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Curriculum Vitae
Ned O’Gorman
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
325 Communication Building, MC-456
1207 Oregon St.
Urbana, IL 61801 USA
Office Phone: 217.265.0859
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://nogorman.org
Education
Ph.D., 2005, Communication Arts & Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University (Advisor,
Stephen Howard Browne; Dissertation, “Discourses of Disaster and the Politics of
the Sublime”)
M.A., English, The University of Tennessee
M. Div. Covenant Theological Seminary
B.A., Economics and English, Saint Louis University
A.A., General Studies, St. Louis Community College
Academic Appointments
2005-present, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Illinois
2005-present, Core Faculty, Center for Writing Studies, University of Illinois
2010-present, Core Faculty, Program for Arms Control, Defense, and International Security
Refereed Publications
Forthcoming Book Chapter, “The Diffusion of an Atomic Icon: Nuclear Hegemony and
Cultural Memory Loss,” with Kevin Hamilton, in Anne Demo and Bradford Vivian
(eds.), Sighting Memory: The Intersection of Visual Practices and Practices of Memory,
Routledge.
Forthcoming Book Chapter, “Burke, Mumford, and the Poetics of Technology: Marxism’s
Influence on Burke’s Critique of Techno-logology,” with Ian Hill, in Dana Anderson
and Jessica Enoch (eds.), Burke in the Archives: Using the Past to Transform the Future of
Burkean Studies, University of South Carolina Press.
Forthcoming Book Chapter, “From Jeremiad to Manifesto: The Rhetorical Evolution of
John Foster Dulles’s ‘Massive Retaliation,” in John Carlson and Jonathan Ebel (eds.),
From Jeremiad to Jihad, University of California Press.
2011 Book, in press, Spirits of the Cold War: Contesting Worldviews in the Classical Age of American
Security Strategy, Michigan State University Press.
2011 Essay, “At the Interface: The Loaded Rhetorical Gestures of Nuclear Legitimation,”
with Kevin Hamilton, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Vol. 8, No. 1.
2009 Essay, “‘The one word the Kremlin fears:’ C. D. Jackson, Cold War ‘Liberation,’ and
American Political-Economic Adventurism,” Rhetoric and Public Affairs, Vol. 12, No.
3, 389-427
2008 Essay, “Eisenhower and the American Sublime,” Quarterly Journal of Speech, Vol. 94, No.
1, 44-72
2006 Essay, “The Political Sublime, An Oxymoron,” Millennium Journal of International Studies,
Vol. 34, No. 3, 889-915
2005 Essay, “‘Telling the Truth:’ Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Rhetorical Discourse Ethic,” Journal
of Communication and Religion, Vol. 28, No. 2, 224-248
2005 Essay, “Aristotle’s Phantasia in the Rhetoric: Lexis, Appearance, and the Epideictic
Function of Discourse,” Philosophy and Rhetoric, Vol. 38, No. 1, 16-40
2004 Essay, “Longinus’s Sublime Rhetoric, or How Rhetoric Came into Its Own,” Rhetoric
Society Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 2, 71-89
Reviews and Other Publications
2011 Short Essay (with Kevin Hamilton and Rohini Singh), “Lights, Camera, Detonation,”
in the National Communication Association’s Communication Currents
2011 Essay, “Stoic Rhetoric: Prospects of a Problematic,” Advances in the History of Rhetoric,
Vol. 11. No. 1.
2010 National Science Foundation White Paper, “Public Science: A Call,” with Kevin
Hamilton.
2010 Book Review, Battle Exhortation: The Rhetoric of Combat Leadership by Keith Yellin,
Quarterly Journal of Speech
2008 Essay, “Evangelicalism Nearsighted: A Response to Melanie McAlister,” American
Literary History, September 2008
2008 Essay, “Three Cheers for Democratic Style! (Okay, maybe just two),” Rhetoric and Public
Affairs, 2008, Vol. 11, No. 3
2006 Essay, “Disaster, Democracy, and the Problem of the Sublime,” Media Development,
2006/4
2006 Book Review, The Viability of the Rhetorical Tradition edited by Richard Graff, Arthur
Walzer, and Janet Atwill, Rhetoric Society Quarterly
2003 Book Review, Logic and the Art of Memory by Paolo Rossi, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Vol. 36,
No. 3
Invited Presentations
2010 Northwestern University, “We are All Operators Now: Gender at the Cold War
(Nuclear) Console” (with Kevin Hamilton)
2010 University of Illinois, Office of the Vice-Chancellor for Research “NSF-SBE: The
Illinois Voice” Meeting, “Public Science: A Call” (presented with Kevin Hamilton)
2009 University of Kansas, Department of Communication, invited colloquium speaker,
“Stoic Rhetoric and Cold War ‘Containment’: A Case Study in a ‘Form of
Language’”
2008 Respondent at American Literary History Symposium, University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign
2007 “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Massive Retaliation,” Arizona State University,
The Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict
2007 “From Jeremiad to Manifesto: The Rhetorical Evolution of John Foster Dulles’s
‘Massive Retaliation’,” University of Illinois Program for the Study of Religion
Symposium on Religion, Violence, and America
2005 “The Political Sublime, An Oxymoron,” University of Illinois Center for Writing
Studies, part of Research-in-Progress Brownbag Series
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2004 “Discourses of Disaster and the Politics of the Sublime,” Penn State Institute for the
Arts and Humanities, part of the Institute’s Graduate Scholar’s Roundtable
2004 “Discourses of Catastrophe,” Penn State Science, Medicine, Technology, and Culture
Group, part of the Group’s Roundtable Series
Conference Participation
2010 Organizer, “Rhetorics of Reason and Restraint: Stoic Rhetoric from Antiquity to the
Present,” a Symposium sponsored by the American Society for the History of
Rhetoric, Minneapolis, May 2010
2010 Presentation, Review of Lois Agnew’s Outward Visible Propriety, National
Communication Association
2010 Presentation, “Hobbes and the Democratization of Rhetoric,” Rhetoric Society of
America Conference
2009 Presentation, “The Kitchen Debates and Ampex Color Tape: Technology and Cold
War Order,” National Communication Association
2009 Paper, “The Sublime as a Critique of Power,” National Communication Association
2009 Respondent, “The Kitchen Debate 1959-2009: Containment Culture and the Good
Life,” National Communication Association
2009 Panel Participant, “The Undergraduate Introduction to Rhetorical Theory and History
Course: A Roundtable Discussion,” National Communication Association
2009 Panel Participant, “Five Years Out for the American Society for the History of
Rhetoric,” National Communication Association
2009 Co-presenter, “Nuclear Memory at the Interface,” a multi-media presentation made
with Kevin Hamilton, Visible Memories Conference, Syracuse University
2008 Chair and Organizer, “Stoicism, Rhetorical Theory, and Ethico-Political Practice,”
National Communication Association
2008 Paper, “Freud, Stoicism, and George F. Kennan’s Containment,” National
Communication Association
2008 Co-Presenter, “The Form of Peace: Kant’s Political Imaginary in Perpetual Peace,”
with Sabrina Nash, National Communication Association
2008 Paper, “Rousseau and the Rhetoric of National Security,” Rhetoric Society of America
2007 Co-presenter, “'No Simple Thing to Do': Interface and Atomic Citizenship in
Operation Ivy,” a multi-media presentation with Kevin Hamilton, Visual Democracy
Conference, Northwestern University
2007 Co-presenter (with David Tell, Communication, University of Kansas), “The Jeremiad,
Manifesto, and Confession: A Typology of Puritan Protest,” American Society for
the History of Rhetoric Symposium
2006 Chair, “Ancient Si(gh)tings of Classical Rhetoric,” National Communication
Association
2006 Participant, panel on “Democratic Style,” National Communication Association
2006 Paper, “Eisenhower and the American Sublime,” National Communication Association
2006 Respondent, “Theoretical and Critical Investigations of Narrative,” National
Communication Association
2006 Respondent, “Typology, Topography, and the Topoi of Reason in Ancient Attika,”
National Communication Association
2005 Paper, “The Political Sublime: An Oxymoron,” Millennium Conference (London
School of Economics)
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2005 Paper, “Rhapsodic Rhetoric and Democracy: Nietzsche and the Sublime,” National
Communication Association
2005 Paper, “Sublime Love, or How Jacqueline Kennedy Got Framed by Life,” National
Communication Association
2005 Participant, “The Current Health of the Longitudinal Case Study in Rhetorical
Criticism: A Roundtable Discussion,” National Communication Association
2005 Chair, “Rhetoric Beyond the Academy,” National Communication Association
2005 Presentation, “Corroborating Correspondences: Anecdotes, Archives, and Burke’s
Marxism,” Penn State Conference for Rhetoric and Composition/ Kenneth Burke
Conference
2005 Chair, “Burke Reads Culture: Fiction, Film, and Music,” Penn State Conference for
Rhetoric and Composition/ Kenneth Burke Conference
2005 Chair, “Kenneth Burke’s Circles: The Greenwich Village Years,” Penn State
Conference for Rhetoric and Composition/ Kenneth Burke Conference
2005 Paper, “Vico, Rousseau and the Primitive Sublime,” Eastern Communication
Association
2004 Paper, “Reading Kenneth Burke’s ‘Marxism’ in Permanence and Change with Lewis
Mumford,” National Communication Association
2004 Paper, “Zapruder and the American ‘Televisual Sublime,’” Rhetoric Society of America
2004 Paper, “Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Limits of Rhetoric, and the Meanings of Fanaticism,”
Rhetoric Society of America
2004 Paper, “The Mimetic Rivalry of Word and Image in the Warren Commission Report,”
Eastern Communication Association
2003 Paper, “Longinus’s Sublime Rhetoric, or How Rhetoric Came into Its Own,” National
Communication Association
2003 Paper, “Aristotle on Phantasia and Rhetoric: Style, Sight, and the Order of Rhetoric,”
National Communication Association
2003 “Gods and God-Terms: Rhetoric and Religion,” Penn State Conference for Rhetoric
and Composition
2002 Paper, “Television and the Corporeality of Public Memory: An Analysis of the
Television Coverage of The World Trade Center Attacks Using the Theory of
Marshall McLuhan,” National Communication Association
2001 Paper, “Krisis, Kairos, and Ethos: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Rhetorical Reflections from
Prison,” National Communication Association
1998 Paper, “The Pious Mind: Educational Issues in the Debate between John Calvin and
Cardinal Sadolet,” National Communication Association
Awards & Honors
2010 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow (through Vectors/USC Summer
Institute)
2010 Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Collaborative Research Project Award
(with Kevin Hamilton and Colin Flint, $2500)
2010 Campus Research Board Support Funding Award (with Kevin Hamilton, $11,276)
2007-08 Campus Research Board Research Support Funding Award ($8, 013)
2007-08 Humanities Release Time Award, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2006-07 Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Faculty Fellow, University of
Illinois
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2006 Article of the Year Award from the Religious Communication Association for “‘Telling
the Truth:’ Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Rhetorical Discourse Ethic”
2004 Institute for the Arts & Humanities Summer Resident (including a grant), The
Pennsylvania State University
2004 Research and Graduate Studies Office Dissertation Fellowship, The Pennsylvania State
University Graduate School
2004 Top Paper Panel, Kenneth Burke Division, National Communication Association
2003 Kenneth Burke Prize for Top Paper in Graduate Studies in Rhetoric, Department of
Communication Arts and Sciences and Department of English, The Pennsylvania
State University
2003 Top Student Paper for American Society for the History of Rhetoric, National
Communication Association
2003-04 Nominee, Graduate Faculty Teaching Award, The Pennsylvania State University
2003 Research and Graduate Studies Office Travel Award, The Pennsylvania State
University Graduate School
2002-03 Nominee, Kathryn DeBoer Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate
Student, Department of Communication Arts and Sciences, The Pennsylvania State
University
2001-05 Teaching Assistant/ Instructor, Department of Communication Arts and Sciences,
Penn State University
2001 Welch/Nagle Graduate Fellowship Award, The Pennsylvania State University College
of the Liberal Arts
2001-03 Graduate Scholar Award, The Pennsylvania State University College of the Liberal
Arts
Teaching Experience
History and Theory of Rhetoric and Aesthetics
2010 (Spring), Early Modern Rhetorics (CMN 416), University of Illinois
2009 (Spring), 2006 (Spring and Fall), The Rhetorical Tradition (SPCM 310),
University of Illinois
2007 (Fall), Rhetoric and Aesthetics (SPCM 532), Graduate Seminar, University of
Illinois
2007 (Fall), Rhetoric and Communication (SPCM 199), University of Illinois
2002-03 (Fall semesters), History and Theory of Rhetoric (CAS 201), Graduate
Teaching Assistant, The Pennsylvania State University
Concepts in Communication Studies
2010 (Summer), Concepts in Communication Studies (CMN 539), Graduate
Seminar, University of Illinois
Rhetorical Criticism
2009 (Spring), Lincoln’s Legacies (CMN 396), University of Illinois, 3 credit hours.
2006 (Spring and Fall), Rhetorical Criticism (SPCM 423), University of Illinois
2003 (Spring), Rhetoric of Film (CAS498D), Instructor, The Pennsylvania State
University, 1 credit hour class
Professional Communication
2004 (Spring), Understanding and Communicating Credibility in an Incredible World
(CAS497C), Instructor, The Pennsylvania State University, 1 credit hour class
Public Speaking
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2004 (Fall), Effective Public Speaking (CAS100A), Instructor, The Pennsylvania State
University, 3 credit hour class
2004 (Spring), Effective Public Speaking (CAS100A), Graduate Teaching Assistant, The
Pennsylvania State University, 3 credit hour class
2003 (Summer), Effective Public Speaking (CAS100A), Instructor, The Pennsylvania
State University, 3 credit hour class
2003 (Spring), Effective Public Speaking (CAS100A), Graduate Teaching Assistant, The
Pennsylvania State University, 3 credit hour class
2001-02 (Fall and Spring), Effective Public Speaking (CAS100A), Graduate Teaching
Assistant, The Pennsylvania State University, 3 credit hour class
Leading Edge Academic Program
2003 (Summer), Effective Public Speaking coordinated with Media Ethics, Instructor,
The Pennsylvania State University, 3 credit hours
2002 (Summer), Effective Public Speaking coordinated with Introduction to
Philosophy, Instructor, The Pennsylvania State University, 3 credit hours
Pennsylvania Governor’s School
2004 (Summer), Presentation Skills, Workshop Instructor, The Pennsylvania Governor’s
School Information Technology Program
2003 (Summer), Presentation Skills, Workshop Instructor, The Pennsylvania Governor’s
School Information Technology Program
Rhetoric, Literature, and Composition
1996-97 Literature and Composition (English 101 & 102), Graduate Teaching Assistant,
Department of English, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 6 credit
hours total (over two semesters)
Art, Creativity, and Diversity
2009 (Fall), Art, Creativity and Diversity (FAA199), with Kevin Hamilton, University
of Illinois
Graduate Independent Studies
2009 (Fall) “Presence” in Ong, Derrida, and Perleman, Jermaine Martinez
2009 (Fall) “17th Century Rhetoric,” Julia Smith, Heather Blaine, Jon Stone
2008 (Summer) “Legal Rhetoric,” Peter Campbell
2008 (Summer) “Catholic Social Movement Rhetoric,” Sabrina Nash
2007 (Summer) “New Universalisms,” Sabrina Nash
2006 (Summer) “19th Century Religious Rhetoric,” Marissa Bambrey Wolfe
Graduate Advising
Director/ Advisor
2010-present, Ryan McDaniel, Doctoral Student, Communication, University of Illinois
2009-present, Jermaine Martinez, Doctoral Student, Communication, University of Illinois
2009-present, George Boone, Doctoral Student, Communication, University of Illinois
2006-present, Ian Hill, Doctoral Candidate, Communication, University of Illinois
2006-present, Sabrina Marsh, Doctoral Student, Communication, University of Illinois
2007-09 Adam Rusch, Masters Student, Communication, University of Illinois, graduated
May 2009
2005-06 Marissa Bambrey Wolfe, Masters Student, Communication, University of Illinois,
graduated January 2007
Committees
2010-present, Julia Smith, Doctoral Student, English, University of Illinois
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2010-present, Heather Blaine, Doctoral Student, English, University of Illinois
2008-present, Peter Campbell, Doctoral Student, Communication, University of Illinois
2006-present, Daniel Larson, Doctoral Student, Communication, University of Illinois
2006-09 Catherine Lamp, Doctoral Student, Communication, University of Illinois
2005-06 Jeremy Engels, Doctoral Student, Communication, University of Illinois, graduated
May 2006
2005-06 Gregory Goodale, Doctoral Student, Communication, University of Illinois
2005-06 Laura Stengrim, Doctoral Student, Communication, University of Illinois
Academic and Professional Service
Editorial
2011 Special Issue Guest Editor, Advances in the History of Rhetoric (Rhetorics of
Reason and Restraint: Stoic Speech from Antiquity to the Present)
Journal Review Board
Rhetoric Society Quarterly
Reviewer
2011 National Science Foundation; Science, Technology, and Society Program
Reviewer
2011 Ad hoc reviewer, Journal of Communication & Religion
2010 National Science Foundation; Science, Technology, and Society Program
Reviewer
2010 Ad hoc reviewer, Papers on Language and Literature
2010 Ad hoc reviewer, Quarterly Journal of Speech
2010 Lexington Books, Manuscript Reviewer
2009-10 Ad hoc reviewer Rhetoric & Public Affairs
2009, 2007 Ad hoc reviewer Presidential Studies Quarterly
2008 Ad hoc reviewer Western Journal of Communication
2008 Competitive Paper Reviewer, Public Address Division, National
Communication Association
2007 Ad hoc reviewer for Communication and Critical/ Cultural Studies
2004-06 Competitive Paper Reviewer, American Society for the History of Rhetoric,
National Communication Association
2006 Competitive Paper Reviewer, Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division,
National Communication Association
2006 Competitive Paper Reviewer, Public Address Division, Western
Communication Association
Society/ Disciplinary Service
2011-14 Member, Committee on Interorganizational and Interdisciplinary
Cooperation, Rhetoric Society of America
2011-13 Planning Committee, International Society for the History of Rhetoric
Conference
2011, Co-Organizer, Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute, Seminar on the
Digital Humanities and the History of Rhetoric
2010-11, Immediate Past President, American Society for the History of Rhetoric
2009-10 President, American Society for the History of Rhetoric
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2009-10, Board Member, Alliance of Rhetoric Societies
2010 Program Chair, American Society for the History of Rhetoric Division,
National Communication Association
2010 Organizer American Society for the History of Rhetoric Symposium,
“Rhetorics of Reason and Restraint: Stoic Speech from Antiquity to the
Present,” Minneapolis, MN, May 2010.
2008-09 Vice-president (and president-elect) of the American Society for the History
of Rhetoric
2009 Golden Anniversary Monograph Award Committee Chair, National
Communication Association
2008 Golden Anniversary Monograph Award Committee, National Communication
Association
2007-10 Membership Officer, American Society for the History of Rhetoric.
2004-06 American Society for the History of Rhetoric Steering Committee Member
2006-07 Colloquium Committee, Department of Communication, University of
Illinois
Departmental/ University Service
2011 Review Panel PRH/Illinois Informatics Institute Post-Doctoral Fellowship in
Digital Humanities for 2011-12
2011 Chair, Search Committee for Associate Director, Program for Arms Control,
Disarmament, and International Security
2010-11 Committee for Academic Integrity and Capricious Grading, Department of
Communication
2010 (Fall) Organizer, Rhetorical Studies Reading Group
2009-present Faculty Supervisor, CMN 101 and CMN 111/ 112, Department of
Communication, University of Illinois
2008-09 Organizer, Rhetorical Studies Reading Group
2007-09 LAS Humanities Council Scholarship and Honors Committee, University of
Illinois
2007-08 Committee for Academic Integrity and Capricious Grading, Department of
Communication
2007 Search Committee Member, Course Director Position, Department of
Communication, University of Illinois
2004-05 Penn State Communication Arts and Sciences, Task Force on Public
Speaking Web-based Workbook.
2004-05 Penn State Communication Arts and Sciences, Rhetoric Search Committee.
2002-03 Penn State Communication Arts and Sciences, President, Graduate Forum,
The Graduate Student Organization of the Department.
Professional Memberships
American Society for the History of Rhetoric
International Society for the History of Rhetoric
National Communication Association
Rhetoric Society of America
Society for the History of Technology
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