The following is a working list for my reading list. It is in progress and not complete.

RHETORIC (3 books; 4 articles)

Bitzer, Lloyd F. (1968). The rhetorical situation. Philosophy and Rhetoric, 1, 1-14.

Black, Edwin. (1978). Rhetorical criticism: A study in method. Madison: University of Wisconsin.

Black, Edwin. (1980). A note on theory and practice in rhetorical criticism. The Western Journal of Speech Communication, 44, 331--336.

Corbin, Carol (Ed.). (1998). Rhetoric in postmodern America: Conversations with Michael Calvin McGee. New York: Guilford.

Leff, Michael C. (1980). Interpretation and the art of the rhetorical critic. The Western Journal of Speech Communication, 44, 337-349.

Schiappa, Edward. (2001). Second thoughts on the critiques of big rhetoric. Philosophy and Rhetoric, 34, 260-274.

Slayden, David, & Whillock, Rita Kirk. (1999). Soundbite culture: The death of discourse in a wired world. Thousand Oaks: Sage.

VISUAL CULTURE / RHETORIC (10 books; 9 articles)

Barth, Roland. (1998). Rhetoric of the image. In The Visual Culture Reader, p. 70-73. Nicholas Mirzoeff, ed. New York: Routledge.

Benjamin, Walter. (1968). "The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction" in Illuminations: Essays and reflections. New York: Schocken.

Boorstin, Daniel J. (1961). The image: A guide to pseudo-events in America. New York: Harper Row.

Debord, Guy. (1995). The society of the spectacle (Donald Nicholson-Smith, trans.). New York: Zone Books.

Fuery, Patrick, & Fuery, Kelli. (2003). Visual cultures and critical theory. New York: Oxford University.

Heim, Michael. (1998). "VR 101." In Virtual Realism. Oxford: Oxford University.

Heim, Michael. (1999). "The theory of transformative technologies." In Electronic Language, 2nd edition. New Haven: Yale University.

Hill, Charles A., & Helmers, Marguerite (Eds.). (2004). Defining visual rhetorics. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Jenkins, Henry. (2006). Convergence culture: Where old and new media collide. New York: New York University.

Johnson, Steven. "Infinity Imagined." Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate. NY: Basic Books, 1997. 206-42.

Kress, Gunther and van Leeuwen, Theo. (1996). Reading Images: The grammar of visual design. New York: Routledge.

Lanham, Richard A. (1993). "Digital rhetoric and the digital arts." In The Electronic Word. Chicago: University of Chicago.

Lanham, Richard A. (2006). The economics of attention: Style and substance in the age of information. Chicago: University of Chicago.

Mirzoeff, Nicholas. (1999). An introduction to visual culture. New York: Routledge.

Neiva, Eduardo. (1999). Redefining the image: Mimesis, convention, and semiotics. Communication Theory, 9, 75-91.

Rice, Jonah. (2004). A critical review of visual rhetoric in a postmodern age: Complementing, extending and presenting new ideas. Review of Communication, 4, 61-74.

Schirato, Tony and Webb, Jen. (2004). Understanding the visual. London: Sage.

Sturken, Marita and Cartwright, Lisa. (2001). Practices of looking: An introduction to visual culture. New York: Oxford University.

Zappen, James P. (XXXX). Digital rhetoric: Toward an integrated theory. Technical Communication Quarterly, 14, 319-325.

HYPERREALITY, HYPERTEXT AND POSTMODERN THEORY (20 books; 5 articles)

Baggott, Jim. (2005). A beginner's guide to reality: Exploring our everyday adventures in wonderland. New York: Pegasus Books.

Baudrillard, Jean. (1986). America (Chris Turner, trans.). New York: Verso.

Baudrillard, Jean. (1988). The ecstasy of communication (Bernard Schutze and Caroline Schutze, trans.). New York: Semiotext(e).

Baudrillard, Jean. (1994). Simulacra and simulation. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan.

Baudrillard, Jean. (1995). The gulf war did not take place (Paul Patton, trans.). Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Baudrillard, Jean. (1996). The perfect crime (Chris Turner, trans.). New York: Verso.

Baudrillard, Jean. (2003). The spirit of terrorisim (Chris Turner, trans.). New York: Verso.

Best, Steven, & Kellner, Douglas. (1991). Postmodern theory: Critical interrogations. New York: Guilford Press.

Best, Steven, & Kellner, Douglas. (1997). The postmodern turn. New York: Guilford Press.

Bolter, Jay D. (2001). "Critical theory in a new writing space" in Writing space, 2nd ed. Hillsdale: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Borgmann, Albert. (1992). Crossing the postmodern divide. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Clark, David B. (2003). The consumer society and the postmodern city. London: Routledge.

Delaney, Paul, & Landow, George P. (1990). Hypermedia and literary studies. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Eco, Umberto. (1979). "The myth of Superman" in The role of the reader: Explorations in the semiotics of texts. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Eco, Umberto. (1986). Travels in hyperreality (William Weaver, trans.). Orlando: Harcourt Press.

Hall, Alice. (2003). Reading realism: Audiences' evaluations of the reality of media texts. Journal of Communication, 53, 624-641.

Hegarty, Paul. (2004). Jean Baudrillard: Live theory. New York: Continuum.

Heim, Michael. (1987). "The theory of transformative technologies" in Electric language: A philosophical study of word processing, 2nd ed. New Haven: Yale University.

Horrocks, Chris, & Jevtic, Zoran. (1999). Introducing Baudrillard. New York: Totem.

Klien, Stephen A. (2005). Public character and the simulacrum: The construction of the soldier patriot and citizen agency in Black Hawk Down. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 22, 427-449.

Landow, George P. (1994). "What's a critic to do?: Critical theory in the age of hypertext" in Hyper/Text/Theory. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press.

Lane, Richard J. (2000). Jean Baudrillard. London: Routledge.

Lanham, Richard. (1993). "Rhetoric in the digital arts" in The electronic word. Chicago: University of Chicago.

Mejias, Ulises A. (2001). Sustainable communicational realities in the age of virtuality. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 18, 211-228.

Woolley, Benjamin. (1992). Virtual worlds. London: Penguin.

COMICS THEORY & SCHOLARSHIP (18 books; 8 articles)

Bivens, Thomas H. (1987). The body politic: The changing shape of Uncle Sam. Journalism Quarterly, 64, 13-20.

Bongco, Mila Francisca. (1995). Reading comics: Analysing language, culture and the concept of superheroes in comicbooks. University of Alberta, Canada Ph.D.

Bruce, Douglas R. (2001). Notes twoards a rhetoric of animation: The Road Runner as cultural critique. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 18, 229-245.

Dean, Michael Patrick. (2000). The ninth art: Traversing the cultural space of the American comic book. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Ph.D.

Eisner, Will. (1985). Comics and sequential art: Principles & practices of the world's most popular art form. Tamarac: Poorhouse Press.

Eisner, Will. (1996). Graphic storytelling and visual narrative. Tamarac: Poorhouse Press.

Fingeroth, Danny. (XXXX). Superman on the couch: What superheroes really tell us about ourselves and our society. XXX: XXX.

Groensteen, Theirry. (2007). The system of comics (Bart Beaty and Nick Nguyen, trans.). Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.

Harvey, Robert C. (1996). The art of the comic book: An aesthetic history. Jackson: University of Mississippi.

Hignite, Todd. (2006). In the studio: Visits with contemporary cartoonists. New Haven: Yale University.

Jones, Matthew T. (2005). Reflexivity in comic art: Strategies for contextualizing mediated messages in a postmodern age. International Communication Association annual meeting. New York: NY. 1-30.

McAllister, Matthew P., Sewell Jr., Edward H., & Gordon, Ian. (Eds.) (2001). Comics and ideology. New York: Peter Lang.

McCloud, Scott. (1993). Understanding comics: The invisible art. New York: Harper Collins.

McCloud, Scott. (2000). Reinventing comics: How imagination and technology are revolutionizing an art form. New York: Harper Collins.

McCloud, Scott. (2006). Making comics: Storytelling secrets of comics, manga and graphic novels. New York: Harper Collins.

McLaughlin, Jeff. (XXXX). Comics as philosophy. XXX: XXX.

Sabin, Roger. (2006). Comics, comix & graphic novels: A history of comic art. New York: Phaidon.

Skoble, Aoen. (XXXX). "Superhero revisionism in Watchmen and the Dark Knight Returns." In XXXX by XXXX XXXX. XXX: XXX.

Spiegelman, Art. (2006). Drawing blood: The art of outrage from Boss Tweed to the prophet Muhammad. Harper's Magazine, June 2006, vol. 312, 43-52.

Stainbrook, Eric James. (2003). Reading comics: A theoretical analysis of textuality and discourse in the comics medium. Indiana University of Pennsylvania Ph.D.

Terrill, Robert E. (2000). Spectacular represession: Sanitizing the Batman. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 17, 493-509.

Turner, Kathleen J. (1977). Comic strips: A rhetorical perspective. Central States Speech Journal, 28, 24-35.

Varnum, Robin, & Gibbons, Christina T. (Eds.) (2001). The language of comics: Word and image. Jackson: University of Mississippi.

Versaci, Rocco. (2007). This book contains graphic language: Comics as literature. London: Continuum.

Wolk, Douglas. (2007). Reading comics: How graphic novels work and what they mean. Cambridge: Da Capo.

Wood, Andrew, & Todd, Anne Marie. (2005). "Are we there yet?": Searching for Springfield and The Simpsons' rhetoric of omnitopia. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 22, 207-222.

Wright, Bradford W. (2001). Comic book nation: The transformation of youth culture in America. Baltimore: John Hopkins.

GRAPHIC NOVELS (3)

Campbell, Eddie. (2006). The fate of the artist: An autobiographical novel, with typographical anomalies, in which the author does not appear as himself. New York: :01 First Second.

Moore, Alan, & Gibbons, Dave. (1987). Watchmen. New York: DC Comics.

Satrapi, Marjane. (2003). Persepolis: The story of a childhood. New York: Pantheon.

RESEARCH METHODS (0)

TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION (12 articles)

Barton, Ben F., & Barton, Marthalee S. (XXXX). Ideology and the map: Toward a postmodern design practice. In Central Works of Technical Communication. 232-252. XXX: XXX.

Bernhardt, Stephen A. (XXXX). The shape of texts to come: The texture of print on screens. In Central Works of Technical Communication. 397-408.

Dobrin, David N. (XXXX). What's technical about technical writing?. In Central Works of Technical Communication. 107-123. XXX: XXX.

Killingsworth, M. Jimmie. (1999). Technical communication in the 21st century: Where are we going?. Technical Communication Quarterly, 8, 165-174.

Kynell, Teresa. (1999). Technical communication from 1850-1950: Where have we been? Technical Communication Quarterly, 8, 143-151.

Miller, Carolyn R. (XXXX). A humanistic rationale for technical writing. In Central Works of Technical Communication. 47-54. XXX:XXX.

O'Hara, Frederick M., Jr. (XXXX). A brief history of technical communication. XXX, X, XXX-XXX.

Rounder, Nancy. (XXXX). The critical perspective and research in professional communications. In Central Works of Technical Communication. 268-280. XXX: XXX.

Selber, Stuart A. (XXXX). Beyond skill building: Challenges facing technical communication teachers in the computer age. In Central Works of Technical Communication. 449-465. XXX: XXX.

Selfe, Cynthia L., & Self, Richard J. (XXXX). The politics of the interface: Power and its exercise in electronic contact zones. In Central Works of Technical Communication. 428-445. XXX: XXX.

Slack, Jennifer D., Miller, David J., & Doak, Jeffrey. (XXXX). The technical communicator as author: Meaning, power, and authority. In Central Works of Technical Communication. 160-174. XXX: XXX.

Staples, Katherine. (1999). Techincal communication 1950 - 1998: Where are we now? Technical Communication Quarterly, 8, 153-164.