ABOUT

Christine Harold is a scholar of rhetoric and consumer capitalism, and is professor and chair of Communication at the University of Washington. Her research explores opportunities for meaningful political action in a world increasingly defined by the logics and rhetorics of the marketplace. Her books, OurSpace: Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture and Things Worth Keeping: The Value of Attachment in a Disposable World, both from the University of Minnesota Press, analyze the politics of advertising, consumerism, and mass production. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on rhetorical criticism and theory, popular culture, consumerism, and materiality.

Professor Harold graduated from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon with a degree in Rhetoric and Media Studies in 1995, and completed her Ph.D. in Speech Communication at Penn State University in 2002.  She served on the faculty at the University of Georgia before returning to her hometown in 2007 to join the faculty at the University of Washington, Seattle. She lives between the Puget Sound and the Cascade Mountains with her three children and two dogs.

CONTACT: charold@uw.edu