Research

Primary Research Area: History of Rhetoric

Specific Areas of Research:

-Decolonizing Southern Public Address
-Ancient Rhetorical Ethics
-Intergenerational Audiences & Text Circulation

Publications

• Brandon Inabinet, “A More Purple Union: Visual Legacies of the 2004 DNC Keynote.” In City Places, Country Spaces: Rhetorical Explorations of the Urban/Rural Divide Wendy Atkins-Sayre and Ashli Quesinberry Stokes (New York: Peter Lang, 2020), 29-52;
• Brandon Inabinet and Christina Moss, “Complicit in Victimage: Imagined Marginality in Southern Communication Criticism,” Rhetoric Review 38, no. 2 (2019): 160-172. DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2019.1582228
• J. Aaron Simmons and Brandon Inabinet, “Retooling the Discourse of Objectivity: Epistemic Postmodernism as Shared Public Life,” with J. Aaron Simmons. Public Culture 30, no. 2 (2018): 221-243
• Brandon Inabinet “Stoic Influence in a Ciceronian Rhetorical Tradition: Kant, Arendt, and Perelman’s ‘Rule of Justice.’” In Rhetoric in Europe: Philosophical Issues (Berlin: Frank & Timme, 2017), 107-120
• Brandon Inabinet, Tami Blumenfield, and Amanda Richey. “A Delicious Connection: Global Learning through Structured Multimedia Dialogue.” Council of Undergraduate Research Quarterly (CURQ) on the Web 37, no. 3 (2017): 4-10. http://www.cur.org/publications/curq_on_the_web/
• “Local Intervention and the Archival Trap.” With Luke Christie. Carolinas Communication Annual 31 (2015): 24-29; Jessica M. Prody and Brandon Inabinet, “Sustainable Advocacy: Voice for and Before an Intergenerational Audience.” In Voice and Environmental Communication. Edited by Jennifer Peeples and Stephen Depoe (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), 88-109
• Brandon Inabinet, “Writers and Social Media in Politics.” In Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics, edited by Kerric Harvey (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2014)
• Brandon Inabinet, “Rhetorics of Pluralism and the Almost-Hidden Research Agenda.” In Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly (On the Web) 35, no. 2 (Winter 2014): 31-32
• Brandon Inabinet, “Commencing a Politics of Empathic Civility,” Controversia 9, no. 1 (Fall 2013), 73-82
• Brandon Inabinet, “The American Scholar Lecture Revisited.” The Key Reporter - Phi Beta Kappa’s National Magazine (Fall 2012), 8. Full article online at http://www.pbk.org/home/FocusNews.aspx?id=974; Brandon Inabinet, “Democratic Circulation: Jacksonian Lithographs in U.S. Public Discourse.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 15, no. 4 (Winter 2012): 659-666
• Brandon Inabinet, “The Long Farewell: Laurence M. Keitt’s Eulogy on John C. Calhoun.” Carologue – South Carolina Historical Society Magazine (Winter 2012), 17-22; Arthur E. Walzer and Brandon Inabinet, “Who Wrote the Rhetoric? A Response to Brad McAdon.” Advances in the History of Rhetoric 14, no. 2 (2011): 166-190
• Brandon Inabinet, “When Pastors Go Public: Richard Furman’s Public Letter on Slavery.” Southern Communication Journal 76, no. 3 (2011)
• Brandon Inabinet, “Argument, Tradition, and the Currency of Authority,” in Reasoned Argument and Social Change: Selected Papers from the 17th Biennial Conference on Argumentation, edited by Robert C. Rowland. National Communication Association, 2011
• Brandon Inabinet, “Southern Honor and the Politics of Civility.” Charleston Law Review 5, no. 3 (Spring 2011), 101-119
• Brandon Inabinet, “The Stoicism of the Ideal Orator: Cicero’s Hellenistic Ideal.” Advances in the History of Rhetoric 14, no. 1 (2011), 14-32
• Brandon Inabinet, “Whigging Out: Controversy in the Age of Jackson,” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 13, no. 3 (Fall 2010), 481-501
• Brandon Inabinet, "Masked Dueling in the Jacksonian Press: The Adams-Calhoun Controversy,” in Concerning Argument: Proceedings of the 2007 Alta Conference of the American Forensic Association, edited by Scott Jacobs and Marc Zarefsky (Washington, D.C.: National Communication Association, 2009), 375-382
• Brandon Inabinet, “Albert Beveridge, ‘March of the Flag’ (16 September 1898).” Voices of Democracy 1 (2006): 148-164.

Additional Professional Activities

• External Grants Awarded: Associated Colleges of the South (ACS) Campus Space and Rhetorics of Race—Connecting Injustice to the Liberal Arts Geography & Built Environment
• Alliance for the Advancement of Liberal Arts Colleges (AALAC) for “The 14th at 150” Workshop to Connect Justice after Slavery to Liberal Arts Colleges
• David E. Shi Fellows Research Grant, Furman University. “Sustainability and the Kingdom of Science.” with J. Aaron Simmons
• Mellon Asia Network Faculty Enhancement Program for “Power, Land, and Belief in a Divided Society"
• Associated Colleges of the South (ACS) Grant and Duke Endowment Grant with Tami Blumenfield, “Food Systems Transition in Southwest China and Upstate South Carolina: Fostering a Multimedia-Enhanced Dialogue."

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