Christian O. Lundberg

Assistant Professor
Rhetoric

Current Research: Focuses on the relationship between violence, trope, and the consititution of publics, with special attention to the ways that these three are coordinated in religious communities. I also do work in contemporary rhetorical theory, which aims mostly at thinking through the relationship between emergent theoretical discourses (such as psychoanalysis) and the rhetorical traditions as inventional resources for critical social theory.

Grant Funding: Research Grant, Cambridge Long Term Strategy Group, for a project in the Religion and Violence Working Group

Recent Publications: "Ouija Board, Are There Any Communications?' Agency, Ontotheology, and the Death of the Humanist Subject, or, Continuing the ARS Conversation," Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Fall 2005.

Courses Regularly Taught: Rhetorical Theory

Future/Projected Courses: Globalization and Communication

Areas of Specialization: Theories of the Public, Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis, Religion

Honors: Eckroyd Fellowship, Northwestern University, Rhetoric Society of America's Kneupper award for article of the year (with Josh Gunn)

Professional Service: VP and unit planner, Association for Psychoanalysis in Communication