Professor Thompson specializes in Renaissance drama and focuses on issues of race and performance. She is currently working on a book about Peter Sellars’s approach to directing Shakespeare, and a book on Shakespeare and revenge.
Professor Thompson's paper title for Perversions 2016 will be: “Theorizing Revenge: or, Interdisciplinary Research as a Necessary Perversion”
Professor Thompson specializes in Renaissance drama and focuses on issues of race and performance. She is currently working on a book about Peter Sellars’s approach to directing Shakespeare, and a book on Shakespeare and revenge.
Professor Thompson's paper title for Perversions 2016 will be: “Theorizing Revenge: or, Interdisciplinary Research as a Necessary Perversion”
I research and teach comparative rhetoric (rhetorical theory and practices beyond the Western tradition), multimodality, and digital writing pedagogy. Approaching rhetoric and writing as a global, multimodal art, I use cross-cultural rhetorical perspectives and multimodality as interconnected frames to expand how we theorize, practice, and teach the art of rhetoric in the 21st century.
Several of my studies on new media composition—in particular, the assessment of multimedia projects and digital delivery theory—have appeared in Computers and Composition, Multimodal Literacies and Emerging Genres, and conference proceedings.
My current book project, Wordless Rhetoric: Rhetorical Conduct as Political Discourse in the Thai Tradition,recovers conduct as a major form of rhetoric in the Thai culture. Drawing upon archival and field research conducted in Bangkok, my book advances a theory of conduct rhetoric to broaden our understanding of the gestural modality beyond the context of oratory and composing. More broadly, my work disrupts rhetoric’s traditional focus on the West and (phal)logocentrism and provides a new analytical apparatus for thinking about the role of race, gender, class, and national identity in the making and remaking of the rhetorical canons.
Professor Adsanatham's paper title for Perversions 2016 will be: “Theorizing Revenge: or,
Interdisciplinary Research as a Necessary Perversion”
Several of my studies on new media composition—in particular, the assessment of multimedia projects and digital delivery theory—have appeared in Computers and Composition, Multimodal Literacies and Emerging Genres, and conference proceedings.
My current book project, Wordless Rhetoric: Rhetorical Conduct as Political Discourse in the Thai Tradition,recovers conduct as a major form of rhetoric in the Thai culture. Drawing upon archival and field research conducted in Bangkok, my book advances a theory of conduct rhetoric to broaden our understanding of the gestural modality beyond the context of oratory and composing. More broadly, my work disrupts rhetoric’s traditional focus on the West and (phal)logocentrism and provides a new analytical apparatus for thinking about the role of race, gender, class, and national identity in the making and remaking of the rhetorical canons.
Professor Adsanatham's paper title for Perversions 2016 will be: “Theorizing Revenge: or,
Interdisciplinary Research as a Necessary Perversion”
Lee Konstantinou is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He wrote the novel Pop Apocalypse (2009) and co-edited the essay collection The Legacy of David Foster Wallace (2012) with Samuel Cohen. His book Cool Characters: Irony and American Fiction will be published by Harvard University Press in March 2016, and he is working on a second academic book project called “Rise of the Graphic Novel.” His writing has appeared in numerous magazines and scholarly journals, and he is a Humanities section editor with the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Professor Konstantinou's paper title for Perversions 2016 will be: “Punk’s Positive Dystopia”
Professor Konstantinou's paper title for Perversions 2016 will be: “Punk’s Positive Dystopia”