Lynn Clarke
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication
PhD, Northwestern University
1117 Cathedral of Learning
Phone: 412-624-6567
Lynn Clarke studies rhetorical theory and its relationships to philosophy. Her interests include the appearances of speech, writing, and communication at the nexus of rhetoric, psychoanalysis, and deliberative politics; the question of publicity as it pertains to judicial rhetoric in controversial cases on policy affairs; and definitional controversy.
Courses Taught
- Graduate Seminar in Psychoanalytic Provocations
- Graduate Seminar in Studies of the Public Sphere
- Graduate Seminar in the Frankfurt School
- Rhetoric of Social Movements
- Rhetoric and Civic Life
- Freedom of Speech and Press
- Public Speaking
Selected Publications
“Internal Discord and ‘the Signifying Process’ in Ethico-Political Rhetoric.” In Rhetoric: Concord and Controversy eds. Antonio de Velasco and Melody Lehn (Waveland Press, forthcoming) .
“Contesting Definitional Authority in the Collective,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 91.1 (2005): 1-36.
“Talk About Talk: Promises, Risks, and a Proposition Out of Nommo,” The Journal of Speculative Philosophy 18.4 (2004): 317-325.