Jason Barrett-Fox

B.A., English, Bethel College (North Newton, Kan.), 2001
M.A., English, University of Kansas (Lawrence), 2004
M.A., American studies, University of Kansas, 2008
Ph.D. candidate, English, emphasis on rhetoric and composition, University of Kansas

Selected Publications

"Rhetorics of Indirection, Indiscretion, Insurrection: The 'Feminine Style' of Anita Loos, 1912-1925." JAC: Rhetoric, Writing, Culture, Politics. 32.1-2 (2012).

"A Rhetorical Recovery: Self-Avowal and Self-Displacement in the Life, Fiction, and Nonfiction of Marcet Haldeman-Julius, 1921-1936." Rhetoric Review. 21.1 (2010).

"The Chicago Pragmatists, John Dewey: Life, and C.S. Peirce: Metaphysics and Cosmology." The Encyclopedia of American Philosophy. Eds. John Lachs and Robert Talisse. Routledge (2007).

"Freudianism." The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World. Ed. Matthew Guterl. Oxford University Press (2007).

"Peirce and Bakhtin: Object Relations and their Effects on Consciousness." American Journal of Semiotics. 20. 1-4 (2004).

Selected Recent Presentations

"Mae West and the Rhetoric of Performative Bodies: Complicating Burke's Agent/Scene Ratio." Conference on College Composition and Communication. St. Louis, MO. Spring 2012.

"Too Much of a Good Thing?: Gender Performance, Rhetoric, and Mae West's Historical Hedge, 1926-1929. Feminisms and Rhetorics. Minnesota State University. Fall 2011.

"How a Feminist Made the Fairbanks-Man: Constructing Masculinity in Silent Cinema, 1916-1919." American Men's Studies Association. Kansas City, MO. Spring 2011.

"Telling Silences: Recovering Feminist Geographies of Thirdspace, 1924-1931." Conference on College Composition and Communication. Atlanta, GA. Spring 2011.

"Beyond Acceptability: Recovering Anita Loos's (Feminist?) Rhetoric." Rhetoric Society of America. Minneapolis, MN. Spring 2010.

"Rhetorics of Indirection, Technologies of Mass Production, and the Feminism of Anita Loos, 1912-1930." Western States Rhetoric Conference. University of Utah. Fall 2009.