EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

Higher Education
1984-1989                   Ph.D., Rhetoric and Communication Studies, University of Pittsburgh

1981-1983                   M.A., English, Miami University

1977-1981                   B.A., English, Miami University

Positions
Fall 2008-present.  Professor.  Department of Speech Communication.  University of Georgia.

Spring 2007-Spring 2008.  0% Appointment.  POROI.  University of Iowa.

Fall 2006.  Scholar.  Obermann Center for Advanced Studies.  University of Iowa.

2005-2006.  Director of Graduate Studies.  Communication Studies.  University of Iowa.

Fall 2002-Spring 2008.  Associate Professor.  Communication Studies.  University of Iowa.

2001-2002.  Associate Professor.  Communication Studies (50% teaching and service load in the Rhetoric Department). 

1997-2001.  0% Joint Appointment.  Communication Studies.  University of Iowa.

1996-2001.  Associate Professor.  Rhetoric Department.  University of Iowa.

1988-1009.  Part-Time Instructor.  Rhetoric and Communication Department.  University of Pittsburgh.

1984-1988.  Graduate Teaching Fellow.  Rhetoric and Communication Department.  University of Pittsburgh.

1986-1988.  Part-Time Instructor.  Communication Department.  Duquesne University.

1983-1984.  Graduate Teaching Fellow.  English Department.  University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee.

1981-1983.  Graduate Teaching Assistant.  English Department.  Miami University.

Editorships

Editor.  Forum Series.  Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies.  (Issues 2007-2009).

Member of Editorial Board.  Book Series:  Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique.  University of Alabama Press.  2004-present.

Associate Editor.  Western Journal of Speech.  2004-2007 (issues 2006-2008).

Associate Editor.  Quarterly Journal of Speech.  Spring 1998-Summer 2000, Spring 2004-2007, 2008-2010.

Associate Editor.  Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies.  Fall 2006-2009.

Consulting Editor. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. Fall 2003-2005.Associate Editor.  Critical Studies in Media Communication.  Fall 2000-Fall 2004.

Member.  Editorial Board.  Philosophy and Rhetoric.  Fall 1996-present.

Occasional Journal Referee.  Quarterly Journal of Speech. November 2002.

Book-length Manuscript Referee.  University of South Carolina Press (2001), SUNY Press (2001, 2007), University of Alabama Press (2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008), University of Minnesota Press (2006).

Referee for Journal Proposal.  Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001.

Associate Editor.  Critical Studies in Mass Communication.  Spring 1998-Spring 2001.

Journal Referee (occasional).  Journalism, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, Symbolic Interaction, The Southern Communication Journal, Communication Studies,
Communication Theory, Rhetorica, Communication Education, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, JAFA, CCC, Peace and Change: A Journal of Peace Research, Iowa Journal of Communication, Theory and Event (2008)

Editorial Board.  Pre/Text:  An Interdisciplinary Journal of Rhetoric.  1993-1995.

Honors and Awards
The National Communication Association’s Douglas Ehninger Distinguished Rhetorical Scholar Award.  2007.

Nomination.  College of Liberal Arts and Science Teaching Award.  2002.

Finalist.  Outstanding Young Investigator Award.  Rhetorical and Communication Theory. National Communication Association. 1997.

Presidential Citation for Outstanding Service.  National Communication Association.  1996.

Paper.  "Shifting Scenes:  Rhetoric/Feminism/Postmodernism." Special Spotlight Vice Presidential Panel on "The Scholarship of Barbara Biesecker."  The Southern States Communication Association Annual Conference.  Norfolk, Virginia.  April 1994.

Top Four Paper. "Kenneth Burke's A Rhetoric of Motives:  Towards an Ontology of the Social.” Kenneth Burke Society.  Speech Communication Association Convention.  San Francisco, CA. November 1989.

Distinction.  Ph.D. Comprehensive Examinations.  University of Pittsburgh.  October 1986.

SCHOLARSHIP
Work In Progress
Remembering World War II:  Contemporary American (Visual) Rhetoric and the New Body Politic(s). 

Materializing Rhetoric.  Co-edited with John Lucaites. Series:  Frontiers in Political Communication.  Peter Lang Publisher.  Contract Signed. Complete final manuscript turned in to the Series Editors August 18, 2008.

Refereed Publications:  Books
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.  1997.  Paperback edition Fall 2000.

Refereed Publications:  Articles
Forum Introduction.  “China.”  Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 5, 4 (December 2008).  404-405.  Forthcoming.

Forum Introduction.  “The 2008 US Presidential Election.”  Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 5, 3 (September 2008).  301-302.

Forum Introduction.  “No to Biopolitical Tatooing.”  Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 5, 2 (June 2008):  200.

Forum Introduction.  “Jean Baudrillard:  In Memorium.”  Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 5, 1 (March 2008).  87.

Reprint.  “Remembering World War II:  The Rhetoric and Politics of National Commemoration at the Turn of the 21st Century.”  Visual Rhetoric:  A Reader in Communication and American Culture.  Eds. Lester Olson, Cara Finnegan and Diane Hope.  Sage Publications.  2008.

Forum Introduction.  “Judith Butler:  Philosophical Encounters of the Third Kind.”  Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies.  4, 4  (December 2007):  421-22.

Essay.  “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, 2007:  123-128.

Forum Introduction.  “The Political Economy of Communication.”  Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 4, 3 (September 2007).  321-22.

Forum Introduction.  “Homeland Security.”  Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 4, 2 (June 2007).  204.

Forum Introduction.  “American Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism as Cultural, Social and Political Forces at the Present Time.”  Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 4, 1 (March 2007).  91-92.

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

Forum Essay.  “Of Historicity, Rhetoric:  The Archive as Scene of Invention.”  Rhetoric and Public Affairs 9.1 (2006):  124-131.

Essay.  “Popular Memory and National Renewal:  Feminism and the Cultural Politics of World War II.” Proceedings of the 15th NCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation.  Ed. Charles Willard.  Washington, DC:  National Communication Association, 2005: 647-53.

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

“Technologies of Truth and National Trauma.”  Proceedings of the Fifth Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation.  Eds. Frans H. van Eemeren, J. Anthony Blair, Charles A Willard and A. Francisca Snoeck Henkemans.  Amsterdam:  Sic Sat, 2003:  111-14.

“Remembering World War II:  The Rhetoric and Politics of National Commemoration at the Turn of the 21st Century.”  Quarterly Journal of Speech 80, 4 (November 2002):  393-409.

“From the Public Sphere to Public Culture, or, A Case Study in Why Argument Studies is Not Enough, or, William Jefferson Clinton and the Postmodern Primal Horde.”  Proceedings of the 14th NCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation. Ed. G. Thomas Goodnight.  Annandale, VA:  NCA, 2001:  89-96.  

"Rethinking the Rhetorical Situation from Within the Thematic of Differance."  (Reprint).  Contemporary Rhetorical Theory:  A Reader.  Eds. John Lucaites, Celeste Condit and Sally Cauhill.  New York and London, Guilford Press.  1998.  232-246.

"Rhetoric and the 'New' Psychoanalysis:  What's the Real Problem? or Framing the Problem of the Real."  Quarterly Journal of Speech 84 (1998):  222-259.

"Rhetorical Ventriloquism:  Fantasy and/as National Identity."  Argument in a Time of  Change: Definitions, Frameworks, and Critiques.  Ed. James Klumpp.  Annandale, VA:  NCA, 1998:  168-172.

*Essay.  "The Irruptive Possibilities of the Other." Co-authored with James McDaniel.  The  Encyclopedia of Rhetoric.  Ed. Theresa Enos.  New York:  Garland Publishing, 1995.

*"A Genealogy of Oratory."  Co-authored with Susan Biesecker, Gerald Mast, James McDaniel.  The Encyclopedia of Rhetoric.  Ed. Theresa Enos.  New York:  Garland Publishing, 1995.

"Coming to Terms with Recent Attempts to Write Women into the History of Rhetoric."  (Reprint).  Rethinking the History of Rhetoric:  Multidisciplinary Essays on the Rhetorical Tradition.  Ed. Takis Poulakos.  Boulder:  Westview Press, 1993, 153-172.

"Rhetoric, Postmodernity, and Desire."  Argument and the Postmodern Challenge:  Proceedings of the Eighth SCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation.  Ed. Raymie E. McKerrow.  Annandale, VA:  SCA, 1993:  122-124.

"Negotiating with Our Tradition:  Reflecting Again (Without Apologies) on the      Feminization of Rhetoric."  Philosophy and Rhetoric 26, 3 (1993):  236-240.

"Michel Foucault and the Question of Rhetoric." Philosophy and Rhetoric 25, 4 (1992):   351-364 [Special 100th Edition Anniversary Issue].

"Towards A Transactional View of Rhetorical and Feminist Theory:  Rereading Helene Cixous's `The Laugh of the Medusa'."  The Southern Communication Journal (Winter, 1992):  86-96.

"Coming to Terms with Recent Attempts to Write Women into the History of Rhetoric." Philosophy and Rhetoric 25, 2 (1992):  140-161.

"Recalculating the Relation of the Public and Technical Spheres."  Spheres of Argument.  Ed. Bruce Gronbeck. Annandale, VA:  SCA, 1989:  66-70.

"Rethinking the Rhetorical Situation from Within the Thematic of Differance."  Philosophy and Rhetoric 22 (1989): 110-130.

"Kenneth Burke's A Grammar of Motives:  Speculations on the Politics of Interpretation."  Rhetoric and Ideology:  Composition and Criticism of Power.  Ed. Charles Kneupper.  Arlington, Texas:  Rhetoric Society of America:  82-89.

Recordings and Other Publications

Article.  “Communication as Humanistic Inquiry:  An Action Plan for the 21st Century.”  Spectra (Newsletter of the National Communication Association) March 2006:  4.

Article.  “Update on ‘Communication as Humanistic Inquiry’ Initiative.”  Spectra (Newsletter of the National Communication Association) November 2005:  7. 

“The Enola Gay Controversy: The Politics of Experience or Truth Telling at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century.” BGSU Public Television Station.  November 29, 2005.

Book Reviews

“Review of Jacques Derrida’s Eyes of the University.”  Philosophy and Rhetoric 39, 3 (2006):  254-56.

“Review of Rhetorical Democracy.”  Rhetoric Review.  24.2 (April 2005). 

“Barbie Zelizer's Remembering to Forget:  Holocaust Memory Through the Camera's Eye.”  Journal of Communication.  Autumn 1999.  215-218.

"By Way of a Long and Circuitous Route:  Propaganda and Democracy and/as a Lesson in Effective History."  Critical Studies in Mass Communication 15, 4 (1998):  450-52.

Special Research and Service Awards
Travel Support.  Engaging Theory Conference.  University of South Carolina.  Columbia, S.C.  October 2008.  President’s Venture Fund.  University of Georgia.

Travel Support.  Sixth Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation.  Amsterdam.  The Netherlands.  June 2006.  International Programs.  University of Iowa.

Career Development Award.  Office of the Vice President for Research.  University of Iowa.  2006-2007 Academic Year.

Travel Support. Figures of Democracy.  Concordia University.  Montreal, Canada.  October 21-22, 2005.  International Programs.  University of Iowa.

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Summer Fellowship for Tenured Faculty ($7000.00).  Summer 2003.

Travel Support.  Fifth Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation.  Amsterdam.  The Netherlands.  June 2002.  College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Office of the Vice President for Research.  University of Iowa.

Developmental Assignment.  Spring 2000.  Office of the Provost.  University of Iowa.

Travel Award.  The Women in the Military Services Memorial.  Discretionary Funding Advisory Group.  University of Iowa.  March 1998.

Faculty Development Leave.  Office of the Provost.  University of Iowa.  Fall 1994.

Faculty Fellowship.  Interdisciplinary Study Group and Summer Seminar on "Internationalizing the Eurocentric Cannon."  Bridging Project in International Studies.  University of Iowa and Grinnell College.  August 1992-July 1993.

Old Gold Summer Fellowship.  University of Iowa.  1993.

Old Gold Summer Fellowship.  University of Iowa.  1991.

Faculty Fellowship.  The Scholars Workshop:  Narrative in the Human Sciences.  Co-coordinators Bruce Gronbeck and Michael C. McGee.  Iowa City, Iowa.  June 18-July 14, 1990.

Honorarium to co-coordinate (with Herbert Simons) the 11th Annual Temple Spring Conference.  "Rethinking Rhetoric and Communication:  What Can We Learn From Contemporary Interpretive and Critical Theory?"  Temple University Center.  April 1990.

Fellowship.  Thirteenth Summer Session of The School of Criticism and Theory at Dartmouth College.  June 18-July 28, 1989.

Invited Lectures and Seminars
Respondent and Participant.  “Theoretical Relationships.”  Day-long Preconference.  “Rhetoric and the Study of Public Memory.” National Communication Association Annual Convention.  San Diego, CA.  November 2008.

Seminar Leader.  “Contemporary Rhetorical Theory.” 2008 NCA Institute for Faculty Development (also known as the Hope Conference).  July 27-August 2, 2008.

Lecture.  “The Rhetoric and Ethics of WWII Remembrance:  The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.”  University of Pennsylvania:  Annenberg School of Communication.  5 October 2007.

2007 Pence Lecture.  “Resubjectivation at The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum:  Notes Toward a New Patriotism.”  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  12 April 2007.

Graduate Seminar on Kenneth Burke.  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  11 April 2007.

Plenary Speaker.  “Democracy and Rhetorical Studies.”  Indiana University.  Bloomington, Indiana.  12-14 January 2007.

Plenary Speaker. Conference:  Trope, Affect, and Democratic Subjectivity. The Center for Global Culture and Communication.  Northwestern University.  November 2-4, 2006.

Plenary Speaker.  “The History of Rhetoric and/as the Rhetoric of the Archive.”  New Rhetoric, New Histories.  POROI Conference. University of Iowa.  April 20-21, 2006.

Lecture and Undergraduate Seminar.  “The Enola Gay Controversy: The Politics of Experience or Truth Telling at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century.”  Bluffton College.  Forum Series.  November 29, 2005.

Position Paper and Participant.  Day Long Preconference Seminar:  Laclau, Lacan and Rhetoric.  National Communication Association Annual Convention.  Boston, MA.  November 16, 2005

Lecture and Graduate Seminar.  “The Enola Gay Controversy: The Politics of Experience or Truth Telling at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century.”  The University of Texas at Austin.  October 4-6, 2005.

Lecture and Seminar.  “No Time for Mourning:  9/11 and the Rhetorical Production of the Melancholic Citizen-Subject.”  Workshop on Rhetoric and Psychoanalysis.  Center for Transcultural Studies.  Northwestern University.  June 3-4, 2004.

Position Paper and Round-table Participant.  “Comparing Public Address and Cultural Studies:  A Roundtable Discussion.”  National Communication Association Annual Convention.  Miami Beach, FL.  November 2003.

Respondent and Participant.  Rhetorical Criticism/Theory:  A Critical Dialogue Concerning Liaisons, Unions, and Divorces. Day-Long Seminar.  Miami Beach, FL.  November 19, 2003.

Chair and Discussant.  2003-04 Obermann Humanities Symposium on Feminism and Film History. University of Iowa. Nov. 6-8, 2003.

Lecture. “Renovating the National Imaginary: Remembering World War II.” Cultural Frameworks for Civil Liberties.  A Lecture Series Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka.  University of Iowa. October 31, 2003.

Lecture and Seminar.  “Technologies of Truth and National Trauma, or, The Enola Gay Controversy and the Politics of Experience.”  Rhetorical Agencies and Political Imaginaries Summer Institute.  Center for Transcultural Studies.  Northwestern University.  June 23-26, 2003.

Keynote Address.  “Love and the Nation:  Gender Politics, Collective Memory and Neoliberalism at the Turn of the 21st Century.”  First Annual Graduate Student Conference in Communication Studies.  University of North Texas.  April 10-13, 2003.

Public Lecture and Graduate Seminar at the Robert Penn Warren Center.  “Love and the Nation:  Gender Politics, Collective Memory and Neoliberalism at the Turn of the 21st Century.”  Vanderbilt University.  Nashville, TN.  March 26-28, 2003.

Lecture and Graduate Seminar. “Love and the Nation:  The Gender Politics of Collective Remembering at the Turn of the 21st Century.”  Indiana University.  Bloomington, IN.  March 13-15, 2003.

Chair, Respondent, and Participant.  National Communication Association Pre-Conference Seminar.  Visual Culture in Action:  Visual Rhetorics of Public Affairs.  New Orleans, LA.  November 2002.

Plenary Speaker.  “Framing Public Memory.”  Syracuse University.  28-29 September 2001. 

Speaker.  Spotlight Panel on Cultural Studies and Argumentation.  The 14th NCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation .  Alta, Utah.  August 2001.

Coordinator and Co-leader (with Kenneth Cmiel).  Seminar on Visual Rhetorics.  "Material Memory:  Exhibitionary Rhetorics and Politics."  Visual Rhetorics Conference.  Indiana University.  6-8 September 2001.

Public Lecture.  "Renovating the National Imaginary:  A 'New' Body for the Patriotic Public Sphere."  English, Women's Studies, Communication Studies.  Arizona State University.  11-14 April 2001.

Paper.  "National Commemoration and Collective Re-membering for a new Millennium."  Visual Rhetorics Workshop.  Obermann Center for Advanced Research.  August 2000.

Participant.  "Closing Roundtable:  Culture, Criticism, Dialectics:  Engaging Kenneth Burke."  The Kenneth Burke Society's 4th Triennial Conference.  Iowa City, Iowa.  May 1999.

Co-chair and Round Table Discussion.  "On the Lookout, or, Visual Rhetorics and Rhetorical Visions." National Communication Association Annual Convention.  New York, New York.  November 1998.

Panelist.  "Scholarship Showcase:  Ramona Liera-Schwictenberg."  National Communication Association Annual Convention.  New York, New York.  November 1998.

Respondent.  "Plenary Session:  The Visual Representation of Politics."  'Public Address' in the Electronic Age.  Sixth Biennial Conference on Public Address.  The University of Iowa.  September 1998.

Chair.  "Story-Telling on the Boundary between Nature and Culture."  POROI Conference on the Role of Narrative Understanding in Various Dimensions of Life and Inquiry.  University of Iowa.  January 1998.

Featured Speaker.  "Teaching the New Body Politic(s):  Rhetoric, Postmodernity, and Performance."  Drake University Annual Spring Conference.  The Performance and Ethics of Pedagogy:  Cultural Work Within and Beyond the School.  March 1, 1997.

Featured Speaker.  "Postmodern Provocations:  The NEA Controversy and the New Body Politics."  Incorporations:  The Eventfulness of Rhetoric.  Critical Practice and Public Culture Conference.  University of Illinois at Champaign.  March 1996.

Paper and Round-Table Discussion.  "Communities in Transition:  The Problems and Possibilities of Reconstituting Rhetoric."  Pre-Conference Seminar coordinated by Douglas Thomas, Ann Chisholm, and Michael Leff.  Speech Communication Association Annual Convention.  New Orleans, Louisiana.  November 1994.

Public Lecture.  "The Feminization of Rhetoric."  University of North Carolina.  Chapel Hill, North Carolina.  April 1993

Public Lecture.  "Michel Foucault and the Question of Rhetoric."  University of Pittsburgh.  Pittsburgh, PA.  March 1992.

Paper.  "Affirming the 'Self' in the Face of the Radical Critique of Subjectivity:  A Rhetorical Intervention."  Seminar on The Problem of Affirmation in Cultural Theory.  Sponsored by the Society for Critical Exchange and Case Western Reserve University.  Cleveland, Ohio.  October 1991.

Paper and Public Debate.  "Kenneth Burke and the Sociality of Being."  Southern Speech Communication Association.  Tampa, Florida.  April 1991.

Paper.  "Rhetoric, Law, and Social Crises:  A Feminist Perspective."  President's Panel.  Central States Communication Association.  Chicago, Illinois.  April 1991.

Public Lecture and Seminar.  "Rhetoric, Feminism, and Social Change:  A Critical Analysis of the Contemporary Reproductive Rights Debate."  Northwestern University.  Evanston, Illinois.  March 1990.

Paper.  "Discussions and Interpretations of Particular Histories."  The Center for Rhetorical and Critical Theory.  Arlington, Texas.  October 1989.

International Competitively Selected Conference Presentations 
Paper.  “Memorializing in a Time of Terror:  A Case Study of Public Argument.”  6th International Conference on Argumentation.  University of Amsterdam.  The Netherlands.  June 27-30, 2006.

Chair.  “Political Argumentation:  Politics and Morality.”  6th International Conference on Argumentation.  University of Amsterdam.  The Netherlands.  June 27-30, 2006.

Paper, “The War on Terror, Citizenship and the Phantasmatic Politics of the ‘As If’.”  Figures of Democracy.  Concordia University.  Montreal, Canada.  October 21-22, 2005.

Chair.  “Figures Without Democracy.” Figures of Democracy.  Concordia University.  Montreal, Canada.  October 21-22, 2005.

Paper.  “On the Rhetorical Vicissitudes of National Belonging:  Revisiting ‘The Enola Gay.”  5th Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation.  Amsterdam.  The Netherlands.  June 2002.

Paper.  "A View on the Aesthetics and Politics of the Other."  Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society 3rd Annual Conference.  Washington, D.C.  November 1997.

National and Regional Competitively Selected Conference Presentations
Position Paper and Round-Table Discussion.  “Radical Political Action:  Contingency, Ontology, Communication.” National Communication Association Annual Convention.  San Diego, CA.  November 2008.

Respondent.  “Disciplinary Disobedience:  Thriving in the Interstitial Spaces of the ‘Inbetween’ While Imagining the ‘Possible.’” National Communication Association Annual Convention.  San Diego, CA.  November 2008.

Respondent.  “The Sign of the Human.” National Communication Association Annual Convention.  San Diego, CA.  November 2008.

Respondent.  “’Preaching to the Choir’ or How Political Pundits and Portestant Fundamentalists Address the Already Converted.”  National Communication Association Annual Convention.  San Diego, CA.  November 2008.

Respondent.  “Michel Foucault and the Question of Ethics.”  National Communication Association Annual Convention.  Chicago, IL. November 2007.

Respondent.  “A ‘Relativist Void’?:  Poststructuralism and the Question of Judgment in Rhetorical Theory.”  National Communication Association Annual Convention.  Chicago, IL.  November 2007.

Paper.  “Rhetorical Studies for the Contemporary World:  Take Two.”  National Communication Association Annual Convention.  Chicago, IL.  November 2007.

Paper.  “On the Contamination of the Evental and the Situational.”  National Communication Association Annual Convention.  San Antonio, TX.  November 2006.

Participant.  “Manuscript Rejection Letters:  A Readers’ Theatre.” National Communication Association Annual Convention.  San Antonio, TX.  November 2006.

Chair.  “Visualizing the Eventfulness of Place:  Media and Material Processes.”  National Communication Association Annual Convention.  San Antonio, TX.  November 2006.

Paper, “The Body, the Corpse, the Citizen:  Thresholds of National Existence and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.”  National Communication Association Annual Convention.  Boston, MA.  November 2005.

Co-Chair.  Special Double Session. “Lexicon-Rhetoricae Rediva; or Key Terms in Contemporary Rhetorical Studies:  Materiality, Visuality, Performance, and Politics.”  National Communication Association Annual Convention.  Boston, MA.  November 2005.

Paper. “Transnational Travels/Travails of Postcolonial Theory:  Feminizing History, Recuperating Political Agency in Female Infanticide in India.  National Communication Association Annual Convention.  Boston, MA.  November 2005.

Paper.  “Rhetoric, Materiality, and Modes of Remembrance:  Critical Reflections On the Subjectifying Promise of The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.”  14th Biennial Conference on Argumentation.  Alta, UT.  August 2005.

Paper.  “Reflections on the Current Status of Public Commemoration of the Nation-State.”  National Communication Association Annual Convention.  Chicago, IL.  November 2004.

Paper.  “Rhetoric, Corporeality, Memory:  A Case Study in Material Memory.”  National Communication Association Annual Convention.  Chicago, IL.  November 2004.

Paper.  “On the Limits of Collective Memory:  The Radical (Im)Possibilities of Remembering Conscientious Objectors to the ‘Good War’.”  National Communication Association Annual Convention.  Chicago, IL.  November 2004.

Position Paper.  “Critical Cultural Studies and the Institutional Calculus:  What’s Happened Since We Began?” Special Panel:  With Eyes Wide Open:  Moving and Looking, Evaluating Critical Cultural Studies.  National Communication Association Annual Convention.  Chicago, IL.  November 2004.

Paper.  “Truth-Telling at the Turn of the 21st Century:  The Enola Gay Controversy and the Politics of  Experience.”  9th Biennial Public Address Conference.  University of Maryland.  October 7-10, 2004.

Paper.  “No Time for Mourning:  The Rhetorical Production of the Melancholic Citizen-Subject in the Wake of 9/11.”  National Communication Association Annual Convention.  Miami Beach.  November 2003.

Paper.  “Collective Remembering and the Politics of Space: Feminism in/and the Rhetoric of Neoliberalism.” National Communication Association Annual Convention.  Miami Beach.  November 2003.

Position Paper and Seminar Participant.  “How ought we to understand the concept of rhetorical agency?”  Conference on the Status and Future of Rhetorical Studies.  Northwestern University.  September 11-14, 2003.

Paper. “Popular Memory and National Renewal:  Feminism and the Cultural Politics of World War II.” 15th NCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation.  July 31-August 3, 2003.

Paper.  “Love and the Nation:  The Reemergence of WWII and the Repositioning of Women in Contemporary American Culture.”  National Communication Association Annual Convention.  New Orleans.  November 2002.

Respondent.  Nice Neighbors:  Whiteness and the Visual Rhetorics of Suburban Space.”  National Communication Association Annual Convention.  New Orleans, LA.  November 2002.

Chair.  Theoretical Reflection on Rhetorical Culture.  National Communication Association Annual Convention.  New Orleans, LA.  November 2002.

Paper.  “It’s Really Not About Size”:  The National Imaginary and the Agency of the Object.”  Central States Communication Association Annual Convention.  Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  April 2002.

Paper.  “From the Archive to the Exhibit:  Technologies of National Transformation.”  National Communication Association Annual Convention.  Atlanta, Georgia.  November 2001.

Chair.  Common Spaces:  Community, Technology, and the Architecture of Cultural Landscapes.  National Communication Association Annual Convention.  Atlanta, Georgia.  November 2001.

Paper.  "William Jefferson Clinton and the Postmodern Primal Horde:  Gender, Sexuality, and Race in the Field of National Vision."  National Communication Association Convention.  Seattle, Washington.  November 2000.

Respondent.  "Under the Sign of Feminism:  Critical Approaches to Feminist Inquiry."  National Communication Association Annual Convention.  Seattle, Washington.  November 2000.

Chair.  "Securing the American Identity:  The Language of War and Politics in the Era of Globalization."  National Communication Association Annual Convention.  Seattle, Washington.  November 2000.

Respondent.  "Modernity and Social Order Made Legal and Visible."  Iowa Communication Association Conference.  Amana, Iowa.  September 2000.

Paper and Round Table Discussion.  "'Re-membering the Women Who Served':  The (Visual) Rhetoric of the New North American Nationalism."  Rhetoric Society of American Conference.  Washington, D.C.  May 2000.

Paper.  "Nationalism, Women, and the War-Machine:  Revisiting the Women in Military Service of America Memorial."  National Communication Association Annual Convention.  Chicago, Illinois.  November 1999.

Respondent.  "Women's Lives, Identities, and Rhetorical Appropriations."  National Communication Association Annual Convention.  Chicago, Illinois.  November 1999.

Paper.  "The 'New' North American Nationalism: Re-membering Women and the War-Machine."  The 12th NCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation .  Alta, Utah.  July 1999.

Seminar Participant and Presentation.  "The Rhetoric of the Seen."  The Kenneth Burke Society's 4th Triennial Conference.  Iowa City, Iowa.  May 1999.

Panelist.  "Teaching Feminism in Communication Courses:  A Roundtable Discussion."  National Communication Association Annual Convention.  New York, New York.  November 1998.

Respondent.  "Borders of Taste:  Sex, Violence, Scandal."  National Communication Association Annual Convention.  New York, New York.  November 1998.

Chair.  "Top Papers in Critical and Cultural Studies."  National Communication Association Annual Convention.  New York, New York.  November 1998.

Chair.  "The 'Other' Public Intellectual:  Feminism, Radical Politics, and the Transformation of the Social."  National Communication Association Annual Convention.  New York, New York.  November 1998.

Paper.  "Postmodernity and Human Agency."  National Communication Association Annual Convention.  Chicago, Illinois.  November 1997.

Moderator.  "Sharing the Wealth:  Roundtable Discussion on Rhetoric, Communication, and Critical/Cultural Studies."  National Communication Association Annual Convention.  Chicago, Illinois.  November 1997.

Chair.  "Kenneth Burke, Rhetoric, and Postmodern Culture."  National Communication Association Annual Convention.  Chicago, Illinois.  November 1997.

Chair.  "Theorizing Masculinity Across the Field:  An Intradisciplinary Conversation."  National Communication Association Annual Convention.  Chicago, Illinois.  November 1997.

Chair.  "Go Figure!  Or Speculations on the Rhetoric and (Cultural) Politics of the Body."  National Communication Association Annual Convention.  Chicago, Illinois.  November 1997.

Respondent.  "Postcolonial Studies/Communication Studies:  Tensions and Intersections."  National Communication Association Annual Convention.  Chicago, Illinois.  November 1997.

Paper.  "Rhetorical Ventriloquism:  Fantasy and/as American National Identity."  Tenth NCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation.  Alta, Utah.  August 1997.

Paper.  "Deviant Bodies Subverting the Same:  Rhetoric, Performativity, and the Politics of Visibility."  Speech Communication Association Annual Convention.  San Diego, California.  November 1996.

Paper.  "Against Caputo's Against Ethics."  Speech Communication Association Annual Convention.  San Diego, California.  November 1996.

Paper.  "Kenneth Burke's Impossible Supplement:  The Implications of Attitude for Philosophy."  Speech Communication Association Annual Convention.  San Diego, California.  November 1996.

Chair.  "Cyber-Sex, Gender, and Virtual Identities."  Speech Communication Association Annual Convention.  San Diego, California.  November 1996.

Respondent.  "Reprise:  Bitches, Babykillers, Jailbait and the New Anti-Feminist Rhetorics."  Speech Communication Association Annual Convention.  San Diego, California.  November 1996.

Paper and Round Table Discussion.  "Kenneth Burke's Ontology."  Central States Speech Communication Association.  Minneapolis, Minnesota.  April 1996.

Paper.  "Rescuing the 'Young Science':  Reading the Phantasmatic Structure of Freud's The New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis."  Speech Communication Association Annual Convention.  San Antonio, Texas.  November 1995.

Paper.  "On the Complexity of a Simple Motive:  Taking A Grammar of Motives into the 21st Century."  Speech Communication Association Annual Convention.  San Antonio, Texas.  November 1995.

Chair.  "Do Me, Don't Me, Just Don't Forget Me:  Histories, Heroes, Hostilities and the Rhetoric of Third Wave Feminism."  Speech Communication Association Annual Convention.  San Antonio, Texas.  November 1995.

Paper.  "From Effect to Affect:  On the Importance of Psychoanalysis for Rhetorical Theory and Criticism in a Postmodern Age."  Speech Communication Association Annual Convention.  New Orleans, Louisiana.  November 1994.

Respondent.  "Drawing Rhetorical Theoretical and Critical Implications for Historical Feminine Public Address."  Speech Communication Association Annual Convention.  New Orleans, Louisiana.  November 1994.

Chair.  "American Feminism and Community."  Speech Communication Association Annual Convention.  New Orleans, Louisiana.  November 1994

Paper.  "From Contingency to Radical Possibility:  Speculations on the Eventfulness of Rhetoric."  Speech Communication Association Annual Convention.  Miami, Florida.  November 1993.

Paper.  Co-authored with James P. McDaniel.  "From the Womanization to the Feminization of Rhetoric."  Speech Communication Association Annual Convention.  Miami, Florida.  November 1993.

Paper.  "New Directions for the Study of the Personal, Technical, and Public Spheres of Argument."  Woolbert Award Panel.  Speech Communication Association Annual Convention.  Miami, Florida.  November 1993.

Respondent.  "Constructing A Rhetorical History of Feminine Public."  Speech Communication Association Annual Convention.   Miami, Florida.  November 1993.

Chair.  "Feminist Challenges to Rhetorical Theory."  Speech Communication Association Annual Convention.  Miami, Florida.  November 1993.

Chair.  "The Changing Nature of Public/Private Spheres of Argument in Political Rhetoric."  The Eighth SCA/AFA  Conference on Argumentation.  Alta, Utah.  August 1993.

Respondent.  "Rethinking Pragmatism:  New Approaches to Texts and the Rhetorical Situation."  Joint Southern and Central States Communication Association Conference.  Lexington, Kentucky.  April 1993.

Respondent.  "Uncompromising Positions:  Rhetoric and the Visual Imaging of Women."  Joint Southern and Central States Communication Association Conference.  Lexington, Kentucky.  April 1993.
 
Paper.  "Read My (two) Lips:  Luce Irigaray and the Rhetorical Construction of Women's Identity."  Speech Communication Association Annual Convention.  Chicago, Illinois.  November 1992.

Paper.  "Rhetoric, Desire, and Postmodernism."  The Eighth SCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation.  Alta, Utah.  August 1993. 

Paper.  "Rhetoric, Feminist Theory and Postmodernism."  Joint Southern and Central States Communication Association Conference.  Lexington, Kentucky.  April 1993.

Chair.  "Representations of Woman/Women and the History of Rhetoric:  Classical Rhetorical Theory and Practice."  Speech Communication Association Annual Convention.  Chicago, Illinois.  November 1992.

Respondent.  "'Speaking' the Body:  Communication's Role in Reclaiming Subjectivity and Identity."  Speech Communication Association Annual Convention.  Chicago, Illinois.  November 1992.

Paper.  "Kenneth Burke and Cultural Studies:  On the Question of Rhetorical Agency."  Rhetoric Society of America Conference.  Minneapolis, Minnesota.  May 1992.

Paper.  "On Pure Motive and Historical Intervention:  Revisiting Kenneth Burke's A Grammar of Motives."  Eastern Communication Association Conference.  Portland, Maine.  April 1992.

Paper.  "The Rhetoric of the New French Feminists."  Speech Communication Association Convention.  Atlanta, Georgia.  November 1991.

Respondent.  "Feminist Approaches to the History of Rhetoric."  Speech Communication Association Annual Convention.  Atlanta, Georgia.  November 1991.

Moderator.  "Postmodern Views of Apate."  The International Society for the History of Rhetoric--American Branch.  Pre-Conference.  Atlanta, Georgia.  October 1991.

Respondent.  "Pluralism and Ethics:  Contemporary Applications of Kenneth Burke and Wayne Booth."  Iowa Communication Association Conference.  Coralville, Iowa.  September 1991.

Paper.  "Speculations on a Feminist History of Rhetoric:  Toward a `New' Concept of Techne."  Canadian Society for the History of Rhetoric.  Toronto, Canada.  May 1991.

Respondent.  "Open Letters/Covert Operations:  Rhetorical Readings of Iran Contra." Symposium on Rhetorics as Politics:  Discourses Civic and Academic.  Iowa City, Iowa.  April 1991.

Paper.  "The Technological Invasion of the Body and its Implications for the Reproductive Rights Debate:  A Feminist Perspective."  Eastern Communication Association.  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  April 1991.

Paper.  "Rhetoric, Feminism, and the Consolidation of the Subject."  Speech Communication Association Convention.  Chicago, Illinois.  November 1990.

Paper.  "Techne, Kairos and the Possibility of Rhetorical Intervention."  International Society for the History of Rhetoric--American Branch.  Chicago, Illinois.  October 1990.

Paper.  "Rhetoric, Feminisms and the Social:  Towards the Possibility of Social Change."  Eastern Communication Association Annual Meeting.  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  April 1990.

Chair.  "Dimensions of the Discursive Power/Knowledge Structure:  A Feminist Revisioning of Rhetorical and Communication Theory."  Speech Communication Association Convention.  Chicago, Illinois.  November 1990.

Public Lecture.  "Narratizing the Subject of History:  From Identity to Positionality."  Narrative in the Human Sciences Symposium Conference.  Iowa City, Iowa.  July 1990.

Paper.  "The Cultural Politics of Kenneth Burke."  CCC Convention.  Chicago, Illinois.  March 1990.

Respondent.  "Feminism and the History of Rhetoric."  The International Society for the History of Rhetoric--American Branch.  San Francisco, California.  November 1989.

Paper.  "Recalculating the Relation of the Public and Technical Spheres."  The Sixth SCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation.  Alta, Utah.  August 1989.

Paper.  "Articulating the Public Sphere:  Kenneth Burke and the Economy of the Social."  Summer Institute on Culture and Society.  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  June 1989.

Paper.  "Women In/And the History of Rhetoric."  Summer Institute on Culture and Society.  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  June 1988. 

Paper.  "Working from Within the History of Rhetoric:  A Feminist Intervention."  Eastern Communication Association Conference.  Baltimore, Maryland.  May 1988.

Chair.  "Papers in Rhetoric and Public Address."  Eastern Communication Association Conference.  Syracuse, New York.  May 1987.

TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA

Teaching Assignments (Since 1990)

101  This course is well planned and organized
316  The instructor seemed interested in teaching this course
601  My critical thinking skills have improved because of this class
107  I am motivated to do my best work in this course
* Team-Taught Course

Students Supervised

*School of English, Media and Art History, University of Queensland (Supervisor:  Prof. Joan Mulholland)
**2005 Critical and Cultural Studies Division’s Dissertation of the Year Award, National Communication Association
***2006 Critical and Cultural Studies Division’s Dissertation of the Year Award, National Communication Association 

Undergraduate Honor Theses

Other Contributions to Instructional Programs
Special Workshops, Seminars, and Lectures
Presentation.  “The Job Interview.”  Professional Development.  Department of Speech Communication.  University of Georgia.  October 2008.

Presentation. “Rhetoric and Ethics at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.”  Department Seminar.  Communication Studies.  October 2007.

Coordinator.  Department Seminar.  Communication Studies.  Fall 2005-Spring 2006.

Presentation.  “The Rhetoric of the War on Terror.”  Teach In:  15 Minutes to Stop the War.  University of Iowa.  22 March 2006.

Participant.  Round-Table.  “Zizek:  The Movie.”  University of Iowa.  18 February 2006.

Faculty Co-Leader.  Evaluating Oral Presentations.  TA Training/Workshop.  Communication Studies.  August 2005.

Presentation. Student Problems.  TA Training/Workshop.  Communication Studies.  August 2003, August 2004, August 2005.

Paper. “Technologies of Truth and National Trauma, or, The Enola Gay Controversy and the Politics of Experience.”  POROI Seminar.  University of Iowa.  October 21, 2004.

Presentation.  “No Time for Mourning.”  Department Seminar.  Communication Studies.  February 2004.

Presentation.  “Re-membering World War II for the Multicultural Millennium.”  Departmental Seminar.  Communication Studies.  October 2001.

Presentation.  "What is Culture?"  Departmental Seminar.  Communication Studies.  November 2000.

Full-day Workshop on teaching for Returning Graduate Instructors.   Professional Development Program.  Rhetoric Department.  August 1995, 1999.

Chair.  Professional Development Program.  Rhetoric Department. 1997-98.

Paper and Round Table Discussion.  "On the Future of Rhetorical Studies."  Seminar Series.  Communication Studies Department.  University of Iowa.  Spring 1996.

Honors Lectures. "Revisiting Antigone:  Rhetoric, The Family, and the State."  Prophecy and Politics.  University of Iowa.  Fall 1995.

Presentation.  "A Critique of Against Postmodernism."  Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry Faculty Seminar.  University of Iowa.  January 1991.
 
Curriculum Development Committees
Member.  Committee to Revise Rhetoric GER Curriculum.  Rhetoric Department.  Spring 1999.

Chair and Member.  Committee for the Development of an Undergraduate Certificate in Rhetoric.  Rhetoric Department.  Fall 1997-Fall 1999.

Faculty Director.  Reader Committee.  Rhetoric Department.  1991-1992.

Curriculum Development at Iowa:  Graduate

Seminar in Public Address:  The Rhetoric of 9/11 and the War on Terror

Graduate course in Practical Criticism

Graduate course in Foucault

Graduate course in 20th Century Rhetorical Theory and Criticism

Seminar in Contemporary Social Controversy (team-taught with David Hingstman)

Seminar in Visual Rhetorics

Seminar in Contemporary Rhetorical Theory:  On the Question of Agency

Seminar in Rhetoric, Postmodernity, and Performance:  The New Body Politic(s)  

Seminar in Rhetoric and The 'New' French Feminisms

Rhetoric and Poststructuralism

Independent Study:  Collective Memory (two Communication Studies graduate students)

Independent Study:  Collective Memory and National Identity (one Communication Studies graduate student)

Independent Study:  The Work of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (two Communication Studies graduate students)

Independent Study:  Contemporary Theories of Rhetoric (one Communication Studies Graduate student)

Independent Study:  On the Question of Agency II (four Communication Studies graduate students)

Independent Study:  Reading Burke and the Body for Rhetoric (one Communication Studies graduate student)

Independent Study:  Irigaray on the Body and Style (one Communication Studies graduate student)

Special Project for Graduate Students:  Psychoanalysis and Rhetoric (four Communication Studies graduate students)

Special Project for Graduate Students:  Reading Derrida for Rhetoric (seven Communication Studies graduate students)

Special Project for Graduate Students:  Rhetoric and Nationalism (one Communication Studies graduate student)

Curriculum Development at Iowa:  Undergraduate
Communication and Contemporary Culture
Feminist Critical Practice
Visual Rhetorics
Twentieth Century Rhetorical Criticism and Theory
Foundations of Contemporary Rhetorical Theory and Criticism

SERVICE
Offices, Committees and Memberships in Professional and Learned Societies
Director [on behalf of NCA Research Board].  Communication Studies as Humanistic Inquiry:  A Conference and Whitepaper. Funded project to produce a White Paper and a brochure.  Fall 2004-Winter 2007.

Appointed Member.  Research Board.  National Communication Association.  November 2003-2006.

Appointed Member.  National Communication Association Committee to Select Executive Director.  Fall 2003.

Chair.  National Communication Association Golden Anniversary Monograph Awards. 2002.

Appointed Member.  National Communication Association Golden Anniversary Monograph Awards.  2001.

Appointed Member (appointed by the President of NCA).  Constitutional Review Task Force.  National Communication Association.  February 2000-November 2003.

Member.  Advisory Board for new NCA journal in Critical and Cultural Studies.  Spring 2001-Fall 2003.

Member.  Legislative Council, National Communication Association.  1997-1999.

Program Planner and Member of Invited Speaker's Committee.  Kenneth Burke Society Biannual Conference. August 1998-May 1999.

Member. National Communication Association Nominating Committee.  1998-1999.

Member.  National Communication Association Resolutions Committee.  1998-1999.

Appointed Member (selected by the First Vice-President).  Sliding Scale Dues Task Force. National Communication Association.  1998-1999.
 
Chair.  Critical and Cultural Studies Division.  National Communication Association.  1997-1998.

Vice-Chair and National Convention Program Planner.  Critical and Cultural Studies Division.  National Communication Association.  1996-1997.

Member.  Steering Committee to Establish New Division of National Speech Communication Association.  1995-1996.

Secretary.  Feminist and Women's Studies Division.  National Communication Association.  1995-1997.

Appointed Unit Program Planner of The Dimension Series.  National Communication Association Annual Meeting.  1995.

Member.  Committee on Teaching and Research.  Feminist and Women's Studies Division.  National Communication Association.  1994-1995.

Elected Member.  Executive Committee.  International Society for the History of Rhetoric--American Branch. 1990-1991.

Member.  National Communication Association.  1984-present.

Member.  Rhetoric Society of America.  2000-present.

Member.  International Society for the Study of Argumentation.  2000-present.

Member.  Kenneth Burke Society. 1990-2000.

Special Travel and Conference Funding
NCA Travel Grant to attend The National Humanities Alliance Humanities Advocacy Day (as NCA Research Board Representative).  Washington, D.C.  March 1-2, 2006.

NCA Travel Grant to attend the Annual NCA Strategic Planning Session.  Washington, D.C.  January 25-28, 2006.

NCA Travel Grant to attend The National Humanities Alliance Humanities Advocacy Day (as NCA Research Board Representative).  Washington, D.C.  March 14 - March 16, 2004.

NCA Travel Grant to attend the Annual NCA Strategic Planning Session.  Washington, D.C.  January 29, 2003 - February 1, 2004.

NCA Travel Grant to attend the second meeting of the National Communication Association's Constitutional Revision Task Force. Washington, D.C.  August 2000.

Support from the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University to co-host the Visual Rhetorics Summer Workshop at the Obermann Center for Advanced Research.  August 3-6, 2000.

NCA Travel Grant to attend the meeting of the National Communication Association's Constitutional Revision Task Force.  Sacramento, Ca.  February 2000.

Support to co-host the Visual Rhetorics Summer Workshop at the Obermann Center for Advanced Research.  August 3-6, 2000.  Vice President of Research, Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, E. Craig Baird Fund, Rhetoric Department.   University of Iowa.

Support to attend Ntitle Faculty Workshop:  New Technology in the Learning Environment.  Center for Teaching, University Libraries, and Information Technologies Services.  University of Iowa.  August 1997.

Department

Area Head.  Rhetorical Studies.  UGA.  Fall 2008-Spring 2009.

Member.  Undergraduate Affairs Committee.  UI.  2007-2008.

Member.  Search Committee.  Tenure Track Position in Gender and/or Sexuality.  UI.  Fall 2007.

Chair.  Becker Lecture. UI.  Fall 2005-Spring 2006.

Chair, Search Committee.  Tenure Track Position in Rhetoric and Social Movements. UI.  Fall 2004-Spring 2005.

Elected Member.  Executive Committee.  UI.  Fall 2003-Spring 2006.

Coordinator.  Qualifying Examinations.  UI.  Fall 1999, 2000, 2003.

Member, Graduate Affairs Committee. UI.  Fall 1999; Fall 2000-Spring 2001, Fall 2002-Spring 2003.

Member.  Samuel Becker Distinguished Lecture Series.  UI.  Fall 2000-present.

Chair.  Search Committee.  Tenure Track Position in Public Address and Public Culture.  UI.  Fall 2002-Spring 2003.

Coordinator.  Four year teaching plan for Rhetorical Studies.  UI.  Spring 2002, Spring 2003.

Member.  Search Committee for Tenure Track Position in Critical Organizational Communication. UI.  Fall 2001-Spring 2002.

Coordinator.  Recruitment under Provost's Minority Initiative.  Rhetoric Department.  UI.  Spring 2001.

Coordinator (with Bruce Gronbeck) to revise Qualifying Exam Guidelines Document for entering graduate students. UI.  Fall 2000-Spring 2001.

Referee.   Rhetoric Department Undergraduate Speaking Award.  UI.  Spring/Summer 2001.

Director.  Speaking Lab.  Rhetoric Department.  UI.  Fall 2000-Spring 2001.

Member.  Search Committee for Tenure Track Position in Rhetoric.  Rhetoric Department.  UI.  Fall 1999-Spring 2000.

Associate Chair.  Rhetoric Department. UI.  1998-99.

Director of Student Affairs.  Rhetoric Department. UI.  1998-99.

Member.  Search Committee for Tenure Track Position in Rhetoric and Technology. UI.  1997-1998.

Elected Member.  Executive Committee.  Rhetoric Department. 1998-1999, 1997-1998, UI.  1991-1992.

Speech Supervisor.  Rhetoric Department. UI.  1998-1999, 1997-1998, 1996-1997, 1995-1996.

Member.  Search Committee for Tenure Track Position.  Rhetoric Department.  UI.  Fall 1995-Spring 1996.

College

Member.  POROI Board of Directors.  UI.  2006-2008.

Member.  Steering Committee.  Conference on Histories of Rhetoric. UI.  April 20-22, 2006.  Fall 2005-Spring 2006.

Member.  Steering Committee.  Crossing Borders Program. UI.  Fall 2001-Fall 2004.

Intellectual Buddy.  International Forum for U.S. Studies.  UI.  Spring 1999.

Member.  May Brodbeck Humanities Fellowship Award Committee.  UI.  1998.

Member.  Search Committee for Tenure Track Position in Women's Studies.  UI.  Fall 1993-Spring 1994.

Co-coordinator.  Feminist Reading Group. Women's Studies Program.  UI.   Spring 1994.

Member.  Committee for Nomination of an Ida Beam Lecturer. Rhetoric Department. UI.  1993.

Co-Director.  POROI Faculty Book Seminar. UI.  1991-1992.

University
Alternate. Faculty Assembly. 2000-2001.
Appointed Member. Undergraduate Presidential Scholarship Award. 2001.
Elected Member.  Faculty Senate.  1992-1995.

Profession

Referee.  Feminist and Women’s Studies Division.  National Communication Association 2008 Convention.

Referee.  Critical Cultural Studies Division.  National Communication Association 2007 Convention.

Referee.  Critical Cultural Studies Division.  National Communication Association 2006 Convention.

Member. National Communication Association 2005 Woolbert Award Committee.

Coordinator.  National Communication Association 2005 Woolbert Award Panel.

Coordinator and Chair.  Day-Long Seminar:  Communication as Humanistic Inquiry Initiative:  Toward a Whitepaper.  November 17, 2005.

Referee.  Critical Cultural Studies Division.  National Communication Association 2005 Convention.

Coordinator and Chair [on behalf of NCA Research Board].  National Communication Association Day-Long Preconference Seminar:  Funding Humanities Research.  Chicago, Illinois, November 10, 2004.

Member.  NCA Woolbert Award.  2004, 2005.

Referee.  Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division.  National Communication Association 2004 Convention.

Referee.  Critical Cultural Studies Division.  National Communication Association 2002 Convention. 

Referee.  Rhetoric Society of America Biannual Convention. 2001. 

Referee. Critical Cultural Studies Division.  National Communication Association 2001 Convention.

Web-master.  Fall 2001 Visual Rhetorics Conference.  Co-sponsored by the National Communication Association (http://www.uiowa.edu/%/ecomstud/visualrhetoric).

Co-Coordinator (with John Lucaites, Indiana University).  Fall 2001 Visual Rhetorics Conference.  Cosponsored by the National Communication Association.  Indiana University.  September 2001.

Co-Coordinator (with John Lucaites, Indiana University).  Visual Rhetorics Workshop.  Iowa City, Iowa.  Conference August 3-6, 2000.

Referee.  Rhetoric Society of America Biannual Convention. 1999.

Member.  Steering Committee.  Cultural Politics Summer Conference.  National Communication Association.  Iowa City, Iowa.  Spring 1999-Summer 2000.

Referee.  Critical and Cultural Studies Division.  National Communication Association 2000 Annual Convention.

Referee.  Feminist and Women's Studies Division.  National Communication Association 1999 Annual Convention.

Referee.  Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division.  National Communication Association 1999 Annual Convention.

Co-editor of Book Series (with Michael McGee and John Sloop).  Polemics: The Possibilities for Rhetoric in the Twenty First Century.  Westview Press.  1992-2000.

Program Planner and Member of Invited Speaker's Committee.  Kenneth Burke Society Biannual Conference.  August 1997-May 1998.

Referee.  Feminist and Women's Studies Division.  Speech Communication Association 1996 Annual meeting.

Referee.  Rhetoric and Communication Theory Division.  The Central States Communication Association 1994 Conference. 

Referee.  Rhetoric and Communication Theory Division.  The Joint Central and Southern States Communication Association 1993 Convention.         

Referee.  Rhetoric and Communication Theory Division.  Speech Communication association 1991 Annual Convention.