
Bio
My recent research investigates the role of technology in contemporary American stand-up comedy during the last decade. In general, I research humanity’s ineluctable, agonistic relationship with technology, leveraging insights from many disciplines—including science and technology studies, critical theory, political and aesthetic theory, philosophy, rhetoric, and film and media studies—to understand how our technical objects and practices persuade us. I write about exemplary ways in which people create new structures to ground their personal identity and collective action, especially in ways that confront the increasingly digital, algorithmic, and virtual contingencies of the 21st century.
Each summer, I teach the Department of Rhetoric’s public speaking course. Rhetoric 2 is a six-week workshop-style class in which students cultivate their own speaking style, develop strengths in skillful communication with diverse audiences, and practice engaging others in a variety of situations, through multiple media.
Courses
- Theory and Practice of Public Speech (SP 2023)
- Rhetoric of Contemporary Politics (SP 2023)
- Language, Truth and Dialogue (FL 2022)
- Approaches and Paradigms in the History of Rhetorical Theory – In(ter)vention and the Rhetorical Tradition (FL 2022)
- Fundamentals of Public Speaking (SM 2022)
- Rhetoric, Culture, and Society: Introduction to Criticism (SM 2022)
- Rhetoric of Performance – Standing Up in America (SP 2022)
- Theory and Practice of Public Speech – Speaking Up in America (SP 2022)
- Supervised Group Study – Junior Proseminar (SP 2022)
- The Craft of Writing (FL 2021)
- Theory and Practice of Public Speech (SM 2021)
- Rhetorical Theory and Oral Argument (SM 2021)
- Rhetoric of Material Culture (SP 2021)