Biography
David W. Seitz, Associate Professor, CAS/COMM
Degrees:
Ph.D., Communication and Rhetoric, University of Pittsburgh (2011)
M.A., Communication in Contemporary Society, Johns Hopkins University (2005)
B.A., Film and Media Studies, Johns Hopkins University (2002)
Selected Courses Taught:
Effective Speech
Rhetorical Theory
Civic and Community Engagement
Persuasion and Propaganda
The Mass Media and Society
Selected Publications:
Rhetoric and Time (forthcoming), co-ed., (London: Routledge, 2026)
Quiet Defiance: The Rhetoric of Silent Protest, ed. (London/New York: Bloomsbury Books, 2025)
World War One, Mass Death, and the Birth of the Modern U.S. Soldier: A Rhetorical History (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018)
"Guns, Crime, and Dangerous Minds: Assessing the Mental Health Turn in Gun Policy Discourse," Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies 17.2 (2015): 147-151 (co-authored with Michael P. Vicaro)
"Plot E, America's Burial Ground of Shame: A Photo Essay," Public Art Dialogue 2.2. (2012): 158-161
Publications
Quiet Defiance: The Rhetoric of Silent Protest - February 1, 2025
World War I, Mass Death, and the Birth of the Modern U.S. Soldier: A Rhetorical History - June 15, 2018
Toward a Digital Methodology for Ideographic Criticism: A Case Study of ‘Equality’ - July 20, 2017
Collaborator: Michelle Gibbons, Co-Author
Constitutive Rhetoric in the Age of Neoliberalism - November, 2016
Collaborator: Amanda Berardi Tennant, Secondary Author
Guns, Crime, and Dangerous Minds: Assessing the Mental Health Turn in Gun Policy Discourse, Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies - August 12, 2015
Collaborator: Michael Vicaro, Co-Author
Living with the Confederate Flag in Our Gettysburg Neighborhood, Medium.com - June 25, 2015
Collaborator: Scott Hancock, Co-Author
Embodying Unauthorized Immigrants: Counterhegemonic Protest and the Rhetorical Power of the “Material Diatribe” - August 20, 2014
World War I, Trauma, and Remembrance: American Cemeteries and the Therapeutic 'Third Element' - 2013
Plot E, America's Burial Ground of Shame: A Photo Essay, Public Art Dialogue - September, 2012
Education
Ph D, Communication and Rhetoric, University of Pittsburgh
MA, Communication in Contemporary Society, Johns Hopkins University
BA, Film and Media Studies, Johns Hopkins University