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Associate Dean, College of Arts and
Sciences
Professor, Dept.
of Communication Studies, Vanderbilt
University
- Research/Pegagogical Interests: Rhetorical Theory and
Criticism, Public Discourse, Gender Studies, Media and
Cultural Criticism
Background/Present:
- I received my B.S. in Media/Advertising from
Appalachian
State University (Boone, NC) in 1985 and worked the
following year at a full service marketing firm in Chapel
Hill, NC. From 1986-1988, I worked on my Master's in
Speech Communication at the University of Georgia. From
1988-1992, I was at the University of Iowa, where I
received my Ph.D. in Communication Studies. After a three
year teaching assignment at Drake University in the Dept.
of Rhetoric and Communication Studies, I began my current
position at Vanderbilt. In Spring 2005, I was promoted to
Professor of Communication Studies.
- I am currently (2007-2010) serving as Associate Dean of Undergraduate
Academic Affairs in the College of Arts and Sciences.
- Like the entire faculty of our Department, I work hard to
maintain a relationship between my research and teaching
interests. For instance, I have published work that
focuses on mass media production and consumption and use
this background in my Rhetoric of Mass Media course. My
current research on public discussions of gender
ambiguity led to the creation of a course entitled
"The Rhetoric of Gender Trouble." As a result,
I try to encourage students to work, write, and speak on
areas that are vital to their lives--past and potential.
- In 1996, I published my first book,
The Cultural Prison (University of Alabama Press), which was published
in paperback in 2006..
- In 2002, Temple University Press published
Shifting Borders:
Rhetoric, Immigration, and Californias
"Proposition 187, a book I co-authored with
Kent Ono (Director of Asian American Studies, University
of Illinois). The
University of Massachusetts Press published my,
Disciplining Gender: Rhetorics of Sex
Identity in Contemporary U.S. Culture, in 2004.
- I am currently working on my next project, which investigates the
relationship between gender, sexuality, citizenship, and transportation technologies
as media. The first essay emerging from this work will be published in
the journal Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies.
- On a separate note, I am currently serving as editor of
Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies for Volumes 4-6, to be
published 2007-2009.
- For an overview of my research and service, see my
vita.
Courses taught (note: the courses below are no longer web links, as I am
moving all courses to Blackboard)
- Rhetoric of
Mass Media (CMST241)
-
Rhetoric of
Popular Music (CMST294)
- Rhetoric of Social Movements (CMST 224)
- Contemporary Rhetorical Theory (CMST257)
- Rhetoric of Gender Trouble (CMST294)
- Communication, Culture, Consciousness
(CMST242)
-
Public Speaking (CMST 100)
-
Rhetoric and Civic Life (CMST 210)
- Methods of Rhetorical Analysis (CMST
254)
-
Mass
Mediated Politics: Issues and Images (HUM161)
- Lessons from "Lost" (CMST115W)
Relaxation Interests:
Mail (and Marlon Brando postcards) can be sent to:
John Sloop
Box 1558, Station B
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37235
Office: 615-322-2988
Fax: 615-343-7918
Email me at
john.m.sloop@vanderbilt.edu