faculty
Stanley Harrison
Associate Professor
English & Communication
Contact
508-910-6467
508-999-9235
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Liberal Arts 307
Education
1999 | University of Rhode Island | B.A. in English |
1988 | University of Kentucky | M.A. in English |
1985 | SUNY Cortland | Ph.D in English |
Teaching
- Internet Communication and Culture
- Posthuman Rhetorics
- Teaching English: Classroom Methods
- Composition Theory
- Copywriting
Teaching
Programs
Programs
Teaching
Courses
An introduction to the art of public speaking through the study of effective principles combined with practice in speaking before a group.
An introduction to the art of public speaking through the study of effective principles combined with practice in speaking before a group.
Explores copywriting theories, principles, and techniques. Students will learn to compose within a variety of copywriting genres, such as space advertising, brochures, sales letters, radio scripts, and interactive advertising.
An examination of language's pivotal role in shaping a culture's values, beliefs, biases, and world view. By reading a broad range of essays, excerpts, and articles, students will learn how language shapes thought, molds perceptions, and determines how we think about and react to various people, groups, and cultures. Students will write a series of articles for lay audiences based on what they learn during the course.
Introduction to Internet communications and culture. The course focus will change with the instructor, but topics may include Internet Cultural Production and the Global Digital Divide; Cyborg Communications; Uploading Identity, Downloading Decrepitude; Augmented Reality, or the Composition of Everyday Life.
This course explores the analytical and creative possibilities of language. Through both a theoretical discussion and practical application, we will examine how basic elements of writing, such as diction - including figurative language - syntax, structure, and rhetorical style, express and modulate meaning in a variety of writing forms. Students will analyze, create, and critique imaginative pieces, including advertising copy, written speeches, song lyrics, technical articles, short fiction poetry, drama, and literary nonfiction.
First semester. Graded CR/NC (upon approval of completed thesis or project).
Teaching
Online and Continuing Education Courses
Explores copywriting theories, principles, and techniques. Students will learn to compose within a variety of copywriting genres, such as space advertising, brochures, sales letters, radio scripts, and interactive advertising.
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Research
Research interests
- Absolute social space
- Allegory and allegoresis
- Factory of the dead social
- Factory of third nature
- Internetworked production capitals
Select publications
- Stan Harrison (2012).
Combined Development, Not Digital Divide
JAC, 32, 83-144. - Stanley Harrison (2008).
Our Cyberbodies, Ourselves: Conceptual Grounds for Teaching Commodities to Write
Plugged In: Technology, Rhetoric and Culture in a Posthuman Age, 41-57. - Stanley Harrison (2007).
Unconscious Writing in the Factory of the Social: A Class Theory of Negative, Allegorical Rhetoric
JAC, 27, 63-103.