I'm delighted to report that Dr. Nick J. Sciullo is stepping into the faculty lounge to sit with us for a spell. Nick is a graduate of Georgia State University Department of Communication and West Virginia University College of Law. He is currently Assistant Professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, Director of Debate and Forensics, and an Affiliate Faculty Member of the Gender and Women’s Studies Program at Illinois College in Jacksonville, Illinois.
Nick’s research focuses on race, class, rhetoric, and critical theory. He completed a dissertation entitled “A Rhetorical Analysis of George Jackson’s Soledad Brother: A Class Critical and Critical Race Theory Investigation of Prison Resistance.” His scholarship has been published in West Virginia University Law Review, Hastings Communication & Entertainment Law Review, Willamette Law Review and here, Drexel Law Review, and British Journal of American Legal Studies, as well as many other law reviews and communication studies journals.
Prior to coming to Illinois College, Nick served as a graduate teaching assistant and assistant debate coach at Georgia State University, where he coached back-to-back teams to the National Debate Tournament (NDT). Before beginning his doctoral studies, he worked in the Washington, D.C. metro area in government affairs focusing on transportation issues. He has completed additional studies at the Center for Decolonial Dialogue at Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona and the Osnabrück Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law. He is also a graduate of Troy University and the University of Richmond.
Welcome Nick -- I'm pushing a chair into the lounge for you right now. I hope to hear about your work on debate in particular -- one of my current (though not necessarily active, if it's possible to have a current and inactive project) is on debates in student literary societies before the Civil War.
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