Carole Blair

Professor
Rhetorical Studies

Current Research: book project on the Civil Rights Memorial and Memorial Center, in Montgomery, Alabama; Suresnes American Cemetery and Memorial, in Suresnes, France

Recent Publications:  "Communication as Collective Memory."  Communication As . . . : Perspectives on Theory.  Ed. Greg Shepherd, Jeff St. John, and Ted Striphas.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2005.  51-59.

 "The Rushmore Effect: Ethos and National Collective Identity" (with Neil Michel). The Ethos of Rhetoric.  Ed. Michael J. Hyde.  Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2004.  156-196.  Recipient of the National Communication Association's 2005 Golden Anniversary Monograph Award.  

Courses Regularly Taught: Rhetoric and Social Controversy, Communication and Social Memory, Rhetorical Criticism (graduate), Rhetorics of Place (graduate), Rhetoric and Public Memory (graduate)

Future/Projected Courses: advanced rhetorical criticism course (undergraduate), practicum in rhetorical criticism (graduate)

Areas of Specialization:  the rhetorical and cultural significance of U.S. commemorative places and artworks; rhetoric and public memory