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Faculty Profile
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Bradford Vivian
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
106 Sims Hall Building V
(315) 443-5140
Email: bjvivian@syr.edu
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Courses Taught
| CRS 183 |
Concepts and Perspectives in
Rhetorical Studies |
| CRS 355 |
Political Communication |
| CRS 552 |
History of Rhetorical Theory |
| CRS 553 |
American Public Address |
| CRS 603 |
Contemporary Theories of Rhetoric |
Research Interests
Dr. Vivian conducts research in rhetorical theory and criticism. His work has appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Philosophy
and Rhetoric, the Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, and the Western Journal of Communication. He is the author of Being Made Strange: Rhetoric beyond Representation. His current research includes two ongoing projects: one on the rhetoric
of “public forgetting” (as opposed to conventional public memory) and one on models of freedom and citizenship in the history of
rhetorical theory.
Expertise
Dr. Vivian's expertise focuses on rhetorical theory, rhetoric and political theory, public memory.
Scholarly Publications
Books:
Being Made Strange: Rhetoric beyond Representation. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2004.
Public Forgetting: The Rhetoric and Politics of Beginning Again. (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press. (under contract).
Articles in Refereed Journals:
“On the Language of Forgetting.” Review Essay. Quarterly Journal of Speech (forthcoming, vol. 95.1).
“In the Regard of the Image.” JAC vol. 27 (2007): 471-504.
“Freedom, Naming, Nobility: The Confluence of Rhetorical and Political Theory in Nietzsche’s Philosophy.” Philosophy and Rhetoric 40 (2007): 372-93.
“Neoliberal Epideictic: Rhetorical Form and Commemorative Politics on September 11, 2002.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 92, no. 1 (2006): 1-26.
“The Question of the Cinema.” Journal of Speculative Philosophy 19, no. 3 (2005): 250-266 (in press).
“Style, Rhetoric, and Postmodern Culture.” Philosophy and Rhetoric 35, no. 3 (2002): 243-223.
“Jefferson’s Other.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 88, no. 3 (2002): 284-302.
“‘Always a Third Party Who Says Me’: Rhetoric and Alterity.” Philosophy and Rhetoric 34, no. 4 (2001): 343-354.
“The Threshold of the Self.” Philosophy and Rhetoric 33, no. 4 (2000): 303-318.
“The Art of Forgetting: John W. Draper and the Rhetorical Dimensions of History.” Rhetoric and Public Affairs 2, no. 4 (1999): 551-572.
“The Veil and the Visible.” Western Journal of Communication 63, no. 2 (1999): 115-139.
Book Chapters:
“ATimeless Now’: Repetition and Memory.” Framing Public Memory. Kendall R. Phillips, ed. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2004: 187-211.
“Sophistic Masks and Rhetorical Nomads.” Fred Antczak, et al., ed. Professing Rhetoric: Selected Papers From the 2000 Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002: 193-198.
Awards and Honors:
2009 Grant from the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration at the Maxwell School for his "Memories of Violence and the Rhetoric of Commemoration at Ground Zero".
2009 New Investigator Award from the Rhetoric and Communication Theory division of the National Communications Association.
2008 National Communication Association's Karl Wallace Memorial Award for outstanding scholarship in rhetorical studies.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend (2005).
B. Aubrey Fisher Award for Outstanding Article in the Western Journal of Communication (1999).
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