| Biography Michael Lane Bruner (a.k.a. M. Lane Bruner) (Ph.D.
University of Washington, 1997) is an Associate Professor in the Department of
Communication. Dr. Bruner’s
research is at the intersection of work in rhetorical studies, critical
cultural studies, and performance studies, focusing on topics such as
collective identity construction, ideological criticism, critical globalization
studies, and statecraft. His
books, Strategies of Remembrance (University of South Carolina Press 2002), Market
Democracy in Post-Communist Russia (Wisdom House 2005, co-edited with V.
Morozov), and Democracy’s Debt (Humanity
Books 2009) engage debates related to national identity construction, free
market ideology, and global governance. He is currently completing research for
a book on arts of resistance and the beautiful state. His essays appear in scholarly journals such as The Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Text & Performance Quarterly, Discourse & Society, Argumentation, and National Identities. In 2003 the NCA Rhetorical and Communication
Theory Division honored Dr. Bruner with its New Investigator Award, and in 2006
the NCA awarded him with the Lillia A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship
in Interpretation and Performance Studies.
Degree Track Affiliations: Ph.D. (Public Communication),
M.A. (Human Communication & Social Influence). Regularly offered graduate courses include Theories of the
Public, Issues and Perspectives in Communication Theory, Discourse Theory,
Contemporary Rhetorical Theory, and Communication in a Global Context.
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