Garnet Butchart
Assistant Professor (and Affiliated Asst. Professor, Dept. of Humanities & Cultural Studies)

Philosophy of Communication, Cultural Studies, Medium Studies

Office: CIS 3046
Phone: 813/974-2145
Email: butchart at usf.edu

Professor Butchart specializes in philosophy of communication (existential semiotics, visual semiotics, ethics), contemporary cultural theory, and medium theory. His research has been published in Semiotica, Communication Theory, Communication, Culture & Critique and elsewhere. He is co-editor of Philosophy of Communication (in press, MIT Press). Prior to joining the faculty at USF, he was Assistant Professor in the Cultural Studies Program at Trent University, Canada..

Curriculum Vitae
(May 2010)

Undergraduate Course Offerings

• Communication Theory
• Analyzing Media and Culture
• Cultural Studies and Communication

Graduate Course Offerings

• Semiotics
• Contemporary Cultural Studies
• Theories and Histories of Communication

Representative Publications

• An excess of signification: Or, what is an event? Semiotica, 187–1 (2011), pp. 291–307
• "The exceptional community: On strangers, foreigners, and communication, Communication, Culture & Critique, 3 (1), March, 2010
• Succeeding Failure: Openings in communication and media studies. Special issue of Communication Theory, 17 (1), 2007. Co-edited with Briankle G. Chang.
• Guest editors' words. (with B. G. Chang). Communication Theory, 17 (1), 2007, 1-2.
• On ethics and documentary: A real and actual truth. Communication Theory, 16 (4), 427- 452, 2007.
• On the void: The fascinating object of evil in Human Remains. In M. F. Norden (Ed.), The Changing Face of Evil in Film and Television. (New York and Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2007) 159-175.

Honors and Awards

• Top Paper, Semiotics and Communication Division, National Communication Association (NCA). Chicago, 2009.
• Top Student Paper, Philosophy of Communication Division, International Communication Association (ICA). New York City, 2005.

Education

Ph.D., Communication, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
M.A., Communication Studies, University of Calgary.
B.A., School of Communication, Simon Fraser University.

Current Courses

Graduate Students

Sanford Betz , Mark McCarthy