PhD, Northwestern University
Phone: (253) 879-3463
E-Mail: jjasinski@ups.edu
Jim Jasinski is affiliate faculty member in Communication at UW and professor and chair of the Communication Studies department at the University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, WA). He serves year-round on doctoral committees and occasionally directs independent study projects.
His research focuses on American public discourse with special emphasis on African American rhetoric, antebellum public argument, constitutional argument, and political communication. He received the Speech Communication Association Public Address Division’s Distinguished Scholarship Award in 1993. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Quarterly Journal of Speech and Communication Monographs.
Selected Publications
(With John Murphy) “Time, Space, and Generic Reconstitution: Martin Luther King’s ‘A Time to Break Silence’ as Radical Jeremiad” in Constituting Political Culture, ed. Trevor Parry-Giles (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, forthcoming).
(With Jennifer Mercieca) “Analyzing Constitutive Rhetorics: The Case of the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions” in The Handbook of Rhetoric and Public Address, eds. Shawn J. Parry-Giles and J. Michael Hogan (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, forthcoming).
“A Nation ‘at the Edge of the Precipice’: The Senate Debate over Henry Clay’s 1850 Compromise Measures” in Public Debate in the Civil War Era, eds. David Zarefsky and Michael Leff, Volume IV in A Rhetorical History of the United States (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, forthcoming).
“Henry Clay, Tariff Policy Debates, and the (Re)composition of American Civic Identity” in Constructing the Citizen in Jacksonian America, ed. Stephen H. Browne, Volume III in A Rhetorical History of the United States (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, forthcoming).
“Constituting Antebellum African American Identity: Resistance, Violence, and Masculinity in Henry Highland Garnet’s (1843) ‘Address to the Slaves,’” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 93 (2007): 27-57.
“Idioms of Prudence in Three Antebellum Controversies: Revolution, Constitution, and Slavery” in Prudence: Classical Virtue, Postmodern Practice, ed. Robert Hariman (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2003), pp. 145-188.
Sourcebook on Rhetoric: Key Concepts in Contemporary Rhetorical Studies (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2001).
“The Status of Theory and Method in Rhetorical Criticism,” Western Journal of Communication, 65 (2001): 249-270.
“Heteroglossia, Polyphony, and The Federalist Papers” Rhetoric Society Quarterly , 27 (1997): 23-46.
“Rearticulating History through Epideictic Discourse: Frederick Douglass’s ‘The Meaning of the Fourth of July to the Negro” in Rhetoric and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century America, ed. Thomas W. Benson (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1997), pp. 71-89.
“Instrumentalism, Contextualism, and Interpretation in Rhetorical Criticism” in Rhetorical Hermeneutics, eds. William Keith and Alan G. Gross (Albany: SUNY Press, 1997), pp. 195-224
“The Forms and Limits of Prudence in Henry Clay’s (1850) Defense of the Compromise Measures” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 81 (1995): 454-478.
“(Re)constituting Community through Narrative Argument: Eros and Philia in The Big Chill” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 79 (1993): 467-486.
“The Feminization of Liberty, Domesticated Virtue, and the Reconstitution of Power and Authority in Early American Political Discourse” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 79 (1993): 146-164.
“Rhetoric and Judgment in the Constitutional Ratification Debate of 1787-1788: An Exploration in the Relationship Between Theory and Critical Practice” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 78 (1992): 197-218.
