Visual Rhetoric: Memory and Memorials »
Catherine Collins’ syllabus presents a unique course that encourages students to examine visual representations of war and war memorials. The course is structured around case studies and includes important sources for any scholar interested in memory.
Hypertext and the Art of Memory »
I added this article to my prospectus bibliography earlier this year. I highly recommend it since it goes into a useful discussion about the art of memory, particularly drawing from the seminal work by British historian Frances Yates.
Memiary »
Forgot what you did yesterday? Memiary can record all your daily activities. I’ve started using this to help me keep track of I what I get done on a daily basis. I am productive!
I wrote a paper about “Memento” in a graduate course on the history of rhetoric. I am working at getting the paper submitted in a proposal at this year’s FRS’ conference on memory next year.
A YouTube vid on memory that made me think about St. Augustine’s discourse on memory in relation to the human senses and Quintilian’s use of repetition as a memory aid. And, of course, there is the “scientific” aspect of memory here.
Technology, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication »
Another great course website taught and designed by Lee Honeycutt.
What is Visual Rhetoric? (Stanford University) »
I found this on Lee Honeycutt’s course website on Technical Communication, which has given me the idea to create my own website for the courses I teach at UTEP. I am currently searching for more sources that discuss visual rhetoric and visual design.
Digital Rhetoric, Digital Media Bibliography »
James P. Zappen created a quite extensive bibliography that covers digital rhetoric, digital media, and issues relative to digital rhetoric. This bibliography would be a great reference for creating a course on digitial rhetoric or embarking on a research project concerning this critical topic in our field.
This Tumblr page has been created in order to explore the relationship between rhetoric, writing, memory and technology. In my research on rhetoric, writing, and memory, I have come across several articles about technology, which I would like to feature as a blog or on a website. Tumblr is a great forum to present such sources in order to delve into a more close inquiry as to how all these four elements are correlated.
I am currently writing my dissertation, which examines the way in which memory works rhetorically within the genre of ethnic autobiographies published during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the United States. I’ve created a blog, titled “Rhetoric and Memory,” which presents the roles of rhetoric and memory among various domains within and outside academe. I have created another blog, titled “Memory Rhetor,” which describes the actual process of writing of my dissertation.
This page will concentrate on technology as it relates to rhetoric, memory, and writing. I will post notes, summaries and bibliographies related to these four areas of interest to my scholarly work.
Hector Carbajal
