Davis, Diane
Associate Professor

Education: Ph.D. UT Arlington 1995
Office Location: PAR 19
Office Hours: Contact DRW 471-6109
Phone: (512) 471-8735
ddd@mail.utexas.edu

Research Interests: Davis is currently at work on three books. Inessential Solidarity examines the intersections between ''rhetoric'' and ''community,'' focusing specifically on inessential forms of solidarity that require both terms to be radically redefined. Women's Ways of Making It...In Rhetoric and Composition explicates the ways in which ''successful'' women in the field have made it. (With (with Michelle Ballif and Roxanne Mountford; under advanced contract with Erlbaum.) And Reading Ronell is an edited collection on the work of Avital Ronell. Fifteen confirmed contributors, including Jacques Derrida, Helene Cixous, Jean-Luc Nancy, Werner Hamacher, and Judith Butler. Under negotiations with University of Illinois Press.

Recent Publications: The UberReader: Selected Works of Avital Ronell. Edited collection with introduction. University of Illinois Press. Forthcoming in 2007.

Breaking Up Totality: A Rhetoric of Laughter. Rhetorical Theory and Philosophy Series. Southern Illinois University Press, 2000. 312 pp.

''Addressing Alterity: Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, and the Non-Appropriative Relation.'' Philosophy and Rhetoric 38.3 (2005): 191-212.

''Finitude’s Clamor; Or, Notes Toward a Communitarian Literacy.'' College Composition and Communication 53.1 (Sept. 2001): 119-145.

''Toward an Ethics of Listening.'' With Michelle Ballif and Roxanne Mountford. JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 20.4 (2000): 931-942.

''Negotiating the Differend: A Feminist Trilogue.'' With Michelle Ballif and Roxanne Mountford. JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 20.3 (2000): 583-625.

''Confessions of an Anacoluthon: Avital Ronell on Writing, Technology, Pedagogy, Politics.'' JAC: Journal of Composition Theory 20.2 (2000): 243-281.