Diane Davis is a post-structuralist rhetorician and associate professor of Rhetoric & Writing, English, and Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...

. She is the Director of the Digital Writing and Research Lab at UT and holds the Kenneth Burke

Kenneth Burke

Kenneth Duva Burke was a major American literary theorist and philosopher. Burke's primary interests were in rhetoric and aesthetics.-Personal history:...

 Chair of Rhetoric and Philosophy at the European Graduate School

European Graduate School

The European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland is a privately funded graduate school founded by the non-profit European Foundation of Interdisciplinary Studies. Its German name is Europäische Universität für Interdisziplinäre Studien...

 in Saas-Fee

Saas-Fee

Saas-Fee is the main village in the Saastal, or the Saas Valley, and is a municipality in the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland...

, Switzerland, where she teaches an intensive summer seminar on Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida was a French philosopher, born in French Algeria. He developed the critical theory known as deconstruction and his work has been labeled as post-structuralism and associated with postmodern philosophy...

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Her work is situated at the intersections of rhetorical theory, continental philosophy, and digital culture.

Books

• Inessential Solidarity: Rhetoric and Foreigner Relations. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010. ISBN 0822961229
• Reading Ronell. Edited collection with an introduction. University of Illinois Press, 2009. ISBN 0252076478
• Women's Ways of Making It In Rhetoric and Composition. With Michelle Ballif and Roxanne Mountford. Routledge, 2008. ISBN 0805844457
• The UberReader: Selected Works of Avital Ronell. Edited collection with introduction. University of Illinois Press, 2008. ISBN 0252073118
• Breaking Up [at] Totality: A Rhetoric of Laughter. Rhetorical Theory and Philosophy Series. Southern Illinois University Press, 2000. ISBN 0809322285

Selected Articles

• “Creaturely Rhetorics.” Philosophy and Rhetoric. Special forum on rhetoric and the question of the animal. Forthcoming in fall 2011. 7 mss pp.
• “Greetings: On Levinas and the Wagging Tail.” JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory. Special issue on Levinas. 29.1 (2009): 711-748.
• "Identification: Burke and Freud on Who You Are.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 38.2 (2008): 123-147.
• "The Fifth Risk: A Response to John Muckelbauer's Response." Philosophy and Rhetoric 40.2 (2007): 248-256.
• "Addressing Alterity: Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, and the Non-Appropriative Relation." Philosophy and Rhetoric 38.3 (2005): 191-212.
• "Diogenes of Sinope." With Victor J. Vitanza. Classical Rhetorics and Rhetoricians. Eds. Michelle Ballif and Michael G. Moran. Praeger Publishers, 2005. 132-136.
• "Finitude’s Clamor; Or, Notes Toward a Communitarian Literacy." College Composition and Communication 53.1 (Sept. 2001): 119-145.
• "Toward an Ethics of Listening." With Michelle Ballif and Roxanne Mountford. JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 20.4 (2000): 931-942.
• "Negotiating the Differend: A Feminist Trilogue." With Michelle Ballif and Roxanne Mountford. JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 20.3 (2000): 583-625.
• "Confessions of an Anacoluthon: Avital Ronell on Writing, Technology, Pedagogy, Politics." JAC: Journal of Composition Theory 20.2 (2000): 243-281.
• "Addicted to Love; Or, Toward an Inessential Solidarity." JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 19.4 (1999): 633-656.

External links

• Diane Davis faculty profile @ the European Graduate School
  European Graduate School
  The European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland is a privately funded graduate school founded by the non-profit European Foundation of Interdisciplinary Studies. Its German name is Europäische Universität für Interdisziplinäre Studien...
  
  . (Biography, bibliography, articles, lectures, and photos)
• Diane Davis's University of Texas website
• Diane Davis faculty page for the Department of Rhetoric & Writing, University of Texas at Austin
• James J. Brown Jr. “After Community: An Interview with D. Diane Davis.” Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture. Vol. 8 (October 2010).