Curriculum Vitae

Daniel joined the Iowa Rhetoric Department Fall 2000 after a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the UCLA Humanities Consortium, Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies. Recently he has taught seminars on the art of listening and the problem of experience in the eighteenth century (typically cross-listed in departments of English and Communication Studies) and an introduction to the rhetoric and theory of popular culture. His Fall 2003 seminar "The Promise of Empathy" was coordinated with a major interdisciplinary conference he organized on the same topic, sponsored primarily by POROI (Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry), where he also serves on the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee. The fruits of his teacher training can best be seen on a Web site he maintains with graduate students called the "Morphing Textbook." His articles have appeared among other places in Rhetorica, Clio, Philosophy and Rhetoric, and History of the Human Sciences.

Books:

The Secret History of Emotion from Aristotle's Rhetoric to Modern Brain Science (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006). The goal of this study is to distance emotion from reductive biophysiology and reassert the richer rhetorical tradition that treats emotions as inherently political. Doing so, I wager, gives us new access to a range of early-modern literature and also provides new ways of seeing how particular emotions – and their absence – help structure late-modern politics.

Heidegger and Rhetoric (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005). Introduced by Daniel M. Gross, edited with Ansgar Kemman (SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy). A collection of essays with original contributions from Hans-Georg Gadamer, Otto Poeggeler, Theodore Kisiel, Nancy Struever, Michael Hyde, and Mark Michalski.

Courses:

The Art of Listening

The Promise of Empathy

Issues in Rhetoric and Culture: The Problem of "Experience" in the Eighteenth Century

The Rhetoric of Passions

Phantasmagoria, Hearing Things