❄ English prof & WPA, @NorthernMichU ❄ rhetorical theory & history, writing, film ❄ review ed., @enculturation ❄ aspiring Yooper ❄ union thug ❄ he/him
Marquette, MI
Joined August 2010
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My article "Epideictic Priming amid COVID-19: Metonymy under the Microscope" -- which looks at the abstraction of disease through microbiological imagery -- is in this special issue.
Jazzed to read the whole thing.
🎉🎉🎉The special issue "Rhetoric in Motu" for the Journal of the History of Rhetoric is out online today! Check out the fantastic work from our contributors via the link below. What are you looking forward to reading?
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I reached out to Michigan Senate candidates Abdul El-Sayed and Mike Rogers for their thoughts on the Detroit Red Wings.
Here's what they had to say:
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A rude thing to say perhaps sitting here on sabbatical, but if teaching is one of the things in life that really satisfies a cognitive-social-emotional-collaborative need in life and you’ve done it for 39 straight semesters, there’s a real absence when not doing it.
Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Gorgias, Hollow Knight, Octavia Butler, A Tribe Called Quest, the Oxford comma, and RoboCop.
ALT That silly bourgeois tweet we're all making fun of
Saying rhetoricky things tomorrow about two of my favorite writers at @ISHRhetoric 2025
ALT Title slide for "The Human Depths: James Baldwin's Counterimage of Burkean Logology," with images of Kenneth Burke and James Baldwin
Typing out "University Press" every time in Chicago style almost physically hurts when I'm used to MLA's merciful shorthand of "UP"
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Ron was best man at a gay wedding you dumb fuck. #HappyPride
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#Tigers Riley Greene is the first player in MLB history to hit multiple home runs in the 9th inning of a game.