Education
Bachelor's Degree(s): Notre Dame
Master's Degree: Brown
PhD: Brown
Awards
Board of Regents ATLAS Grant. $47,175. “Documenting Reality: Memory, Heritage, and the Public Life of Communities.” 7/06-7/07.
LSU Faculty Research Grant. $ 40,000. “Katrina: After the Aftermath.” With Carolyn
Ware, et al. 7/06-7/07.
Selected Publications
Books:
Language, History, Style: Leo Spitzer and the Critical Tradition (1988); Ragged Dicks and Jobs Manly: The Rhetoric of Masculinity and the Myth of the Self-Made Man (2001).
Publications
Recent Articles
"Articulating the Values of Labor and Laboring: Civic Rhetoric and Heritage Tourism."
In New Rhetorics of Working-Class Consciousness . Ed. William DeGenaro. UPitt Press. 2007.
Video Screenings
“Uneasy Pieces.” 45 min. Working Class Studies Association. Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN, 2007.
"Steel Voices: From Mills to Malls and Movies." 23 min. The McDonough Art Museum. Youngstown, OH, May, 2005.