Thomas Rickert
- Professor // English
- Affiliated Faculty // Religious Studies // SIS
- Professor // Philosophy and Literature // SIS
- Professor // SIS
Research Focus
Ancient and Contemporary Rhetoric; Digital Media and Technology; Post-phenomenology
Office and Contact
Room: SC 268
Email: trickert@purdue.edu
Ph.D., University of Texas at Arlington, 2000
Biography
Thomas J. Rickert is Professor of English at Purdue University. His research interests are oriented on histories and theories of rhetoric, with particular focuses on the sophists, comparative rhetoric, ecology, and post-phenomenological approaches to media and technology. He has published Acts of Enjoyment: Rhetoric, Zizek, and the Return of the Subject (2007) and Ambient Rhetoric: The Attunements of Rhetorical Being (2013), both with Pittsburgh University Press. He has published essays in Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Philosophy & Rhetoric, Review of Communication, and Rhetorica. Recent work has addressed the relations of rhetoric to media and technology in Ancient Greece and in the contemporary world. His current book project addresses how the sophists anticipated and help us work through challenges brought on by digitality.