Jason Hannan
Title: Professor
Phone: 204.786.9453
Office: 3G20
Building: Graham Hall
Email: j.hannan@uwinnipeg.ca
Degrees:
- Postdoc, Rhetoric & Public Culture, Northwestern University
- PhD, Communication, Carleton University
- MA, Communication, Carleton University
- B.Sc., Information Systems, Northeastern University
Biography:
Jason Hannan is Professor in the Department of Rhetoric, Writing, and Communications at the University of 寻花论坛. He is the author of Trolling Ourselves to Death: Democracy in the Age of Social Media (Oxford University Press, 2023), which received the 2024 Erving Goffman Award.
Dr. Hannan completed his PhD in Communication in 2010 at Carleton University. From 2010-2012, he was a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Program in Rhetoric and Public Culture at Northwestern University. He was also a Visiting Scholar at Northwestern’s Buffett Institute for Global Affairs. He taught at Northwestern before joining the University of 寻花论坛 in 2013.
Teaching Areas:
- RHET-1120 Introduction to Rhetoric & Communications
- RHET-2135 Rhetorical Criticism
- RHET-2137 Communication Theory
- RHET-2142 Rhetoric of Animality
- RHET-2143 Rhetoric of Medicine
- RHET-3138 Modern Rhetorical Theory
- RHET-4401 Rhetoric of the Public Sphere
Research Interests:
- Digital Democracy
- Social Media
- Media Ecology
- Trolling, Disinformation, Conspiracy Theory
- Public Discourse & Communication
- Media & Communication Theory
- Philosophy of Communication
- Rhetoric and Political Theory
- The Culture Wars
- Posthumanism & Critical Animal Studies
- Bioethics & Medical Humanities
Publications:
Books:
Amit Pinchevski, Patrice M. Buzzanell, and Jason Hannan, Eds., (Routledge, 2024)
Jason Hannan, (Oxford University Press, 2023)
Jason Hannan, Ed. (Sydney University Press, 2020)
Jason Hannan, (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Jason Hannan, Ed. (Lexington Books, 2016)
Jason Hannan, Ed. . (Peter Lang, 2012)
Current projects:
Reactionary Speech: Counterrevolutionary Rhetoric from Edmund Burke to the Digital Age (with Matt McManus)
This is a SSHRC-funded project that develops a novel theory of conservative rhetoric. It frames conservatism as both a politics and a distinct rhetoric. The central claim is that conservative rhetoric entails the denial of reality. The book uses several case studies to explore how this denialism operates. It looks at conservative reactions to the women’s movement, the abolition movement, the Civil Rights movement, the LGBTQ movement, and the animal liberation movement.
New White Saviours: The Colonial Mythology of Meat
This is a SSHRC-funded project that examines the colonial narratives, fantasies, and politics of livestock farming in the Americas, Australia, New Zealand, and Africa. It is premised on the history of livestock farming as a form of settler colonialism. It interrogates how livestock farming has both devastated the natural environment, yet been rebranded as the solution to our ecological crisis through “regenerative” grazing.