Victor J. Vitanza Presents Paper for CWRL Lecture Series

The 2007 Computer Writing and Research Lab Lecture Series continued Thursday, October 11, with a lecture by Victor J. Vitanza. Dr. Vitanza is Professor and Director of Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design at Clemson University. His talk, entitled "Scars," was an exploratory piece for his current project Design as Dasein. This text is the third in a trilogy, following Negation, Subjectivity, and The History of Rhetoric (SUNY 1997) and Chaste Rape (under consideration for publication).

This visit to UT-Austin marked Dr. Vitanza's second since 1986, when he delivered a paper entitled "Critical Sub/Versions of the History of Philosophical Rhetoric," a landmark essay that caused quite a stir when it appeared in Rhetoric Review. He returned to campus in 1991 to present a paper on Jean-François Lyotard's Differend.