Dr. Matthew Wesley Bost Curriculum Vitae 1 Department of Communication and Media Studies Ford Hall 316 Willamette University 500 State St. Salem, OR 97301 Email: bost0084@umn.edu (503)860-0865 (cell) rhetoricalfolds.wordpress.com Employment 2013-Present Visiting Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies Willamette University Education 2013 Ph. D. Areas of Specialization: Rhetoric and Philosophy/Critical Theory, Rhetorics of Dissent and Social Movements, Department of Communication Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Advisor: Ronald Walter Greene. 2009 M. A. Areas of Specialization: Rhetorical Studies, Congressional Rhetoric, Continental Philosophy, Department of Communication Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Advisor: Ronald Walter Greene. 2007 B. A. Major in Rhetoric and Media Studies, Minors in Classics and Politics, Willamette University. Publications: Articles/Book Chapters In Print: 2013. The Unruly Pharmacy: Psychiatric Power and the Role of Expert Opinion in the 1966 LSD Debate. Argumentation and Advocacy, 49 (3): 210-227. 2011. Matthew Bost and Ronald Walter Greene. Affirming Rhetorical Materialism: Enfolding the Virtual and the Actual. Western Journal of Communication, 75 (4): 440-444. Accepted (In Press): Arguing over Emptiness: Community in the Debate over Rhetoric and Love. Selected Works volume for the 2013 Alta Conference on Argumentation. 1 Last Revised October 2013
Accepted (Pending Publisher Acceptance of Edited Volume Manuscript): Crafting a New Language : Karl Marx and Political Style. Submission for Revolutionary Voices, edited volume on Marxism and communication studies. Steve Macek, Dana Cloud and Mary Triece eds. (forthcoming). Academic Awards and Honors 2013 Recipient of the Michael Calvin McGee Award for best graduate student submission, Alta Conference on Argumentation 2012 Top Theory Paper Panel Selection, Kenneth Burke Society, Annual Convention of the National Communication Association 2012 Recipient of the University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship 2012 Recipient of the University of Minnesota Department of Communication Studies Graduate Student Scholarship Award 2011 Recipient of the Scott, Campbell and Jensen Graduate Fellowship in Rhetoric. 2008 Top Paper Panel Selection, Public Address Division, Annual Convention of the National Communication Association. 2005-2007 Double-Octafinalist, National Parliamentary Debate Association National Tournament Conference Presentations Subjects Errant: Theorizing Rhetoric as a Poetics of Relation. Rhetoric Society of America Biennial Convention, San Antonio, May 2014 (Accepted). Like a Nightmare on the Brains of the Living : Marx s 18 th Brumaire and the Machine of the State. Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, Washington D. C., November 2013 (Accepted). Arguing over Emptiness: Community in the Debate over Rhetoric and Love. Alta Conference on Argumentation, Alta, August 2013. Nous Sommes en Marche : Agency and Historical Representation in the May 1968 Protests in France. Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, Orlando, November 2012.
Action and Motion as Limits to Burke s Materialism. Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, Orlando, November 2012. Democracy and Its Death Drive(s): Event and the Reframing of Subjectivity in Democratic Style. Rhetorical Society of America, Philadelphia, May 2012. Spectres in France: Audience and Historical Subjectivity in Marx s Paris Commune Speech. Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, New Orleans, November 2011. Crafting a New Language : Reflections on Karl Marx and Political Style. Preconference, Revolutionary Voices: Marxism and Communications Studies Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, New Orleans, November 2011. From Counter-Terror to Counter-Drugs: Ideologies of Enforcement and Democracy Promotion in the US Congressional Debate over Plan Colombia. Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, San Francisco, November 2010. Psychiatric Power and the Legislative Rhetoric of LSD. Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, Chicago, November 2009. Toward a Communicative Ethics of the Multitude: Reading Deleuze and Guattari s Linguistics. Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, Chicago, November 2009. From Language to the Image: Sense and Cinema in Deleuze s Ethics. Second Annual Deleuze Studies Conference, Köln, Germany, July 2009. The Commemoration of Genocide and the Politics of Public Memory: a Historical Exploration of the Auschwitz Memorial Museum. Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, San Diego, November 2008. Difference, Resistance and Affect: Toward a Deleuzian Theory of Public Memory. Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, San Diego, November 2008. Memberships, Professional Organizations 2008-Present 2012-Present National Communication Association Rhetoric Society of America Professional Service: National Communication Association 2011-Present Reviewer for Rhetoric and Communication Theory Division 2011 Reviewer for Public Address Division Professional Service, University Of Minnesota
2012 Department Representative, University of Minnesota Council of Graduate Students 2012 Awards Committee Co-Chair, Communication Studies Graduate Student Association 2010-2012 Treasurer, Communication Studies Graduate Student Association 2009 Officer, Communication Studies Graduate Student Association Courses Taught (Willamette University): Persuasion, Propaganda and the Mass Media RHET 232 Rhetorical Criticism (to be taught in Spring of 2014) RHET 261W Media and Society RHET 320 Courses Taught (University of Minnesota): Introduction to Public Speaking COMM 1101 Introduction to the Analysis of Argument COMM 1313W Freedom of Speech COMM 3631 Communication Ethics COMM 3625 Courses Assisted (University of Minnesota): Rhetorical Fictions and 20 th Century Global Conflicts COMM 1861* Introduction to US Electronic Media COMM 3211 Introduction to Communication Theory COMM 3401 Interpersonal Communication COMM 3402 Introduction to Rhetorical Theory COMM 3601* Freedom of Speech COMM 3631 Communicating Terrorism COMM 3676W* *Indicates I contributed substantial lecture/course material Graduate Course Work (By Subfield; All Coursework Completed at the University of Minnesota): Rhetorical Theory Seminar on Rhetoric and Modernity Visual Rhetoric Seminar on Kenneth Burke Capitalism, Communication, Commons Rhetoric and Democracy in Ancient Athens Seminar on Rhetoric and Democracy Major Figures in the Modern Rhetorical Tradition Directed Reading: Rhetoric and Historical Materialism Dr. John Logie Dr. Edward Schiappa Dr. Richard Graff Dr. Arthur Walzer
Rhetorical History and Criticism Introduction to Rhetorical Criticism Public Memory and the Politics of Sentiment Seminar on Advanced Rhetorical Criticism Rhetoric of US Feminism Seminar on Modern French History (1871-Present) Philosophy, Political Theory and Cultural Studies Seminar on Cultural Studies Spinoza and the 21 st Century The Future of the Global Common The Dialectical Legacy Freud, Lacan Seminar on Marx (unofficially audited) Media Criticism Philosophies of the Moving Image Introduction to Critical Media Studies Advanced Feminist Media Criticism Social Scientific Method Introduction to Communication Theory Methods Dr. Kirt Wilson Dr. Kirt Wilson Dr. Karlyn Kohrs Campbell Dr. Karlyn Kohrs Campbell Dr. Patricia Lorcin Dr. Gil Rodman Dr. Bruce Braun Dr. Antonio Vasquez-Arroyo Dr. Thomas Pepper Dr. Mary Vavrus Dr. Mary Vavrus Dr. Dean Hewes