Introduction
Teaching Interests
Research Interests
Educational Background
Schedule
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College of Arts & Letters
D. Robert DeChaine, Ph.D.
Joint Associate Professor
Office: ET A416
Phone: (323) 343-4199
FAX: (323) 343-6484
Email: ddechai@calstatela.edu
INTRODUCTION
I come to the Liberal Studies and Communication Studies Departments as an alumnus of Cal State LA,
and I'm happy to call this campus my second home. A native Californian and an avid student of culture, I especially appreciate the diversity of values and life experiences that our campus population represents.
TEACHING INTERESTS
In the variety of courses I teach, I'm always looking for ways to
understand how culture and communication guide our ways of seeing. I regularly teach each of the core courses
in Liberal Studies and rhetoric courses in Communication Studies.
I also teach a number of courses in cultural studies, globalization, social movements, critical pedagogy, and community studies.
I'm a firm believer that learning begins and ends in dialog. My
overriding goal as an educator is to do my best to nurture spaces that
invite transformation--through inclusive, open, committed, and sometimes
uncomfortable discussion. In the midst of such spaces, on a good day, we come face to face with the stuff of culture.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
As a scholar, I explore the rhetorical and cultural politics of everyday life. My formal training includes rhetoric and public argumentation, critical social theory, human rights discourse, social movement theory, political philosophy, and the sociology of urban community. I recently published a book entitled Global Humanitarianism: NGOs and the Crafting of Community
(Lexington Books, 2005). In it, I examine ways in which contemporary
humanitarian-based nongovernmental organizations attempt to shape
understandings of "community" in a globalized world.
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Date
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Representative Publications
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| 2008 |
"Michael Bérubé's Rhetorical
Occasions and Provocations." Cultural Studies, 22
(1). |
| 2008 |
"Imagined Immunities: Border Rhetorics and the Ethos of Sans
Frontièrisme."
Interdisciplinarity and Social Justice: Revisioning Academic
Accountability. Ed. Mary Romero, Joe Parker, and Ranu
Samantrai. Ithaca: SUNY Press. [Forthcoming] |
| 2008 |
The Ludic Imagination: The Poetics and Politics of Play in
Everyday Life. [Book manuscript in progress] |
| 2005 |
Global Humanitarianism: NGOs and the Crafting of Community.
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. |
| 2002 |
"Humanitarian Space and the Social Imaginary: Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders and the Rhetoric of Global Community." Journal of Communication Inquiry, 26 (4). |
| 2002 |
"Affect and Embodied Understanding in Musical Experience." Text and Performance Quarterly, 22(2). |
| 2001 |
"From Discourse to Golf Course: The Serious Play of Imagining Community Space." Journal of Communication Inquiry, 25(2). |
| 2000 |
"Magic, Mimesis, and Revolutionary Praxis: Illuminating Walter Benjamin's Rhetoric of Redemption." Western Journal of Communication, 64(3). |
| 1997 |
"Mapping Subversion: Queercore Music's Playful Discourse of Resistance. " Popular Music and Society, 21(4). |
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Ph.D. Cultural Studies 2001
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The Claremont Graduate University
Claremont, CA |
M.A. Communication 1996
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California State University, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA |
B.A. Communication 1994
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California State University, San Bernardino
San Bernardino, CA |
FALL 2008 SCHEDULE
| Course |
Sect. No. |
Title |
Units |
Day & Time |
Room |
| COMM 300 |
02 |
Applied Writing in Communication |
4 |
TR 11:40am-1:20pm |
MUS 208 |
| COMM 380 |
01 |
Introduction to Rhetorical Studies |
4 |
M 6:10-10:00pm |
MUS 108 |
| COMM 483 |
01 |
Campaign Communication |
4 |
MW 4:20-6:00pm |
MUS 256 |
FALL 2008 OFFICE HOURS
| Day |
Time |
| MW |
3:00-4:00pm; and by appointment |
| TR |
10:30-11:30am; and by appointment |
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