Joshua DiCaglio
  • Director, Graduate Studies
  • Associate Professor
Research Areas
  • Theory
  • Science Fiction
  • Digital Humanities
  • Rhetoric
  • Environment
  • Technical Writing
  • Information Studies
  • Digital Rhetoric
  • Science
  • Religion

Biography

Joshua DiCaglio is an Assistant Professor of English who studies rhetoric, science, and mysticism as intersecting modes of discourse attempting to make sense of our modernized, globalized world. His first book, Scale Theory: A Nondisciplinary Inquiry, was released in November 2021 with the University of Minnesota Press. He also writes and teaches about ecocriticism and environmental rhetoric, science and technology studies (STS), science fiction, technical writing, critical theory, history of rhetoric, rhetorical theory, and Advaitan and Buddhist philosophies of language.

Research Interests

  • Rhetoric of Science
  • Environmental
  • Communication
  • History and Theory of Rhetoric
  • The Relationship between Science and Mysticism

 

Research Areas

  • Theory
  • Science Fiction
  • Digital Humanities
  • Religion
  • Rhetoric
  • Environment
  • Technical Writing
  • Science
  • Information Studies
  • Digital Rhetoric

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 2016
  • M.A., Pennsylvania State University, 2012
  • B.A., University of South Carolina, 2010

Awards & Honors

Selected Publications