Garnet Butchart | Department of Communication at USF

department of communication — faculty & staff

Garnet Butchart, Ph.D.

cultural studies, philosophy of communication

Assistant Professor
813.974.2145
CIS 3046
gbutchar@cas.usf.edu

Dr. Butchart joined the faculty in 2007. Prior to coming to USF he was Assistant Professor in the Cultural Studies Program at Trent University, Canada, 2006-2007. He practices communication study as humanistic inquiry. His teaching and research include work in modern and post-structural theories of symbolization and evidence, the history of ideas in communication, and cultural criticism. His current projects include a monograph on psychoanalysis and communication, and an edited anthology of recent critical theory.

Undergraduate course offerings

Popular Forms of Public Communication
Cultural Studies and Communication

Graduate course offerings

Contemporary Cultural Studies

Representative publications

Succeeding Failure: Openings in communication and media studies. Special issue of Communication Theory, 17 (1), 2007. Co-edited with Briankle G. Chang.
Guest editors' words. (with B. G. Chang). Communication Theory, 17 (1), 2007, 1-2.
On ethics and documentary: A real and actual truth. Communication Theory, 16 (4), 427- 452, 2007.
On the void: The fascinating object of evil in Human Remains. In M. F. Norden (Ed.), The Changing Face of Evil in Film and Television. (New York and Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2007) 159-175.
Heart of the event: Marion, Badiou, and the limits of representation. Antithesis, 16, 148-166, 2006.
Review of Malice, by François Flahault (L. Heron, Trans.), (New York: Verso, 2003). Cultural Critique, 63, 177-181, 2006.

Awards

Top Student Paper, Philosophy of Communication Division, International Communication Association (ICA). New York City, 2005.

Education

Ph.D., Communication, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

M.A., Communication Studies, University of Calgary.

B.A., School of Communication, Simon Fraser University.

Faculty

Staff