E. Johanna Hartelius

 E. Johanna Hartelius

E. Johanna Hartelius

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Biography

University of Pittsburgh - Communication


Resume

  • 2002

    Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

    Communication and Rhetoric

    The University of Texas at Austin

    Moody College of Communication

  • 1999

    Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

    Communication and Media Studies

    Phi Beta Kappa \nLambda Pi Eta

    Macalester College

    summa cum laude

  • 1998

    National Communication Association

    English

    Spanish

    German

    Swedish

    Latin and Classics

    University of Gothenburg

  • Rhetorical Criticism

    Political Communication

    Academic Advising

    Digital Rhetoric

    Writing

    Text Editing

    Critical Thinking

    Immigration Debates

    Curriculum Innovation

    Visual Rhetoric

    Higher Education

    Professional Communication

    Critical Reading

    Public Address

    Public Expertise

    Rhetorical Analysis

    Political Theory

    Strategic Communication

    University Teaching

    Public Speaking

    “‘Leave a Message of Hope or Tribute’: Digital Memorializing as Public Deliberation”

    The National September 11 Memorial and Museum is at once a physical site in Lower Manhattan and a digital space for public deliberation and memorializing. I examine the construction of public memory on memorial websites in order to explicate the impact on deliberation of a paradigmatic skifl toward publicity. First

    I locale memory and online authorship as distinct

    but confluent

    processes in the context of a productive dialectic. Both are constituted by

    on one hand

    the assertion of personal experience through singular authorship

    and

    on the other

    the subversion or subordination of individuality to collective experience and production. Online memorializing reflects a culture in which meaningful experiences are found in public. Fashioning ourselves as publicly knowable subjects

    we authenticate our experiences. Moreover

    in publicizing our memories in virtual forums

    we use them as resources for rhetorical invention in the practice of online deliberation.

    “‘Leave a Message of Hope or Tribute’: Digital Memorializing as Public Deliberation”

    “Face-ing Immigration: Prosopopeia and the ‘Muslim-Arab-Middle Eastern’ Other\"​

    This essay complements and complicates research on immigration discourse by intersecting two\npost-humanist understandings of ‘‘face.’’ Analyzing post-9=11 news media’s enfacements of the\n‘‘Muslim-Arab-Middle Eastern immigrant

    ’’ I employ the works of Paul de Man and Emmanuel\nLevinas to explicate

    on one hand

    the inscription of subjectivity onto alterity

    and

    on the other

    the\nslippage of this inscription. I demonstrate that figurations of immigrants rely on the tandem\nrhetorical operations of apostrophe and prosopopeia

    the giving of voice and face. Public rhetorics\nimpose a mask

    an intelligible signifier onto the unknowable Other. Inevitably

    however

    alterity\nspeaks

    and ‘‘face’’ in another sense breaks through; the mask that mediates immigrants in public\nculture is exceeded. The essay concludes with implications for a posthumanist immigration ethics

    \nnot motivated by a personal commitment to the Other

    but discoverable in the Leviansian\nconversation and the ‘‘experience’’ of exposedness.

    “Face-ing Immigration: Prosopopeia and the ‘Muslim-Arab-Middle Eastern’ Other\"​

    “Wikipedia and the Emergence of Dialogic Expertise”

    Wikipedia’s popularity as an online encyclopedia calls attention to fundamental\nassumptions about the management and dissemination of information. Drawing on a\nBakhtinian framework

    this article posits a model of dialogic expertise. Specifically

    it\nargues that

    by facilitating an ongoing chain of interdependent and multivocal ‘‘utterances

    ’’\nWikipedia challenges traditional ‘‘monologic’’ expertise. Nonetheless

    the site’s\npurportedly democratic defiance of knowledge elites (of encyclopedic publishing

    \nacademe

    etc.) is compromised by the establishment of a ‘‘technocratic’’ hierarchy. Implications\nextend to the scholarly debate surrounding dialogue and rhetoric and to our\nunderstanding of Wikipedia’s success in the context of a cultural anxiety—Americans\nare at once dependent on an extensive system of experts and uneasy about the deferential\ndistribution of power within that system.

    “Wikipedia and the Emergence of Dialogic Expertise”

    Sentimentalism in Online Deliberation: Assessing the Generic Liability of Immigration Discourses

    Analyzing the video archive of personal narratives curated by the Where Are You From? project

    the author argues that public immigration discourses are conditioned by sentimentalism. Two effects of this generic conditioning are explicated. First

    through the displacement of attention from a conflicted present to an imagined past

    Americans may commemorate mythic immigrants while passing anti-immigration laws. Second

    sentimentalism transposes immigration from a potentially deliberative to a perennially epideictic register. The author’s first implication is a rationale for generic awareness. If and when the only genre in which the public is able or willing to engage the subject of immigration is sentimentalism

    moderating this impulse is prudent. A second implication pertains to the genre’s impact on spaces that are conceived and celebrated for public engagement.

    Sentimentalism in Online Deliberation: Assessing the Generic Liability of Immigration Discourses

    The Rhetoric of Expertise

    Reliance on expertise has become so commonplace in American culture that it is virtually impossible to avoid. Relying on expertise is one way we delegate the contents of our busy lives and defer to authority in the interest of being efficient. In The Rhetoric of Expertise

    E. Johanna Hartelius investigates how expertise is negotiated as a function of the rhetorical situation

    its participants and constraints. Specifically

    she asks: What rhetorical strategies do different groups employ to compete for expert authority and legitimacy when they conflict with one another? Each chapter focuses on a particular context-politics

    history

    medicine

    and information. By demonstrating that expertise is managed through argumentation

    The Rhetoric of Expertise informs a number of practical issues: how the nation's political world is run

    why some forms of medical expertise are deemed credible while others are derided

    what the differences are between historical scholarship and the memory of lived experience

    and why new information producers are causing such a stir.

    The Rhetoric of Expertise

    Among immigrant rights activists

    journalists

    and scholars the term\n“undocumented” has gained support as an alternative to the\ncriminalizing and dehumanizing “illegal.” By contrast

    this essay\ncritiques so-called DREAMers’ articulation of an “undocumented”\nsubjectivity

    arguing that the term

    invoking a Weberian\nbureaucracy

    undermines activists’ cooptive intent and subversive\nagenda. To be undocumented in what Robert Hariman calls “a\npolity of offices

    ” which privileges the written text

    is to be both\nunintelligible and powerless. These constraints

    however

    may be\ncircumvented by the use of web-text for mobilization

    recruitment

    \nand networking. Informed by Gregory Ulmer’s notion of\n“electracy

    ” I posit web-text as transitional

    potentially capable of\ncontesting the authority of the bureaucracy.

    “‘Undocumented and Unafraid’: Challenging the Bureaucratic Paradigm\"​

    The Rhetorics of US Immigration: Identity

    Community

    Otherness

    In the current geopolitical climate—in which unaccompanied children cross the border in record numbers

    and debates on the topic swing violently from pole to pole—the subject of immigration demands innovative inquiry. In The Rhetorics of US Immigration

    some of the most prominent and prolific scholars in immigration studies come together to discuss the many facets of immigration rhetoric in the United States.\n\nThe Rhetorics of US Immigration provides readers with an integrated sense of the rhetorical multiplicity circulating among and about immigrants. Whereas extant literature on immigration rhetoric tends to focus on the media

    this work extends the conversation to the immigrants themselves

    among others. A collection whose own eclecticism highlights the complexity of the issue

    The Rhetorics of US Immigration is not only a study in the language of immigration but also a frank discussion of who is doing the talking and what it means for the future.\n\nFrom questions of activism

    authority

    and citizenship to the influence of Hollywood

    the LGBTQ community

    and the church

    The Rhetorics of US Immigration considers the myriad venues in which the American immigration question emerges—and the interpretive framework suited to account for it.\n\nAlong with the editor

    the contributors are Claudia Anguiano

    Karma R. Chávez

    Terence Check

    Jay P. Childers

    J. David Cisneros

    Lisa M. Corrigan

    D. Robert DeChaine

    Anne Teresa Demo

    Dina Gavrilos

    Emily Ironside

    Christine Jasken

    Yazmin Lazcano-Pry

    Michael Lechuga

    and Alessandra B. Von Burg.

    The Rhetorics of US Immigration: Identity

    Community

    Otherness

    On November 9

    2015 I served as a deliberation facilitator during a meeting at the University of Pittsburgh that convened 40 patients

    clinicians

    and health system leaders from Johns Hopkins University

    Pennsylvania State University

    Temple University

    the University of Utah

    the Geisinger Health System

    and Pitt. Sponsored by the PaTH Network

    the event served to prioritize a set of research topics for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to explore. As an expert on public deliberation processes

    particularly in the context of varying levels of specialized knowledge and experience

    my task was to facilitate productive dialogue among stakeholders with radically different viewpoints. The event was a success

    and resulted in a report to the National Academy of Medicine in January 2016. The eventual outcome will be another deliberative event in Washington

    D.C. identifying future funding policies for PCORI. \n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZr-bOARyh8\n\nOn April 7

    2016 during the Humanities in Health Conference

    sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Honors College

    The Year of the Humanities initiative

    and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

    I presented findings during a panel titled “Health Deliberation and Stakeholder Engagement” with other scholars and professionals from the event. The topics of my presentation: experts and nonexperts in the context of medical research

    the functions of narrative in deliberative models

    and small group facilitation during deliberation. \n\nThe PaTH network is one of eleven Clinical Data Research Networks (CDRNs). The CDRNs are funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI

    an independent nonprofit

    nongovernmental organization

    which was authorized by Congress in 2010)

    to develop the capacity to conduct research for improving patient-centered care in real-world patient populations.

    Hartelius (Ph.D.)

    Johanna

    Hartelius (Ph.D.)

    The University of Texas at Austin - Moody College of Communication

    Northern Illinois University

    The University of Texas at Austin

    McCombs School of Business

    The University of Texas at Austin

    University of Pitt

    University of Pittsburgh

    University of Texas at Austin

    Pittsburgh

    At the graduate level I teach a seminar in Rhetorical Criticism

    which trains scholars in multiple methods of textual and cultural analysis

    and a seminar in Digital Rhetoric

    which surveys network culture and communication using classical and modern rhetorical theory. I also advise doctoral and master's students on independent research and professionalization. The Pitt graduate program in Rhetoric and Communication is a top-tier program in quality and job placement.\n\nAt the undergraduate level I teach courses in Rhetoric and Public Memory

    Political Communication

    and the Rhetorical Process

    which is a survey course in the cultural and civic functions of public communication. For this large lecture class

    I teach a unique honors level Recitation (or small-group supplement) in which students develop independent research projects

    allowing them to pursue engaged professional

    intellectual

    and personal commitments and goals.C

    Assistant Professor

    University of Pittsburgh

    University of Pitt

    Associate Professor

    University of Texas at Austin

    The University of Texas at Austin - Moody College of Communication

    Taught undergraduate seminars in Speechmaking and Society

    Professional Communication Skills

    and Interviewing Principles and Practices

    Assistant Instructor

    Austin

    Texas Area

    Intellectual Entrepreneurship Consortium

    Lead campus-wide engagement program facilitating credit-based mentoring relationships between undergraduate and graduate students; expanded enrollment from 12 to 120 per semester; coordinated departments and colleges\nhttps://moody.utexas.edu/ie

    Director of the Pre-Graduate School Internship

    The University of Texas at Austin

    DeKalb

    IL

    Taught graduate seminars in Rhetorical Criticism and Classical Rhetorical Theory\n\nTaught undergraduate seminars and lecture courses in Argumentation and Debate (25 students per section)

    and Freedom of Speech and Communication Ethics (30 students per section)\n\nDeveloped and delivered undergraduate online course in Freedom of Speech and Communication Ethics\n\nAwarded Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor (December 2012)

    Assistant Professor

    Northern Illinois University

    Lead advanced communication skills module for incoming MBA students\n\nProvided one-on-one coaching for MBA students in professional communication skills \n\nInstructor

    McCombs Academy for Future Executives (2006)\nLead basic communication skills module for underprivileged high school students of central Texas

    McCombs School of Business

    The University of Texas at Austin

    Associate Pro

    Pitt

    University of Pitt

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