Longaker, Mark
Assistant Professor

Education: Ph.D. Penn State 2003
Office Location: PAR 131
Office Hours: Contact DRW 471-6109
Phone: (512) 471-8725
longaker@mail.utexas.edu

Before graduate school, Mark Longaker worked as a high-school Spanish and English teacher in the public school system of his hometown, New Orleans. He came to Austin in 2003 after working as a visiting professor at Temple University in Philadelphia. He currently teaches undergraduate writing and rhetorical theory/analysis courses in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing. In the English department he regularly offers graduate courses about the history of Marxism, rhetorical theory, education, and public address. Believing that rhetoric is a truly interdisciplinary study, he pursues many interests. He has written, given lectures, and taught courses on a variety of topics, including: technical communication; the intersection of 18th-century American philosophy and rhetorical theory; 21st-century media technologies and their role in democratic deliberation; 17th-century Protestant sermon arrangement; and 19th-century education and the rise of the vertically integrated corporation in America. He is also presently co-writing (with Jeffrey Walker) a textbook under contract with Allyn/Bacon and Longman, titled ''The Elements of Rhetorical Analysis''.

Research Interests: Currently, Dr. Longaker is investigating the intersection of rhetorical theory and political economy among British thinkers from the 17th through the 19th centuries. He is particularly interested in the variety of theories about representation that appear in both rhetorical and monetary theories of this period.

Recent Publications: Rhetoric and the Republic: Politics, Civic Discourse, and Education in Early America. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007.

''Idealism and Early-American Rhetoric.'' Rhetoric Society Quarterly 36.3 (Summer 2006): 281-308.

''Back to Basics: An Apology for Economism in Technical-Writing Scholarship.'' Technical Communication Quarterly 15.1 (January 2006): 3-29.

''Market Rhetoric and the Ebonics Debate.'' Written Communication 22.4 (October 2005): 472-501.

''Beyond Ethics: Notes Towards a Historical Materialist Paideia in the Professional Writing Classroom.'' Journal of Business and Technical Communication 19 (January 2005): 78-97.

''The Economics of Exposition: Managerialism, Current-Traditional Rhetoric, and Henry Noble Day.'' College English 67.5 (May 2005): 508-531.

Awards and Honors: Summer Teaching Award (Summer 2004)

Dean’s Fellow (Spring 2007)

University Co-Op Subvention Grant (2006)