ROLLINS, BROOKE
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
212-J Allen Hall
578-2982
brollins@lsu.edu
Education: B.A. Bloomsburg University; M.A., Ph.D. University of South Carolina
Research Interests: Rhetorical Theory, Critical Theory, History of Rhetoric, Writing Pedagogy
Publications:
Articles: “Persuasion's Ethical Force: Levinas, Gorgias and the Rhetorical Address,” JAC (forthcoming).
"Inheriting Deconstruction: Rhetoric and Composition's Missed Encounter with Jacques Derrida," College English 69 (2006): 11-27.
"The Ethics of Epideictic Rhetoric: Addressing the Problem of Presence through Jacques Derrida's Funeral Orations." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 35 (2005): 5-23.
“‘Some Kind of a Man': Orson Welles as Touch of Evil 's Masculine Auteur.” The Velvet Light Trap 57 (Spring 2006): 32-41.“Collusion and Collaboration: Concealing Authority in Writing Center Conversation.” With Trixie Smith & Evelyn Westbrook. (E)merging Identities: Graduate Students in the Writing Center . Ed. Melissa Dunbar Nichols. Southlake: Fountainhead Press (2008): 119-140.
Book: Present Tense: Contemporary Themes for Writers . With Lee Bauknight. Boston: Cengage Learning, January 2009.