Charles Athanasopoulos, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies

Dr. Charles Athanasopoulos is a teacher-scholar whose research interests include Black studies, activism, “racial icons,” street art, and media studies. His manuscript-in progress, Twilight of the Icons, develops an orientation to the anti/Black...

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Dr. Charles Athanasopoulos

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Education & Curriculum Vitae

Ph.D., Rhetoric & Communication, University of Pittsburgh

M.A., Rhetoric & Communication, University of Pittsburgh

B.A., Study of Religions, Wake Forest University

Curriculum Vitae

Courses Taught

COMM 100: Communication and Speech

COMM 350: Politics of Social Memory

Dr. Charles Athanasopoulos is a teacher-scholar whose research interests include Black studies, activism, “racial icons,” street art, and media studies. His manuscript-in progress, Twilight of the Icons, develops an orientation to the anti/Black world called Black iconoclasm which seeks to disorder the “racial iconography” of Western Man (the social codes of race, gender, class, and sexuality). In doing so, Twilight of the Icons highlights how racial icons continue to constrict Black radical imagination in the contemporary era. For more information, please visit Dr. Athanasopoulos’ website: www.charlesathanaso.com.
ARTICLES

Athanasopoulos, Charles. ““A Program of Complete Disorder:” The Black Iconoclasm within Fanonian Thought”. Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association, 10.1 Spring 2021.

Athanasopoulos, Charles. “Smashing the Icon of Black Lives Matter: Afropessimism & Religious Iconolatry.” Prose Studies, Vol. 40, Issue 1-2: #BlackLivesMatter: Pasts, Presents, Futures, 2019.

Athanasopoulos, Charles. “Fanonian Slips: The Rhetorical Function & Field of the White Mask.” Western Journal of Communication (Forthcoming). Accepted August 9th, 2021, waiting for proofs.

Athanasopoulos, Charles & Sugino, Corinne Mitsuye. “Clash of the Uncivilized: Alternative Approaches to Policy Debate”. Contemporary Argumentation & Debate Journal (Forthcoming). Accepted for publication, waiting for proofs.

CHAPTERS
Athanasopoulos, Charles. “Black Radical Thought as Pathology in Black Panther” in Why Wakanda Matters: What Black Panther Reveals About Psychology, Identity, and Communication edited by Sheena Howard (BenBella Books, February 2021)

SHORT ESSAYS

Athanasopoulos, Charles. “Iconography in the Age of Black Lives Matter”. Monument Lab, 2020.

Athanasopoulos, Charles. “On White Rioters & Black Liberals”. The Lacan Salon, “Listening with Black Lives Matter” series, 2020.