Anthony F. Arrigo
Professor of English

Education:
Ph.D. University of Minnesota. Twin Cities: Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical Communication
M.A. Carnegie Mellon University: Rhetoric and English
B.S. summa cum laude Duquesne University: Organizational Behavior

Specializations:
Visual Rhetoric, Technology and Culture, Multimodal Literacy, Technical Communication, Cultural Studies

Contact Information:
Office: LARTS
Email: aarrigo@umassd.edu

Professor Anthony F. Arrigo joined the English Department at UMass Dartmouth in 2009 after finishing his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota. He has taught courses in visual rhetoric, American popular culture and politics, technical communication, and writing on issues in science and technology, and was the recipient of the 2008 Teaching Excellence Award in Writing Studies at Minnesota.

Professor Arrigo has presented at national conferences in communications, rhetoric, architecture, and history of the American West. His dissertation examined the hyper-visualization of Hoover Dam in popular print media of the early twentieth century. As a scholar of rhetoric and visual communication, Professor Arrigo conducts interdisciplinary research that seeks to illuminate the interconnections between visuality, technology, culture, and nature. While his research draws primarily from methodological approaches in rhetoric/communication studies, it is also strongly informed by scholarship in cultural studies and environmental studies.