Ned O’Gorman

Professor of Rhetoric & Public Discourse

Department of Communication at the University of Illinois

ARTICLES

Some selected past work:

2024 Essay, “How Liberals Lost the Public: Walter Lippmann, John Dewey, and the Critique of “Traditional Democratic Theory,” Quarterly Journal of Speech.

2016 Essay, “EG&G and the Deep Media of Timing, Firing, and Exposing,” Journal of War and Culture Studies, Vol. 9, No. 2.

2011 Essay, “At the Interface: The Loaded Rhetorical Gestures of Nuclear Legitimation,” with Kevin Hamilton, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Vol. 8, No. 1.

2009 Essay, “‘The one word the Kremlin fears:’ C. D. Jackson, Cold War ‘Liberation,’ and American Political-Economic Adventurism,” Rhetoric and Public Affairs, Vol. 12, No. 3, 389-427

2008 Essay, “Eisenhower and the American Sublime,” Quarterly Journal of Speech, Vol. 94, No. 1, 44-72

2006 Essay, “The Political Sublime, An Oxymoron,” Millennium Journal of International Studies, Vol. 34, No. 3, 889-915

2005 Essay, “‘Telling the Truth:’ Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Rhetorical Discourse Ethic,” Journal of Communication and Religion, Vol. 28, No. 2, 224-248

2005 Essay, “Aristotle’s Phantasia and the Epideictic Function of Discourse,” Philosophy and Rhetoric, Vol. 38, No. 1, 16-40

2004 Essay, “Longinus’s Sublime Rhetoric, or How Rhetoric Came into Its Own,” Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 2, 71-89