Personal profile
About
Dr. Conner (he/him) forms community partnerships that empower youth and provide service learning opportunities for USFSP students, facilitates a welcoming classroom space for students to learn rituals of writing ranging from contemplative practices to distributed authorship, and writes about the function of chanting, song, and rhythm in diverse rhetorical and poetic traditions, including scholarly articles on Carnatic music, Advaita Vedanta, critical posthumanism, neuroscience, open source culture, psychedelics, and digital pedagogy. Recent publications include chapters in the edited volumes The Routledge Handbook of Comparative World Rhetorics (Routledge 2020), Responding to the Sacred: an Inquiry into the Limits of Rhetoric (Penn State Press 2021), and Global Rhetorical Traditions (Parlor Press 2022). Trey remains always already engaged in a nourishing process of “infinite rehearsal” of collaboration with friends, family, students, and colleagues, and is currently at work on Everything Worth Doing Now.
Education/Academic qualification
Rhetoric and Composition, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Rhetoric and Composition, M.A., Pennsylvania State University
English, B.A., University of Florida
Disciplines
- Creative Writing
- English Language and Literature
- Rhetoric
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Dark Side of the Shroom: Erasing Indigenous and Counterculture Wisdoms with Psychedelic Capitalism, and the Open Source Alternative - A Manifesto for Psychonauts
Devenot, N., Conner, T. & Doyle, R., Aug 22 2022, In: Anthropology of Consciousness. 33Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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I Say “Cat”, you Say “Cradle”: Ecstatic Signification and the Kitchen Songs of Avudai Akkal of Sengottai
Conner, T. & Doyle, R., 2022, Global Rhetorical Traditions.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Post-Vital Prajnaparamita
Conner, T. & Doyle, R., Oct 26 2022, Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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The Resonance is the Composer
Conner, T., Hamilton, E., Nicol, A., Burton, C., Olinger, K., Harmon, A. & Herenchak-Jones, I., Nov 2022, Amplifying Soundwriting Pedagogies: Integrating Sound into Rhetoric and Writing.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Chanting the Supreme Word of Information: Redundant!? Sacred?!
Conner, T. & Doyle, R., 2021, Responding to the Sacred: An Inquiry into the Limits of Rhetotric.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter