Publications

Books:

• Reading Ronell . Edited collection with an introduction. University of Illinois Press, 2009. 254 pp.

• Women's Ways of Making It...In Rhetoric and Composition. With Michelle Ballif and Roxanne Mountford. Routledge. Routledge, 2008. 342 pp.

• The UberReader: Selected Works of Avital Ronell. Edited collection with introduction. University of Illinois Press, 2008.342 pp.


• Breaking Up [at] Totality: A Rhetoric of Laughter.. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000. Second volume in David Blakesley's Rhetorical Philosophy and Theory series.
  • 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:

• “Greetings: On Levinas and the Wagging Tail.” JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory. Special issue on Levinas. Forthcoming.

• "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.


• "Breaking Up [at] Phallocracy: Post-Feminism's Chortling Hammer." Rhetoric Review 14.1 (Fall 1995): 126-140.


• "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: Rhetoric and Foreign(er) Relations. (Single-authored book-length study of the intersections of rhetoric and relationality. Under advanced contract with University of Pittsburg Press.)

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