About
Justin Cosner is a Lecturer and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Iowa's Department of English within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He specializes in rhetoric, focusing on digital technologies, news media, and the rhetoric of video games. His research explores textual ambiguity's ethical implications and intersections with gender theory, religion/secularity studies, and concepts of otherness.
Education: PhD in English Literature (University of Iowa, 2017), with a dissertation on wonder/estrangement in speculative genres like science fiction and fantasy.
Teaching emphasizes first-year rhetoric courses with digital/media emphases and advanced seminars. Contact: justin-cosner@uiowa.edu | 319-467-0445 | 568 English Philosophy Building.
