College of Libral Arts The University of Texas at Austin

Diane Davis

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Associate Professor

Office & hours: PAR 19, TTh 1-2:30, W 2-3 and by appt.
Phone: (512) 471-8735
Email: ddd@mail.utexas.edu
Website: http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~davis/
Course Site: http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~davis/crs/crs.htm

Research Interests

  • rhetorical theory
  • critical theory
  • media philosophy

Selected Undergraduate Courses

Selected Graduate Courses

Current Projects

  • Inessential Solidarity examines the intersections between "rhetoric" and "community," focusing specifically on inessential forms of solidarity that require both terms to be radically redefined.
  • Reading Ronell is an edited collection on the work of Avital Ronell. Fifteen confirmed contributors, including Jean-Luc Nancy, Werner Hamacher, and Judith Butler. Under review with University of Illinois Press.

Selected Publications

  • The UberReader: Selected Works of Avital Ronell. Edited collection with introduction. University of Illinois Press 2008.
  • Women's Ways of Making It In Rhetoric and Composition. With Michelle Ballif and Roxanne Mountford. Routledge, 2008.
  • Breaking Up [at] Totality: A Rhetoric of Laughter. Rhetorical Theory and Philosophy Series. Southern Illinois University Press, 2000. 312 pp.
  • "Identification: Burke and Freud on Who You Are." Forthcoming in Rhetoric Society Quartlerly,, 38.2 (2008). 31 ms. pages.
  • "The Fifth Risk: A Response to Muckelbauer's Response." Philosophy and Rhetoric 40.2 (2007): 248-256.
  • "Addressing Alterity: Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, and the Non-Appropriative Relation." Philosophy and Rhetoric 38.3 (2005): 191-212.
  • "Finitude’s Clamor; Or, Notes Toward a Communitarian Literacy." College Composition and Communication 53.1 (Sept. 2001): 119-145.
  • "Toward an Ethics of Listening." With Michelle Ballif and Roxanne Mountford. JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 20.4 (2000): 931-942.
  • "Negotiating the Differend: A Feminist Trilogue." With Michelle Ballif and Roxanne Mountford. JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 20.3 (2000): 583-625.
  • "Confessions of an Anacoluthon: Avital Ronell on Writing, Technology, Pedagogy, Politics." JAC: Journal of Composition Theory 20.2 (2000): 243-281.