Curriculum Vitae Ned O’Gorman Associate Professor Conrad Humanities Professorial Scholar Associate Head Department of Communication University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 325 Communication Building, MC-456 1207 Oregon St. Urbana, IL 61801 USA Office Phone: 217.265.0859 Email: [email protected] Web: http://nogorman.org Education Ph.D., 2005, Communication Arts & Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University M.A., English, University of Tennessee B.A., English and Economics, Saint Louis University A.A., St. Louis Community College Academic Appointments and Affiliations 2012-present, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, University of Illinois 2005-2012, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Illinois 2012-13, Fellow, Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois 2005-present, Core Faculty, Center for Writing Studies, University of Illinois 2010-present, Core Faculty, Program for Arms Control, Defense, and International Security Administrative Appointments 2013-present, Associate Head, Department of Communication Books Under contract, The Iconoclastic Shutter: Image, Catastrophe, and Economy in America since the Kennedy Assassination, University of Chicago Press (provisionally titled; expected publication 2014) 2011 Book, Spirits of the Cold War: Contesting Worldviews in the Classical Age of American Security Strategy, Michigan State University Press (reviewed in Presidential Studies Quarterly, The New Republic’s “The Book,” North Dakota History; Review of Politics) Refereed Journal Articles and Book Chapters Forthcoming Book Chapter, “’The Logic and Rhetoric of Power’: George F. Kennan, Paul H. Ntize, and the Rhetoric of Cold War Policy Planning,” in The Rhetorical History of the United States: The Cold War, Vol. 8, edited by Martin J. Medhurst, Michigan State University Press. 2013 Book Chapter, “Burke, Mumford, and the Poetics of Technology: Marxism’s Influence on Burke’s Critique of Techno-logology,” with Ian Hill, in Dana Anderson and Jessica Enoch (eds.), Burke in the Archives: Using the Past to Transform the Future of Burkean Studies, University of South Carolina Press. 2013 Essay, “Hobbes, Desire, and Democratization of Rhetoric,” Advances in the History of Rhetoric, Vol 16, 1-28. 2012 Book Chapter, “From Jeremiad to Manifesto: The Rhetorical Evolution of John Foster Dulles’s ‘Massive Retaliation,” in John Carlson and Jonathan Ebel (eds.), From Jeremiad to Jihad, University of California Press. 2011 Book Chapter, “The Diffusion of an Atomic Icon: Nuclear Hegemony and Cultural Memory Loss,” with Kevin Hamilton, in Anne Demo and Bradford Vivian (eds.), Sighting Memory: The Intersection of Visual Practices and Practices of Memory, Routledge. 2011 Essay, “At the Interface: The Loaded Rhetorical Gestures of Nuclear Legitimation,” with Kevin Hamilton, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Vol. 8, No. 1. 2009 Essay, “‘The one word the Kremlin fears:’ C. D. Jackson, Cold War ‘Liberation,’ and American Political-Economic Adventurism,” Rhetoric and Public Affairs, Vol. 12, No. 3, 389-427 2008 Essay, “Eisenhower and the American Sublime,” Quarterly Journal of Speech, Vol. 94, No. 1, 44-72 2006 Essay, “The Political Sublime, An Oxymoron,” Millennium Journal of International Studies, Vol. 34, No. 3, 889-915 2005 Essay, “‘Telling the Truth:’ Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Rhetorical Discourse Ethic,” Journal of Communication and Religion, Vol. 28, No. 2, 224-248 2005 Essay, “Aristotle’s Phantasia in the Rhetoric: Lexis, Appearance, and the Epideictic Function of Discourse,” Philosophy and Rhetoric, Vol. 38, No. 1, 16-40 2004 Essay, “Longinus’s Sublime Rhetoric, or How Rhetoric Came into Its Own,” Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 2, 71-89 Reviews and Other Publications Forthcoming Book Chapter (with Kevin Hamilton), “Filming a Nuclear State: The USAF’s Lookout Mountain Laboratory,” in The Blackwell Companion to War Film, edited by Doug Cunningham. Forthcoming Book Chapter, “The Moral Critic: An Act in Several Histories,” in Rhetorical Criticism: Purpose, Practice, and Pedagogy (tentative title), edited by James Kuypers. Forthcoming Book Review, Letters to Power by Samual McCormick, Quarterly Journal of Speech 2013 Book Review, The Spiritual Industrial Complex: America’s Religious Battle Against Communism in the Early Cold War by Jonathan P. Herzog and Faith and War: How Christians Debated the Cold and Vietnam Wars by David E. Settje, in Politics and Religion. 2011 Short Essay (with Kevin Hamilton and Rohini Singh), “Lights, Camera, Detonation,” in the National Communication Association’s Communication Currents 2011 Essay, “Stoic Rhetoric: Prospects of a Problematic,” Advances in the History of Rhetoric, Vol. 11. No. 1. 2010 National Science Foundation White Paper, “Public Science: A Call,” with Kevin Hamilton. 2010 Book Review, Battle Exhortation: The Rhetoric of Combat Leadership by Keith Yellin, Quarterly Journal of Speech 2008 Essay, “Evangelicalism Nearsighted: A Response to Melanie McAlister,” American Literary History, September 2008 2008 Essay, “Three Cheers for Democratic Style! (Okay, maybe just two),” Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 2008, Vol. 11, No. 3 2006 Essay, “Disaster, Democracy, and the Problem of the Sublime,” Media Development, 2006/4 2 2006 Book Review, The Viability of the Rhetorical Tradition edited by Richard Graff, Arthur Walzer, and Janet Atwill, Rhetoric Society Quarterly 2003 Book Review, Logic and the Art of Memory by Paolo Rossi, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Vol. 36, No. 3 Invited Presentations 2014 Keynote Address, 2014 American Society for the History of Rhetoric Symposium, San Antonio, “Rhetorical Freedom, and Freedom from Rhetoric” 2014 University of Virginia Department of Media Studies, “The Sensibility of the State: The U.S. Air Force’s Lookout Mountain Film Laboratory” 2013 Webinar leader on Kenneth Burke, Organized by Jack Selzer and Debra Hawhee at Penn State University and put on in cooperation with the Rhetoric Society of America 2012 University of Virginia, “Catastrophes, Liberalisms, and Discourses of World Order,” Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture 2012 University of Illinois, Presentation at the Program for Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security’s Workshop in International Security (with Kevin Hamilton) 2012 University of Illinois, Program for Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security, “Picturing the Bomb” (with Kevin Hamilton) 2011 University of Kansas, Hall Center for the Humanities, “Where is the Nuclear Sovereign?” (with Kevin Hamilton) 2010 Northwestern University, “We are All Operators Now: Gender at the Cold War (Nuclear) Console” (with Kevin Hamilton) 2010 University of Illinois, Office of the Vice-Chancellor for Research “NSF-SBE: The Illinois Voice” Meeting, “Public Science: A Call” (presented with Kevin Hamilton) 2009 University of Kansas, Department of Communication, invited colloquium speaker, “Stoic Rhetoric and Cold War ‘Containment’: A Case Study in a ‘Form of Language’” 2008 Respondent at American Literary History Symposium, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign 2007 Arizona State University, The Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Massive Retaliation” 2007 “From Jeremiad to Manifesto: The Rhetorical Evolution of John Foster Dulles’s ‘Massive Retaliation’,” University of Illinois Program for the Study of Religion Symposium on Religion, Violence, and America Awards & Honors 2014, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Dean’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, University of Illinois 2103-18, Conrad Humanities Professorial Scholar, University of Illinois 2012-13 Center for Advanced Study Fellow, University of Illinois 2013-15, Faculty Member, INTERSECT initiative in Technology Studies, Graduate College, University of Illinois 2010 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow (through Vectors/USC Summer Institute) 2010 Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Collaborative Research Project Award (with Kevin Hamilton and Colin Flint, $2500) 2007-08 Humanities Release Time Award, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 2006-07 Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Faculty Fellow, University of Illinois 3 2006 Article of the Year Award from the Religious Communication Association for “‘Telling the Truth:’ Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Rhetorical Discourse Ethic” Grants 2011, $50,000 Start-up Grant in the Digital Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities (a joint project with Kevin Hamilton) 2010, $11,276 University of Illinois Campus Research Board Support Funding Award (with Kevin Hamilton) 2007-08, $8, 013 University of Illinois Campus Research Board Research Support Funding Award Conference Participation 2014 Paper (with Kevin Hamilton), “The Sensibility of the State: The U.S. Air Force’s Lookout Mountain Laboratory,” Cold War Camera Conference, Antigua, Guatemala 2013 Paper, “The Art of Cunning: Engineering Drone Warfare,” National Communication Association, Washington D.C. 2012 Panelist (with Kevin Hamilton), “The Half Life of Empire: Creative Research on Cold War Remains,” American Studies Association Conference, Puerto Rico 2012 Presentation, “"A Nuclear Synthesis: Science, America, and Hollywood in the Films of the USAF’s Lookout Mountain Laboratory,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies (with Kevin Hamilton) 2012 Paper, “Locke as "Critical" Rhetorical Theorist in the Two Treatises of Government,” Rhetoric Society of America Conference 2011 Presentation, “Power as Sublimity,” National Communication Association