
Chair, Colloquium on Place-Space
sparks@clemson.edu
home page

Sample Publications:
• Co-editor, Virginia Woolf and the Art of Exploration: Selected Papers from the Fifteenth Annual Conference. Clemson Electronic and Digital P, 2006.
• "Leonard and Virginia's London Library." Forthcoming in The Selected Papers for the 14th annual conference on Virginia Woolf at London University, June 2004.
• "Mrs. Dalloway as a Geo/Graphical Novel." The Virginia Woolf Miscellany. No. 62. Spring 2003: 6-7.
• "Leonard's Vegetable Empire: A History of the Garden at Monk's House." The Virginia Woolf Bulletin, no. 12. Jan 2003: 10-19.

Interests: Virginia Woolf, Georgia O'Keeffe, Modernism, garden history, space and place, feminist perspectives, science fiction, science fiction film, altered books, printmaking

Summer Smith Taylor
Associate Professor
Department of English
Director of MA in Professional Communication
Director of Advanced Writing Program
slsmith@clemson.edu

Sample Publications:
• "Assessment in Client-Based Technical Writing Classes: Evolution of Teacher and Client Standards." Technical Communication Quarterly 15:2 (Spring 2006): 111-39.
• "The Role of Technical Expertise in Engineering and Writing Teachers: Evaluations of Students' Writing." Written Communication 20:1 (January 2003): 37-80.
• "The Genre of the End Comment: Conventions in Teacher Responses to Student Writing." College Composition and Communication 48:2 (May 1997): 249-68.

Interests: Assessment of technical writing, teaching of writing, research methodologies, client-based pedagogy, communication across the curriculum

Michael V. Vatalaro
Professor of Art and Ceramics
Chair, Department of Art
vatalam@clemson.edu
home page

Sample Publication:
• 2003 Scripts College Ceramic National Invitational
Interests: Ceramic Art including vessels and sculpture

Victor J. Vitanza
Professor
Department of English
Director, Ph.D program in RCID
Jean-François Lyotard Chair, European Graduate School (Switzerland)
sophist@clemson.edu
home page

Sample Publications:
• Negation, Subjectivity, and The History of Rhetoric. (SUNY, 1997).
• Ed. Writing Histories of Rhetoric. SIUP, 1994.
• Ed. PRE/TEXT: The First Decade. U Pittsburgh P, 1993.
• Ed. with Michelle Ballif. Realms of Rhetoric: Phonic, Graphic, Electronic. Rhetoric Society of America, 1991.
• Editor and Publisher of PRE/TEXT: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory (1980- ).

Interests: Histories of Rhetorics, Rhetorical Invention, Theories of Rhetorics, Technology and "Writing" (electracy, new media, digital studies); Architecture, Photography, Film, and Video; Contemporary Philosophy (German, French, Italian).

Sean D. Williams
Associate Professor
Department of English
Associate Dean of the Graduate School
sean@clemson.edu
home page

Sample Publication:
• "Positioning Technical Communication for the Creative Economy," with Linn Bekins. Technical Communication. Summer 2006.

Interests: Technical Communication, Information Design, Visual Rhetorics, Web-Based Argument, Professionalization Issues for Students

Art Young
Professor
Department of English
Robert S. Campbell Chair in Technical Communication
apyoung@clemson.edu
home page

Sample Publications:
• Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum, Fourth Edition. Prentice Hall, 2006. Third Edition available at WAC Clearninghouse.
• Teaching and Learning Creatively: Inspirations and Reflections, Co-Edited. Parlor Press, 2006.
• Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum, Co-Edited. NCTE, 1998.
• Critical Theory and the Teaching of Literature: Politics, Curriculum, Pedagogy, Co-Edited. NCTE, 1995.

Interests: Communication Across the Curriculum; Writing in the Disciplines, Composition Studies, Writing Program Administration, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.