Mailing Address Phone #’s and E-Mail Address Department of Communication Studies, AS 309 DEPT: 562-985-4301 California State University, Long Beach OFFICE: 562-985-4313 1250 Bellflower Blvd. HOME: 562-621-0325 Long Beach, CA 90840-2407 CELL: 530-961-3698 E-Mail: [email protected] EDUCATION Ph.D., University of Texas, Summer 2007 Major: Communication Studies Emphasis: Rhetoric and Language Dissertation: “The Unconscious as a Rhetorical Factor: Toward a BurkeLacanian Subject.” Advisor: Barry Brummett Dissertation Committee: Richard A. Cherwitz, Dana L. Cloud, D. Diane Davis, and Joshua Gunn. M.A., California State University, Long Beach, 2002 Major: Communication Studies Advisor: Craig R. Smith B.A., California State University, Long Beach, 1999 Major: Speech Communication Emphasis: Rhetorical Studies APPOINTMENTS Graduate Assistant, California State University, Long Beach. Long Beach, CA (Fall, 1999 to Spring, 2000). Teaching Associate, California State University, Long Beach. Long Beach, CA (Fall, 2000 to Spring, 2002). Graduate Assistant, University of Texas at Austin. Austin, TX (Fall, 2002 to Spring, 2007). Assistant Director of Debate, University of Texas at Austin. Austin, TX (Fall, 2002 to Spring, 2007). Assistant Professor, Tenure Track, California State University, Chico. Chico, CA (Fall, 2007 to Spring, 2008). Lecturer, California State University, Long Beach. Long Beach, CA (Fall, 2008 to Spring, 2012). Visiting Professor, John Cabot University, Rome, IT (Summers, 2011, 2012, and 2013). Assistant Professor, Tenure Track, California State University, Long Beach. Long Beach, CA (Fall, 2012-Spring, 2015). Curriculum Vitae !1 Director, Center for First Amendment Studies, California State University, Long Beach. Long Beach, CA (Fall, 2015-Present). Associate Professor, Tenured, California State University, Long Beach. Long Beach, CA (Fall, 2015-Present). PUBLICATIONS (Works in Progress and Revise and Resubmits Not Included. Available Upon Request) Peer Reviewed Kevin A. Johnson. “From Hawaii to Massachusetts: A Comprehensive Account of Anti-Same-Sex-Marriage Arguments, 1993-2004.” Journal of Intergroup Relations. 31.4 (Winter, 2004/2005): 3-24. (LEAD ARTICLE). Jennifer J. Asenas and Kevin A. Johnson. “Politicizing Rhetorical Space/Place: The Fallen Soldiers Memorial and the Contestation of Power.” Queen: A Journal of Rhetoric and Power. 5.2 (Fall, 2009). Online. Kevin A. Johnson. “Burke’s Lacanian Upgrade: Reading the Burkeian Unconscious Through a Lacanian Lens.” Kenneth Burke Journal. 6.1 (Fall, 2009). Online. Kevin A. Johnson, “The Kennedy Court: Reflections on the First Amendment Ruling in Christian Legal Society v. Martinez.” Free Speech Yearbook. v. 45 (2011). Kevin A. Johnson. “Hegemonic Ideological Coordinates and the Rhetorical Construction of ‘The Illegal Immigrant’ in America.” Journal of American Studies in Scandinavia. (Spring, 2012): 11-38. (LEAD ARTICLE). Kevin A. Johnson and Jennifer J. Asenas. “The Lacanian Real as a Productive Supplement to Rhetorical Critique.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly. 43.2 (Spring, 2013): 155-176. Kevin A. Johnson and Joseph W. Anderson. “Rhetorical Construction of Anger Management, Emotions, and Public Argument in Baseball Culture: The Case of Carlos Zambrano.” NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture. 21.2 U of Nebraska Press (Spring, 2013): 56-76. Kevin A. Johnson and Jennifer J. Asenas. “The FCC and Indecency Regulation in the Wake of Fox Television Stations v. FCC.” First Amendment Studies Journal. (Fall, 2013): 133-152. Jennifer J. Asenas and Kevin A. Johnson. “Illegal Immigration Rhetoric and the Context of Globalization: Moving Beyond Arizona and American Illegal Immigration Rhetoric.” Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society. 4.1 (2014). Online. Lisa Perks and Kevin A. Johnson. “Electile Dysfunction: The Burlesque Binds of the Sarah Palin MILF Frame.” Feminist Media Studies. 14.5 (November, 2014): 775-790. Curriculum Vitae !2 Jennifer J. Asenas and Kevin A. Johnson. “Humanitarian and Democratic Consequences at the Intersection of Economic Globalization and Rhetorical Strategy: Extending the Conversation on SB 1070.” Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society. 5.1 (2015). Online. Non-Journal Peer Reviewed Work Jennifer J. Asenas and Kevin A. Johnson. “Traditional and Subversive War Mythology as Terministic Screens in Saving Private Ryan.” Arguing Communication and Culture. v. 2. Edited by G. Thomas Goodnight. Selected Papers from the Twelfth NCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation, (August, 2001): 628-634. Kevin A. Johnson. “Kenneth Burke and the Rhetorical Magic of the Eminem Show.” In Charles Arthur Willard (ed.). Critical Problems in Argumentation. Washington: National Communication Association, (2005): 268-274. Kevin A. Johnson. “From the Suppressed Premise to the Repressed Premise: The Unconscious as a Location of Enthymeme.” The Functions of Argument and Social Context. Washington, D.C.: National Communication Association (2010): 219-225. Kevin A. Johnson and Michael K. Middleton. “Challenging the ‘Givens’ of Political Life: Social Movements and the Destructive Orgy of Unreason.” Reasoned Argument and Social Change. Robert C. Rowland (Ed.). Washington, D.C.: National Communication Association. (2012). Kevin A. Johnson and Michael K. Middleton. “The Irony of Originalist Argument in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.” Recovering Argument. Randall A. Lake (Ed.). London: Taylor and Francis. (2016). Invited or Competitively Accepted Research in Edited Volumes Kevin A. Johnson. “Unrealistic Portrayals of Sex, Love, and Romance in Popular Wedding Films.” In Mary- Lou Galician and Debra Merskin (eds.). Critical Thinking About Sex, Love, and Romance in the Mass Media: Media Literacy Applications. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, (2006). Kevin A. Johnson. “Hip-Hop, the NBA, and Street Basketball: The Rhetorical Dimensions of Performance at the Intersection of Class, Race, and Popular Culture.” The Cultural Rhetorics of Performance in Sports and Games. Barry Brummett (ed.). New York: Peter Lang, (2009). Kevin A. Johnson. “The First Amendment and Rhetorical Style: The Politics of School Dress Codes.” The Politics of Style and the Style of Politics. Edited by Barry Brummett. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (2011). Kevin A. Johnson. “The First Amendment Rulings of Justice Kennedy.” A First Amendment Profile of the Supreme Court. Ed. Craig R. Smith. Rome, IT: John Cabot University Press, Newark: NJ: University of Delaware Distributor. (2011). Kevin A. Johnson. “The First Amendment Rulings of Justice Thomas.” A First Amendment Profile of the Supreme Court. Ed. Craig R. Smith. Rome, IT: John Cabot University Press, Newark: NJ: University of Delaware Distributor. (2011). Curriculum Vitae !3 Kevin A. Johnson. “Justice Anthony Kennedy and the First Amendment: The Pivotal Supreme Court Justice.” Communication Currents. (An NCA Publication). (October, 2011). Kevin A. Johnson. “Ontological Violence and Post-Multiculturalism: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry of an American Cultural Psyche.” American Multicultural Studies. Sherrow O Pinder (Ed.). New York: Sage. (2013). Kevin A. Johnson and Joseph W. Anderson. “The Native American Hip-Hop Nation: A Nationalist Movement for Sovereignty.” Nationalisms Across the Globe. Peter Lang Publishing. (2015): 115-132. Book Reviews Kevin A. Johnson and Jennifer J. Asenas. Review of Pinder, Sherrow O. The Politics of Race and Ethnicity in the United States: Americanization, De-Americanization, and Racialized Ethnic Groups. New York: Palgrave, 2010. Ethnic and Racial Studies. (A Routledge Journal). (July, 2011). Jennifer J. Asenas and Kevin A. Johnson. Review of Alexander, Lisa D. When Baseball Isn’t White, Straight and Male: The Media and Difference in the National Pastime. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013. NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture. (U of Nebraska P Journal). (Spring, 2013). Kevin A. Johnson and Jennifer J. Asenas. “From Subject to Psyche: A Review of Christian Lundberg’s Lacan in Public: Psychoanalysis and the Science of Rhetoric.” Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2012. Journal of Advanced Composition: A Journal of Rhetoric, Culture, and Politics. (forthcoming 2015). Jennifer J. Asenas and Kevin A. Johnson. Review of E. Johanna Hartelius (Ed.). The Rhetorics of U.S. Immigration: Identity, Community, Otherness. Philosophy and Rhetoric. (forthcoming 2016). Video Publications Host, The First Amendment and You. Episodes 3 and 4. Center for First Amendment Studies. Discussed the history of government strategies of suppressing freedom of expression. Selected and featured by the National Communication Association for their national Freedom of Expression Week observance. (2011). Host, The First Amendment and You. Episodes 5 and 6. Center for First Amendment Studies. Published by the Center for First Amendment Studies, California State University, Long Beach (2012). Debate Research Publications Kevin A. Johnson. “Juvenile Crime.” in Jim Hanson and Matt Taylor (eds.). The West Coast Affirmative Handbook, and The West Coast Negative Handbook, Spanway, Washington: West Coast Publishing, 1996. Kevin A. Johnson, “Research.” in Jim Hanson and Matt Taylor (eds.). The Philosopher and Value Handbook, v. 1, Spanway, Washington: West Coast Publishing, 1996. Kevin A. Johnson, “Renewable Energy.” in Jim Hanson and Matt Taylor (eds.). The West Coast Affirmative Handbook, and The West Coast Negative Handbook, Spanway, Washington: West Coast Publishing, 1997. Curriculum Vitae !4 Kevin A. Johnson, West Coast Debate: Policy Debate Seminar