Maryam Ahmadi

OFFICE HOURS

• Tuesdays 10am-12pm and by appointment

Maryam is a PhD candidate in the Rhetoric, Politics, & Culture program in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research explores the possibilities and limits of the rhetorics of epistemic decolonization, with current work focused on the discourse of gharbzadegi [occidentosis] within the context of the Iranian Revolution of 1979. By engaging rhetorical theory and history, decolonial studies, and theories of political economy, Maryam examines the rhetoric of gharbzadegi as a geo- and body-politically specific genre of epistemic decolonization to consider how “non-Western” rhetorics and knowledges resist and/or replicate the machinery of epistemic and economic violence.

EDUCATION

• M.A. Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin Madison, 2019
• M.A. Political Sociology, University of Tehran, 2014
• B.A. English, University of Tehran, 2010

HONORS/AWARDS

• William E. Elliott Dissertation Scholarship, 2020
• University Summer Fellowship, 2020
• Elizabeth Warner Risser Fellowship, 2020
• Charles Chester Pearce Award, 2019

COURSES

• CA 100 – Introduction to Speech Communication
• CA 200 – Introduction to Digital Communication
• CA 260 – Communication and Human Behavior
• CA 262 – Theory and Practice of Argumentation and Debate
• CA 310 – Gender and Communication
• CA 310 – The Discourse of Dictators, Demagogues, and Extremists
• CA 360 – Introduction to Rhetoric in Politics and Culture
• CA 373 – Intercultural Communication and Rhetoric