Nicholas Russel
Professor of Communication Studies | Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles, CA, UNITED STATES
Biography
My research interests lie at the intersection of performance, cultural studies, and critical theory. In particular, I'm interested in memory as an embodied rhetorical practice, performance as a critical rhetoric, and public discourse as a tool of enlivened critical democracy. My current work examined the way that performance functions as a powerful tool by which marginalized communities engage in collective memory. Likewise, in my recent scholarship in social philosophy, I have theorized the formation of mystical subjectivity in Spanish Catholic writers of the 16th century (particularly Teresa of Avila). In addition to my work in the Department of Communication Studies, I am a member of the Society of Jesus (the Roman Catholic religious order best known as “the Jesuits”) studying to be a priest in the USA West province of the Jesuits.
