http://faculty.washington.edu/charold
Ph.D., Penn State, 2002
Office: CMU 229
E-Mail: charold@uw.edu
Christine Harold, Associate Professor, teaches courses in rhetorical criticism, rhetorical theory, and cultural studies. Her research explores opportunities for meaningful political action in a world increasingly defined by the logics and rhetorics of the marketplace. Her book, OurSpace: Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture evaluates strategies of resistance to the commercialization of public life. Among other venues, her work has appeared in Public Culture, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, Critical Studies in Media Communication, and JAC. She is currently at work on a book about the intersections between product design, mass consumption, and environmental sustainability. Dr. Harold serves on the editorial boards of the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Western Journal of Communication, and Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies.
Selected Publications
Harold, C. (2007). OurSpace: Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Harold, C. (2009). On Target: Aura, Affect, and the Rhetoric of ‘Design Democracy’. Public Culture: an Interdisciplinary Journal of Transnational Cultural Studies, 21(3), 599-618.
DeLuca, K.M., Harold, C., Rufo, K. (2007). Q.U.I.L.T.: A Patchwork of Reflections (honoring the 20th anniversary of AIDS Memorial Quilt). Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 10(4), 627-623.
[Reprinted in Morris, C.E. ed. (forthcoming) Remembering the Quilt. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press.]
Harold, C., DeLuca, K.M. (2005) Behold the Corpse: Image Rhetoric and the Lynching of Emmett Till. Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 8(2), 263-286.
[Reprinted Olson, L., Finnegan, C., Hope, D. eds. (2008). Visual Rhetoric: A Reader in Communication and American Culture. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishing.]
Harold, C. (2004). Pranking Rhetoric: ‘Culture Jamming’ as Media Activism. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 21.3, 189-211.
[Reprinted in Turow, J. and McAllister, M. (2009) The Advertising and Consumer Culture Reader. London, New York: Routledge.]
Harold, C. (2001) The Green Virus: Purity and Contamination in Ralph Nader’s 2000 Presidential Campaign. Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 4(4), 581-603.
Harold, C. (2000). The Rhetorical Function of the Abject Body: Transgressive Corporeality in Trainspotting. JAC: Rhetoric, Writing, Culture, Politics, 20(4), 865-881.
Harold, C. (1999). Tracking Heroin Chic: The Abject Body Reconfigures the Rational Argument. Argumentation and Advocacy 36 (2), 65-76.
