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Christine HaroldHarold, Christine

http://faculty.washington.edu/charold
Ph.D., Penn State, 2002

Office: CMU 229
E-Mail: charold@uw.edu

Christine Harold, Assistant Professor, joined the faculty in 2007. She teaches courses in rhetorical criticism and theory, and cultural studies. Her research explores opportunities for meaningful political action in a world increasingly defined by the logics and rhetorics of the marketplace. Her book, OurSpace: Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture ( University of Minnesota Press, 2007) examines "culture jamming" as a response to corporate power. Among other venues, her work has appeared in Rhetoric and Public Affairs, Critical Studies in Media Communication, and JAC. She is currently at work on a book about the intersections between product design, mass consumption, and environmental sustainability. Dr. Harold serves on the editorial boards of the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Western Journal of Communication, and Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies.

Selected Publications:

OurSpace: Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.

“Q.U.I.L.T.: A Patchwork of Reflections” (honoring the 20 th anniversary of AIDS Memorial Quilt), with Kevin DeLuca and Kenneth Rufo, “ [forthcoming, Fall 2007 issue of Rhetoric and Public Affairs]
“Behold the Corpse: Image Rhetoric and the Lynching of Emmett Till.” Co-authored with Kevin DeLuca. Rhetoric and Public Affairs (Summer 2005): 263-286. This article is being reprinted in Visual Rhetoric: A Reader in Communication and American Culture [forthcoming from SAGE]

“Pranking Rhetoric: ‘Culture Jamming’ as Media Activism.” Critical Studies in Media Communication 21.3 (Fall 2004): 189-211.

“The Green Virus: Purity and Contamination in Ralph Nader’s 2000 Presidential Campaign.” Rhetoric and Public Affairs 4.4 (Winter 2001).

“The Rhetorical Function of the Abject Body: Transgressive Corporeality in Trainspotting.” JAC: Journal of Advanced Composition. 20 (Fall 2000): 865-881.

“Tracking Heroin Chic: The Abject Body Reconfigures the Rational Argument.” Argumentation and Advocacy 36 (Fall 1999): 65-76.