Kirt H Wilson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1690637 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kirt H Wilson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kirt H |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilson |
| SIGNATURE | WILSON K H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Engineering Arts (United States) |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8920-7152 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A randomized controlled trial evaluating the effects of nurse-led triage of 911 calls
Creating Equitable Opportunities: The Thoughts of Two Administrator Rhetoricians
In this article, the authors draw on their personal experiences as mid-career administrators and scholars of color to consider both the structures that limit, and opportunities for equity and social justice in, academic institutions. Although the primary logics that shape academic institutions serve to marginalize certain types of scholars and scholarship, they argue that institutions also contain gaps and contradictions where resistance is possi…
Balancing growth and collegiality: Reflections on the inaugural Rhetoric Society of America Summer Project at the University of Nevada, Reno
The 2019 Rhetoric Society of America Project on Power, Place, and Publics at the University of Nevada, Reno (RSA Project) served several objectives for its participants, organizers, and RSA. It was also an occasion to study the University of Nevada, Reno's Campus Master Plan and its impact on communities and students. It provided intensive instruction in field methods for those who attended the event. It was also a chance to experiment with a for…
The Intimate and Ugly Politics of Emancipation
Other| March 01 2015 The Intimate and Ugly Politics of Emancipation Kirt H. Wilson Kirt H. Wilson Kirt H. Wilson is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Public Discourse at Pennsylvania State University in State College. He thanks Charles E. Morris III for organizing this forum and his fellow authors for their insightful interpretations. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2015) 18 (1): 121–128. …
The National and Cosmopolitan Dimensions of Disciplinarity: Reconsidering the Origins of Communication Studies
Using the first five years of the Quarterly Journal of Speech as a record of Communication Studies' founding, I contend that the discipline began with a tension between contrasting sets of affect and reasoning. In the initial volumes of QJS, one reads many recommendations designed to establish the discipline's academic sovereignty and self-determination, but, at the same time, other essays suggest a commitment to cross-disciplinary inquiry and ci…
Debating the Great Emancipator: Abraham Lincoln and our Public Memory
In this essay I analyze the debate over Abraham Lincoln’s role in the emancipation of African American slaves. Speaking both to contemporary public memory and the evidence of history, I contend that when Lincoln discussed or wrote about emancipation between 1860 and 1863, his rhetoric exhibited a dialogic form that shifted responsibility from the president to congressional leaders and common citizens. I conclude that Lincoln’s dialogic rhetoric d…
The Sage Handbook of Rhetorical Studies
This handbook brings together top scholars and researchers from across the disciplines who are doing work in rhetorical studies. The book addresses and explores fundamental issues and pivotal questions about the role of rhetoric in history and in today's society
The Reconstruction Desegregation Debate: The Politics of Equality and the Rhetoric of Place, 1870-1875
The Racial Politics of Imitation in the Nineteenth Century
This essay examines the ways in which imitation, as a concept and as a practice, was caught up in the nineteenth century's racial politics. Theoretically, it argues that the interpretation of mimêsis labels the imitator and either sustains or reconstitutes power relations within the context of mimetic performance. Historically, the essay contends that during the nineteenth century, and especially after the Civil War, black imitation threatened th…
Towards a discursive theory of racial identity: The souls of black folk as a response to nineteenth‐century biological determinism
This essay interprets W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk as a response to nineteenth‐century racial science and the ideology of biological determinism. It argues that Souls inverts the racist claims of nineteenth‐century science through direct analysis, a style that combines art and reason and makes a methodological shift from studying what Black is to studying what being Black means. Du Bois's critical practice in The Souls of Black Folk…
The contested space of prudence in the 1874–1875 civil rights debate
This essay examines how the rhetoric of Reconstruction congressional actors expressed divergent modes of political judgment with respect to the civil rights of African Americans. Through an interpretive analysis of the 1874–1875 civil rights debate, the essay contends that proponents and opponents enacted adverse norms of discursive practice and competing conceptions of equality. This conflict's discourse helped to bring about the separate but eq…
Towards a discursive theory of racial identity: The souls of black folk as a response to nineteenth‐century biological determinism
This essay interprets W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk as a response to nineteenth‐century racial science and the ideology of biological determinism. It argues that Souls inverts the racist claims of nineteenth‐century science through direct analysis, a style that combines art and reason and makes a methodological shift from studying what Black is to studying what being Black means. Du Bois's critical practice in The Souls of Black Folk…
Debating the Great Emancipator: Abraham Lincoln and our Public Memory
In this essay I analyze the debate over Abraham Lincoln’s role in the emancipation of African American slaves. Speaking both to contemporary public memory and the evidence of history, I contend that when Lincoln discussed or wrote about emancipation between 1860 and 1863, his rhetoric exhibited a dialogic form that shifted responsibility from the president to congressional leaders and common citizens. I conclude that Lincoln’s dialogic rhetoric d…
The Racial Politics of Imitation in the Nineteenth Century
This essay examines the ways in which imitation, as a concept and as a practice, was caught up in the nineteenth century's racial politics. Theoretically, it argues that the interpretation of mimêsis labels the imitator and either sustains or reconstitutes power relations within the context of mimetic performance. Historically, the essay contends that during the nineteenth century, and especially after the Civil War, black imitation threatened th…
The contested space of prudence in the 1874–1875 civil rights debate
This essay examines how the rhetoric of Reconstruction congressional actors expressed divergent modes of political judgment with respect to the civil rights of African Americans. Through an interpretive analysis of the 1874–1875 civil rights debate, the essay contends that proponents and opponents enacted adverse norms of discursive practice and competing conceptions of equality. This conflict's discourse helped to bring about the separate but eq…
The contested space of prudence in the 1874–1875 civil rights debate
This essay examines how the rhetoric of Reconstruction congressional actors expressed divergent modes of political judgment with respect to the civil rights of African Americans. Through an interpretive analysis of the 1874–1875 civil rights debate, the essay contends that proponents and opponents enacted adverse norms of discursive practice and competing conceptions of equality. This conflict's discourse helped to bring about the separate but eq…
Towards a discursive theory of racial identity: The souls of black folk as a response to nineteenth‐century biological determinism
This essay interprets W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk as a response to nineteenth‐century racial science and the ideology of biological determinism. It argues that Souls inverts the racist claims of nineteenth‐century science through direct analysis, a style that combines art and reason and makes a methodological shift from studying what Black is to studying what being Black means. Du Bois's critical practice in The Souls of Black Folk…
The Reconstruction Desegregation Debate: The Politics of Equality and the Rhetoric of Place, 1870-1875
The Racial Politics of Imitation in the Nineteenth Century
This essay examines the ways in which imitation, as a concept and as a practice, was caught up in the nineteenth century's racial politics. Theoretically, it argues that the interpretation of mimêsis labels the imitator and either sustains or reconstitutes power relations within the context of mimetic performance. Historically, the essay contends that during the nineteenth century, and especially after the Civil War, black imitation threatened th…
The Sage Handbook of Rhetorical Studies
This handbook brings together top scholars and researchers from across the disciplines who are doing work in rhetorical studies. The book addresses and explores fundamental issues and pivotal questions about the role of rhetoric in history and in today's society
Debating the Great Emancipator: Abraham Lincoln and our Public Memory
In this essay I analyze the debate over Abraham Lincoln’s role in the emancipation of African American slaves. Speaking both to contemporary public memory and the evidence of history, I contend that when Lincoln discussed or wrote about emancipation between 1860 and 1863, his rhetoric exhibited a dialogic form that shifted responsibility from the president to congressional leaders and common citizens. I conclude that Lincoln’s dialogic rhetoric d…
The Intimate and Ugly Politics of Emancipation
Other| March 01 2015 The Intimate and Ugly Politics of Emancipation Kirt H. Wilson Kirt H. Wilson Kirt H. Wilson is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Public Discourse at Pennsylvania State University in State College. He thanks Charles E. Morris III for organizing this forum and his fellow authors for their insightful interpretations. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2015) 18 (1): 121–128. …
The National and Cosmopolitan Dimensions of Disciplinarity: Reconsidering the Origins of Communication Studies
Using the first five years of the Quarterly Journal of Speech as a record of Communication Studies' founding, I contend that the discipline began with a tension between contrasting sets of affect and reasoning. In the initial volumes of QJS, one reads many recommendations designed to establish the discipline's academic sovereignty and self-determination, but, at the same time, other essays suggest a commitment to cross-disciplinary inquiry and ci…
Balancing growth and collegiality: Reflections on the inaugural Rhetoric Society of America Summer Project at the University of Nevada, Reno
The 2019 Rhetoric Society of America Project on Power, Place, and Publics at the University of Nevada, Reno (RSA Project) served several objectives for its participants, organizers, and RSA. It was also an occasion to study the University of Nevada, Reno's Campus Master Plan and its impact on communities and students. It provided intensive instruction in field methods for those who attended the event. It was also a chance to experiment with a for…
Creating Equitable Opportunities: The Thoughts of Two Administrator Rhetoricians
In this article, the authors draw on their personal experiences as mid-career administrators and scholars of color to consider both the structures that limit, and opportunities for equity and social justice in, academic institutions. Although the primary logics that shape academic institutions serve to marginalize certain types of scholars and scholarship, they argue that institutions also contain gaps and contradictions where resistance is possi…
A randomized controlled trial evaluating the effects of nurse-led triage of 911 calls
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