Professor
Year Started at JMU: 2008
lunsfoss@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Pronouns: he/him/his
Education
Ph.D., English Rhetoric and Composition, University of Texas at El Paso, 2008
M.A., Writing, DePaul University, 2001
B.A., Speech Communication, University of Texas of the Permian Basin, 1995
Professional Focuses
Scott’s research and teaching interests lie at the intersections of language use, public rhetorics, rhetoric and mobility, multimodality, and digital scholarship. In particular, he likes to lurk around with an audio recorder and capture everyday sounds of the streets and back alleyways—all in order to help us understand the nature of sonic rhetorics.
Publications
Lunsford, Scott. “SoundPlay: A Sonic Experience of Digital Loose Parts.” [Audio]. Amplifying Soundwriting: Theory and Practice in Rhetoric and Writing, edited by Courtney S. Danforth, Kyle Stedman, and Michael J. Faris. WAC Clearinghouse, 2022.
Lunsford, Scott, Vivien Lunsford, and Alex Lunsford. “A Random(ized) Podcast.” Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics. 7.1, 2022.
Lunsford, Scott. “The UnSanctioned Surface: Discovering Daughters’ Agency at Play.” [Video]. Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics. 2.2, 2018.
Lunsford, Scott. “Public Marginalia: (Re)Markable Conversations (Re)Surfacing and (Re)Buffed.” [Video]. Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society. 7.2, 2018.
Lunsford, Scott. “Body of Research: Materialities of Sonic Awareness.” [Audio]. Rhetorics Change/Rhetoric’s Change. Intermezzo / Enculturation / Parlor Press, 2018.
Klein, Michael, Scott Lunsford, and Cindy Chiarello. “Embracing the Messy Business of Learning: Serving Multiple Stakeholders in a Technical Communication Internship.” Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society. 3.2, 2014.
Lunsford, Scott. “Writing In/Writing Out: The Subjects of Lynne Truss.” Studies in Popular Culture. 35.1 (2012): 121-37.
Breneman, Daisy, Susan Ghiaciuc, and Scott Lunsford. “That Racket Down the Hallway: Shattering Silence(s) through Narratives of Inqueery.” Writing on the Edge 23.1 (2012): 85-95.
Lunsford, Scott. “The Ethos of Narrative: Rhetoric and 21st Century Sexualities.” Journal of Sexuality Research and Social Policy 8 (2011): 112-16. Print.
Lunsford, Scott. “The Debate Within: Authority and the Discourse of Blindness.” Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness 100.1 (2006): 26-35. Print.
Lunsford, Scott. “Seeking a Rhetoric of the Rhetoric of Dis/abilities.” Rhetoric Review 24.3 (2005): 330-33. Print.
