Michael LeVan
Senior Instructor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Images, Memory, Political Theory, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Communication, Performance Studies
Office: CIS 3033
Phone: 813/974-0788
Email:
Dr. LeVan joined the Communication department in 2001. His current work includes investigating the aesthetics and politics of memory, the communication of images, and transformations of the practices of everyday life. He is Editor-in-Chief of Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies.
Curriculum Vitae
Undergraduate Course Offerings
- Communication and Visual Culture
- Globalization and Democratic Discourse
- Communication and Public Memory
- Performing Relationships
- Performance Art
- Performing Young Adult Literature
- Communication, Travel, and Tourism
- Introduction to Communication
- Persuasion
- Communication, Culture, and Community
- Nonverbal Communication: Culture, Codes, Space, and Time
- Perception, Memory, and Imagination
- Visual Culture/Visual Rhetoric (Rhetorical Analysis)
Graduate Course Offerings
- Philosophy of Communication
- Cultural Production of Space and Time
- Cultural Memory
- Communication, Travel, and Tourism
Representative Publications
- "The Digital Shoals: On Becoming and Sensation in Performance." Text and Performance Quarterly 32.3, 2012.
- "Of Many Distributions." (with Marcyrose Chvasta). Text and Performance Quarterly 32.1, 2012.
- "Folding Trauma: Alfredo Jaar's Installations and Interventions." Performance Research 16.1, 2011.
- “Aesthetics of Encounter: Variations on Translation in Deleuze.” International Journal of Translation
19.2, 2007.
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“Sounding Off On Sound.” Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies 3.3, 2007.
- The Seven Deadly Sins. Special issue of Text and Performance Quarterly 26.1, 2006. Edited with Daniel Makagon.
- “Performing Sin—Perversion, Insufficiency, and Excess.” With Daniel Makagon. Text and Performance Quarterly 26.1, 2006.
- "Elemental Spaces, Elemental Performances." Performance Research 10.4 (On Techné), 2005.
Education
Ph.D., Speech Communication, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 2001.
(emphasis: philosophy of communication)
M.A., Philosophy, Arizona State University, 1994. (emphasis: aesthetics & political philosophy)
B.A., Philosophy and Economics, University of Virginia, 1990.
Current Courses