Biographies of Participants
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Barbara Biesecker is Assoicate Professor of Rhetoric and Communication Studies. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in rhetorical theory, rhetorical criticism, cultural studies and visual rhetorics. Her current research focuses on the ways in which historical images and events are redeployed in contemporary American popular and political culture.
Peter Ehrenhaus is Associate Professor of Communication at Pacific Lutheran University. His research examines how intersections of popular culture and historical representation construct public memory about war and constitute national identity. He is currently co-authoring (with A. Susan Owen) Watering the Dead: Film, Rhetoric, and Memory.
Joan Faber McAlister is a doctoral candidate at the University of Iowa in Rhetorical Studies. Her dissertation is on the visual and spatial rhetorics of housing subdivisions. Research interests include the constitution of "everyday" spaces and their relationship to cultural practices, social relations, identity, aesthetics and politics.
Oscar Giner is an actor, director, playwright and translator who specializes in the rediscovery of Native American ceremonials. He is a graduate of Yale College, and holds a Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the Yale School of Drama.
Dr. Giner has taught at the California Institute of the Arts, the Universidad de Puerto Rico, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and at Texas A&M University before joining the faculty at Arizona State. He was Artistic Director of the Corral de la Cruz in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and served as Artistic Director of La Compañía de Teatro de Albuquerque. He has worked extensively with the Native American and Hispanic bilingual communities of the Caribbean and the Southwest.
His articles and translations have appeared in Theatre, Tyuony, and the Quarterly Journal of Speech. At present, he is working on a book on the ceremonial dance of the Caribbean Taínos and on a Spanish version of Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Bruce Gronbeck is the A. Craig Baird Distinguished Professor of Public Address. He works primarily in the area of rhetorical and media studies, with particular interests in contemporary television and politics. He teaches and writes about American cultural studies and the evolution of rhetorical thought, especially from the 18th century to the present.
Henry Krips is professor of communication at the University of Pittsburgh. He is author of The Metaphysics of Quantum mechanics (Oxford, 1990), Science Reason and Rhetoric, coedited with T. Melia and J. McGuire, Pittsburgh UP (1995), and Fetish: an Erotics of Culture, Cornell UP 1999. He is currently working on theories of the visual, and psychoanalytic approaches to cultural studies.
John Louis Lucaites is Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of Communication and Culture, and Adjunct Associate Professor of American Studies, Indiana University. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on the relationship between rhetoric and social theory, including courses in rhetoric and ideology, history and memory, and visual rhetoric. His published works include Crafting Equality: America's Anglo African Word (U. of Chicago Press, with Celeste Condit). He edits a new book series at the University of Alabama Press titled "Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique." He is currently working on a book manuscript with Robert Hariman on the relationship between rhetoric, photography, and American political culture.
James P. McDaniel will be visiting assistant professor of Communication at the University of Colorado, Boulder, as of August 2000. His published work on visual rhetorics and cultures has appeared in The Quarterly Journal of Speech, Mythosphere, and a volume he edited with John M. Sloop, Judgment Calls: Rhetoric, Politics, and Indeterminacy (Boulder: Westview Press, 1998).
A. Susan Owen is Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Puget Sound. She teaches courses in film and television criticism, visual rhetorics and the body, critical gender studies, and women's studies. Her research interests include popular constructions of gender in the mass media, and the construction of (public) traumatic memory. She is currently co-authoring (with Peter Ehrenhaus) Watering the Dead: Film, Rhetoric, and Memory.
Daniel F. Schowalter is a doctoral candidate and lecturer at Indiana University. His research and teaching interests include the rhetoric of documentary images and their relationship to trauma, power, identity, memory, and history.
Bryan C. Taylor is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His interests include cultural and organizational studiesÊof nuclear weapons and the Cold War.