Contact Information
Biography
Education
Ph.D., Rhetoric, Duquesne University, 2012M.A., Speech Communication, Kansas State University, 2008
B.S., Political Science, Black Hills State University, 2005
Scholarship, Honors/Awards & Service
Recent Scholarship
Book
Wachs, Anthony M. and Jon D. Schaff. Age of Anxiety: Meaning, Identity, and Politics
in 21st-Century Film and Literature. Politics, Literature, & Film Series. Lanham,
MD: Lexington Books. 2020.
Wachs, Anthony M. The New Science of Communication: Reconsidering McLuhan's Message for Our Modern Moment. Philosophy/Communication Series. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2015.
Journal Articles (2012 - Present)
Wachs, Anthony M. "Apocalyptic Rhetoric in the Literature of Michael D. O'Brien."
LOGOS: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, vol.21, no. 2, Spring 2018, pp.
55-80.
Wachs, Anthony M. "Technological Transcendence: The Media Ecology of Sacramentals." Listening: Journal of Communication Ethics, Religion, and Culture, vol. 53, no. 2, Spring 2018, pp. 63-77.
Wachs, Anthony. "Contextualizing Faith and Reason: Pope Benedict XVI on Religion in the Public Sphere Redux." Journal of Communication and Religion, vol. 38, no. 3, 2015, pp. 107-123.
Wachs, Anthony. "Collective Representations: The Resurrection of Language in Owen Barfield's Anti-Reductionism." Listening: Journal of Communication Ethics, Religion, and Culture, vol. 50, no. 3, 2015, pp. 180-198.
Wachs, Anthony M. "Interpersonal Rhetoric: An Approach to Bettering Oneself and Others." Discourse: Journal of the Speech Communication Association of South Dakota. vol. 1, 2014, pp. 32-44.
Book Chapters (2012 - Present)
Wachs, Anthony M. (in press) "The Francis Effect: Pope Francis' Rhetoric in a Church
on the verge of Civil War." In J. R. Blaney (Ed.). Understanding Pope Francis: Message,
media, and audience. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Wachs, Anthony M. "Marshall McLuhan." An Encyclopedia of Communication Ethics: Goods in Contention. Eds. Ronald C. Arnett, Annette M. Holba, and Susan Mancino. New York: Peter Lang, 2018, pp. 314-317.
Jasso, John and Anthony Wachs. "Appointments and Disappointments: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Relationship Between President Obama, Catholics, and Their Church." The Rise of Barak Obama and the Making of a Rhetor. Eds. Matthew Abraham and Erec Smith. Anderson, SC: Parlor Press, 2013, pp. 65-90.
Recent Honors and Awards
2018
Wimmer Family Foundation Award for Summer Research (2018)
2017
Wimmer Family Foundation Award for Summer Research (2017).
2016
Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year from Northern State University (2016).
2012
Wilhem S. Wurzer Scholarship Award from the Department of Communication & Rhetorical
Studies at Duquesne University (2012).
Service
Editorships
Editor, Discourse: Journal of the Speech Communication Association of South Dakota
(2016).
Associate Editor, Discourse: Journal of the Speech Communication Association of South Dakota (2012-2015).
Editorial Boards
Discourse: Journal of the Speech Communication Association of South Dakota (2018-Present).
Journal of Communication and Religion (2014-Present).
Offices Held
2nd Vice President Religious Communication Association (2020-2021).
Faculty Senator at Northern State University (2015-2016).
Executive Committee Member of the Speech Communication Association of South Dakota (2012-2014).