Matthew Jackson Weiss
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| My current research
interests
have developed around a fascination with three main things: the history
(and historiography) of rhetoric, theories of audience and
distribution, and the
role of various media and writing technologies in shaping conventions
and philosophies of rhetorical interaction. I am especially
interested in Publics Theory (both the history and application
thereof), periodic publication (from the newsbooks of the 1640s to the
blogs of today...and not much in between), and disjunctions between the
perception and the reality of audience. Other Research-related activities: I was awarded a 2008-2009 Fellowship with the Center for Democratic Deliberation at Penn State, which will allow me to have the Spring semester off from teaching, as well as giving me access to a number of other resources. I helped to organize the 2007 Penn State Rhetoric Conference, the theme of which was Rhetorical Technologies. As the conference assistant, I mostly helped with things like planning the program, organizing panels, publicizing the conference, etc. This relates to my research, though, in that it was one of my first interactions with some of the foremost scholars in the field of Rhetoric and Technology...it was pretty exciting. My Graduate Course Work: Fall 2007 Feminist Rhetorics- Cheryl Glenn Historicisms- Rob Hume Spring 2007 English Online- Stuart Selber Rhetoric and Public Memory- Stephen Browne Fall 2006 Rhetoric and Identity- Cheryl Glenn English Literature 1660-1800- Rob Hume Theory and Teaching of Composition- Jennifer Edbauer Spring 2006 Literacy Technologies- Stuart Selber Comparative Enlightenment- Clem Hawes and Joan Landes Creditable Women- Deb Clarke Fall 2005 Kenneth Burke- Jack Selzer Histories and Historiographies of Rhetoric- Cheryl Glenn Renaissance Rhetoric- Ryan Stark Spring 2005 The Rhetoric of bell hooks and Cornell West- Keith Gilyard and Elaine Richardson Shakespeare in World Culture- Linda Woodbridge Rhetoric and Pragmatism- Jack Selzer Fall 2004 Research Materials and Methodologies- Michael Berube Whiteness in American Literature- Linda Selzer Theory and Teaching of Composition- Ryan Stark Here are some materials I prepared for my seminar on British Literature, 1660-1800: Article Assessment (And the Article Assessed) Book Review Bibliographic Essay Mock Dissertation Proposal And if you want to go this far back, here is a link to my Undergraduate Thesis, which won an award for best thesis in the English department at Haverford College. The essay examined The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, discussed the (then fairly new) work of Vincent Carretta, and attempted to theorize the use of anecdotes as an historical narrative device. |
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