Ned O'Gorman
Contact Information
Office: 325 Communication
Telephone: (217) 265-0859
Email: nogorman@illinois.edu
Website: http://www.communication.illinois.edu/nogorman
Assistant Professor
Bio
Professor O'Gorman's work concentrates on the relationship between political and ethical convictions and rhetorical and aesthetic means of addressing audiences. He has written on a ranger of figures, from Aristotle to Dietrich Bonhoeffer to Eisenhower. His current research is focused on the ethical, rhetorical, and aesthetic dimensions of national security strategies in the Cold War. He was named a faculty fellow of the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities in 2006-07, and winner of the Religious Communication Association's top prize for a journal article in 2006.
Curriculum Vitae
Experience
- Cold War, aesthetics, international relations, history of rhetoric, rhetoric and technology, ethics.
Education
- Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University
Selected Publications
O'Gorman, N. (2009). 'The one word the Kremlin fears:' C. D. Jackson, Cold War ‘Liberation,’ and American Political-Economic Adventurism, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 12(3): 389-427.
O'Gorman, N. (2009). Eisenhower and the American Sublime, Quarterly Journal of Speech, 94( 1): 44-72.
O'Gorman, N. (2006). The Political Sublime: An Oxymoron, Millennium Journal of International Studies, 34(3), 889-915.
O'Gorman, N. (2005). 'Telling the Truth:' Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Rhetorical Discourse Ethic, Journal of Communication and Religion, 28 (2), 224-251.
O'Gorman, N. (2005). Aristotle's Phantasia in the Rhetoric : Lexis, Appearance, and the Epideictic Function of Discourse, Philosophy & Rhetoric , 38 (1), 16-40.