Diane Davis

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Associate Professor of Rhetoric & Writing; Director of Digital Writing & Research Lab

Contact

E-mail: ddd@mail.utexas.edu
http://instructors.dwrl.utexas.edu/davis/home
Phone: 471-8735
Office: FAC 17
Campus Mail Code: B5500

Interests

My work is situated at the intersection of rhetorical theory and continental philosophy.

Biography

I hold the Kenneth Burke Chair of Rhetoric & Critical Media Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, and my research and teaching interests include rhetorical theory, critical theory, digital culture, and continental philosophy. I am the author of Breaking Up [at] Totality: A Rhetoric of Laughter (Southern Illinois UP, 2000) and Inessential Solidarity: Rhetoric and Foreigner Relations (University of Pittsburgh, 2010), co-author of Women’s Ways of Making It in Rhetoric and Composition (with Michelle Ballif and Roxanne Mountford, Routledge, 2008), and editor of The ÜberReader: Selected Works of Avital Ronell (U of Illinois P, 2008) and Reading Ronell (U of Illinois P, 2009).