Faculty | Michael Kaplan
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Culture
Email: mikaplan@indiana.edu
Phone: 856-1365
Office: 219
Education
- Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2005
Background
Professor Kaplan's research and graduate teaching focus on problems of political agency specific to late modernity; the discursive production and representation of democratic citizenship in the cultural public sphere; and the implications of post-structuralist theory for critical rhetorical, media and cultural studies.
Publication Highlights
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"Capitalizing on the Dialectial Economy of Hegemony: Laclau, Populism and the Liberal Wager," Cultural Studies (forthcoming)
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"The Rhetoric of Hegemony: Laclau, Radical Democracy, and the Rule of Tropes," Philosophy & Rhetoric 43.3: 253-283
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Friendship Fictions: The Rhetoric of citizenship in the Liberal Imaginary, The University of Alabama Press Series in Rhetoric, Culture & Locial Critique, 2010
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"Rebel Citizenship and the Cunning of the Liberal Imaginary in Thelma & Louise," Communication and Critical Cultural Studies, 5.1: 1 - 23
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"Imagining Citizenship as Friendship in The Big Chill," Quarterly Journal of Speech, 91.4
"Iconomics: The Rhetoric of Speculation," Public Culture, 15.3
