Bio

Degree

MA in Bioethics

University of Pittsburgh

PhD in Communication

University of Pittsburgh

MA in Communication

University of Pittsburgh

BA in Philosophy and Communication

Regis University

Published Works

• Foust, C., Rief, J., Varela, M. E. (). Between Debate and Dialogue: Performing Democratic Life Across the Curriculum.
• Rief, J. J., Schrader, J. B. (2024). Debating About, Against, and With ChatGPT: Redesigning Academic Debate Pedagogy for the World of Generative Artificial Intelligence. (pp 87-105). IGI Global.
• Cummings, J. K., Rief, J. (2023). Health Praxis in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Diagnostics, Caregiving, and the Role(s) of Healthcare Practitioners. (pp 103-131). Bristol University Press.
• Rief, J. (2022). Historical vs. Ahistorical Narratives of The Pandemic: The Discordant Rhetoric of Our Unprecedented Times. (pp 83-108). Lexington Books.
• Rief, J. (2022). Using debate as a tool to augment learning across the curriculum. , https://www.msudenver.edu/early-bird/using-debate-as-a-tool-to-augment-learning-across-the-curriculum/
• Rief, J., Schrader, J. B. (2021). Reconciling Playing the Game with Civic Education in Intercollegiate Academic Debate.
• Rief, J. (2021). Post-Pandemic Pedagogy in Intercollegiate Academic Debate: Performing Civic Life in Hybrid, Virtual, and In-Person Environments. (pp 239-257). Lexington Books.
• Rief, J. (2021). Rhetoric of Health and Medicine As/Is: Theories and Approaches for the Field (edited by Lisa Melonçon, S. Scott Graham, Jenell Johnson, John A. Lynch, and Cynthia Ryan). Quarterly Journal of Speech, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00335630.2021.1980946
• Errera, D., Rief, J. J. (2021, March). Featuring Performance in Intercollegiate Academic Debate Pedagogy and Practice. Routledge.
• Rief, J., Wilson, R. (2020). Community-Based Participatory Debate: A Synthesis of Debate Pedagogy, Practice, and Research. Routledge.
• Rief, J. J. (2018). Stephen Toulmin: Theory and Practice. Peter Lang,
• Rief, J. J. (2018). (Re)Designing the Debate Tournament for Civic Life. Speaker & Gavel, 55(1), 36-58. https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/speaker-gavel/vol55/iss1/3/.
• Rief, J. J., Hamm, E. M., Zickmund, L. S., Nikolajski, C., Lesky, D., Hess, R., Fischer, S. G., Weimer, M., Clark, S., Zieth, C., Roberts, S. M. (2017). Using Health Information Technology to Foster Engagement: Patients’ Experiences with an Active Patient Health Record. , 32(3), 310-319. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2016.1138378.
• Schrader, J. B., Rief, J. J., Brigham, P. M. (2015). Opposing the Already Oppositional: The WBC, Counter-Protests, and the Limits of Controversy. Routledge.
• Rief, J. J. (2014). Building the Case for an ‘Architectonic’ Function of Rhetoric in Health Services Research. POROI: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Rhetorical Analysis and Invention, 10(1), 1-9. https://ir.uiowa.edu/poroi/vol10/iss1/9/.
• Rief, J. J. (2013). What Are Stem Cells: Definitions at the Intersection of Science and Politics, by John Lynch (Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2011). Quarterly Journal of Speech, https://doi.org/10.1080/00335630.2013.835963
• Rief, J. J., Mitchell, R. G., Zickmund, L. S., Bhargava, D. T., Bryce, L. C., Fischer, S. G., Hess, R., Kolb, R. N., Silverman, R. L., McTigue, M. K. (2013). Promoting Patient Phronesis: Communication Patterns in an Online Lifestyle Program Coordinated with Primary Care. Health Education & Behavior, 40(3), 311-322. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1090198112452863.
• Schrader, J. B., Rief, J. (2012). Between Free Speech and Public Debate: An Analysis of Snyder v. Phelps. National Communication Association.
• Rief, J. J. (2012). Scientific Characters: Rhetoric, Politics, and Trust in Breast Cancer Research, by Lisa Keränen (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2012). Rhetoric Society Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1080/02773945.2012.707964
• Rief, J. J. (2011). Bioethics in the Age of New Media, by Joanna Zylinska (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2009). JAC: A Journal of Rhetoric, Culture, & Politics,
• Rountree, K. A., Dorsten, A., Rief, J. J. (2011). Improving Patient Activation in Crisis and Chronic Care through Rhetorical Approaches to New Media Technologies. POROI: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Rhetorical Analysis and Invention, 7(1), 1-13. https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1081&context=poroi.
• Rief, J., Brigham, P. M. (2011). Moral disagreements and pernicious pragmatism: Pluralism, value argumentation, and the U.S. health care debate. Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation.
• Rief, J. J. (2011). Widening Applications of Phronesis in the Clinic and Beyond: Patients as Decision Makers. Rozenburg/Sic Sat.
• Rief, J., Cummings, K. (2010). The Many Sides of ‘Switch-Sides Debate’: Perspective Taking and the Limits of Liberal-Deliberative Practice. National Communication Association.
• Mitchell, R. G., Woods, S. C., Brigham, M., English, E., Morrison, E. C., Rief, J. J. (2010). The Debate Authors Working Group Model for Collaborative Knowledge Production in Forensics Scholarship. Argumentation and Advocacy, 47-24. file:///Users/jrief1/Downloads/DAWG.pdf.
• Rief, J. J. (2009). A Good Death: Dignity-Based Argumentation at the End of Life. Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation.
• Cummings, K., Rief, J. (2009). Seductive Appeals: Eroticism and Sexual Harassment in Academic Debate (#47). Semiotic Society of America.
• Rief, J. J. (2007). Talking at Cross Purposes: Violating Higher-Order Conditions with Oppositional Arguments. Sic Sat / International Center for the Study of Argumentation.
• English, E., Llano, S., Mitchell, R. G., Morrison, E. C., Rief, J. J., Woods, C. (2007). Debate as a Weapon of Mass Destruction (Forum Piece). Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 4(2), 221-225. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14791420701296646.
• Woods, C., Brigham, M., Heavner, B., Konishi, T., Rief, J. J., Saindon, B., Mitchell, R. G. (2006). Deliberating Debate's Digital Futures (Forum Piece). Contemporary Argumentation and Debate, 271-105. https://www.pitt.edu/~gordonm/JPubs/Woodsetal2006.pdf.
• Rief, J., Cummings, J. K., Cummings, J. (2005). Inclusion in Parliamentary Debate: A Critique of the Logic of Abstraction. National Communication Association.

Research Interests

History of rhetoric and debate; intercollegiate academic debate theory, pedagogy, and practice; rhetoric of medicine.

Teaching Interests

History of rhetoric, argument, and debate; health communication and the rhetoric of medicine; public and popular culture.

Office Hours

Please see syllabus. ​My hours change every semester.