College of Liberal Arts The University of Texas at Austin

Diane Davis

Faculty Position
Associate Professor
Contact
ddd@mail.utexas.edu
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Bio / Academic Interests

Research Interests

Diane Davis’s work is situated at the intersection of rhetorical theory and continental philosophy. She holds the Kenneth Burke Chair of Rhetoric at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, and she is the author of Breaking Up [at] Totality: A Rhetoric of Laughter (Southern Illinois UP, 2000), co-author of Women’s Ways of Making It in Rhetoric and Composition (with Michelle Ballif and Roxanne Mountford, Routledge, 2008), and editor of The ÜberReader: Selected Works of Avital Ronell (U of Illinois P, 2008) and Reading Ronell (U of Illinois P, 2009). She is currently finishing up a book on rhetoric and sociality: Inessential Solidarity: Rhetoric & Foreign(er) Relations. Her articles have appeared in such journals as Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Philosophy and Rhetoric, College Composition and Communication, Postmodern Culture, Rhetoric Review, and JAC.

Selected Publications

  • Reading Ronell. Edited collection with an introduction. University of Illinois Press, 2009. 254 pp.
  • Women's Ways of Making It in Rhetoric and Composition. With Michelle Ballif and Roxanne Mountford. Routledge, 2008. 342 pp.
  • The UberReader: Selected Works of Avital Ronell. Edited collection with introduction. University of Illinois Press 2008.342pp.
  • Breaking Up [at] Totality: A Rhetoric of Laughter. Rhetorical Theory and Philosophy Series. Southern Illinois University Press, 2000. 312 pp.
  • “Greetings: On Levinas and the Wagging Tail.” JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory. Special issue on Levinas. Forthcoming.
  • "Identification: Burke and Freud on Who You Are.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 38.2 (2008): 123-147.
  • "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.

Selected Undergraduate Courses

Selected Graduate Courses

Selected Awards

  • President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award, 2008
  • James L. Kinneavy Award for the Most Outstanding Article in JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory, Volume 19, 2000
  • President’s Award for Technology Innovation, University of Iowa, 1999-2000
  • Outstanding Faculty of the Year Award for teaching with technology, Old Dominion University, 1997