Dr. Brian Lain
Assistant Professor/Director of Debate
Office Location: GAB 320D
Phone: (940) 565-4534
E-mail: blain@unt.edu

COMM 3440 click here!

COMM 5340 click here!

Research 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.

Notable Activities:

• Director of Debate
• Secretary, Visual Communication Division, National Communication Association
• AFA West Representative, National Debate Tournament Committee

Recent Publications and/or Productions:
Essay.  (2006).  “Remembering Protest, Protesting Memory: The Histories and Uses of Japanese American Internment Resistance.”  Critical Problems in Argumentation: Proceedings from the Thirteenth NCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation, Alta, UT.  Ed. Charles A. Willard.  pp. 434-442.

Co-Authored Essay with Joseph P. Zompetti.  (2005).  “Kritiking as Argumentative Praxis.”  Speaker and Gavel, v. 42, 13-27.

Essay.  (2004).  “American Uses of Japanese American Memory: How Internment Narratives Are Put into Discourse."  Preceedings from the Second Tokyo Conference on Argumentation., Tokyo, Japan.   August 3-5, 2004.

Teaching:
Comm 2140
Comm 3840
Comm 5340
Comm 4240

Curriculum Vita