Rhetoric and Politics.Consistent with our location in the heart of a dynamic international city, the political and economic capital of the Southeast, the capital city of Georgia, locus of much of our civil rights organizing, historical and contemporary, the rhetoric faculty are involved in the study of discourse and politics broadly conceived, including the constitution and reconstitution of publics and counterpublics at the international, national, and local levels, with special attention to the creation, articulation, and enforcement of collective identities. The required seminar for this area is Theories of the Public, which aims to give students a firm grip on the historical and theoretical aspects of the term “public.” Other courses regularly offered in this area include: Texts in Context, Identity Studies, Theories of Discourse, and the History of Rhetorical Theory. Other courses in this sequence include Rhetorical Criticism, and special topics courses such as International Social Movements, The Rhetoric of Hatred, National Identity Construction, and Marxist Theory. Affiliated Faculty include Jeffrey Bennett, Michael Bruner, David Cheshier, James Darsey, Mary Stuckey, and Carol Winkler.
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