Charles Athanasopoulos
Assistant Professor of African American and African Studies & English
he/him/his
University Hall 386H
230 N Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210
Areas of Expertise
- The Black Radical Tradition
- Rhetorical Theory
- Cultural Critique
- Black American and Diasporic Cinema
- Afro-Caribbean Identity and Critique
- Greek-Roma Identity and Critique
Education
- PhD, University of Pittsburgh
Charles Athanasopoulos is Assistant Professor of African American and African Studies & English at The Ohio State University (USA). He received his Ph.D. in Rhetoric & Communication from the University of Pittsburgh, and his research interests lie at the intersection of Black rhetorics, media, and culture. He has published numerous peer reviewed articles in venues such as Lateral: The Journal of the Cultural Studies Association and the Western Journal of Communication. He is the author of Black Iconoclasm: Public Symbols, Racial Progress, and Post/Ferguson America (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).
Selected Publications
Black Iconoclasm: Public Symbols, Racial Progress, and Post/Ferguson America. Palgrave Macmillan. Sept. 2024.
“Fanonian Slips: The Rhetorical Function & Field of the White Mask.” Western Journal of Communication, October 12, 2022.
““A Program of Complete Disorder:” The Black Iconoclasm within
Fanonian Thought”. Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association, 10.1 Spring 2021.
“Smashing the Icon of Black Lives Matter: Afropessimism & Religious Iconolatry.” Prose Studies, Vol. 40, Issue 1-2: #BlackLivesMatter: Pasts, Presents, Futures, 2019.
Sugino, Corinne Mitsuye & Athanasopoulos, Charles. “The Cause is the Consequence: Biden’s Nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson & The Right to Include” in Rhetorical Economies of Whiteness: Power, Privilege, & Neoliberalism edited by Robert Asen & Casey Ryan Kelly. Ohio State University Press. Fall 2024 (Forthcoming).