丁香园AV

Education

• BA (Berkeley)
• MA (Sonoma State)
• PhD (University of Southern California)

Biography

I am interested broadly in the theories and practices of rhetoric, and in the compositional relationships among the word, the self, and the world. From intimate dialogue to social activism to academic writing, I analyze what people try to do, manage to do, and fail to do with words, and suggest what we might do differently to fail a little less often. I have written about, among other things, humour (Wit鈥檚 End: Women鈥檚 Humor as Rhetorical and Performative Strategy 2010; 鈥溾�楥omedy is What We鈥檙e Really About鈥�: The Grateful Dead in a Comic Frame鈥� 2020), protest movements (鈥淗ow Not to Stop a Pipeline: A Critique of Activism in the Burnaby Mountain Protests鈥� 2018), plagiarism (鈥淭he Scarlet P: Plagiarism, Panopticism, and the Rhetoric of Academic Integrity鈥� 2008), and public beliefs about writing instruction (鈥淟ocal Examples and Master Narratives: Stanley Fish and the Public Appeal of Current-Traditionalism鈥� 2015). I also write about gender and comic literature (鈥淭he Scholarly Transgressions of Constance Rourke鈥� 2017, 鈥淟ittle House on the Tundra: Female Winners of the Leacock Award for Canadian Comedy,鈥� co-authored with Diana Solomon 2023). I am currently completing a monograph about the role of consciousness, intentionality, and rhetorical speech acts in constructing and altering social reality, entitled Mind Over Matter: Consciousness, Rhetoric, and Social Ontology.