Associate Professor
Writing Minor Co-ordinator
Email: nathaniel.street@msvu.ca
Phone: 902-457-6300
Education
BA – Valparaiso University (Philosophy)
MA – University of South Carolina (English: American Literature)
PhD – University of South Carolina (English: Composition and Rhetoric)
Teaching and Research Interests
The intersections of philosophy, rhetoric, and pedagogy, often focused on the performative (or asignifying) power of writing. Recently, I’ve been thinking and writing about how Giles Deleuze and Felix Guattari (continental philosophers who often collaborated with one another) prompt us to rethink some important things about rhetoric, especially persuasion and figuration.
Selected Publications
“The Erotic Madness of Writing in Plato’s Phaedrus.” Philosophy and Rhetoric. 55.4, (Winter 2022) 386-410.
“Affirming Difference: Inhabiting the WPA Otherwise.” Composition Studies 48.1 (Spring 2020): 53-70.
“Biopolitical Authenticity and Popular Music: The Song Refrains the Same” Provocations. Issue 3. December 2019. 10-18. Co-authored with John Muckelbauer.
Podcasts
Thinking With… A Rhetorical Theory Podcast Co-Created with Dr. John Muckelbauer and Dr. Nate DeProspo
- Season One: The Hegel Tapes
- Season Two: DeleuzeCast
- Season Three: The Heidegger Files
- Season Four: Truth or Derrida
- Season Five: The Season of the Nietzsche (coming soon, we promise!)
Recent Presentations
“Rhetoric at the Surface: Figuration, Justice, and Metaphysical Monism.” 21st Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Denver CO, May 23-26, 2024.
“Writing the Future: Erotic Madness in Plato’s Phaedrus” 8th Biennial Rhetoric in Society Conference. Hosted by The Rhetoric Society of Europe. Tübingen Germany, June 1-3, 2023.
“A Topology of Thinking: ‘The Charge’ and ‘The Promise’” 20th Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Baltimore MD, May 26-29, 2022.
“Apostrophizing Rhetorical Possession.” 7th Conference on Rhetorical Theory. Columbia SC, Oct. 3-6, 2019.
“Rhetoric’s Through” 6th Conference on Rhetorical Theory, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC Oct. 13-14, 2017.