Catherine Chaput

 

BA (Creighton University), MA (SUNY Binghamton), PhD (University of Arizona)

Assistant Professor

 

Specialization:

Rhetorical Theory and Criticism, Political Economy of Rhetoric, Affect Studies

 

Select Publications:

Entertaining Fear:  Rhetoric and the Political Economy of Social Control. (Editor) New York: Peter Lang, 2010.

 

Inside the Teaching Machine:  Rhetoric and the Globalization of the U.S. Public Research University. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2008.

 

“Rhetorical Circulation in Late Capitalism: Neoliberalism and the Overdetermination of Affective Energy.” Philosophy and Rhetoric. (2010). Forthcoming.

 

“The Role of Communism in Democratic Discourse:  World Bank Rhetoric in the Era of Globalization.”  Activism and Rhetoric: Theories and Contexts for Political Engagement.  Ed. Seth Kahn and Jong-Hwa Lee. New York: Routledge, 2010. Forthcoming.

 

“Fear, Affective Energy, and the Political Economy of Global Capitalism.” Entertaining Fear:  Rhetoric and the Political Economy of Social Control. New York: Peter Lang, 2010. 1-22.

 

“Lest We Go the Way of Vocational Training:  Developing Undergraduate Writing Programs in the Humanist Tradition.” Writing Program Administrators 31.3 (Spring 2008): 15-31.

 

“‘Anti-American Studies’ in the Deep South:  Dissenting Rhetorics, the Practice of Democracy, and Academic Freedom in Wartime Universities.”  With Karen Powers-Stubbs. College Composition and Communication 58.4 (June 2007): 648-681.

 

“The Rhetorics of Reality TV and the Feminization of Working-Class Identity.” Who Says? Working-Class Rhetoric, Class Consciousness, and Community. Ed. William DeGenaro. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 2007. 203-225.

 

Contact:
 
Email: cchaput-at-unr-dot-edu