Ian Hill
I am an Assistant Professor in the History and Theory of Rhetoric in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia. Go Thunderbirds! I am also affiliated faculty with UBC’s Graduate Program in Science and Technology Studies.
My research into rhetoric and technology focuses on the ways people advocate, resist, design, and otherwise argue and debate machines and systems.
My published scholarship examines sonic torture (Western Journal of Communication, 2012) and the role of technology in the work of Kenneth Burke (Kenneth Burke Journal, 2009 and forthcoming in Burke in the Archives, University of South Carolina Press, 2013). Other research in progress includes projects on the rhetorical aspects of UPC bar codes, interrogation methods in the war on terror, the legislative inquiry into deep packet inspection data mining, and a historical series of military photographs that I call “gas mask portraiture.” I am currently working on a book project that examines weapons rhetoric in the period between the French Revolution and the Unabomber’s mail bombing campaign.
At UBC, I have taught a second-year course called Rhetoric & Power as well as third-year courses The History and Theory of Rhetoric and Discourse and Society. Next year (2013-14) I will teach two new courses – Rhetoric, Revolution, & Dissent and a graduate seminar on Rhetoric, Technology, & Materiality. In the past, I have taught Argumentation, Communicating Public Policy, The Rhetorical Tradition, Public Speaking, Oral and Written Communication, and Ancient World Literature.
My research into rhetoric and technology focuses on the ways people advocate, resist, design, and otherwise argue and debate machines and systems.
My published scholarship examines sonic torture (Western Journal of Communication, 2012) and the role of technology in the work of Kenneth Burke (Kenneth Burke Journal, 2009 and forthcoming in Burke in the Archives, University of South Carolina Press, 2013). Other research in progress includes projects on the rhetorical aspects of UPC bar codes, interrogation methods in the war on terror, the legislative inquiry into deep packet inspection data mining, and a historical series of military photographs that I call “gas mask portraiture.” I am currently working on a book project that examines weapons rhetoric in the period between the French Revolution and the Unabomber’s mail bombing campaign.
At UBC, I have taught a second-year course called Rhetoric & Power as well as third-year courses The History and Theory of Rhetoric and Discourse and Society. Next year (2013-14) I will teach two new courses – Rhetoric, Revolution, & Dissent and a graduate seminar on Rhetoric, Technology, & Materiality. In the past, I have taught Argumentation, Communicating Public Policy, The Rhetorical Tradition, Public Speaking, Oral and Written Communication, and Ancient World Literature.
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