Robert Hariman

Department of Communication Studies

Robert Hariman joined the Northwestern faculty in 2004. His scholarship focuses on the role of style in human affairs, particularly with regard to political judgment and the discursive constitution of modern society. Hariman teaches courses in rhetorical theory and the critical study of public culture. In addition to his book publications, Hariman has written numerous book chapters and journal articles in several disciplines.

Blog

nocaptionneeded.com

Education

PhD	Communication Studies, University of Minnesota
BA	Communication, Macalester College

Recent Publications

No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy, co-authored with John Louis Lucaites, University of Chicago Press, 2007; paperback 2011

“The Mushroom Cloud and the Cold War Nuclear Optic,” with John Louis Lucaites, in Picturing Atrocity: Photography in Crisis, Geoffrey Batchen et al., eds., (London: Reaktion Books, 2012), 134-145

“Seeing the Bomb, Imagining the Future: Allegorical Vision in the Post-Cold War Nuclear Optic,” with John Louis Lucaites, Cahiers ReMix 1 (2012)

“On the Surface,” with John Louis Lucaites, Flow 15.10 (2012)

“The Banality of Violence,” with John Louis Lucaites, Flow 15.5 (2012)

“A Legge Billedkrigene Bak Oss” (Getting Beyond the War of Images), Ekfrase: Nordic Journal of Visual Culture 2 (2011): 95-97; republished in English translation as “Getting Past the War of Images,” Nomadikon #15 (2012): 7-9

“Bad Image, Good Art: Thinking Through Banality,” with John Louis Lucaites, Flow 15.2 (2011)

“Artistic Values and Ethical Distance,” Foam Magazine, no.27 (Summer 2011), 191-194

Courses

• 310 Rhetoric, Democracy, and Empire in Classical Athens
• 425 Rhetoric and Its Afterlives
• 480 Visual Rhetoric
• 525 Emotions in Public Life
• MSC Communication, Management, and Ethics