Dr. Johanna Hartelius

Biography

Johanna Hartelius is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on rhetorical theory and criticism, particularly in relation to digital rhetoric. Hartelius explores the cultural and political implications of how both experts and laypersons construct knowledge and experience, with an emphasis on their role in public discourse, both traditional and virtual. She is an award-winning author of "Rhetoric Expertise" (Lexington, 2011) and has edited "Rhetoric U.S. Immigration: Identity, Community, Otherness" (Penn State University Press, 2015). Her scholarship has been published in several prestigious journals, including Argumentation and Advocacy, Critical Studies in Media Communication, and Rhetoric Society Quarterly. Hartelius’s latest book, "Gifting Logos: Expertise in Digital Commons" (University of California Press, 2020), continues her examination of cultural epistemology in digital networks. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Gender Communication and Rhetorics of Expertise at the University.

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