Faculty
Jos茅 脕ngel Maldonado
Assistant Professor
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Office: CIS 3045
Biography
I鈥檓 an Assistant Professor of Communication at the 911爆料网, specializing in Rhetorical Theory, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Film and Television Criticism, Contemporary Mexican Culture, Gender Studies, Border Studies, Globalization, Neoliberalism, and Indigeneity. My book, Falling to My Death: Vertical Rhetorics in Neoliberal Mexico (Clemson UP, 2026), combines memoir and cultural criticism of visual media to expose the normalization of violence as a rhetorical process. My research also appears in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric & Public Address, Southern Communication Journal, and Javnost-The Public: Journal of the European Institute for Communication and Culture. I received a PhD in Communication from the University of Utah. My doctoral dissertation, Diana鈥檚 Confession: Precarious Rhetoric in Post-NAFTA Mexico, won the 2018 Rhetoric Society of America Dissertation Award.
Research Areas
Rhetorical Theory, Critical and Cultural Studies, Film and Television Criticism, Contemporary Mexican Culture, Gender Studies, Border Studies, Globalization, Neoliberalism, and Indigeneity