DAMIEN SMITH PFISTER
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CV HIGHLIGHTS
Ph.D. (2009). University of Pittsburgh, Department of Communication, Pittsburgh, PA.
Associate Professor, Department of Communication, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA. (2016-)
MAJOR HONORS & AWARDS
Arete Award for Outstanding Faculty Member, University of Maryland COMMGrads, Spring 2019.
Research and Scholarship Award (RASA), University of Maryland, Spring 2019.
Outstanding Faculty Service Award, Department of Communication, University of Maryland, 2018.
Outstanding Article of the Year Award, Visual Communication Division, National Communication Association, 2017.
SIGNIFICANT/RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Kennerly, M., & Pfister, D. S. (Eds.). (2018). Ancient rhetorics + digital networks. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press. Reviewed in CHOICE (2018), Journal of Communication (2018), Quarterly Journal of Speech (2019), Rhetorica (2019).
Pfister, D. S. (2014). Networked media, networked rhetorics: Attention and deliberation in the early blogosphere. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press. 288 pp. Reviewed in Argumentation and Advocacy (2015); Quarterly Journal of Speech (2016); Public Understanding of Science (2017); Rhetoric Society Quarterly (2017); Rhetoric & Public Affairs (2017); Information, Communication, & Society (2017).
M.P. Salzano and D.S. Pfister (2026). Shutting down the crossfire: A short history of Apple Airdrop. Critical Studies in Media Communication. 43 (1): 1-18.
Pfister, D.S. (2020). Digitality, rhetoric, and protocological fascism; or, fascist ants & democratic cicadas. Journal for the History of Rhetoric 23 (1): 3-29.
Pfister, D.S. (2019). Technoliberal rhetoric, civic attention, and common sensation in Sergey Brin’s ‘Why Google Glass?,’ Quarterly Journal of Speech 105(2): 182-203.
Pfister, D.S. and Yang, M. (2018). Five theses on technoliberalism and the networked public sphere. In special issue on “Neoliberalism and the Public Sphere,” Communication and the Public 3(3): 247-62.
Pfister, D.S. (2018). Public sphere(s), Publics, and Counterpublics. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication. Oxford, UK: Oxford University, Press. http://communication.oxfordre.com/ view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.001.0001/acrefore-9780190228613-e-562.
Pfister, D.S. (2017). Against the Droid’s ‘instrument of efficiency,’ For animalizing technologies in a posthumanist spirit. Philosophy & Rhetoric, 50(2), 201-27.
Pfister, D. S., & Woods, C. S. (2016). The unnaturalistic enthymeme: Figuration, interpretation, and critique beyond photographic naturalism. Argumentation and Advocacy, 52(4), 236-253.
TEACHING
Digital media, rhetorical theory, argument and public deliberation, visual culture, technology
