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TIME and ETHOS in RHETORICAL THEORY Collin Bjork Submitted To ACCUMULATING CHARACTER: TIME AND ETHOS IN RHETORICAL THEORY Collin Bjork Submitted to the faculty of the University Graduate School in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of English, Indiana University June 2019 Accepted by the Graduate Faculty, Indiana University, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Doctoral Committee __________________________________________ Chair: Dana Anderson, Ph.D. __________________________________________ John Schilb, Ph.D. __________________________________________ Justin Hodgson, Ph.D. __________________________________________ Freya Thimsen, Ph.D. __________________________________________ Scot Barnett, Ph.D. 2 May 2019 ii Acknowledgements I am incredibly thankful for the long list of people and places that have impacted the direction and contours of this dissertation. And in a project that engages the imbricated concepts of character and time, I am particularly grateful for those who gave their own time to contribute to the ongoing development of my ethos as a scholar, teacher, and community member. I am thankful first for the public libraries that provided a quiet yet communal space in which to write: the Monroe Country Public Library, Ector County Public Library, Round Rock Public Library, Cedar Park Public Library, Austin Public Library, and Ghent Public Library. Your community-based work shares many important aims with the field of rhetoric that I now call home. I look forward to more opportunities to collaborate with you and other public libraries in the future. I am also grateful for the many universities that made their libraries and classrooms available for my thinking, writing, and teaching: Indiana University, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Texas Permian Basin, Texas A&M University, Texas State University, Southwestern University, and Austin Community College. I have always felt at home in places that foster a delightful spirit of inquiry like these campuses. Thank you also to my Texas friends who have generously inquired about and challenged my research: Kyle Brill, Philip Johnson, Evan Blevins, Scott Raney, Josh Tate, Colby Garretson, Koby Ackie, Jesse Bertron, Geoff Abraham, Angela Barratt, and Brad Wright. Our “porch-sitting” conversations have strengthened this project and helped me maintain focus on the important public- facing work of this discipline. I am also grateful for our Bloomington neighbors who so warmly welcomed us into the Park Ridge East community: Tom and Beth Mooradian, MaryBeth and Terry Barger, Jon Simons and Claire Swallow, John Nieto-Phillips and Luciana Namorato, and Bradley Levinson. Your hospitality and humor enriched our time in Indiana; you will be missed. iii I am particularly indebted to the many workshops where patient colleagues read early drafts of these chapters. Thank you to the 2018 Midwest Winter Workshop organizers and to group leader Richard Marback for generously reading and responding to a rough draft of the first chapter. Thank you to Debra Hawhee’s leadership at the Research Network Forum at the 2018 Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Your ear for tone and your suggestion to study water clocks has improved this project immensely. Thank you to group leaders Derek Van Ittersum, Tim Lockridge, and Dustin Edwards at the 2018 Graduate Research Network at the Computers and Writing Conference. Your thoughtful dialogue about cryptocurrencies and rhetoric played a crucial role in the development of the final chapter. Thank you to Christian Koch and to the other members of our working group at the 2018 International Rhetoric Workshop. Your careful reading and thoughtful discussion of parts of the first chapter have sharpened both the way I write and think about rhetorical temporalities. Thank you to the other HASTAC Fellows at IU and to the leadership of Kalani Craig, Michelle Dalmau, and Mary Borgo Ton at Indiana University’s Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities. Your lively conversations have enriched the digital elements of this project. Thank you also to the many conferences where I first presented some of this research to an academic audience. I deeply appreciate my fellow panelists, the audience members, and the conference organizers at the 2018 Rhetoric Society of America Conference, the 2018 Computers and Writing Conference, the 2018 Watson Conference, and the 2017 Rhetoric Society of Europe Conference. I am also grateful for the friendship of Frida Buhre, Brent Lucia, and the other graduate student leaders of the International Rhetoric Workshop; our many conversations have made me a better scholar. At Indiana University, I am appreciative of the many people who helped me navigate my graduate program. Thank you to the staff members: Douglas Case, Hayley Rollins, Shauna Melvin, Lisa LaPlante, Jody Hays, Kayla Pointer (and Ziggy!), and especially Bev Hankins. Your friendly conversations and sage guidance re-energized me and gave me direction when I lacked it. I am also iv grateful for my fellow graduate students at Indiana University who helped me negotiate the challenges of a Ph.D. program with their wit, wisdom, and friendship. Thank you to Rachel McCabe, Alexandra Penn, Jennifer Warfel-Juszkiewicz, Jessica George, Sam Tett, Caddie Alford, Philip Perdue, Phil Choong, Amanda Zoch, James Bishop, Laura Rosche, Becky Ottman, Joanna Chromik, Elizabeth Maffetone, Mary Helen Truglia, JiHae Koo, Patrick Kindig, Ben Debus, Samantha Demmerle, Adam Coombs, Mary Borgo Ton, Stephen Hopkins, Tim Etzkorn, Peyton Lunzer, Benjamin Luczak, and Jason Michalek. Thank you also to the IU faculty members whose office hours conversations and coursework made me a better thinker, teacher, and scholar. I am particularly grateful for the mentorship of Fritz Breithaupt, John Eakin, Steven Wagschal, Ellen MacKay, Rebecca Sheldon, Patricia Ingham, Rae Greiner, Nicki Skillman, Kathy O. Smith, Kurt Zemlicka, Cynthia Duquette Smith, and Kefaya Diab. Thanks also to my colleagues in the Global Society of Online Literacy Educators and on the board for our peer-reviewed journal Research in Online Literacy Education: Michael Greer, Tiffany Bourelle, Kevin Eric Depew, Jason Snart, Jenae Cohn, Mary Stewart, Kimberly Fahle, Shelley Rodrigo, Lyra Hilliard, Jessie Borgman, and Casey McCardle. You have taught me much about how to advance the field through teamwork, vision, and attention to detail. Additional thanks to my soon-to-be colleagues at Massey University in New Zealand who, through their thoughtful engagement during my job interview, have already helped advance this project: Jenny Lawn, Keith Comer, Hannah Gerrard, Tony Signal, Nicholas Holm, Pete McGregor, and Louise Folster. I look forward to many more delightful conversations in the future. And special thanks to John Gallagher at the University of Illinois who patiently read a very early draft of my thinking about chronos and has been a thoughtful interlocutor and friend since then. I am especially grateful for those faculty members at IU who have graciously given of their time to mentor me and parts of this project throughout its many stages. Thank you to Robert Terrill v for his always-present leadership, his unflagging support, and his open door. Thank you to Joan Linton for teaching me how to build bridges between students, the academy, and the local community through writing classes. Thank you to Katie Silvester for teaching me how to cultivate a community of teachers, for encouraging and supporting my international endeavors, and for asking a brilliant question in my oral exam (one that I’m still pondering to this day!). Thank you to John Arthos for teaching me how to design rhetoric and technology courses that attract and energize students, that teach them the foundational skills of our discipline, and that help them create impressive final projects with legs beyond the four walls of our classroom. Much of the credit for who I am as a teacher and as a fledgling podcaster goes to you and your unfaltering support of graduate students in our department. Of all the faculty at IU, I owe the greatest debt of thanks to the five brilliant members of my dissertation committee. Without you, this project simply would not have been possible. Thank you to Scot Barnett for thoughtfully commenting on the entirety of this project and for helping me see ways to expand my understanding of Aristotle in the future. Thank you to Freya Thimsen for so carefully reading and responding to this dissertation; the next iteration of this project will be brighter because of your feedback. Thank you to Justin Hodgson for talking me through some of the challenges of this dissertation during office hours and also for teaching me how to design and lead effective online writing courses. Thank you to John Schilb for your ear during office hours, your eye on my prose, your voice on a podcast interview, and for calling me ‘indefatigable,’ a moniker I wear with pride; you are an inspiration to me. Lastly, thank you to my dissertation chair, Dana Anderson. Most of this I’ve said to you before, but it is worth repeating publicly. Thank you for reading my prose closer than anyone else; thank you for having more faith in my ideas than I often did; thank you for seeing paths forward when I could only see roadblocks; thank you for giving me more of your time that I deserved; thank you for teaching me to see composition style as an opportunity for vi community-building; thank you for the horseshoe and the ongoing journey that it represents; thank you for modeling a generous scholarly ethos; and most importantly, thank you for teaching me how to live rhetorically. Finally, I owe an ineffable debt of thanks to my family. Thank you to my in-laws for welcoming a (formerly) long-haired Austinite into your family. In particular, thank you to Nell Waddell for supporting my graduate work and for ensuring that I am well-attired in the classroom. Thank you to David Meisell for your camaraderie and conversation on your annual motorcycle trip to Bloomington with Cody Scace.
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