Josh Compton (Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, 2004) is Assistant Professor of Speech in the Institute for Writing and Rhetoric at Dartmouth College. His scholarship of inoculation theory, political humor, image repair, and speech pedagogy has appeare
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Josh Compton (Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, 2004) is Assistant Professor of Speech in the Institute for Writing and Rhetoric at Dartmouth College. His scholarship of inoculation theory, political humor, image repair, and speech pedagogy has appeared in Human Communication Research, Journal of Communication, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Health Communication, Public Relations Review, Communication Theory, Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, and other journals. He authored the inoculation theory chapter in The Sage Handbook of Persuasion (2013). His political humor analyses have been included in several books, including Routledge's Laughing Matters (2008) and Lexington's The Daily Show and Rhetoric (2011). He was a recipient of Dartmouth’s Distinguished Lecturer Award and the National Speakers Association's Outstanding Professor Award, and his teaching has been recognized by the Instructional Division of the International Communication Association and the Pi Kappa Delta National Honorary. Compton maintains an active public speaking schedule, presenting interactive workshops on such topics as public speaking, inoculation theory, credibility/image, and (speech)writer’s block.
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