Biography
Dr. Noemi Marin, Professor, School of Communication and Multimedia Studies,
held positions also as Director of the School (2011-2014),
Director of the Peace Studies Program (2007-2012),
and the Editor of the Journal of Literacy and Technology, since 2005.

nmarin@fau.edu

Ph.D. 1999, University of Maryland
Dr. Marin authored the book After the Fall: Rhetoric in the Aftermath of Dissent in Post- Communist Times (2007), and contributed to several books Negotiating Democracy: Media Transformation in Emerging Democracies (2007); Advances in the History of Rhetoric (2007; 2006); Realms of Exile: Nomadism, Diaspora and Eastern European Voices (2005); Intercultural Communication and Creative Practices (2005); Culture and Technology in the New Europe: Civic Discourse in Transformation in Post-Communist Nations (2000). Scholarly articles have been published in East European Politics and Societies; Migration: A European Journal of International Migration and Ethnic Relations; Forum Artis Rhetoricae; Romanian Journal of Journalism and Communication; Global Media Journal; Controversia: An International Journal of Debate and Democratic Renewal. Dr. Marin edits the international academic journal Journal of Literacy and Technology, since 2005.
Sole contributor to the International Encyclopedia of Communication (Blackwell, 2008) on Eastern and Central European rhetoric, Dr. Marin presented over 120 international and national conference papers, focusing on communist and post-communist discourse and societies in transition. She received the prestigious Presidential Leadership Award, 2010, and Researcher/Creative Scholar of the Year Award (2009), Florida Atlantic University. In April 2014, Dr. Marin was invited to present a lecture at the well-renowned Davis Center at Harvard University, lecture that is now part of the events recorded on the university site. Currently, Dr. Marin is completing a book project “Rhetorics of 1989” to be published by Routledge in 2014.
In addition, Dr. Marin is researching on a new book project related to political communication in societies in transition.   

Abstract/Synopsis
Along with historical, political, and cultural challenges, authoritarian and totalitarian states of the 20th century leave important rhetorical questions that need to be addressed. Communist history carrying over half a century of political rule in Eastern and Central Europe continues to bring into the public and political arenas salient interrogations of political power, national identity and rhetorical strategies that transformed democratic values into oppressive arguments of political domination. This conference will focus on rhetorical discourse in communist Romania during the last part of Ceausescu’s regime (1980-1989) in order examine the role of epideictic rhetoric utilized to inscribe strategic changes in official language and in the national engagement with Romanian identity as two of the most powerful political arguments of domination. Following several authored studies on totalitarian rhetoric (Marin, “Totalitarian Discourse and Ceausescu’s Loss of Words,” 2012; Marin and Williams, “Presidential Arguments in Post-Soviet Russia,” 2012; Marin, “History ante portas!,” 2011) and the very recent book Rhetorics of 1989 (Ornatowski and Marin, Routledge, 2015), the study argues that it is an imminent relationship between nationalism and communist discourse that carries over into post-communist era not only in Romania but also throughout Eastern and Central Europe and most recently in the Eurasian political arenas.