Contact Information
Biography
GARNET C. BUTCHART is Associate Professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies
at Duquesne University. He specializes in communication theory and philosophy, media
and cultural studies. He is the author of Embodiment, Relation, Community: A Continental
Philosophy of Communication (Pennsylvania State University Press) and co-editor of
Philosophy of Communication (MIT Press). His research appears in journals such as
Communication Theory, Journal of Communication, Social Semiotics, Visual Communication,
Journal of Media Ethics, and others. His research has received awards from divisions
of the National Communication Association, including Article of the Year (three times),
Book of the Year (twice), and multiple "Top Paper" awards.
Education
- Ph.D., Communication, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- M.A., Communication, University of Calgary
- B.A., School of Communication, Simon Fraser University
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Recent Scholarship
Books
Edited Book
Books
- Butchart, G. C. (2019). Embodiment, Relation, Community: A Continental Philosophy of Communication. College Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press.
Edited Book
- Chang, B. G. & G. C. Butchart (Eds.). (2012). Philosophy of Communication. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Winner of the 2016 National Communication Association Philosophy of Communication Division Distinguished Edited Book Award
- Butchart, G. C. & Har-Gil, A. (2021). Hebrew translation of “Reflection as Ethical Process in Documentary Film: Eight Decision-Making Issues,” Media Frames: Israeli Journal of Communication, Issue 20 (Spring 2021): 108-128.
- Butchart, G. C. & Har-Gil, A. (2019). Reflection as Ethical Process in Documentary Film: Eight Decision-Making Issues. Journal of Media Ethics, 34:2.
- Butchart, G. C. (2018). Echo: Or, on the Origin of Words. Moment Journal: Journal of Cultural Studies, 5:1, 1-14 (lead article)
- Butchart, G. C. (2018). Answers to Questions that No One is Asking: A Report on Knowledge in Communicology (review essay). Journal of Communication, 68:6, E1-E7
- Butchart, G. C. (2017). Communication and the Thesis of Intentionality in Husserl, Sartre, and Levinas. The Review of Communication, 17:1, 56-73.
- Butchart, G. C. (2016). The Communicology of Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida: Reflections on the Sign-Body Experience of Communication. Visual Communication, 15:2, 199-219. Winner of the 2017 Distinguished Journal Article Award, National Communication Association Philosophy of Communication Division.
- Butchart, G. C. (2015). Touch, Communication, Community: Jean-Luc Nancy's Semiotic Phenomenology. Metodo: International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy, 3:1, 221-244.
- Butchart, G. C. (2014). Haunting Past Images: On the 2006 Documentary Film Description of a Memory in the Context of Communicology. The American Journal of Semiotics, 30:1-2, 27-52.
- Butchart, G. C. (2014). What Can a Philosophy and Ethics of Communication Look Like in the Context of Documentary Filmmaking? Semiotica, 199, 83-96.
- Butchart, G. C. (2013). The Uncertainty of Communication as Revealed by Psychoanalysis. Review of Communication, 13:1, 66-84. Winner of the 2015 National Communication Association Philosophy of Communication Division Journal Article of the Year Award.
- Butchart, G. C. (2013). Camera as Sign: On the Ethics of Unconcealment in Documentary Film and Video. Social Semiotics, 23:5, 675-690. Winner of the 2013 National Communication Association Philosophy of Communication Division Journal Article of the Year Award.
Recent Honors and Awards
2020 Distinguished Book Award, National Communication Association Philosophy of Communication Division.
2017 Distinguished Journal Article, National Communication Association Philosophy of Communication Division.
2016 National Communication Association Philosophy of Communication Division Edited Book of the Year.
2016 National Communication Association Philosophy of Communication Division Top Faculty Paper.
2015 National Communication Association Philosophy of Communication Division Journal Article of the Year.
2014 National Communication Association Visual Communication Division Top Faculty Paper.
2013 National Communication Association Philosophy of Communication Division Journal Article of the Year.
Scholar, International Communicology Institute. Selected in 2013.
2020 Distinguished Book Award, National Communication Association Philosophy of Communication Division.
2017 Distinguished Journal Article, National Communication Association Philosophy of Communication Division.
2016 National Communication Association Philosophy of Communication Division Edited Book of the Year.
2016 National Communication Association Philosophy of Communication Division Top Faculty Paper.
2015 National Communication Association Philosophy of Communication Division Journal Article of the Year.
2014 National Communication Association Visual Communication Division Top Faculty Paper.
2013 National Communication Association Philosophy of Communication Division Journal Article of the Year.
Scholar, International Communicology Institute. Selected in 2013.
Editorial Boards
The American Journal of Semiotics, 2019-pres.
Qualitative Research Reports in Communication, 2014-pres.
Semiotics Society of America Yearbook, 2014-pres.
Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, 2007-pres.
Offices Held
Film and Cinema
The American Journal of Semiotics, 2019-pres.
Qualitative Research Reports in Communication, 2014-pres.
Semiotics Society of America Yearbook, 2014-pres.
Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, 2007-pres.
Offices Held
- Executive Board Member, Semiotic Society of America
- Faculty Co-Advisor: Duquesne University Ad Club
- Faculty Co-Advisor: PRSSA Duquesne University Chapter
Film and Cinema
- Juror, 15th Solidarity and Human Rights Film Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Juror, 28th Jerusalem International Film Festival, Van Lear Foundation Awards for Israeli Documentary Cinema, Jerusalem, Israel