ekaterina v. haskins, ph.d.
associate professor of rhetoric and graduate program director, Communication and Media, Rensselaer

Books


  • Popular Memories: Commemoration, Participatory Culture, and Democratic Citizenship (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, March 2015). For description and reviews, see http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/books/2015/7494.html

  • Logos and Power in Isocrates and Aristotle (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2004; paperback edition 2009). Recipient of the 2005 Everett Lee Hunt Award for Outstanding Scholarship.

  • Reviews: Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Fall 2004), the Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Spring 2005), the Rhetoric Review (Summer 2005), Rhetorical Review 3:3 (October 2005), and Polis: The Journal of the Society for Greek Political Thought 23:1 (2006).


Refereed Journal Articles


  • “Accidental Tourists at Ephemeral Sites of Memory” (co-authored with Michael Rancourt). Accepted for publication in Memory Studies.

  • “Places of Protest in Putin’s Russia: Pussy Riot’s ‘Punk Prayer’ and Show Trial.” Forthcoming in October 2015 issue of Advances in the History of Rhetoric (special issue on “Rhetoric and Freedom”).

  • “Totalitarian Visual ‘Monologue’: Reading Soviet Posters with Bakhtin.” With James P. Zappen. Rhetoric Society Quarterly 40.4 (2010): 326-359.
  • PDF

  • “Russia’s Postcommunist Past: The Cathedral of Christ the Savior and the Reimagining of National Identity.” History and Memory 21.1 (2009): 25-62.
  • PDF

  • “Religion, Cultural Memory, and the Rhetoric of National Identity in Russia.” Forum Artis Rhetoricae, Special Double Issue on “Religion and Rhetoric.” 8-9 (2007): 44-58.
  • PDF

  • “Between Archive and Participation: Public Memory in a Digital Age.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 37 (2007): 401-422.
  • PDF

  • “Choosing between Isocrates and Aristotle: Disciplinary Assumptions and Pedagogical Implications.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 36.2 (2006): 191-201.
  • PDF

  • “Metonymy and the Metropolis: Television Show Settings and the Image of New York City” (with William Sadler) Journal of Communication Inquiry 29 (2005): 195-216.
  • PDF

  • “Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Cultural Memory: Rereading Plato's Menexenus and Isocrates' Panegyricus.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 35.1 (2005): 25-45.
  • PDF

  • “Endoxa, Epistemological Optimism, and Aristotle’s Rhetorical Project.” Philosophy and Rhetoric 37.1 (2004): 1-20.
  • PDF

  • “Memory, Visibility, and Public Space: Reflections on Commemoration(s) of 9/11” (with Justin DeRose) Space and Culture 6.4 (2003): 377-393.

  • “’Put Your Stamp on History’: The USPS Commemorative Program Celebrate the Century and Postmodern Collective Memory.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 89 (2003): 1-18.
  • PDF

  • “Pop (Up) Goes the ‘Blind Date’: Supertextual Constraints on ‘Reality’ Television.” (third author, with Justin DeRose and Elfriede Fursich). Journal of Communication Inquiry 27 (2003): 171-189.

  • “Rhetoric between Orality and Literacy: Cultural Memory and Performance in Isocrates and Aristotle.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 87 (2001): 158-178.
  • PDF

  • “Mimesis between Poetics and Rhetoric: Performance Culture and Civic Education in Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 30.3 (2000): 7-33. (Recipient of the Charles Kneupper Award for Best Article).

Book Chapters


  • “Spectatorship, Embodiment, and Democratic Publicity.” Forthcoming in 2015 in the Proceedings of the 5th Nordic Conference on Research in Rhetoric (NKRF), Lund University, Sweden.

  • “Ephemeral Visibility and the Art of Mourning: Eyes Wide Open Traveling Exhibit.” In Rhetoric, Remembrance and Visual Form: Sighting Memory, edited by Anne T. Demo and Bradford Vivian. 89-112. London: Routledge, 2012.

  • “Russia’s Postcommunist Past.” In Global Memoryscapes, edited by Kendall Phillips and Mitchell Reyes. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 46-79. 2011. Reprint of the 2009 History and Memory article.

  • “’Put Your Stamp on History’: The USPS Commemorative Program Celebrate the Century and Postmodern Collective Memory.” In Readings in Visual Rhetoric and American Culture, edited by Diane Hope, Lester Olson, and Cara Finnegan. (Los Angeles and London: Sage Publications, 2008). Reprint of the 2003 Quarterly Journal of Speech article.

  • “Logos and Power in Sophistical and Isocratean Rhetoric.” In Isocrates and Civic Education. Edited by Takis Poulakos and David J. Depew. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004. 84-103.

  • “Time, Space, and Political Identity: Envisioning Community in Triumph of the Will.” In Terministic Screen: Rhetorical Perspectives on Film and Film Theory. Edited by David Blakesley. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2003. 92-106.

  • “Aristotle’s Endoxical Method: Cultural Contexts and Scientific Authority.” In Philosophy of Communication, vol. 2. Edited by Konstantine Boudouris and Takis Poulakos. Athens: Ionia Publications, 2002

  • “Paideia versus Techne: Isocrates’ Performative Conception of Rhetorical Education.” In Professing Rhetoric. Edited by Frederick Antczak, Cinda Coggins, and Geoffrey D. Klinger. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002. 199-206.

  • “Orality, Literacy, and Isocrates’ Political Aesthetics.” In Rhetoric, the Polis, and the Global Village. Edited by C. Jan Swearingen and Dave Pruett. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1999. 83-92.

  • “A Woman’s Inventive Response to the 17th-Century Querelle des Femmes.” In Listening to their Voices: On Rhetorical Activities of Historical Women. Edited by Molly M. Wertheimer. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1997. 288-301.

Shorter Articles and Review Essays


  • “Aristotle.” Forthcoming in the International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy. Edited by Klaus Bruhn Jensen. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

  • “Plato.” Forthcoming in the International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy. Edited by Klaus Bruhn Jensen. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

  • “Review of Malcolm McCullough, Ambient Commons: Attention in the Age of Embodied Information and Thomas Rickert, Ambient Rhetoric: The Attunements of Rhetorical Being. Quarterly Journal of Speech 101.1 (2015): 296-299.

  • “On the Term Dunamis in Aristotle’s Definition of Rhetoric.” Philosophy and Rhetoric 46.2 (2013): 234-240.

  • Review of Public Forgetting: The Rhetoric and Politics of Beginning Again by Bradford Vivian. Quarterly Journal of Speech 98.4 (2012): 459-462.

  • “Post-traumatic Memory around the Globe.” (Review essay). Quarterly Journal of Speech 95 (2009): 335-345.

  • Review of The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America by David M. Henken in Explorations in Media Ecology 8.1-4 (2009): 307-311.

  • “Epideictic Rhetoric.” The International Encyclopedia of Communication. Edited by Wolfgang Donsbach. Wiley-Blackwell (Oxford, UK and Malden, MA), 2008. 4238-4240.

  • “Pythagorean Women.” In Classical Rhetorics and Rhetoricians. Edited by Michelle Ballif and Michael G. Moran. Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005. 306-310.

  • “Embracing the Superficial: Michael Calvin McGee, Rhetoric, and the Postmodern Condition.” American Communication Journal 6. 4 (2003).

  • Review of Making Silence Speak: Women’s Voices in Greek Literature and Society, edited by Andre Lardinois and Laura McClure. Argumentation and Advocacy 38.4 (2002): 271-273.

  • “Aristotle Meets Stuart Hall in the Age of Disciplinary Anxiety.” Review of At the Intersection: Cultural Studies and Rhetorical Studies, edited by Thomas Rosteck. TOPIA—A Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 6 (2001): 117-120.