Rhetorical Studies Selected Publications

Below is a list of some of our recent publication activity.

Biesecker, Barbara.  Forthcoming. Rhetoric, Materialsim and Politics.  Co-edited with John Lucaites. Frontiers in Political Communication Series.  Peter Lang.

Biesecker, Barbara.  2007.  “Memorializing in a Time of Terror:  A Case Study of Public Argument.”  Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation.  Eds. Fans  H. van Eemeren, J. Anthony Blair, Charles A. Willard and Bart Garssen. The Netherlands:  Sic Sat:  123-128.

Biesecker, Barbara.  2007.  “No Time for Mourning:  The Rhetorical Production of the Melancholic Citizen-Subject in the War on Terror.”  Philosophy and Rhetoric 40, 1:  147-167.

Biesecker, Barbara.  2004.  “Renovating the National Imaginary:  A Prolegomenon on Paregoric Rhetoric.”  Framing Public Memory.  Ed. Kendall Phillips.  University of Alabama Press, 212-247.

Biesecker, Barbara.  1997, 2000.   Addressing Postmodernity:  Kenneth Burke, Rhetoric, and a Theory of Social Change.  Studies in Rhetoric and Communication Series.  Eds. E. Culpepper Clark, Raymie McKerrow, and David Zarefsky.  The University of Alabama Press. 

Condit, Celeste M.  In press.  With M., Gronnvoll, M., Landau, J., Shen, L., Wright, L., Harris, T.M. “Believing in both Genetic Determinism and Behavioral Action: A Materialist Framework and Implications.” Public Understanding of Science.

Condit, Celeste M.  2008. “Feminist Biologies: Revising Feminist Strategies and Biological Science.” Sex Roles 59:  492-503.

Condit, Celeste M.  2008.  “Race and Genetics from a Modal Materialist Perspective.” The Quarterly Journal of Speech.  94: 383-406. 

Condit, Celeste M.  2007.  With L. Bruce Railsback.  “Generalization through Similarity:  Motif Discourse in the Discovery and Elaboration of Zinc Finger Proteins.” Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration 2:5. http://www.j-biomed-discovery.com/articles/

Happe, Kelly E.  2006, 2008. “The Rhetoric of Race in Breast Cancer Research.”  Patterns of Prejudice. 40 (4-5): 461-481. Reprinted in Race in Contemporary Medicine, Sander L. Gilman, ed.  Routledge.

Happe, Kelly E.  2006.  “Heredity, Gender, and the Discourse of Ovarian Cancer.”  New Genetics and Society. 25(2): 171-196.

Lessl, Thomas M.  Forthcoming 2010.  Rhetorical Darwinism: Religion and the Social Evolution of Scientific Culture, 1600-1900.  Michigan State University Press.   Public Address Series.

Lessl, Thomas, M.  2007.  “The Culture of Science and the Rhetoric of Scientism: From Francis Bacon to the Darwin Fish.” The Quarterly Journal of Speech 93: 123-149. 

Lessl, Thomas M.  2005.  “The Mythological Conditioning of Scientific Naturalism.” Journal of Communication and Religion 28: 23-46.                                                    

Lessl, Thomas M.  2004.  “The Legacy of C. S. Lewis and the Prospect of Religious Rhetoric.” Journal of Communication and Religion 27:  117-137.

Lessl, Thomas M.  2003.  “Scientific Rhetoric as Religious Advocacy: Evolution and the Public Schools.” Journal of Communication and Religion 26: 1-27.

Panetta, E.  2007.  “Obscuring the Facts:  The Bush Administration and the Politicization of Science in the Greenhouse Debate.” Proceedings of the Sixth Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation. Eds. F. H. van Eemeren, J. A. Blair, C. A. Willard, B. Garssem. Amsterdam: Sic Sat, 1025-1033.

Panetta E.  2009. With Atchison, RJ.  “Intercollegiate Debate and Speech Communication: Historical Development and Issues for the Future.” Handbook of Rhetoric. Eds. A. Lunsford & J.A. Aune. Thousand Oaks CA: Sage, 317-334.

Stahl, Roger.  In press.  Militainment, Inc.: War, Media, and Popular Culture.  New York: Routledge.

Stahl, Roger.  Forthcoming.  “Why We ‘Support the Troops’: Rhetorical Evolutions.”  Rhetoric and Public Affairs.

Stahl, Roger. 2008.  "A Clockwork War: Rhetorics of Time in a Time of Terror.” The Quarterly Journal of Speech 94(1): 73-99.

Stahl, Roger. 2007.  Militainment, Inc.: Militarism and Popular Culture.  Documentary film. Northampton, MA: Media Education Foundation.

Stahl, Roger. 2006.  “Have You Played the War on Terror?” Critical Studies in Media Communication 23(2): 112-130.