Faculty | Robert Ivie
Professor, Department of Communication and Culture
Email: rivie@indiana.edu
Phone: 855-5467
Office: 247
Education
- Ph.D., Washington State University, 1972
Research Interests
- rhetoric as a mode of political critique and cultural production, with particular emphasis on democracy and the problem of war
Background
He is the founding editor of the journal Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, and has served as an editor and member of editorial boards of many other communication journals. He served as the Department chair until 2003, and was awarded a fellowship by the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions at Indiana University to attend the Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar on Democracy and Dissent in 2003.
Publication Highlights
- Democracy and America's War on Terror. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005.
- “Democratizing for Peace. ” Rhetoric and Public Affairs 4 (2001): 309-22.
- “Evil Enemy Versus Agonistic Other: Rhetorical Constructions of Terrorism.” Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies 25 (2003): 181-200.
- “Fire, Flood, and Red Fever: Motivating Metaphors of Global Emergency in the Truman Doctrine Speech.” Presidential Studies Quarterly 29 (1999): 570-591.
- "The Interdependence of Teaching and Research in a Learning Culture." Iowa Journal of Communication 27 (1995): 69-73.
- “Prologue to Democratic Dissent in America.” Javnost/The Public 11 (2004): 19-35.
- "Figurative Language." Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition: Communication from the Ancient Times to the Information Age. Ed. T. Enos. New York: Garland Publishing, 1996. 267-269.
