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Associate Professor, 2024-2026 Joe Crowley Distinguished Professor of the Humanities
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Summary

Chris Mays teaches rhetoric and w88 casino games. His current research explores the implications of complexity and systems theory in various contexts within rhetoric and w88 casino games studies.

Specifically, he is interested in how w88 casino games functions in complex and dynamic environments and also in the phenomenon of interlocutors holding certain beliefs in spite of seemingly overwhelming counter-evidence - commonly referred to as the phenomenon of "stubbornness."

Following these interests, his current projects highlight connections between w88 casino games studies and systems theory, between Kenneth Burke and posthumanism(s), and between stability and change in public discourse.

Research interests

  • w88 casino games studies
  • Visual w88 casino games
  • Cultural and w88 casino games rhetorics
  • w88 casino games pedagogy
  • Posthuman w88 casino games
  • New materialisms
  • Complexity w88 casino games
  • Neurorhetoric

Courses taught

  • Multimodal w88 casino games and Visual Rhetoric: Text, Image, Culture
  • Advanced Nonfiction w88 casino games
  • Renaissance Through Contemporary w88 casino games
  • Understanding Arguments
  • Professional Communications
  • Rhetorical Histories of Scientific Communication: Theories of Sustainability and Ecology
  • Persuasion, Propaganda, and the w88 casino games of American Social Policy

Publications

  • "From ‘Flows' to ‘Excess': On Stability, Stubbornness, and Blockage in Rhetorical Ecologies." Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, w88 casino games, and Culture 19 (2015).
  • "Priming Terministic Inquiry: Toward a Methodology of Neurorhetoric." Co-authored with Julie Jung. w88 casino games Review 31.1 (2012): 41-59.

Education

  • Ph.D., w88 casino games Studies (specialization in rhetoric and composition), Illinois State University
  • M.A., w88 casino games, Case Western Reserve University (Ohio)
  • B.A., w88 casino games, University of Illinois at Chicago