Robert Lestón’s Profile
Decolonial Rhetorics, Deleuze and Guattari Studies, Multimodal Rhetorics
Robert Lestón’s research includes studies in the avant garde arts of sound, image, film, and contintental philosophy as they apply to expanding the scope of rhetorical invention and how rhetorical invention relates to expanding the scope of democracy and collective decision making. His work has appeared in Kairos, Configurations, Enculturation, Atlantic Journal of Communication, among others. He is coauthor of Beyond the Blogosphere: Information and Its Children (2012) with Aaron Barlow. He is currently working on a manuscript entitled The Long Revolution: Zapatismo, Immigration, and Permanent Auonomous Communities in the Americas.
My Courses
ENG 2003: Introduction to Poetry
Intro to poetry
Vampires and Zombies in Popular Fiction and Film
An upper level literature course that studies representations of the undead in popular fiction, film, and television. Students will grasp the historical backgrounds of popular representations of the undead in order to put popular culture myths into literary, rhetorical, and cultural contexts. Students will also investigate the relationship between the undead and the living in order to understand America’s fascination with inhuman beings and to problematize Western anthropocentrism. Students also analyze and discuss a wide range of cultural artifacts, study a variety of writing models, and practice both individual and collaborative research, writing, and presentation.
My Projects
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Professional and Technical Writing Committee
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Professional and Technical Writing
This degree program will provide students with both a content specialty in areas such as technology, science, or business and the skills to communicate that information to a lay audience in both print and digital platforms through both language and images. Graduates will be prepared for employment in a broad range of professional areas that include business, government, technology, health professions, and grant-writing.
Research
My Clubs
Student Government Association
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