2012 Rhetoric and Public Address Sessions

2201       AMERICAN INDIAN RHETORIC

9:00am – 3:00pm              Saturday, February 18    Fiesta I

Although rhetoric and public address are now committed to the study of previously ignored voices, and numerous essays have been published in our lead journals studying the rhetoric of many historically marginalized groups, there appears to be a dearth of studies on Native Americans. With a few notable exceptions, sustained attention to the rhetorical challenges posed by the continuing colonization of Indian Country is lacking. As the Western States Communication Association meets in New Mexico, a geographical location inhabited by Native Americans for at least 10,000 years, this pre-conference workshop seeks to address this lack of attention, foregrounding Native American rhetoric and the unique rhetorical constraints faced by, and resources available to, advocates of justice for the first peoples. The workshop will combine invited presentations from scholars with extensive and active research programs centering on American Indian rhetoric, with performance and round-table discussions of short position papers by participants.

Featured Scholars and Artists:

• Oscar Giner, Arizona State University
• Casey Kelly, Butler University
• Catherine H. Palczewski, University of Northern Iowa

3205       THE LEGACY OF DEFEAT IN AMERICAN POLITICS: RHETORICAL TRAJECTORIES AND THE FAILED PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS OF GEORGE WALLACE, GEORGE MCGOVERN AND GEORGE H. W. BUSH

8:45 – 10:00        Sunday, February 19       Enchantment A

Chair: Dayle Hardy-Short, Northern Arizona University

• “For the Needy Shall Not Always be Forgotten”: Electoral Fortunes and the Bushes’ Shifting Characterizations of the Poor — Ronald Lee, Karen Lee, University of Nebraska Lincoln
• The Intertextual Legacy of George Wallace: How the 1968 Presidential Campaign Changed Reactionary Rhetoric — Ben Krueger, Winona State University
• The Beginning of the End of the New Deal: The Rhetorical Legacy of George McGovern’s 1972 Campaign for the Presidency — Brant Short, Northern Arizona University

Respondent: Tom Hollihan, University of Southern California

3208       EMERGING SCHOLARS IN RHETORIC AND PUBLIC ADDRESS

8:45 – 10:00        Sunday, February 19       Enchantment D

Chair: Diane Keeling, University of Colorado Boulder

• Overboard: A Fantasy Theme Analysis of Tea Party Rhetoric* — Ashley Ford, California State University Long Beach
• Heteronormative Enthymemes: Unspoken Assumptions About the Child in Proposition 8 Commercials* — Jared Bressler, Texas Tech University
• Obama at Notre Dame: The Comic Frame in Moral Argument* — Amy M. S. Schultz, San Diego State University
• The Rhetoric of Revelation in Advocacy for Social Change: Correcting Consumers — Megan G. Bernard, Northwestern University

Respondent: Kevin T. Jones, George Fox University

* Debut Paper

3308       TOP FOUR PAPERS IN RHETORIC AND PUBLIC ADDRESS

10:15 – 11:30      Sunday, February 19       Enchantment D

Chair: Chuck Goehring, San Diego State University

• Negotiating Polarization in Discourses of Terrorism, Race, and the Environment: The Generative Possibilities of Dialectical Disorientation* — Elizabeth Dickinson, Salem College — Karen A. Foss, University of New Mexico — Yea-Wen Chen, Ohio University
• Discursive and Presentational Dimensions of Order in the Work of Kenneth Burke — Jennifer Asenas, California State University Long Beach — Karen Rasmussen, California State University Long Beach
• Beyond the Personal: The Coalitional Possibility of Radically Interactional Rhetoric — Karma R. Chávez, University of Wisconsin Madison
• Striving For a Ten-hour Work Day: Sarah G. Bagley and Proto-Consciousness-Raising** — Isaac Clarke Holyoak, Texas A&M University

Respondent: Daniel Brouwer, Arizona State University

*Top Paper, Rhetoric and Public Address Interest Group   **Top Student Paper, Rhetoric and Public Address Interest Group

3508       CORPOREAL DISINTEGRATION IN THE FIELD OF RHETORICAL CRITICISM

1:00 – 2:15           Sunday, February 19       Enchantment D

Chair: Greg Dickinson, Colorado State University

• The Critic of the Body/The Body of the Critic — Daniel C. Brouwer, Arizona State University
• Through the Mundane, A Community Lives — Christina Colp-Hansbury, Arizona State University
• The Rhetorical Potential of Acknowledgment in Critical Ethnography — Christine Garlough, University of Wisconsin
• Risk and Reward in Critical Rhetorical Ethnography — Michele L. Hammers, Loyola Marymount University
• Accessing the Material, Embodied, and Everyday Discourses of Rhetorical Communities — Michael K. Middleton, University of Utah — Samantha Senda-Cook, Creighton University — Danielle Endres, University of Utah
• On the Intermingling of Bodies and Rhetorical Situations — Elizabeth Richard, St. Louis University

3605       THE RHETORICAL CONSTRUCTION OF BODIES AND IDENTITIES

2:30 – 3:45           Sunday, February 19       Enchantment A

• Rhetoric, Rapture, and Mysticism: A Rhetorical Ethnography of Bodies in the Women’s Locker Room — Allison Rowland, University of Colorado Boulder
• Before Toddlers & Tiaras: Better Baby Contests and the Ideal Pageant Subject — Mia E. Briceño, The Pennsylvania State University
• Negotiating Negation: Constructing Ideologies from the Silenced Voices in the Case of Tyler Clementi — Vanessa Brandon, Siobhan Kilbride, Alexis Pulos, University of New Mexico
• Strings and Magnets: The Rhetoric of Role Construction in Mitt Romney’s “Faith in America” Address — Sky L. Anderson, Colorado State University

Respondent: Derek Sweet, Luther College

3608       RELIGION AND PUBLIC ADDRESS

2:30 – 3:45           Sunday, February 19       Enchantment D

Chair: Karen Rasmussen, California State University Long Beach

• Mormonism’s Ideology of Perfectionism and the Language of Certitude — Myra Nichole Roberts, Oregon State University
• Universalization, Dormant in the Mind of Osteen: The Failed Attempt of Universalizing Religious Ideals Through Presence — Cassie Costantini, California State University Sacramento
• In Her Name We Pray: Public Argument, the Gnostic Gospels, and Feminist Argument — Nicholas A. Russell, California State University Long Beach — Michael K. Middleton, University of Utah
• The Prophetic Rhetor: Joel Salatin and His Movement to Liberate Libertarian Christians from the Sinful Industrialization of Communion — Shannon Jones, University of Utah

Respondent: Valerie Renegar, San Diego State University

3708       RHETORIC, NARRATIVE, & PUBLIC MEMORY

4:00 – 5:15           Sunday, February 19       Enchantment D

Chair: Julie Homchick, Western Washington University

• “Reaching Out”: A Visual Narrative of Women Helping Women — Erin Potts, University of Utah
• Indian School Park in Phoenix: Blended Memories, Muted Memories — Marie-Louise Paulesc, Arizona State University
• Towards Making Shoah Memory a Productive Element of U.S. Public Discourse — David Worthington, DePauw University
• “We Got Him”: Mythical Criticism and the Role of Revenge in the bin Laden Raid — Megan McFarlane, University of Utah

Respondent: Teresa Bergman, University of the Pacific

4108       RHETORIC’S MATERIALITY:  SPATIALITY, EMBODIMENT, AND AFFECT

8:00 – 9:15           Monday, February 20     Enchantment D

Chair: Greg Dickinson, Colorado State University

• Why Matter Matters: Redefining Rhetoric — Brian L. Ott, University of Colorado Denver — Greg Dickinson, Colorado State University
• World War II’s Assaults on the Commemorative Landscape of World War I: Exigencies and Practices of Materiality — Carole Blair, V. William Balthrop, University of North Carolina — Neil Michel, Axiom Photo Design
• Bodily Materiality: The Subversive Performances of Diogenes the Cynic — Marilyn DeLaure, University of San Francisco
• The Affectivity of Rhetoric and Competing Visions of the U.S. Civic Imaginary — D. Robert DeChaine, California State University Los Angeles

4405       MULTIPLE USES OF THE <IDEOGRAPH>

2:15 – 3:30           Monday, February 20     Enchantment A

Chair: Kevin T. Jones, George Fox University

• The SuperAntihero and the Black Widow: Icons, Visual Ideographs, and Style in Rodriguez’s Sin City* — Ryan Castillo, California State University Long Beach
• The Regeneration of Robert Emmet as Ideograph and the Rhetorical Leadership of the Irish Martyr — Margaret McCue-Enser, University of Saint Catherine
• Protecting Marriage? An Ideographic Analysis of ProtectMarriage.com* — Bobbi J. Van Gilder, California State University Long Beach
• “Real America”: Sarah Palin’s <Anti-Intellectualism> and the Rhetoric of the Tea Party — Thomas McCloskey, Southwestern Community College

Respondent: Carl R. Burgchardt, Colorado State University

* Debut Paper

4408       CITIZENSHIP AND REMEMBRANCE: (RE)COLLECTING U.S. NATIONAL IDENTITIES

2:15 – 3:30           Monday, February 20     Enchantment D

Chair & Respondent: John M. Ackerman, University of Colorado Boulder

• “Bigger, Better, and Stronger than Before”: Collective Memory, National Identity, and the Resilient American — Katherine Cruger, Chatham University
• Hauntings and Highways: (Mis)remembering Indigenous People Within the Nation — Christy-Dale L. Sims, University of Colorado Boulder
• The Politics of Mourning and Commemorating the Death of U.S. Soldiers: A Juxtaposition of the Arlington National Cemetery and the Arlington West Memorial — Bryan Thomas Walsh, Indiana University

4505       TRANSFORMATIVE CRITICISM: IDEAL THEORIES AND INNOVATIVE METHODS

3:45 – 5:00           Monday, February 20     Enchantment A

Chair: Derek Sweet, Luther College

• Buying Consciousness: Conscious Consumerism as Rhetorical Style — Jessie Stewart, Colorado State University
• Transecting Rhetorical Field Methods: Doing Rhetorical Criticism on a Plane of Immanence — George F. McHendry, Jr., Michael K. Middleton, University of Utah — Samantha Senda-Cook, Creighton University — Danielle Endres, Megan O’Byrne, University of Utah
• Exploring Ideal Theory: Good Will, Transformation and Power in Public Deliberation — Steven K. Herro, College of Southern Nevada
• The Archivist and The Autobiographer: Wayne Booth and His Many Selves — Chris Ingraham, University of Colorado Boulder

Respondent: Randall Lake, University of Southern California

4605       RHETORICAL INTERSECTIONS OF RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER

5:15 – 6:30           Monday, February 20     Enchantment A

Chair: Alyssa Samek, University of Maryland

• Maternal Crime in a Cathedral of Consumption — Sara Hayden, University of Montana
• The “Teachable Moment”: Black Anger, White Victimage, and a Post-Racial America as Represented in the Arrest of Professor Henry Gates Jr. — Jessy Ohl, The University of Nebraska Lincoln
• “The Gift – and the Burden – of Being Funny, Being Jewish, and Being Female”: Identification Tactics in Making Trouble — Lacy Lowrey, University of Colorado Boulder
• Staunch Women: The Rhetoric of Grey Gardens — Rachel A. Sauerbier, Washington State University

Respondent: Jennifer Asenas, California State University Long Beach

4608       GENRE STUDIES:  APOLOGIA & THE RHETORICAL IMPRINT

5:15 – 6:30           Monday, February 20     Enchantment D

Chair: Margie McCue-Ensler, St. Catherine University

• Toward a Theory of Revictimizing Atonement: Apologia and the M.A.C./Rodarte Fiasco
• Sarah Upton, The University of New Mexico — Christian Deconversion Accounts as Religious Apologia — Brian Simmons, University of Portland
• Did He Authentically Say Christ?: Explicating and Implicating Obama’s Rhetorical Imprint — Lydia Reinig, Colorado State University

Respondent: Kevin Ayotte, California State University Fresno

5108       TRANSFORMING THE FUTURE BY REVISITING THE PAST

8:30 – 9:45           Tuesday, February 21     Enchantment D

Chair: Steven K. Herro, College of Southern Nevada

• Rhetoric as Philosophy: The Posthumanist Tradition — Diane Keeling, University of Colorado Boulder
• Inventing Virtue Out of “Stuff”: Aristotle’s Eudaimonia and Ethical Deliberation — Miles C. Coleman, University of Washington
• Plato’s Rhetorical Construction of the Soul — Benjamin J. Cline, Western New Mexico University
• Between Blessings and Crime: Striving for Justice with Ancient Rhetoric’s Monstrous Blends and Unruly Origins — Jeremy G. Gordon, Indiana University

Respondent: Dann Pierce, University of Portland

5304       DEMAGOGUES, PROPHETS, AND THE “IRON LADY”

10:00 – 11:15      Tuesday, February 21     Fiesta IV

Chair: Benjamin J. Cline, Western New Mexico University

• A Deceptive Definition of Demagoguery: George Wallace’s Stand at the Schoolhouse Door — Mark J. Hlavacik, The Pennsylvania State University
• Request for Life Denied: A Dramatistic Approach to Jim Jones’ Final Discourse with Christine Miller — Nathan Thompson, California State University Sacramento
• Confident, Stable, Reliable: Margaret Thatcher Performs “The Lady’s Not for Turning” Speech, October 10, 1980 — Lisabeth A. Bylina, Colorado State University — Carl R. Burgchardt, Colorado State University — Randall Terry’s Prophetic Political Theory — Eric Miller, The Pennsylvania State University

Respondent: George Dionisopoulos, San Diego State University

5308       CONTROVERSY IN PUBLIC ADDRESS: THE IMMIGRATION DEBATE

10:00 – 11:15      Tuesday, February 21     Enchantment D

Chair: D. Robert DeChaine, California State University Los Angeles

• Scapegoating: The Rhetoric of Corporate and Government Exploitation in the Hiring of Undocumented Citizens — Claudia Quintero, University of Utah
• Turning Workers into Criminals: Ideograph and White Supremacy in the Immigration Debate — Antonio De La Garza, University of Utah
• Jarring Jargon: An Examination of the Prejudice Embedded in a U.S. English Advertisement — Erin De Wyn, San Diego State University
• Natural Disasters, Violent Animals, the Nemesis and Dangerous Things: Metaphor and the Rhetorical Function of Nationalism in Arizona SB-1070 Public Discourse — Chris B. Geyerman, Georgia Southern University

Respondent: David Worthington, DePauw University