Brian Lain

          Assistant Professor

          Education

          A.B.D. Department of Communication Studies, University of Iowa  
          (Dissertation Title: Remembering Internment:  Defining the American Through the Adjectival State of (the) Japanese. Anticipated Defense May 2002.) 
          Advisor: Barbara A. Biesecker 

          M.A. Department of Speech-Communication, Wayne State University 
          (Thesis Title: The Rhetorical Strategy of the Mumonkan)  
          Advisor: Sandy Berkowitz. Degree completed Summer 1997. 

          B.A.  Department of Anthropology, Wake Forest University 
          (Graduated Cum Laude Major in Anthropology, Minor in Religion, May 1993.)

          Publications

          Published Essays/Special Issues

          Essay. [2001, in press].  "The Trauma of Multiculturalism: Ethnic and National Memory Practices in the Japanese American National Museum."  To be included in Proceedings of Twelfth NCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation.

          Essay.  "Moving Walls across the Common Ground of the Japanese American National Museum: An Examination of a National Minority Museum's Strategy of Connecting American and Japanese Values."  NAAS/NAHLS/NANAS/IAAS 2001 Culture Monograph Series.  Moorehead, KY: Moorehead State Univ., 2001.  133-168.

          Essay.  "Liberation Pedagogy: Addressing Oppression through Debate Arguments."  Argument in a Time of Change: Definitions, Frameworks, and Critiques, Proceedings of the Tenth NCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation.  Ed. James F. Klump. Annandale, VA: NCA Press, 1998.  420-425.

          Essay.  "Verb, That's What's Happening: Kritiking Theory and Practice."  The Shock, The Shame, The Horror: Juvenile Crime: Debater's Research Guide.  Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 1996.  A12-A16.

          Co-authored Issue with Borchers, T.  "Special Issue: 69th Annual Discussion and Debate Source Book: 1995-96 High School Debate Topic: China Policy."  In Richard G. Fawcett Ed.  The Forensic Quarterly, 69 #2.  Kansas City, MO: National Federation of State High School Associations, 1995.  7-77.

          Essay.  "Taking a New Route to the Tournament: What the Information Superhighway Means for Debate and Evidence."  Immigration Regulation: Borderline Policies: Debater's Research Guide 1994.  Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 1994.  A6-A9.

          Co-authored Essay with Stafford, S.  "Hitchhiking on the Information Superhighway: Research on the Net."  Immigration Regulation: Borderline Policies: Debater's Research Guide 1994.  Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 1994.  A10-A15.

          Co-authored Essay with Scruggs, L.  "A Research Primer."  Addressing Homelessness: Social Services in the 1990s: Debater's Research Guide.  Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 1991.  A9-A13.

          Works in Progress

          Article.  "The Politics of Place(ment): The Japanese American National Museum."  Currently revising for Submission to a volume to be produced from the Visual Rhetoric Conference, Bloomington, IN.  [2002, editing/revising].

          Competitively Selected Papers

          Paper.  "Panoramic Memories: Realism, Agency, and the Remembrance of Japanese American Internment." Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Las Vegas, NV.  May 2002.

           Paper. "Performing Japanese American Citizenship: The Case of Congressional Reparations Hearings."  National Joint Conference of National Association of African American Studies/ National Association of Hispanic & Latino Studies/ National Association of Native American Studies/ International Association of Asian Studies, Houston, TX.  February 2002.

           Paper.  "Temporality in the Japanese American National Museum."  National Communication Association Conference, Atlanta, GA.  November 2001.

           Paper.  "The Politics of Place(ment): The Barracks in Los Angeles."  Visual Rhetorics Conference, Bloomington, IN.  September 2001.

           Paper.  "The Trauma of Multiculturalism: Ethnic and National Memory Practices in the Japanese American National Museum."  NCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation, Alta, UT.  August 2001.

           Paper.  "Moving Walls across the Common Ground of the Japanese American National Museum: An Examination of a National Minority Museum's Strategy of Connecting American and Japanese Values."  National Joint Conference of National Association of African American Studies/ National Association of Hispanic & Latino Studies/ National Association of Native American Studies/ International Association of Asian Studies, Houston, TX.  February 2001.

           Paper.  "Ideological Argument Both Within and Across Borders: The Case of Reparations and Treatment of Americans of Japanese Descent."  Tokyo Conference on Argumentation, Tokyo, Japan.  August 2000.

          Paper.  "Teaching Philosophy Through Debate: The American Experience with Deontology, Kritiks, and Permutations and Implications For the Future."  Tokyo Conference on Argumentation, Tokyo, Japan.  August 2000.

          Paper.  "Articulation and McGee's Ideograph."  Special Panel "McGee's Ideograph: Used, Transformed, or Discarded? Approaches for the Next Millennium."  Central States Communication Association Convention, Detroit, MI.  April 2000.

          Paper.  "Rhetoric as a Link Between Marxissant Ideologiekritik and Foucauldian Power."  National Communication Association Conference, Chicago, IL.  November 1999.

           Co-authored Paper with Prather, D.  "The Good, The Bad, and the Ally: A Look at Subjectivity, Sexuality, and Masculine Power in Prime Time's Ally McBeal."  National Communication Association Conference, Chicago, IL.  November 1999.

          Paper.  "Performing Judgment and Judging Performance: The Future of Forensics."  National Communication Association Conference, Chicago, IL.  November 1999.

          Paper.  "Confronting the Master Narrative of Colonization: An Ecofeminist Agenda."  Central States Communication Association Convention, Chicago, IL.  April 1998.

           Paper.  "Attacking Policy-Making from Within: Perms, Counterperms, and the Fiat of Kritiking."  National Communication Association Conference, Chicago, IL.  November 1997.

          Paper.  "Liberation Pedagogy: Addressing Oppression through Debate Arguments."  SCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation, Alta, UT. August 1997.

          Paper.  "Paradigms in Konflict: Policy Making, Kritiking, and the Fiat of Kritiking."  Central States Speech Communication Association Convention, St. Paul, MN.  April 1996.

          Paper.  "The Influence of Buddhism on Japanese Rhetoric."  Speech Communication Association Convention, New Orleans, LA.  November 1994.

        • Teaching Experience

            • Research Assistant for Prof. Barbara A. Biesecker, University of Iowa      2001-Present

            Graduate Instructor, Rhetoric Department, University of Iowa      1999-Present

            Assistant Director, University of Iowa's Speaking Center, Rhetoric Department       2000-2001

             Research Assistant for Prof. Takis Poulakos, University of Iowa      2000-2001

            Instructor, Department of Rhetoric, Drake University, Des Moines, IA    Spring 2001

            Graduate Instructor, Department of Communication Studies, University of Iowa      1997-Present

            Graduate Debate Assistant, A. Craig Baird Debate Forum, University of Iowa      1997-1999

            Coordinator of Forensics, A. Craig Baird Debate Forum, Iowa City, IA      1996-1997

            Assistant Debate Coach, Emory University, Atlanta, GA      1995-1996

            Assistant Debate Coach, Pace Academy, Atlanta, GA      1995-1996

            Graduate Assistant/Debate Coach, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI      1993-1995

            Instructor, Emory National Debate Institute, Atlanta, GA; Dartmouth Debate Institute, Hanover, NH; Wayne State University Debate Institute, Detroit, MI; Wake Forest Debate Workshop, Winston-Salem, N.C.      Summers, 1989-2000

            Researcher/Computer Layout Editor, Debater's Research Guide, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N.C.      Summers, 1989-1993

        • Presentations

            •  Invited Presentations, Lectures, and Seminars

            Paper. "Resisting Realism and Remembering Internment:  Photographer Masumi Hayashi's 'American Concentration Camps.'"  Invited as Part of "The Best of the Big 10" Special Panel series.  Central States Communication Association Conference, Milwaukee, WI.  April 2002.

            Seminar Participant.  "Visual Rhetorics of Witnessing: Representation, War, and Trauma" (Leaders A. Susan Owen and Peter Ehrenhaus).  Visual Rhetorics Conference, Bloomington, IN.  September 2001.

            Lecture. "The Japanese American National Museum and Visual Rhetoric."  Communication Studies Upper Level Course: Topics in Communication: Visual Rhetoric.  April 17, 2001.

            Lectures.  "Debating Kritiks" and "Debating Disadvantages."  Special Conference on Debate Held at Kanda University of International Studies, Chiba, Japan.  August 2000.

            Special Lecture.  "Protecting Privacy Kritiks or Kritiking Privacy?"  Emory National Debate Institute, Atlanta, GA.  June 2000.

            Roundtable Participant.  "The Posts and Pedagogy: Getting it in the Classroom and Across to the Students."  Central States Communication Association Convention, Detroit, MI.  April 2000.  

            Invited Paper.  "Enacting Kritiking Through Permutations: Texts that Protect and Texts that Produce."  Special Panel on "Kritiks: The State of the Art."  National Communication Association Conference, Chicago, IL.  November 1999.

            Lecture  "Critiquing the Education Process or All I ever needed to know about Kritiks I learned in Summer Movies."  National Summer Institute in Forensics, Iowa City, IA.  June 1999.

            Roundtable Participant.  "Critiques and Permutations: A Roundtable Discussion."  National Communication Association Conference, New York, NY.  November 1998.

            Lectures.  "Environmentalism" and "Kritiking Ecology."  National Summer Institute in Forensics, Iowa City, IA.  June 1997.

            Lecture.  "The Juvenile Court System: The Legal Angle."  Dartmouth Debate Institute, Hanover, NH.  July 1996.

            Lecture.  "Debating Immigration Reform."  McMonagle Debate Workshop, Detroit, MI.  September 1994.

        • Research/Teaching Interests

            • 20th Century Rhetorical Criticism and Theory

          • Material Rhetoric and Culture.
            Visual Rhetorics and Culture. Ideological Criticism. The Politics of Representation. 
            Multiculturalism, Community and Identity. Collective Memory and Commemorative Culture.

            •  Materialism and Poststructuralism

          • Ideology, Power, and Rhetoric. 

          • The problem of ideology in a postmodern world.  

          • The poststructuralist critique of ideology.  

          • Foucault's critique of power.

            •  Japanese American Rhetorics

          • Commemorations of Internment. 
          • The Japanese American National Museum. 
          • Japanese American Reparations Movement. 
          • Japanese American Autobiographies. 
          • Photographic Archives of Internment.
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        • Awards/Honors

            • Recipient of University of Iowa's Harshbarger Travel Award. 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998.

            Participant, Committee on International Discussion and Debate Tour of Japan, 1995.  (A U.S. tour of Japan, duties include audience debating, lecturing, spreading goodwill.)

            Presidential Debate Award. Wayne State University Graduate School, 1994.

            Presidential Scholarship. Wake Forest University, 1988-1992.

            Wake Forest University Dean's List. Spring 1991, Fall 1990, Spring 1989

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