Biography

Associate Professor of Communication Studies

Ph.D., Indiana University
M.A., University of Arkansas
B.A., University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point

Dr. Schowalter's research, teaching and writing focuses on visual rhetorics with special interest on documentary film and photographic images. His Senior Seminar, The Rhetoric of Images: History, Identity, and Memory, explores the relationship between iconic images and the way we make sense of ourselves as a (re)public.

Courses

CMS 04290  Rhetorical Theory
CMS 04210  Mass Media and Their Influences
CMS 04450  Senior Seminar in Communication Studies

Selected Publications

Schowalter, Daniel F. (2009). "Disarticulating American Indianness in the National Museum of the American Indian." In J. L. Lucaites & B. Biesecker (Eds.), Rhetoric, Materiality & Politics. Frontiers of Political Communication Series.

Schowalter, Daniel F. "Hallucination as Epistemology: Critiquing the Visual in Ken Burns’ The West." Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 1.3 (2004): 250-270.

Schowalter, Daniel F. "Remembering the Dangers of Rock and Roll: Toward A Historical Narrative of the Rock Festival." Critical Studies in Media Communication, 17 (2000): 86-102.

Ongoing Projects

Visuality and Trauma at the National Museum of the American Indian (book)

"Nomadic Images, Visibility, and Memory: How Trauma Wanders Off" (journal article)