Stephen Hartnett
Contact Information
Office: 179 Lincoln Hall
Telephone: (217) 333-1593
Email: hartnett@uiuc.edu
Associate Professor
Bio
Stephen John Hartnett is an Associate Professor of Speech Communication, an Advisor to the Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society and the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, and editor of Captured Words / Free Thoughts, a quarterly magazine of poems by imprisoned writers. His latest book is Globalization and Empire: The U.S. Invasion of Iraq, Free Markets, and The Twilight of Democracy (2006). He is also the author of Incarceration Nation: Investigative Prison Poems of Hope and Terror (2003) and Democratic Dissent & The Cultural Fictions of Antebellum America (2002), which won the National Communication Association’s Winans and Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address. He is also co-author, with the late Robert James Branham, of Sweet Freedom’s Song: “My Country ‘Tis of Thee” and Democracy in America (2002).
Curriculum Vitae
Experience
- Rhetorical theory; rhetorical criticism of historical and contemporary discourse; American Studies; the political-economy of crime and punishment (19th and 20th century) including the death penalty, investigative poetics.
Education
- Ph.D., University of California San Diego
Selected Publications
Hartnett, S. & Stengrim, L. (2006). Globalization and Empire: The U.S. Invasion of Iraq, Free Markets, and The Twilight of Democracy. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press.
Hartnett, S. & Larson, D. (2006). “‘Tonight Another Man Will Die’: Crime, Violence, and The Master Tropes of Contemporary Arguments About the Death Penalty." Communication and Critical Cultural Studies 3(4), 263-287.
Hartnett, S. & Mercieca, J. (2006). “‘Has Your Courage Rusted?’: National Security and The Contested Rhetorical Norms of Republicanism in Post-Revolutionary America, 1798-1801.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 9(1), 79-112.
Hartnett, S. (2003). Incarceration Nation: Investigative Prison Poems of Hope and Terror. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira.
Hartnett, S. (2002). Democratic Dissent & The Cultural Fictions of Antebellum America. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
Branham, R. & Hartnett, S. (2002). Sweet Freedom’s Song: “My Country ‘Tis of Thee” and Democracy in America. Oxford: Oxford University Press.