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JEREMY ENGELS Department of Communication Arts and Sciences The Pennsylvania State University 234 Sparks Building University Park, PA 16802 [email protected] Academic Employment Associate Professor (July 2012-present), Department of Communication Arts and Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University. Assistant Professor (August 2006-July 2012), Department of Communication Arts and Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University Education Ph.D., Speech Communication, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, May 2006 M.A., Speech Communication, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, August 2003 B.A., Philosophy, Communication Studies, & Sociology (w/honors), summa cum laude, University Scholar, University of Kansas, May 2002 Publications Books Jeremy Engels, The Politics of Resentment: A Genealogy (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2015). Jeremy Engels, Enemyship: Democracy & Counter-Revolution in the Early Republic (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2010). Articles Jeremy Engels, “The Trouble with ‘Public Bodies’: On the Anti-Democratic Rhetoric of The Federalist,” forthcoming in Rhetoric & Public Affairs. Jeremy Engels, “The Two Faces of Cincinnatus: A Rhetorical Theory of the State of Exception,” Advances in the History of Rhetoric 17 (2014), 53-64. Jeremy Engels and William Saas, “On Acquiescence and Ends-Less War: An Inquiry Into the New War Rhetoric,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 99, no. 2 (2013), 225-232. Jeremy Engels, “The Rhetoric of Violence: Sarah Palin’s Response to the Tucson Shooting,” Symploke 20, no. 1-2 (2013), 45-62. Nathan Crick and Jeremy Engels, “‘The Effort of Reason, and the Adventure of Beauty’: The Aesthetic Rhetoric of Randolph Bourne,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 98, no. 3 (2012), 272-296. Jeremy Engels, “Demophilia: A Discursive Counter to Demophobia in the Early Republic,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 97, no. 2 (2011), 131-154 [lead article]. Jeremy Engels, “The Politics of Resentment and the Tyranny of the Minority: Rethinking Victimage for Resentful Times,” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 40, no. 4 (2010), 303-325 [lead article]. Gregory Goodale and Jeremy Engels, “Black and White: Vestiges of Biracialism in American Discourse,” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 7, no. 1 (2010), 70-89. Jeremy Engels, “Uncivil Speech: Invective and the Rhetorics of Democracy in the Early Republic,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 95, no. 3 (2009), 311-334. Jeremy Engels, “Friend or Foe?: Naming the Enemy,” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 12, no. 1 (2009), 37-64. Jeremy Engels and Gregory Goodale, “‘Our Battle Cry Will Be: Remember Jenny McCrea!’: A Précis on the Rhetoric of Revenge,” American Quarterly 61 (2009), 93-112. Jeremy Engels, “Democratic Alienation,” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 11 (2008), 471-481. Jeremy Engels, “Floating Bombs Encircling Our Shores: Post-9/11 Rhetorics of Piracy and Terrorism,” Cultural Studies—Critical Methodologies 7, no. 3 (2007), 326-349. Jeremy Engels, “Disciplining Jefferson: The Man within the Breast and the Rhetorical Norms of Producing Order,” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 9, no. 3 (2006), 411-436. Jeremy Engels, “‘Equipped for Murder’: The Paxton Boys and ‘the Spirit of Killing all Indians’ in Pennsylvania, 1763-1764,” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 8, no. 3 (2005), 355-382 [lead article]. Jeremy Engels, “Reading the Riot Act: Rhetoric, Psychology, and Counter-Revolutionary Discourse in Shays’s Rebellion, 1786-1787,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 91, no. 1 (2005), 63-88. Book Chapters (Peer Reviewed) Jeremy Engels, “Dewey on Jefferson: Reiterating Democratic Faith in Times of War,” in Trained Capacities: John Dewey, Rhetoric, and Democratic Culture, edited by Gregory Clark and Brian Jackson (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2014), 87-105. Stephen J. Hartnett and Jeremy D. Engels, “‘Aria In Time of War’: Investigative Poetry & The Politics of Witnessing,” in The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research, 3rd Edition, ed. Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2005), 1043-1067. 2 Journal Issues Quarterly Journal of Speech Forum on “The Violence of Rhetoric,” guest editor. QJS, 99, no. 2, 2013. Rhetoric & Public Affairs Forum on “Democratic Style,” guest editor. R&PA 12, no. 3, 2008. Reviews and Shorter Pieces Invited review of Michel Foucault’s The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the Collège De France 19811982, the Centennial Issue of Quarterly Journal of Speech 101, no. 1 (2015), 290-292. Heather Adams, Jeremy Engels, Michael J. Faris, Debra Hawhee, and Mark Hlavacik, “Deliberation in the Midst of Crisis,” Cultural Studies—Critical Methodologies 12 (2012), 342-345. Review of Martin J. Medhurst’s Before The Rhetorical Presidency, Quarterly Journal of Speech 97, no. 1 (2011), 114-7. Review of Todd F. McDorman and David Timmerman’s Rhetoric and Democracy: Pedagogical and Political Practices. Rhetoric & Public Affairs 13, no. 1 (2010), 166-8. Review of Michael Mandelbaum’s Democracy’s Good Name: The Rise and Risks of the World’s Most Popular Form of Government, Review of Communication 9 (2009), 326-329. Review of Dana D. Nelson’s Bad for Democracy: How the Presidency Undermines the Power of the People, Rhetoric & Public Affairs 12, no. 3 (2009), 478-480. Review of Robert L. Ivie’s Dissent from War, Quarterly Journal of Speech 94 (2008), 234-238. Review of Russ Castronovo’s Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global Era, Journal of American History, 95 (2008). Review of David C. Hendrickson’s Peace Pact: The Lost World of the American Founding, Rhetoric & Public Affairs 8 (2005), 514-516. Work Under Review Frank Stec and Jeremy Engels, “Bringing Attention to the Human Costs of War: Democratic Deliberation and Anti-War Numbers,” submitted to Western Journal of Communication. Jeremy Engels, “The Rhetoric of The Federalist: From Democracy to Republican Governance” under review for consideration in The Rhetorical History of the United States, Volume 2, edited by Stephen E. Lucas and Jeremy Engels, forthcoming from Michigan State University Press (103 page manuscript). 3 Gregory Goodale and Jeremy Engels, “A National Commonplace: The Making of Jane McCrea,” under review for consideration in The Rhetorical History of the United States, Volume 3, edited by Stephen H. Browne, forthcoming from Michigan State University Press (56 page manuscript). Work in Progress The Politics of Gratitude: Mindfulness, Citizenship, Democracy, book-length manuscript, drafting ongoing, likely completion date late 2015/early 2016. Co-editor, with Stephen E. Lucas, of The Rhetorical History of the United States, Volume 2, forthcoming from Michigan State University Press. Jeremy Engels, “Emerson on God and Yoga: On the Rhetorical Criticism of the Care of the Self,” essay to be completed in fall 2015. Awards and Fellowships National The Karl R. Wallace Memorial Award, given by the National Communication Association to recognize early career achievement and provide support for a young scholar of “exceptional promise” in the study of rhetoric and public discourse, 2011. New Investigator Award, given by the Rhetoric and Communication Theory Division of the National Communication Association, 2011. Penn State University 2013-2014 Resident Scholar of the Penn State Institute for the Arts & Humanities. Included a semester release (Fall 2013), a $1,000 research grant, and yearlong meetings and discussions with fellow fellows. Spring 2011: Collaborative Teaching Grant from the Institute for the Arts and Humanities to implement the graduate course The Violence of Language: Ethics, Aesthetics, Rhetorics, with Sophia McClennan, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature. Grant for $6,000. This was supplemented by a $2,000 grant from the Center for American Literary Studies at Penn State, a $3,000 grant from the Penn State Program for Global Studies, and a $1,000 grant from the Penn State Center for Democratic Deliberation for staging a Spring Conference, The Violence of Language. 2008-2009 Schreyer Honors College/Rock Ethics Institute Ethics Seminar for Faculty. Competitive award including a year-long seminar and a $3,000 grant from Rock Ethics Institute for integrating an ethics component into scholarship and teaching. University of Illinois 4 The Ruth S. and Charles H. Bowman Award, Department of Speech Communication. Award given to the most outstanding graduate student in the department based on their record of scholarship, teaching, and service. May 2006. The Karl Wallace Award, Department of Speech Communication. Award given for outstanding scholarship by a graduate student. May 2005. Graduate Fellow, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities. Competitive, university-wide research award given for dissertation research; includes a bi-weekly seminar, weekly discussions, and a year-end conference, 2004-2005. The Stafford H. Thomas Award, Department of Speech Communication, University of Illinois. Award given for outstanding service to the department by a graduate student. May 2004. The Henry L. Mueller Award, Department of Speech Communication, University of Illinois. Award given to the department’s most outstanding new teaching assistant, May 2003. The Elizabeth Winter Young Fellowship, Department of Speech Communication, 2002-2003. Quarter time fellowship given to top incoming MA students. University of Kansas Marston McCollough Memorial Scholarship, Department of Sociology, 2001-2002. Award given to the top student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Kansas. Nelson Scholarship, Department of Communication Studies, 2000-2001. Award given to the top junior in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Kansas. University Scholar, University of Kansas Honors Program, 1999-2000. Competitive award given to the top twenty sophomores at the University of Kansas. Presentations Invited Presentations “The Politics of Resentment,” Institute for the Arts and Humanities Resident Scholars and Artists Lecture Series, Penn State University, November 11, 2013. “Rhetoric and Victimage,” Penn State College of Communication Colloquium, April 9, 2013. “Why the Founders Feared Democracy,” 2012 Cody Davis Lecture, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, April 3, 2012. “Blood Libel and Vitriolic Rhetoric: The Rhetorical History of Blame Culture,” keynote presentation, Communication and Social Action Conference, Central Michigan State University, March 24, 2011. 5 “Two Pictures and Three Bullets: Retelling the Story of How Our Democracy Went to War With Itself,” University of Texas at Austin Department of Communication Studies Colloquium, March 7, 2011 (also presented at CAS Colloquium, University Park, PA, Feb. 25, 2011). “Loving War: On Progressivism’s Curious Vice,” formal response to Mary Stuckey’s presentation “Entangling Alliances vs. International Engagements,” Public Address Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, September 30-October 2, 2010. “Seeing Only What We Want to See; The Dilemmas of Theoretical Sophistication and the Confirmatory Bias,” NCA Summer Conference on Teaching Rhetorical Criticism and Critical Inquiry, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, July 22-25, 2010. “‘The Evolving Meaning of ‘Democracy’: Boston’s Independent Chronicle Wages War on the Federalists, 1803,” University of Maine Department of Communication and Journalism colloquium, Orono, ME, April 12, 2010. “The Rhetoric of Revenge: On the United States’ Founding Violence,” University of Kansas Department of Communication Studies Colloquium, Lawrence, KS, November 18, 2009. “Rhetorical History and the Revolutionary War”; “How to Study, and Teach, American Myths,” presentations at the Seminar on Early American History for the history teachers of Montgomery County, PA, a week-long seminar organized by the Freedoms Foundation of Valley Forge. The event took place at the Montgomery Co. Intermediary Unit. I presented on June 23, 2009, for 1 and ½ hours in the morning and then again for 1 and ½ hours in the afternoon, and also led a discussion of primary texts. The “Rhetorical History” presentation and discussion of primary texts was repeated at the Freedom’s Foundation in Valley Forge, PA, on June 4, 2010. “Enemyship,” Department of Communication Arts & Sciences Colloquium, Penn State University, September 21, 2007. Conference Presentations “Michel Foucault’s Democratic Ethics,” National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, November 22, 2014. “Democracy as a God Term: Toward a Rhetorical Criticism of Political Theology,” National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, November 22, 2014. “Thinking Critically about God: American Transcendentalism and the Care of the Self,” Rhetoric Society of America, San Antonio, TX, May 25, 2014. “Toward a Dangerous Democracy: Rethinking the Politics of Resentment,” Rhetoric Society of America, San Antonio, TX, May 24, 2014. “Spinoza’s Rhetorics,” Rhetoric Society of America, San Antonio, TX, May 23, 2014. 6 “Rhetoric, Spirituality, and the Care of the Self,” National Communication Association, Washington, D.C., November 22, 2013. “The Absent Public Enemy and the New War Rhetoric,” National Communication Association, Washington, D.C., November 22, 2013. “Pragmatism and the Care of the Self,” National Communication Association, Washington, D.C., November 21, 2013. “The New War Rhetoric and the Shifting Grounds of Enemyship,” Spotlight Closing Panel at the Mapping the Shifting Grounds of Post-9/11 War Rhetoric Preconference, National Communication Association, Washington, D.C., November 20, 2013. “Democracy and Ressentiment: Rethinking the Victimage Ritual,” Eastern Communication Association, Pittsburgh, PA, April 27, 2013. “Caring for the Democratic Self,” Imaginary Vistas Symposium, Penn State University, Friday, November 2, 2012. “Passing Over Sovereign Violence in Silence,” Rhetoric Society of America, Philadelphia, PA, May 26, 2012. “Resentment in the Age of Jackson,” Rhetoric Society of America, Philadelphia, PA, May 26, 2012. “‘Esto Liberata Re Publica’: Cincinnatus and the Roman Influence Upon American Discourses of Democracy and the People in the Early Republic,” American Society for the History of Rhetoric symposium “Rhetoric and Its Masses,” Philadelphia, PA, May 24, 2012. “The Polysemy of Public Policy Discussion and the Techniques of Governance,” National Communication Association, New Orleans, LA, November 19, 2011. “Rhetoric, Power, Violence,” National Communication Association, New Orleans, LA, November 19, 2011. “The Rhetoric of Resentment,” National Communication Association, New Orleans, LA, November 18, 2011. “Character Counts: On The Excellence of Democratic Deliberation,” spotlight panel presentation, Rhetoric Society of America, Minneapolis, MN, May 28-31, 2010. “Uncivil Speech: On Invective’s Place in Democratic Culture,” C19: The Society of NineteenthCentury Americanists, University Park, PA, May 20-23, 2010. “Using the Past Pragmatically,” Eastern Communication Association, Baltimore, MD, April 22-25, 2010. “Well, Yeah, Whatever: Lessons from Teaching about War and Peace,” National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, November 12-15, 2009. 7 “Rhetoric, Violence, and Deliberation: Toeing the Line,” National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, November 12-15, 2009. “Rhetoric, Violence, and Democratic Culture,” National Communication Association, San Diego, CA, November 21-24, 2008. “The Tone of Peace: The Pragmatists Confront War,” National Communication Association, San Diego, CA, November 21-24, 2008. “Forming Visions of Peace” (with Sara Ann Mehltretter), National Communication Association, San Diego, CA, November 21-24, 2008. “How Americans Learned to Talk Democracy: Invective in the Early Republic,” National Communication Association, San Diego, CA, November 21-24, 2008. “The Democratic Paradox of Fear,” Rhetoric Society of America, Seattle, WA, May 23-26, 2008. “Carl Schmitt and the Rhetorics of Enemyship,” National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, November 14-16, 2007. “Democratic Style,” National Communication Association, San Antonio, TX, November 16-19, 2006. “Jefferson in Love,” National Communication Association, San Antonio, TX, November 16-19, 2006. “The Rhetoric of Erasure & the Fight to Resolve America’s Founding Paradox,” Rhetoric Society of America, Memphis, TN, May 26-29, 2006. “A War on Terror is a Terribly Difficult War,” National Communication Association, Boston, MA, November 17-20, 2005. “Individuals and Indians: Contrasting Rhetorics of Subjectivity,” National Communication Association, Boston, MA, November 17-20, 2005. “The Jefferson Memorial’s ‘ . . .’: Remembering and Reconstituting the Declaration of Independence,” Contesting Public Memories Conference, Syracuse, NY, October 6-8, 2005. “The Rhetoric of Tradition and ‘the Chief,’” Society for Community Research and Action Conference, Urbana, IL, June 9-12, 2005. “Alexander Hamilton’s Rhetorical Economics and the Social Construction of Character,” Rhetoric & Economics Interdisciplinary Conference, Millikin University, Decatur, IL, June 6-9, 2005. “The Rhetorical Forms of the Nation-State,” Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Annual Conference, Urbana, IL, March 31-April 1, 2005. “Republican Machines,” National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, November 11-14, 2004. 8 “‘Rancorous Antipathy’: Rhetorical Colonialism in Pennsylvania, 1763-1764,” National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, November 11-14, 2004. “How Do You Make a Pragmatist out of an Aristocrat?” National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, November 11-14, 2004. “The Death of Jane McCrea,” American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, October 27-31, 2004. “Terrorists or Pirates?: Reconsidering Violence in a Global World,” Crossroads in Cultural Studies International Conference, Urbana, IL, June 25-28, 2004. “Democracy, Violence, and Revolutionary Rhetoric,” Rhetoric Society of America, Austin, TX, May 28-31, 2004. “Deciphering Thomas Jefferson’s October 12, 1786 Letter to Maria Cosway,” National Communication Association, Miami, FL, November 19-23, 2003. “William James and the Paradox of Pragmatic Faith,” National Communication Association, Miami, FL, November 19-23, 2003. “The Rhetorical War on Daniel Shays’s ‘Rebellion,’” Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, University Park, PA, July 6-8, 2003. “Democracy and the Search for Dewey’s Community,” Central States Communication Association, Cincinnati, OH, April 5-8, 2001. “What Exactly Does it Mean to Create Truth?” University of Kansas Undergraduate Research Symposium, Lawrence, KS, February 17, 2001. Teaching Penn State Graduate Seminars Contemporary Democratic Theory, Spring 2008, Fall 2015 Rhetoric, Spirituality, and the Care of the Self, Fall 2014 Foundations of American Democratic Theory, Fall 2012 Contemporary Social, Political, and Rhetoric Theory, Fall 2011 The Violence of Language, Spring 2011 (grant funded; team-taught with Sophia McClennan, Comp Lit) Rhetoric, Dialogue, and Citizenship: The American Tradition, Spring 2010 Rhetoric, Liberalism, and Power, Fall 2008 Undergraduate Courses Introduction to Rhetorical Theory (CAS 201, 100 student lecture course), Fall 2014, Fall 2015 Rhetorical Theory (CAS 420), Spring 2013, Spring 2015 9 The Rhetoric of War and Peace (CAS 373), Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012 Communication Ethics (CAS 426W), Spring 2011, Spring 2012 Rhetorical Criticism (CAS 411), Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Fall 2010 Introduction to Rhetorical Criticism (CAS 311), Spring 2007, Spring 2008 University of Illinois Verbal Communication (SPCM 111-112). Fall 2002-Spring 2004, 4 sections taught. Assistant Course Director, Verbal Communication (SPCM 111-112): Fall 2003. Course Director, Verbal Communication (SPCM 111-112): Spring 2004. Argumentation Theory and Practice (SPCM 323), Summer 2004-Spring 2006, 8 sections taught. Advising Doctoral Advising John Minbiole—Ph.D. successfully defended, March 18, 2015 Frank Stec—Ph.D. successfully defended May 15, 2014 William O. Saas—Ph.D. successfully defended June 12, 2014; accepted tenure-track rhetoric position in the Department of Communication Studies at LSU beginning Fall 2014 Jessica Bargar Kuperavage—Ph.D. successfully defended September 27, 2013 Doctoral Committees Keren Wang, CAS Michael Bergmaier, CAS Kaitlyn Patia, CAS Brad Serber, CAS Jeremy Cox, CAS Cory Geraths, CAS Holly Gates, CAS Anne Harries, CAS Bryan Blankfield, CAS (completed Fall 2014) Mark Hlavacik, CAS (completed Fall 2013) Kristin Mathe Coletta, CAS (completed Fall 2013) Adam Perry, CAS (completed Fall 2013) Eric Miller, CAS (completed Spring 2012) Sara Ann Mehltretter Drury, CAS (completed Summer 2011) Ersula Ore, English (completed Summer 2011) Jill Weber, CAS (completed Summer 2011) Jonathan Obar, College of Communications (completed Summer 2010) Cynthia Boes, CAS (completed Spring 2010) David Dzikowski, CAS (completed Fall 2009) Master’s Program Advising Cory Geraths, CAS (completed Fall 2013) Jessica Bargar Kuperavage, CAS (completed Fall 2010) 10 Bonnie Sierlecki, CAS (completed Fall 2009) Master’s Program Committees Benjamin Firgens, CAS Anne Harries, CAS (completed Fall 2011) Bryan Blankfield, CAS (completed Fall 2010) Elyse Merlo, CAS (completed Summer 2010) Christopher Toutain, CAS (completed Summer 2010) Mark Hlavacik, CAS (completed Fall 2009) Undergraduate Honors Thesis Director Rebecca Alt, CAS (completed Spring 2013) Angela Brosnan, CAS (completed Spring 2011) Service National Book Review Editor, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, official journal of the Rhetoric Society of America, May 2015-2018 Planner and organizer (with Pat Gehrke), “Rethinking the Relationship Between Rhetoric and Democracy,” three-day workshop at the Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, June 7-9, 2013. Rhetoric Society of America Dissertation Award Committee, 2011. Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute steering committee, 2010-11. Local site planner, assistant conference organizer, and budget supervisor, Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute, State College, PA, June 22-28, 2009. Planner and organizer, “Rhetoric & Democratic Culture,” three-day workshop at the Rhetoric Society America Summer Institute, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, June 22-24, 2007. University Executive Board Member, Center for Democratic Deliberation, Penn State University, 2011-present Assistant Director, Center for Democratic Deliberation, Penn State University, 2011-2012 Interim Co-Director, Center for Democratic Deliberation, Penn State University, Spring 2011 Assistant Director, Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State University, 2009-2010 11 Stand Up Award Committee Member, 2008-2009, 2009-2010, charged with reviewing applications and interviewing finalists for undergraduate ethical leadership award sponsored by the Rock Ethics Institute Departmental CAS Director of Graduate Studies, Fall 2014-present. CAS Assistant Professor/Basic Course Director Search Committee, Fall 2010-Spring 2011 CAS Department Head Search Committee, Fall 2010 Graduate Committee, 2007-present. Chair of Graduate Committee Subcommittee on Recruiting, 2010-2011, 2011-2012, 2012-2013. Awards Committee, 2006-2007 Member, discussion leader, and meeting planner, Rhetoric Studies Working Group, Spring 2007present. Editorial Boards Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 2009-present Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2011-present Communication Quarterly, 2009-2011 Referee for the Following Publications Western Journal of Communication Journal of Speculative Philosophy Rhetoric Review Communication Quarterly Review of Communication Philosophy and Rhetoric Rhetoric Society Quarterly Professional Membership National Communication Association Rhetoric Society of America American Society for the History of Rhetoric C19, The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 12