The Megarhetorics of Global Development

Contributors

253 Bret Benjamin is associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of English at the University at Albany, SUNY. He is the author, most recently, of Invested Interests: Capital, Culture, and the World Bank and has published various essays that explore the relationship between culture and economy, with a special attention to development discourse and anticapitalist, anti-imperial social movement struggles. Benjamin teaches courses in transnational cultural studies, postcolonial literature, globalization studies, and Marxist literary and cultural theory. In addition to his work in upstate New York, he has held teaching positions in Russia and India. D. Robert DeChaine is a professor in the Departments of Liberal Studies and Communication Studies at California State University, Los Angeles, where he teaches courses in cultural studies, rhetorical theory, globalization , human rights, social movements, and critical pedagogy. DeChaine’s published research explores rhetorical and cultural dimensions of social change in a globalized world. He is the author of Global Humanitarianism: Contributors 254  Contributors NGOs and the Crafting of Community as well as more than a dozen scholarly articles and book chapters. His recent publications include examinations of the spatial-cultural politics of Sans Frontièrisme (Without Borderism) and the Minuteman Movement’s attempts to refigure a national civic imaginary. DeChaine is currently conducting research on rhetorics of “the border” and their bearing on issues of citizenship, community formation , immigration, and (post)national identity. Rebecca Dingo’s is an assistant professor of English and women’s and gender studies at the University of Missouri. Her research and teaching address twentieth-century rhetorical theory and transnational feminism. She is the author of Networking Arguments: Rhetoric, Transnational Feminism, and Public Policy Writing (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012), and articles in College English, Wagadu, the Journal of Women’s History, and other journals. Jason A. Edwards is an assistant professor of communication studies at Bridgewater State College. His research interests lie at the intersection of rhetoric and politics, primarily focusing on presidential communication and international political rhetoric. He is the author of Navigating the Post– Cold War World: President Clinton’s Foreign Policy Rhetoric and has published articles and book chapters in such venues as the International Journal of Communication, Atlantic Journal of Communication, the Journal of Language and Politics, White House Studies, and New Perspectives on the Presidency. WendyS.Hesford is professor of English at Ohio State University. She is the author of Framing Identities: Autobiography and the Politics of Pedagogy, coeditor (with Wendy Kozol) of Haunting Violations: Feminist Criticism and the Crisis of the “Real” and Just Advocacy? Women’s Human Rights, Transnational Feminisms, and the Politics of Representation. She is a scholar working in the emerging field of transnational feminist rhetorics and visual rhetorics, and has published essays on these topics in PMLA, College English, Biography, and TDR: Journal of Performance Studies, among others. Her latest book is titled Spectacular Rhetorics: Human Rights, Visions, Recognition, Feminisms. TimJensen is a PhD candidate in the Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy Studies program at The Ohio State University. His current research exam- Contributors  255 ines social movement rhetorics through the lens of collective emotion and affect theory. He is cofounder and editorial board member of Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion, a netroots project aimed at provoking rhetorical literacy for the everyday. Recent work can be found in Global Academe: Humanities and Academic Discourse and The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest. RobertMcRuer is professor and deputy chair of the Department of English at the George Washington University, where he teaches queer theory, disability studies, and critical theory. He is the author of Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability and coeditor (with Abby L. Wilkerson) of Desiring Disability: Queer Theory Meets Disability Studies. McRuer is completing a book tentatively titled “Crip Time: Essays on Disability, Sexuality, and Neoliberalism.” Matthew Newcomb is an assistant professor of English at SUNY New Paltz, where he teaches the occasional literature course but mostly works in various rhetoric and composition courses, from first-year composition up through theories of writing at the graduate level. His research interests include humanitarian aid rhetoric, issues in affective rhetoric, theories of argument, and notions of sustainable rhetoric. His publications include articles in JAC, College Composition and Communication, and Politics and Culture online. Most recently he has written about Charles Sanders Peirce’s notion of argument. Newcomb is currently working on a project that develops the idea of sustainable...