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Barbara Biesecker

Barbara Biesecker an honorary scholar, author, and is currently professor at the University of Georgia teaching Communication Studies. Dr. Biesecker is best known for her work with rhetoric in social change by working closely with the rhetorical theory.

Background

Barbara Biesecker grew up in Arlington Heights, Illinois. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English at the Miami University. She received her Masters at Miami University, followed by her Ph.D in the Rhetoric and Communication Studies Department at the University Pittsburgh, and lastly her Post-Doctorate Education in The School of Criticism and Theory at Dartmouth College. Dr. Biesecker has worked at a couple of different University's including University of Iowa where she was a assistant professor of Rhetoric, Interim Associate Chair of Rhetoric, Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, and Director of Graduate Studies in Communication Studies. She also worked at American University for a summer working as the Visiting Associate Professor. Today she works at University of Georgia as a Professor of Communication Studies. She has also severed as the Department Head for Communication Studies as well as a faculty member within the Institute for Women's Studies.

Books

Dr. Biesecker has published one book called Addressing Postmodernity where she looks at the bridge between rhetoric and social change the ways that humans change the use of some social relations through the use of symbols. Along with writing a book, Dr. Biesecker is also the editor-in-chief of the Quarterly Journal of Speech, which is a quarterly journal that serves the National Communication Association which contains articles, original research reports, and book reviews related to the study of Communication. She also continues to serve on the editorial boards of Communication and Critical Cultural Studies Journal, Philosophy and Rhetoric, and Women's Studies in Communication

Other Contributions

Awards

Dr. Biesecker has won a number of awards including the Ehninger Distinguished Scholar award that rewarded her in the hard work she has been putting forth in rhetorical theory. Some of her other impressive accomplishments are:

• 2017 Julia T. Wood Scholar/Teacher Award. Pennsylvania Communication Association.
• 2015. in Residence. NCA Institute for Faculty Development (also known as the Hope Conference).Hope College. Hope, Michigan.

• 2012, 2013,2014, 2015, 2016. Scholar. “Scholar to Scholar.” National Communication Association Convention.

• 2007 Pence Lecturer. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. University of North Carolina atChapel Hill.

• 1997. Scholar. Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, University of Iowa, Fall 2006.Finalist. Outstanding Young Investigator Award. Rhetorical and Communication Theory. National Communication Association.

• 1989.. Thirteenth Summer Session of The School of Criticism and Theory at Dartmouth College.

• Top Four Paper. "Kenneth Burke's A Rhetoric of Motives: Towards an Ontology of the Social.”Kenneth Burke Society. Speech Communication Association Convention. San Francisco, CA. November 1989.

Along with these awards, Dr. Biesecker also has a number of teaching, mentoring, and service awards.

Further Readings

• Biesecker, B. A. (2000). Addressing postmodernity: Kenneth Burke, rhetoric, and a theory of social change. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.“Fragments from ‘What Role Can/Should Academic Journals Plan in the Future of Rhetorical Scholarship.” Rhetoric Across Borders. Ed. Anne Demo. South Carolina: Parlor Press. 2015. 278-80.

• Biesecker, B. A. (1989). Rethinking the Rhetorical Situation from within the Thematic of'Différance'. Philosophy & rhetoric, 110-130.“The Obligation to Theorize, Today.” Western Journal of Communication. 77, 5 (2013): 518-522. “WhitherIdeology?:TowardaDifferentTakeonEnjoymentasaPoliticalFactor.” WesternJournalofCommunication 75, 4 (2011): 445-50.
• Biesecker, B. (1992). Coming to terms with recent attempts to write women into the history of rhetoric. Philosophy & Rhetoric, 140-161.
• Biesecker, B. A. (2002). Remembering World War II: The rhetoric and politics of national commemoration at the turn of the 21st century. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 88(4), 393-409.
• Biesecker, B. (2007). No time for mourning: The rhetorical production of the melancholic citizen-subject in the war on terror. Philosophy & rhetoric, 40(1), 147-169.
• Biesecker, B. A. (1998). Rhetorical studies and the “new” psychoanalysis: What's the real problem? Or framing the problem of the real. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 84(2), 222-240.
• Biesecker, B. A. (1992). Towards a transactional view of rhetorical and feminist theory: Rereading Helene Cixous's the laugh of the medusa. Southern Journal of Communication, 57(2), 86-96.
• Biesecker, B. (1993). Negotiating with our tradition: Reflecting again (without apologies) on the feminization of rhetoric. Philosophy & rhetoric, 236-241.
• Biesecker, B. A. (2006). Of historicity, rhetoric: the archive as scene of invention. Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 9(1), 124-131.

See Also

Organizational communication

Rhetorical Structure Theory

References

Biesecker, B. A. (2000). Addressing postmodernity: Kenneth Burke, rhetoric, and a theory of social change. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.

Biesecker, B (2016, September 2) Barbara Biesecker Curriculum Vitae. Retrieved from: http://comm.uga.edu/sites/default/files/cv/Biesecker%20Udated%20CV%20for%20Website%20Sept.pdf

Barbara Biesecker. (n.d.). Retrieved Feb. & march, 2017, from http://comm.uga.edu/people/individuals/56