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Christine Harold

Christine Harold (Ph.D., Penn State, 2002) recently joined the faculty in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington, Seattle. Previously at the University of Georgia, she teaches courses in rhetorical theory and criticism, popular culture, and social movements. Her research focuses on the relationship between commercial culture, rhetoric, and the possibilities for political engagement within contemporary capitalism. Her first book, OurSpace: Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture (2007, University of Minnesota Press) examines culture jamming as a response to corporate power. It advocates an “open content” ethic as one way to promote a robust public culture. She is currently at work on a second book, tentatively titled De/signing Discourse, about the intersections between design, mass consumption, and environmental sustainability. Her web journal at this site is a venue to work through some of these issues.