| Robert
Asen |
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| Associate
Professor |
(608) 263-4518
6142 Vilas Hal
Office Hours:
ON LEAVE
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LINKS
CA 262 Website : http://commarts.wisc.edu/ca262/
COURSES
Theory and Practice of Argumentation
Theories of Argument and Controversy
Political Communication
Contemporary Rhetorical Theory
Rhetoric and Political Theory
DEPARTMENTAL ACTIVITIES
I conduct research and teach in the areas of public
policy debate, public sphere studies, and rhetoric and
critical theory. My research explores relationships
between social and economic inequality and public deliberation
as well as issues that arise in theorizing a post bourgeois
public sphere. I also am an affiliate at the university's
Institute for Research on Poverty.
DEGREES
- PhD, Northwestern University, 1998
- MA, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1994
- BA, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1991
HONORS/AWARDS
- National Communication Association Gerald R. Miller
Outstanding Dissertation Award (1999)
- American Forensics Association Daniel Rohrer Research
Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Argumentation
(2001)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Visions of Poverty: Welfare Policy and Political Imagination.
East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2002.
Counterpublics and the State (Coedited and introduced
with Daniel C. Brouwer). Albany: State University of
New York Press, 2001.
Coeditor (with Daniel C. Brouwer), "John Dewey
and the Public Sphere," special issue of Argumentation
and Advocacy 39 (2003): 157-221.
"Women, Work, Welfare: A Rhetorical History of
Images of Poor Women in Welfare Policy Debates."
Rhetoric & Public Affairs (forthcoming, 2003).
"Imagining in the Public Sphere," Philosophy
and Rhetoric (forthcoming, 2003).
"The Multiple Mr. Dewey: Multiple Publics and
Permeable Borders in John Dewey's Theory of the Public
Sphere." Argumentation and Advocacy 39 (2003):
174-88.
"Nixon's Welfare Reform: Enacting Historical Contradictions
of Poverty Discourses." Rhetoric & Public Affairs
4 (2001): 261-79.
"Seeking the 'Counter' in Counterpublics."
Communication Theory 10 (2000): 424-46.
"Toward a Normative Conception of Difference in
Public Deliberation." Argumentation and Advocacy
35 (1999): 115-29.
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