James Janack

Professor of Communication

Curriculum Vitae
janackja@eckerd.edu
Brown Hall 149
727.864.7845
Scholarship & Publications

Degrees

  • Ph.D. University of Washington
  • M.A. Syracuse University
  • B.A. Colgate University

Research

James Janack’s research interests explore the intersection of rhetoric and democracy.  He conducts rhetorical analyses of political discourses and representations of public memory in Eastern Europe.

Courses Taught

  • Propaganda and Persuasion 
  • Argumentation and Debate
  • Debating Social Media
  • Thinking About Weird Things
  • Rhetoric, Knowledge, and Power
  • Fundamentals of Oral Communication
  • Communication Research 

Selected Publications

  • Janack, James A. “The Rhetoric of ‘The Body’: Jesse Ventura and Bakhtin’s Carnival.” Communication Studies, vol. 57, no. 2, 2006, pp. 197-214.
  • Gliem, David E. and James A. Janack. “A Portrait of a Transformational Leader: An Analysis of Text and Image on BarackObama.com.” American Communication Journal, vol. 10, no 3, 2008, http://acjournal.org/holdings/vol10/03_Fall/.
  • Janack, James A. “Mediated Citizenship and Digital Discipline: A Rhetoric of Control in a Campaign Blog.” Mediated Citizenship. Ed. Karin Wahl Jorgensen. London: Routledge, 2008. 79-98.
  • Janack, James A. “We’ll Guarantee Freedom When We Can Afford It: The Free Market, The Russian Constitution, and the Rhetoric of Boris Yeltsin.” Discourse, Debate, and Democracy: Readings from Controversia. Eds. David Cratis Williams and Marilyn J. Young. New York: International Debate Education Association, 2009: 213-234.
  • Janack, James A. “Rand Paul’s Polyphonic Rhetoric of the Tea Party.” Kentucky Journal of Communication, vol. 37, no. 2, 2018, pp. 45-63.