Recent
Publications
“Contemplative Action/Actionable Contemplation: Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca’s New Rhetoric and the Socio-Spiritual Nexus”
Journal of Communication and Religion, vol. 47, no. 4, 2024, pp. 84-101.
“Horizontal Vampirism, Vertical Theology: Juxtaposing Jean Rollin’s Lips of Blood with Abel Ferrara’s The Addiction”
Essay in Theology and Vampires. Edited by Madeline Potter. Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2025.
“Victimhood and Rhetorical Communication within Clive Barker’s Faustian Fiction”
Essay in Re-imagining the Victim in Post-1970s Horror Media. Edited by Madelon Hoedt and Marko Lukic. Amsterdam University Press, 2024.
“The Analog of Self-Authenticity in The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion”
Essay in Bloodstained Narratives: The Giallo Film in National Context and Abroad. Edited by Matthew Edwards and Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns. University Press of Mississippi, 2023, pp. 84-101.
“Accommodating Inspiration: Discernment and Imitation within the Ignatian Rhetorical Tradition”
Journal for the History of Rhetoric, vol. 24, no. 2, 2021, pp. 223-238.
“Giallo” (CHapter 11)
Entry in The Microgenre: A Quick Look at Small Culture. Edited by Molly C. O'Donnell and Anne H. Stevens. Bloomsbury, 2020, pp. 103-112.
“Touring the ‘Burning Times’: The Rhetoric of Witch-Hunting Films, 1968-1973”
Essay in Virtual Dark Tourism: Ghost Roads. Edited by Kathryn McDaniel. Palgrave, 2018, pp. 113-136.
The Playbook of Persuasive Reasoning: Everyday Empowerment and Likeability
Vernon Press (Series in Communication), 2018.
“Deglamorizing AI Writing: A Weaverian Return to Language, Reality, and Rhetoric”
Magyar Nyelvőr (Special Issue: Linguistics and Communication in the Mediated and Digital World), vol. 149, no. 5, 2025, pp. 649-658.
Catholic Horror and Rhetorical Dialectics
Critical Conversations in Horror Series. Lehigh University Press, 2024.
ISBN: 978-1611463620
“The Rhetoric of Contemplative Horror: Inquiry, Discovery, and Optimism”
Essay in Horror and Philosophy: Essays on Their Intersection in Film, Television and Literature. Edited by Subashish Bhattacharjee and Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns. McFarland Press, 2023.
“Funeral Doom Metal as the Rhetoric of Contemplation: A Burkean Perspective”
Metal Music Studies (Journal for the International Society of Metal Music Studies), vol. 8, no. 1, 2022, pp. 69-85.
“Between Hell and Earth: Rhetorical Appropriation of Religious Space within Hellraiser”
Essay in Spaces and Places of Horror. Edited by Francesco Pascuzzi and Sandra Waters. Vernon Press, 2019, pp. 93-106.
“Eschatology, Pluralism, and Communication in Tom Perrotta’s The Leftovers”
Journal of Communication and Religion, vol. 41, no. 2, 2018, pp. 75-92.
“William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist and Rhetoric-Dialectic Interplay”
Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, vol. 29, no. 2, 2017, pp. 104-118.
“Dario Argento’s Apollonian-Dionysian Dialectic”
Essay in Critical Perspectives on Dario Argento. Edited by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns. Bloomsbury, 2025.
“Augustinian Composition Pedagogy and the Catholic Liberal Arts in the Time of Generative AI”
Journal of Catholic Education, vol. 27, no. 2, 2024, pp. 59-75.
Article found here.
“GRAND, MIDDLE, OR PLAIN?: RHETORICAL STYLE AND HORROR LITERATURE”
Online article in Horror Homeroom: Special Issue #8 on Horror Literature. Edited by Elizabeth Erwin and Dawn Keetley. 2023. Full text available here.
“The CHronos Principle: ‘Knowing Thy Time’ in communication management"
Philosophy of Management, vol. 21, no. 4, 2022, pp. 507-522.
“How the Humanities Can Empower Communication”
Essay in Humanities North Dakota Magazine. March 2021, pp. 2-5.
“Richard Laymon’s Rhetorical Style: Minimalism, Suspense, and Negative Space”
Essay in Horror Literature from Gothic to Post-Modern: Critical Essays. Edited by Nicholas Diak and Michele Brittany. McFarland, 2020, pp. 86-100.
“Thinking Vertically, Writing Horizontally: A Trivium-Framed First-year Composition Course”
Listening: Journal of Communication Ethics, Religion, and Culture, vol. 53, no. 2, 2018, pp. 92-101.