Catherine Chaput
Professor and Thomas J. Kavanagh Chair in Rhetoric (On Leave Fall 2024)
BA, Creighton University; MA, Binghamton University; PhD, University of Arizona
Research and Teaching Interests: rhetorical history, theory, and criticism with an emphasis on the role of affect and embodiment in public deliberation and structural inequality
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Catherine Chaput is the author of Inside the Teaching Machine and Market Affect and the Rhetoric of Political Economic Debates and editor of Entertaining Fear: Rhetoric and the Political Economy of Social Control and Into the Gateway: Project on Power, Place, and Publics. She has guest edited several journal issues and written dozens of articles and book chapters on the role of rhetoric and writing in the maintenance and transformation of social, political economic, and institutional structures. Currently, she is interested in learning from contemporary Black Studies scholarship to rethink rhetorical approaches to public deliberation and social movement change