Annenberg School for Communication
3502 Watt Way
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0281
(213) 740-3937
Internet: douglast@RCF.USC.EDU

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

RESEARCH

Publications:

• Douglas Thomas. "It's Not What You Say, It's That You Say It: Speech, Performance, and Sense in Austin and Deleuze." Philosophy and Rhetoric. (1996). Forthcoming.

• Douglas Thomas. "Reading De Man Reading Rhetoric." Communication Theory. 6 (1996): 188-201.

• Douglas Thomas. "The Articulation of Time in Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy: Rethinking Deconstruction through the Thematic of Temporality." Journal of Nietzsche Studies. 9/10 (1995): 121-132.

• Douglas Thomas. "Reflections on a Nietzschean Turn in Rhetorical Theory: Rhetoric without Epistemology?" Quarterly Journal of Speech. 80 (1994): 71-76.

• Douglas Thomas. "Burke, Nietzsche, Lacan: Three Perspectives on the Rhetoric of Order." Quarterly Journal of Speech. 79 (1993): 336-356.

• Douglas Thomas. "Utilising Foucault's Nietzsche: Nietzsche, Genealogy and Autobiography." Journal of Nietzsche Studies. 6 (1993): 103-130.

• Douglas Thomas. "Rethinking Pedagogy in Public Speaking and American Public Address: A Feminist Alternative." Women's Studies in Communication. 14 (1991): 42-57.

• Douglas Thomas. "The Ethical Implications of Policy Reversal: Two JFK Speeches." Iowa Journal of Speech Communication. 21 (1991): 26-34.

Conference papers:

• "The Question of Style: A Burkean View of Friedrich Nietzsche's Philosophical Writings" Central States Communication Association Annual Conference, Kansas City, Missouri, April 14, 1989.

• "Nietzsche at the End of Philosophy: A Configurative Rhetoric of Inquiry" Speech Communication Association Annual Convention, Nov. 1990.

• "Genealogy in Nietzsche and Foucault: Implications for Rhetorical Theory and Criticism" Speech Communication Association Annual Convention, Nov. 1990.

• "Towards a Feminist Pedagogy of Rhetoric" Central States Speech Association Annual Convention, April 1991.

• "Ich Bin Ein Berliner: A Burkian View of Kennedy's Use of Identification" Central States Speech Association Annual Convention, April 1991.

• "Rethinking Pedagogy in Public Speaking and American Public Address: A Feminist Alternative" Southern States Communication Association Annual Convention, April 1991.

• "Kennedy in Berlin: The Story of the Wall and the Story of the West" Southern States Communication Association Annual Convention, April 1991.

• "Nietzsche's Deconstruction of the `Metaphysics of Presence': Implications for Rhetorical Epistemology and Inquiry" Speech Communication Association, November 1991.

• with R. J. Lesch. "Time, Evolution and Information: A Synthetic Approach to the Study of Science/Fiction and Fascism" Fascism(s): roots/extensions/replays. University of Oregon, April, 1992.

• "Rhetorical Dimensions of Speech Act Theory: Performance and Authority in Austin and Deleuze" Rhetoric Society of America, Biennial Conference. Minneapolis, May, 1992.

• "Burke, Nietzsche, Lacan: Three Perspectives on the Rhetoric of Order" Speech Communication Association, November, 1992.

• "On Tropic Epistemology" Speech Communication Association, November, 1993.

• with Ann Chisholm. "Noise and Violence: On the Rhetoric of Music" Speech Communication Association, November, 1993.

• SCA Seminar leader and participant, "Communities in Transition: Possibilities and Problems in the Reconstitution of Rhetoric" (with Ann Chisholm and Michael Leff). Speech Communication Association, November, 1994.

• "Do or Die--On the Rhetoric of Urban L.A." Speech Communication Association, November, 1994.

• "Cross Burning in St. Paul: Critical Rhetoric and Domains of Discourse." Speech Communication Association, November, 1994.

• "Rhetoric as a Technology of the Self" (with John Sloop). Western States Communication Association, February, 1995.

• "Reading DeMan Reading Rhetoric." Western States Communication Association, February, 1995. (Top paper in Rhetoric and Public Address).

• w/Ben Attias. "'He Plundered the Citadels of Cyberspace': Schizophrenic Dimensions and Paranoiac Machinations of the Information Superhighway" Virtual Futures 1995. University of Warwick, May 1995.

• "Cross-Burning in St. Paul: Gazes, Traits, and Bodies in the Discourse of Hate Crimes." Cultural Studies at the Crossroads. Tempare, Findland, June, 1996.

• SCA Seminar leader and participant, "Communities in Transition: Possibilities and Problems in the Reconstitution of Rhetoric" (with Ann Chisholm). Speech Communication Association, November, 1995.

• "W(h)ither Humanism", panel discussion of the role of humanism in rhetorical inquiry. Western States Communication Association, Feb. 1996.

• "Racial Identity and the Culture of the Gaze: Rethinking the American Culture of Whiteness" for California American Studies Association, April 1996.

Invited lectures

• "Perspectives on Rhetorical Theory: Burke, Nietzsche, and Lacan," University of California at Davis. Davis, CA, November 10, 1993.

GRANTS, HONORS, AND AWARDS

• Departmental Fellow, Department of Speech Communication, University of Minnesota, Spring 1992. Quarter time release from teaching duties to pursue research interests.

• Research Award, Department of Speech Communication, University of Minnesota, 1991. Award to recognize and support independent scholarly research.

• Travel Award, Department of Speech Communication, University of Minnesota, 1991. Award to provide funding for presentation of research at regional and national conventions.

• Travel Award, Department of Speech Communication, University of Minnesota, 1992. Award to provide funding for presentation of research at regional and national conventions.
• Top paper in Rhetoric and Public Address, Western States Communication Association, February, 1995.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Teaching Assistant, University of Minnesota, 1988-1992.
  Courses taught:
  Public Speaking.
  Introduction to Communication, (T.A.).
  Argumentation.
  Persuasive Speaking: Theory and Practice.

• Visiting Assistant Professor, Gustavus Adolphus College, 1992- 1993.
  Courses taught:
  Organizational Communication.
  Contemporary Rhetorical Criticism.
  Seminar: The Rhetoric of Political Correctness.
  Communication Theory.

• Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, 1993-present
  Courses taught:
  Theories and Methods of Rhetorical Inquiry.
  Ethics and Human Communication.
  Graduate Seminar: Historical and Critical Methods of Inquiry
  Graduate Seminar: Power, Discourse & Society: Genealogical Investigations of the Human Subject
  Graduate Seminar: Time in the Text of Philosophy (Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida and Deleuze)