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Daniel Smith

Assistant Professor

Office: 412 Humanities Office Building
(803) 777-0030
dansmith@sc.edu

Education

Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 2004

Specialization Areas
  • Rhetorical Theory
  • Pedagogy
  • Rhetorical Ethics
  • Continental Philosophy and Theory
Recent Courses

See Course Descriptions for detailed information.

  • SCCC 158:    Rhetoric and the Arts of Response-ability
  • ENGL 890C:  Literature and Rhetoric: Boundaries, Intersections...
  • ENGL 830C:  Deleuze and Literature
  • ENGL 387:     Introduction to Rhetoric
  • ENGL 102:     Composition and Literature
  • ENGL 285:     Themes in American Literature
  • SCCC 384O:  The Ethics and Politics of Art
  • ENGL 890D:   The Ethics and Politics of Pedagogy
  • ENGL 467A:    Public Culture and Democracy
  • ENGL 650D:   Kenneth Burke: Between Literature and Rhetoric
  • ENGL 794:      Modern Rhetorical Theory
Current Research Project(s)

    • Reviving Rhetorical Culture: Pedagogy and The Possibilities of Phronêsis (Book Manuscript)

    • After Kenneth Burke: Toward a Dramatism of Immanence (Book Manuscript)
    Publications

    "Of Headaches and Other Illnesses: Nietzsche and the Potentials of Rhetorical Education." Enculturation 5.2 (2005)

    “Ethics and ‘Bad Writing’: Dialectics, Reading, and Affective Pedagogy JAC 23.1 (2004): 525 – 552

    “Desire and Immanence: The Difficulties of Post-Dualist Thought.” JAC 23.4 (2003): 884 – 900.

    “Intensifying Phronesis: Heidegger, Aristotle, and Rhetorical Culture.” Philosophy and Rhetoric 36.1 (2003): 77 – 102

    Review of The Function of Theory in Composition Studies by Raúl Sanchez. JAC 26.1-2 (2006): 361 – 370.

    Review of Kenneth Burke on Myth: An Introduction by Laurence Coupe. K.B. Journal [Kenneth Burke Journal – e-journal] 2.1 (Fall 2005)

    Review of The Rhetorical Imagination of Kenneth Burke by Ross Wolin. Philosophy and Rhetoric 36.2 (2003): 172 – 176.

    Review of Changing the Subject in English Class: Discourse and the Constitutions of Desire by Marshall W. Alcorn. JAC 22.4 (2002): 991 – 999.