Reviewed by: Morrison, Margaret. JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 21.2 (2001): 461-468
Reviewed by: Turnley, Melinda. Dialogue: A Journal for Writing Specialists 7.1 (Fall 2001): 47-57
Reviewed by: Ashli A. Quesinberry. The Southern Communication Journal 68.1 (2002): 65-66.
Sections of Books:
"Diogenes of Sinope." With Victor J. Vitanza. Classical Rhetorics and Rhetoricians. Eds. Michelle Ballif and Michael G. Moran. Greenwood Press. Praeger Publishers, 2005. 132-136.
"Helene Cixous." Twentieth Century Rhetorics and Rhetoricians. Ed. Michelle Ballif and Michael Moran. Greenwood Press, 2000. 95-100.
"Jean-François Lyotard." Twentieth Century Rhetorics and Rhetoricians. Ed. Michelle Ballif and Michael Moran. Greenwood Press, 2000. 252-257.
" (Non)Fiction('s) Addiction(s): A NarcoAnalysis of Virtual Worlds ." High Wired: On the Design, Use, and Theory of Educational MOOs. Eds. Cynthia Haynes and Jan Rune Holmevik. University of Michigan Press, 1998. 267-285. Rpt. in 2 nd ed., 2001.
"Logocentrism." With Victor J. Vitanza. Encyclopedia of Rhetoric. Ed. Teresa Enos. Garland Publishers. 1995. 408-409.
"Eco-Feminist Poetics: A Dialogue On Keeping Body and Mind Together." With C. Jan Swearingen. Composition in Context. Ed. W. Ross Winterowd. Southern Illinois University Press, 1994. 219-234
Journal Articles:
"Identification: Burke and Freud on Who You Are.” Forthcoming in Rhetoric Society Quarterly volume 1, 2008. 31 ms. pages.
"The Fifth Risk: A Response to John Muckelbauer's Response." Philosophy and Rhetoric 40.2 (2007): 248-256.
"Addressing Alterity: Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, and the Non-Appropriative Relation." Philosophy and Rhetoric 38.3 (2005): 191-212.
Responses/Reviews
Muckelbauer, John. "Rhetoric, Asignification, and the Other: A Response to Diane Davis." Philosophy and Rhetoric 40.2 (2007): 238-247
"Finitude’s Clamor; Or, Notes Toward a Communitarian Literacy." College Composition and Communication 53.1 (Sept. 2001): 119-145.
"Author's Response to Melinda Turnley." Dialogue: A Journal for Writing Specialists 7.1 (Fall 2001): 52-57
"Toward an Ethics of Listening." With Michelle Ballif and Roxanne Mountford. JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 20.4 (2000): 931-942.
"Negotiating the Differend: A Feminist Trilogue." With Michelle Ballif and Roxanne Mountford. JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 20.3 (2000): 583-625.
Responses/Reviews:
Ratcliff, Krista. “Eavesdropping on Others.” JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 20.3 (2000): 908-919.
Schell, Eileen E. “Tight Spaces In and Out of the Parlor: Negation and the Politics of Difference.” JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 20.3 (2000): 919-931.
"What Would an Ethics of Reading Become for the Field of Rhetoric and Composition?" PreText Reinvw. (Extended online interview/review.) November-December 2000. http://listserv.uta.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A1=ind0011b&L=pretext
"Confessions of an Anacoluthon: Avital Ronell on Writing, Technology, Pedagogy, Politics." JAC: Journal of Composition Theory 20.2 (2000): 243-281.
Responses/Reviews:
Brodkey, Lynda. . “On the Merge of Writing and Theory.” JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 20.3 (2000): 661-666.
Jarratt, Susan C . “Parallel Lives/Speaking in Tongues.” JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 20.3 (2000): 666-671.
Reprints:
Wolfreys, Julian, ed. Thinking Differences: Critics in Conversation. New York: Fordham University Press, 2004.
Olson , Gary, and Lynn Worsham, eds. Critical Intellectuals on Writing. New York: State University of New York Press, 2003.
"Addicted to Love; Or, Toward an Inessential Solidarity." JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 19.4 (1999): 633-656.
Responses/Reviews:
Metzger, David. “Another Para(noid)-rhetoric? A Response to Diane Davis.” JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 20.1 (2000): 186-193.
"Agonizing [With] Chantal Mouffe." JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 19.3 (1999): 465-476.
"Laughter; Or, Chortling into the Storm." In Pre/Text Electra(Lite). Vol. 1.1 (1997). http://www.utdallas.edu/pretext/PT1.1/PT1.html
"Writing [at] the End of the Millennium: Some [Dis]Connections." Pre/Text 16.1-2 (Spring-Summer 1995): 138-159.
"The Power of Language to Efface and Desensitize." With Eve Duffy. RhetoricSociety Quarterly vol. xx no. 2 (Spring 1990): 163-171.
Reviews:
"Responsible Stupidity." A Review Essay on Avital Ronell's Stupidity. Postmodern Culture 14.1 (Sept 2003). http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/v014/14.1davis.html
"The Interruption of Certitude.” A Review Essay on Avital Ronell's Stupidity." Poiesis: A Journal of the Arts & Communication 4 (2002): 130-134.
"Review of Avital Ronell's Stupidity." JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 22.4 (Fall 2002): 981-990.
"Review of John Barber and Dene Grigar, eds. New Worlds, New Words: Exploring Pathways for Writing about and in Electronic Environments." With Geoff Sirc, Rebecca Rickly, and Susan Lang. Kairos: A Journal for Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments. 6.2 (Fall 2001) (http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/6.2/binder.html?reviews/davis/index.htm)
"Review of Michael Bernard-Donals and Richard R. Glejzer, eds. Rhetoric in an Antifoundational World: Language, Culture, and Pedagogy." Rhetoric Review 17.1 (Fall 1998): 179-184.
"Review of Judith Butler's Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex."Studies in Psychoanalytic Theory 3.2 (Fall 1994): 110-115.
Works in Progress:
Inessential Solidarity . (Single-authored book-length study of the intersections of rhetoric and community after humanism; sites of exploration ranging from Levinasian ethics to the club drug Ecstasy. Expected completion 2008)
Reading Ronell . (Edited collection for the University of Illinois Press on the work of Avital Ronell. Seventeen confirmed contributors, including Jacques Derrida, Helene Cixous, Jean-Luc Nancy, Werner Hamacher, and Judith Butler)