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Overview
Publications
Educational
Background
Schedule
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College
of Arts & Letters
D. Robert DeChaine, Ph.D.
Professor
Departments of Liberal Studies and
Communication Studies
Office: ET A416
Phone: (323) 343-4199
FAX: (323) 343-6484
Email: ddechai@calstatela.edu
Overview
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 and
criticism, 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 author of Global
Humanitarianism: NGOs and the Crafting of Community (Lexington Books,
2005) and editor of Border Rhetorics: Citizenship and Identity on the
U.S.-Mexico Frontier (University of Alabama Press, 2012) as well as more than a dozen scholarly articles and book
chapters. His work has appeared in journals such as Cultural
Studies, the Journal of Communication Inquiry, Popular
Music and Society, the Quarterly Journal of Speech, the Southern
Communication Journal, Text and Performance Quarterly, and the Western
Journal of Communication. His recent publications include
examinations of the spatial-cultural politics of Sans Frontièrisme (Without
Borderism), the rhetoric of corporate social responsibility, and the
Minuteman Movement’s attempts to refigure a national civic imaginary. DeChaine is an alumnus of Cal State LA, a native
Californian, and an avid music fan.
Curriculum
Vitae.pdf
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Representative Publications
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2012
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Border Rhetorics: Citizenship and Identity on the
U.S.-Mexico Frontier. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
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2011 |
"Ethos in a Bottle: Corporate Social Responsibility and Humanitarian Doxa."
The Megarhetorics of Global Development. Ed. Rebecca Dingo and
J. Blake Scott. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
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2010
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"Imagined
Immunities: Border Rhetorics and the Ethos of Sans
Frontièrisme." Interdisciplinarity and Social Justice:
Revisioning Academic Accountability. Ed. Joe Parker, Ranu
Samantrai, and Mary Romero. Ithaca: SUNY Press. 261-85.
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2009
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"Bordering
the Civic Imaginary: Alienization, Fence Logic, and the Minuteman Civil
Defense Corps." Quarterly Journal of Speech, 95 (1):
43-65.
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2008
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"Michael
Bérubé's Rhetorical Occasions and Provocations." Cultural
Studies, 22 (1): 161-3.
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2005
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Global
Humanitarianism: NGOs and the Crafting of Community. Lanham, MD: Lexington
Books.
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2002
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"Humanitarian
Space and the Social Imaginary: Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without
Borders and the Rhetoric of Global Community." Journal of
Communication Inquiry, 26 (4): 354-69.
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2002
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"Affect
and Embodied Understanding in Musical Experience." Text and
Performance Quarterly, 22(2): 79-98.
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2001
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"From
Discourse to Golf Course: The Serious Play of Imagining Community
Space." Journal of Communication Inquiry, 25(2): 132-46.
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2000
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"Magic,
Mimesis, and Revolutionary Praxis: Illuminating Walter Benjamin's Rhetoric
of Redemption." Western Journal of Communication, 64(3):
285-307.
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1997
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"Mapping
Subversion: Queercore Music's Playful Discourse of Resistance. " Popular
Music and Society, 21(4): 7-37.
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Educational
Background
Ph.D. Cultural Studies 2001
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The
Claremont Graduate University
Claremont, CA
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M.A. Communication 1996
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California
State University, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
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B.A. Communication 1994
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California
State University, San Bernardino
San Bernardino, CA
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Spring 2013 Teaching Schedule
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Course
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Sect. No.
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Units
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Day & Time
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Room
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| LBS 460 |
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Cultural Studies: Theories and Methods |
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MW 1:30-3:10pm |
KH B2009 |
Spring 2013 Office Hours
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