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Thomas Rickert
Associate Professor, Department of English
| Education: | Ph.D., University of Texas at Arlington, 2000 |
| Office: | HEAV 303B |
| Office Phone: | (765) 49-43719 |
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| Website: | http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~trickert/ |
| Specializations: | Rhetoric and Composition, Cultural Studies and Critical Theory |
Recent publications include Acts of Enjoyment: Rhetoric, Zizek, and the Return of the Subject, published by the U of Pittsburgh Press (2007), "Toward the ChÅ?ra: Kristeva, Derrida, and Ulmer on Emplaced Invention" in Philosophy and Rhetoric 40.3 (2007), and "New Media and the Fourfold" (With Jennifer Bay) in JAC 28: 1-2 (2008). Recent course topics include Postmodern theory (Engl 626) and a genealogy of the contemporary university (Engl 680I). His current book project explores rhetoric as an ambient phenomena, as theorized through Heidegger, speculative materialism, and contemporary cognitive science.