University of Iowa

Faculty Member, Communication Studies

Assistant Professor

College of Arts and Sciences

About

Darrel Enck-Wanzer (Ph.D., Indiana University) is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies. He is a scholar of race and public culture with a particular interest in Latin@ studies, coloniality, and critical rhetorical theory. An active participant in and servant to NCA, Darrel has been through the leadership ranks in the Latin@ Communication Studies Division and La Raza Caucus (including convention planning in 2008), happily and repeatedly served on the Legislative Assembly, and been involved in extensive committee and reviewing work since 2003. Darrel’s scholarship complicates (modern/Western) rhetorical theory by putting it into conversation with critical race and decolonial theory in a manner that makes local knowledges and communication practices intelligible, and advances more inclusive theorizing in the discipline. His work has appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Communication Theory, Environmental Communication, Communication, Culture, & Critique, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, and his pioneering 2010 book The Young Lords: A Reader. He is currently finishing another book on the Young Lords, and working on other essay projects related to racial neoliberalism, coloniality in rhetorical theory, and environmental justice.

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