ANNE TERESA DEMO


Assistant Professor

School of Art and Design
History of Art
Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies
Department of Transmedia
TRM Core/Selected Topics

atdemo@syr.edu


Education:
Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University

Office: Shaffer Art Building Rm.118C
Telephone: 315-443-1032

Biography:
Professor Demo's research program reflects her training in rhetoric and her interdisciplinary background in visual culture and gender studies. Her work explores the relationship between rhetoric, identity, and U.S. cultural politics through two primary research concentrations. Her primary area of research has focused on the visual rhetoric of contemporary immigration policy and politics. Her current book project, Image Politics & Immigration Policy, examines the role that visual argument plays in promoting contemporary immigration policy and forming public opinion about immigration. Her secondary research examines the role of visual rhetoric in social movements.

Scholarly Publications

Articles in Refereed Journals:

“The Afterimage: Immigration Policy After Elián,” Rhetoric and Public Affairs 10 (2007): 27-50.

“Sovereignty Discourse and Contemporary Immigration Politics,” Quarterly Journal of Speech (91) August 2005, 291-311.

“Imagining Nature and Erasing Class and Race: Carleton Watkins, John Muir, and the Construction of Wilderness.” Co-authored with Dr. Kevin DeLuca. Environmental History (6) October 2001, 541-560.

“Imaging Nature: Watkins, Yosemite, and the Birth of Environmentalism.” Co-authored with Dr. Kevin DeLuca. Critical Studies in Media Communication (17) September 2000, 241-260. Reprinted in Carl Burgchardt, ed., Readings in Rhetorical Criticism, 3rd ed. (State College: Strata Publishing, 2005).

“The Guerrilla Girls, Perspective by Incongruity, and Feminist Resistance.” Women’s Studies in Communication (23) Spring 2000, 133-156. Reprinted in Diane Hope, Lester Olson, and Cara Finnegan, eds., Visual Rhetoric: A Reader in Communication and American Culture (Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE), 2008

Book Chapters:

“The Class Politics of Ethnic Pluralism: Presidential Campaigns and The Latino Vote,” in Vanessa B. Beasley, ed., Presidential Rhetoric and the Politics of Immigration (College Station, Tex.: Texas, A&M University Press), 2006.

Book Reviews:

“Policy and Media in Immigration Studies,” Rhetoric and Public Affairs (7) Summer 2004, 215-228. Review Essay

"Im/partial Science: Gender Ideology and Molecular Biology by Bonnie Spanier." Quarterly Journal of Speech (83) November 1997, 482-484.

"Evaluating Women's Health Messages: A Resource Book" by Celeste Condit and Roxanne Parrot. Southern Speech Communication Journal (62)Winter 1997, 167-168.

"The Cultural Prison: Discourse, Prisoners, and Punishment" by John Sloop. Crime, Law and Social Change (28) 1997, 173-175.

Awards and Honors:

Awarded Most Outstanding Essay in Women’s Studies in Communication in 2000

Expertise:
  • Gender
  • Immigration
  • Rhetoric
  • Visual Culture