Ned O'Gorman

Assistant Professor

Website: www.spcomm.uiuc.edu/nogorman

Curriculum Vitae

Education: Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University

Research Interests: History of rhetoric, rhetorical theory, aesthetics, discourse ethics, the sublime, and disaster discourses.

Current Research: Professor O'Gorman is presently working on a book-length study on discourses about disaster in the U.S. since Eisenhower and advent of the nuclear. The book is part of his broader interest in discourses of and on the sublime and their implications for democracy.

Representative Recent Publications:

O'Gorman, N. (forthcoming). “Telling the Truth:” Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Rhetorical Discourse Ethic, Journal of Communication and Religion .

O'Gorman, N. (2005). Aristotle's Phantasia in the Rhetoric : Lexis, Appearance, and the Epideictic Function of Discourse, Philosophy & Rhetoric , 38 (1), 16-40.

O'Gorman, N. (2004). Longinus's Sublime Rhetoric, or How Rhetoric Came into Its Own, Rhetoric Society Quarterly , 24 (2), 71-89.