Damien Smith Pfister

Dr. Damien Smith Pfister, Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Maryland, studies the manifold intersections of the rhetorical and the digital. He is the author  of Networked Media, Networked Rhetorics: Attention and Deliberation in the Early Blogosphere (Penn State, 2014) and co-editor of Ancient Rhetorics + Digital Networks (Alabama, 2018). Recent essays can be found in The Journal for the History of Rhetoric, The Quarterly Journal of Speech, Communication and the Public, and Philosophy & Rhetoric. A former member of the Board of Directors for the Rhetoric Society of America, Pfister is currently the Reviews editor for Rhetoric Society Quarterly. With Casey Boyle and Michele Kennerly, he co-edits the new Rhetoric + Digitality book series for the University of Alabama Press. Pfister’s current book project is titled Always On: Fashioning Ethos After Wearable Computers, on the rhetorical and cultural implications of wearables.