Bradford Vivian

Bradford Vivian

Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences, Advisor for the CAS Minor
(814) 865-0945
210 Sparks Building University Park , PA 16802

Curriculum Vitae

Education

B.A., George Mason University, 1996
M.A., Pennsylvania State University, 1998
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 2001

Professional Bio

Bradford Vivian is a professor in the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences. His research and teaching focuses on theories of rhetoric (or the art of persuasion) and public controversies over collective memories of past events. Vivian is the author of Campus Misinformation: The Real Threat to Free Speech in American Higher Education (Oxford University Press),  Commonplace Witnessing: Rhetorical Invention, Historical Remembrance, and Public Culture (Oxford University Press), Public Forgetting: The Rhetoric and Politics of Beginning Again (Penn State Press) and Being Made Strange: Rhetoric beyond Representation (SUNY Press). He is also co-editor, with Anne Teresa Demo, of Rhetoric, Remembrance, and Visual Form: Sighting Memory (Routledge). Vivian’s work has also appeared in such journals as the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, History and Memory, and Rhetoric Society Quarterly. His honors and awards include a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend and, from the National Communication Association, the James A. Winans-Herbert A. Wichelns Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address, the Critical/Cultural Studies Division Book of the Year Award, and the Karl R. Wallace Memorial Award.