Michael LeVan | Department of Communication at USF

department of communication — faculty & staff

Michael LeVan, Ph.D.

cultural memory, visual culture, political theory, mobilities, philosophy of communication

Instructor
813.974.0788
CIS 3033
mlevan@cas.usf.edu

Dr. LeVan joined the Communication department in 2001. His current work includes investigating cultural translation, the communication of images/imagination, and the communication of change. He is co-founder and co-editor of Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies.

Curriculum Vita
(April 2006)

Undergraduate course offerings

Globalization and Democratic Discourse
Communication and Public Memory
Communication and Visual Culture
Communication, Travel, and Tourism
Communication, Culture, and Community
Communication, Globalization, and Democracy
Nonverbal Communication: Culture, Codes, Space, and Time
Introduction to Communication
Persuasion
Perception, Memory, and Imagination
Visual Culture/Visual Rhetoric (Rhetorical Analysis)

Graduate course offerings

Cultural Memory
Communication, Travel, and Tourism

Representative publications

“Aesthetics of Encounter: Variations on Translation in Deleuze.” International Journal of Translation 19.2, 2007.

"Sounding Off on Sound." Editor's Introduction. Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies 3.3, 2007.

“Performing Sin—Perversion, Insufficiency, and Excess.” With Daniel Makagon. Text and Performance Quarterly 26.1, 2006.

"Elemental Spaces, Elemental Performances." Performance Research 10.4 (On Techné), 2005.

"Spaces of Movement: Performance, Technology, Transformation." American Communication Journal 6.3, 2003.

Education

Ph.D., Speech Communication, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 2001. (emphasis: phenomenology)

M.A., Philosophy, Arizona State University, 1994. (emphasis: aesthetics)

B.A., Philosophy and Economics, University of Virginia, 1990.

Faculty

Staff