Christopher Swift

chs473@pitt.edu

Education

PhD Northwestern University

Biography

Christopher Swift teaches courses in rhetoric and media with a focus on how our ideas and practices of communication have been transformed by larger historical and cultural forces. His research examines the relationship between philosophical writing and public discourse.

  • “Herbert Marcuse on the New Left: Dialectic and Rhetoric.” Peer-reviewed paper in Rhetoric Society Quarterly 40.2 (2010): 146–71.
  • “Academic Engagement.” Invited forum response in Quarterly Journal of Speech 96.4 (2010): 443–49.

Courses Taught

COMMRC 0320 Mass Communication and Society