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Atilla Hallsby is an Assistant Professor in the Communication Studies department at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. His research focuses on rhetoric’s role in shaping public perceptions of secrecy, surveillance, transparency, and artificial intelligence in American culture. He is the author of the forthcoming monograph Sovereign, Settler, Leaker, Lie: Forms of the Secret in U.S. Political Rhetoric, critiquing transparency as a self-evident ideal through frameworks like psychoanalysis and deconstruction.
Education includes a Ph.D. in Rhetorical Studies from the University of Georgia (2015), and an M.A. in Rhetoric and Public Advocacy from the University of Iowa (2010). His teaching emphasizes rhetorical theory and courses on secrecy, surveillance, and algorithmic culture. He developed an open-access textbook Reading Rhetorical Theory with University of Minnesota Libraries support.
Research interests span rhetorical theory, conspiracy rhetoric, and UN Sustainable Development Goals. He has published widely in journals like Rhetoric Society Quarterly and Journal for the History of Rhetoric, and collaborates on projects analyzing digital rhetoric and political discourse.
