Van E Hillard
Contact Info:Office Location: Art Building, East Campus, Room 109
Office Phone: +1 919 660 4369, 919 660 4368
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Education:
- PhD, University of Cincinnati, 1987
Rhetoric
Research Interests:
Rhetorical Theory, Visual Studies, American Studies
Current projects:
I am at work on an essay on the production, reception, and prohibition of roadside memorials. These memorials catalyze questions regarding the role of the state in the management of public sentiment, and prompt speculation about the viability and limits of the operations of public memory. A longer project explores the rhetorical role of late nineteenth-century photojournalism in prompting public sympathy and sponsoring a politics of pity.
I examine sites of rhetorical production in the public sphere, especially in urban settings where material resources of the built environment are assembled to effect strong public feeling through civic aesthetics. I am also interested in the academic library as a rhetorical site of knowledge-production and dissemination.
Curriculum Vitae
Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- Hillard, Van E.. ""Navigating the Social Turn: Information Literacy as Situated Literacy"." Teaching Literary Research Ed. Johnson, Kathy and Stephen Harris. American Library Association, in press.
- Hillard, Van E. and Joseph Harris. "Making Writing Visible at Duke University." Peer Review (Fall 2003): 15-17.
- Hillard, Van E.. ""A Place in the City: Hull-House and the Architecture of Civility"." City Comp: Teaching Writing in Urban Spaces Ed. McComiskey, Bruce, and Cynthia Ryan. SUNY Press, 2003, 111-127.
- Hillard, Van E.. ""Literacy Standards at Hull-House: Forming a New Citizen in Civic Space"." The Literacy Standard Ed. Sudol, Ronald A. and Alice Horning. Hampton Press, 2003, 74-90.
- Hillard, Van E.. ""Entering the Rhetorical City: The Metropolitan Prospect of Rhetoric"." Making and Unmaking the Prospects of Rhetoric Ed. Enos, Theresa and Richard Mc Nab. 1997, 181-190.