Lee M Pierce
Lecturer Communication- Education
Ph.D. Communication Studies University of Georgia
- Specializations
Contemporary rhetorical theory and criticism, Political rhetoric, Critical Stylistics, Temporality, Trope and Form, Style, Close Reading, Deconstruction, Critical/Cultural Studies
Teaching specializations: speech communication, interpersonal and group communication, rhetoric and public culture.
- Biography
Currently teaching Interpersonal Communication and Public Speaking at Georgia State University. Recipient of the 2016 Gerald R Miller Outstanding Dissertation Award from the National Communication Association for my dissertation entitled “Syntaxing the Nation: Rhetoric and Temporality in Contemporary US Political Culture.” Currently at work on a book of the same title. Part time yogi, amateur chef, mother of cats.
- Publications
“A Rhetoric of Traumatic Nationalism in the Ground Zero Mosque Controversy,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 100, no.1 (2014): 53-80
“Strength in Weakness: Pseudo-Patriotism Surrounds the Ground Zero Mosque Dispute,”
Communication Currents 9, no. 4 (August 2014) http://www.natcom.org/CommCurrentsArticle.aspx?id=5167