Contact:
rubsamen@hawaii.edu
Office hours:
S22: Thursdays 11:45 a.m. - 12:45 pm and by appointment
Cornelius Rubsamen is a lecturer at the University of Hawaii and teaches classes in composition and rhetoric.
Publications
“Surfing Alone: Web 2.0 and the Virtual Public Sphere.” Beyond the Frontier: Innovations in First-Year Composition. Dahlman, Jill and Piper Selden, eds. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars, 2015.
Areas of Interest
Rhetoric and Composition, Populist Rhetoric, Public Sphere Theory, Critical Pedagogy, Rhetoric of Popular Culture, and Early Modern Drama.
Awards
2015 Yun T. and Chen Chuan Tu Student Travel Endowment in English
Education
2020 Ph.D., University of Hawai`i at Mānoa
Dissertation: “‘I am a Popularist’: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Populist Rhetoric of Donald Trump’s Presidential Campaign.” Committee chair: Daphne Desser. Committee members: Darin Payne, Todd Sammons, John Zuern, Ned Bertz.
2011 M.A. University of Hawai`i at Mānoa
Thesis: "'They which will not labour must not eate’: The Intersection of the British Colonial Enterprise and Social Change in Shakespeare’s Late Romances.” Committee chair: Robert McHenry. Committee members: Valerie Wayne, Matthew Romaniello.
Courses
Spring Semester 2024
- ENG-100: Composition I
- ENG-306: Argumentative Writing
Fall Semester 2023
- ENG-100: Composition I
- ENG-100: Composition I