Benjamin Firgens
Graduate Assistant in Communication Arts and Sciences
316 Sparks BuildingUniversity Park , PA 16802
Email:
baf214@psu.edu
Education:
- B.A., Ripon College, 2014
- M.A., Penn State University, anticipated 2016
Biography:
Benjamin Firgens studies rhetorical influences on the reciprocal relationship between publics, science, and technology. His current research focuses on how technologies diffuse into society through debates about those technologies’ meaning and purpose. His master’s thesis examines 20th-century debates over aviation’s possibilities and liabilities, and how those debates settled the vocabulary with which Americans imagine and use human flight. He teaches CAS100A, 100C, and 175.
Advisor: Dr. J. Michael Hogan