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)
Courses Taught
- Effective Speech
- Rhetorical Theory
- Civic and Community Engagement
- Persuasion and Propaganda
- The Mass Media and Society
Faculty Scholarly Activities
- 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
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 (3rd Quarter/Summer) 20, 2017
Constitutive Rhetoric in the Age of Neoliberalism - November, 2016
Guns, Crime, and Dangerous Minds: Assessing the Mental Health Turn in Gun Policy Discourse, Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies - August 12, 2015
Living with the Confederate Flag in Our Gettysburg Neighborhood, Medium.com - June 25, 2015
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