Recent
Publications
“Victimhood and Rhetorical Communication within Clive Barker’s Faustian Fiction”
Essay in Re-imagining the Victim in Post-1970s Horror Media. Edited by Madelon Hoedt and Marko Lukic. Amsterdam University Press, 2024.
“The Analog of Self-Authenticity in The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion”
Essay in Bloodstained Narratives: The Giallo Film in National Context and Abroad. Edited by Matthew Edwards and Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns. University Press of Mississippi, 2023, pp. 84-101.
“Accommodating Inspiration: Discernment and Imitation within the Ignatian Rhetorical Tradition,”
Journal for the History of Rhetoric, vol. 24, no. 2, 2021, pp. 223-238.
“Giallo” (CHapter 11)
Entry in The Microgenre: A Quick Look at Small Culture. Edited by Molly C. O'Donnell and Anne H. Stevens. Bloomsbury, 2020, pp. 103-112.
“Touring the ‘Burning Times’: The Rhetoric of Witch-Hunting Films, 1968-1973”
Essay in Virtual Dark Tourism: Ghost Roads. Edited by Kathryn McDaniel. Palgrave, 2018, pp. 113-136.
The Playbook of Persuasive Reasoning: Everyday Empowerment and Likeability
Vernon Press (Series in Communication), 2018.
Catholic Horror and Rhetorical Dialectics
Critical Conversations in Horror Series. Lehigh University Press, 2004.
ISBN: 978-1611463620
“The Rhetoric of Contemplative Horror: Inquiry, Discovery, and Optimism”
Essay in Horror and Philosophy: Essays on Their Intersection in Film, Television and Literature. Edited by Subashish Bhattacharjee and Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns. McFarland Press, 2023.
“Funeral Doom Metal as the Rhetoric of Contemplation: A Burkean Perspective.”
Metal Music Studies (Journal for the International Society of Metal Music Studies), vol. 8, no. 1, 2022, pp. 69-85.
“Between Hell and Earth: Rhetorical Appropriation of Religious Space within Hellraiser”
Essay in Spaces and Places of Horror. Edited by Francesco Pascuzzi and Sandra Waters. Vernon Press, 2019, pp. 93-106.
“Eschatology, Pluralism, and Communication in Tom Perrotta’s The Leftovers.”
Journal of Communication and Religion, vol. 41, no. 2, 2018, pp. 75-92.
“William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist and Rhetoric-Dialectic Interplay”
Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, vol. 29, no. 2, 2017, pp. 104-118.
GRAND, MIDDLE, OR PLAIN?: RHETORICAL STYLE AND HORROR LITERATURE
Online article in Horror Homeroom: Special Issue #8 on Horror Literature. Edited by Elizabeth Erwin and Dawn Keetley. 2023. Full text available here.
“The CHronos Principle: ‘Knowing Thy Time’ in communication management"
Philosophy of Management, vol. 21, no. 4, 2022, pp. 507-522.
“How the Humanities Can Empower Communication”
Essay in Humanities North Dakota Magazine. March 2021, pp. 2-5.
“Richard Laymon’s Rhetorical Style: Minimalism, Suspense, and Negative Space”
Essay in Horror Literature from Gothic to Post-Modern: Critical Essays. Edited by Nicholas Diak and Michele Brittany. McFarland, 2020, pp. 86-100.
“Thinking Vertically, Writing Horizontally: A Trivium-Framed First-year Composition Course.”
Listening: Journal of Communication Ethics, Religion, and Culture, vol. 53, no. 2, 2018, pp. 92-101.
“Beyond Angels, Beyond Demons: Post-Christian Dissociative Rhetoric Within Twin Peaks”
Essay in Approaching Twin Peaks: Critical Essays on the Original Series. Edited by Eric Hoffman and Dominick Grace. McFarland, 2017, pp. 81-100.