Department of English
Department of English
Kenny Fountain

T. Kenny Fountain

Associate Professor, Director of Writing and Rhetoric
tkf3bb@virginia.edu
434 924-6633
Specialties
Conspiracy Theory Rhetoric, Propaganda & Disinformation, History of Rhetoric, Visual Rhetoric/Visual Culture, Workplace Communication
Office Address/Hours

Bryan Hall 236-B / Mondays, 3:00-4:00pm & Wednesday, 10:00-11:00am

Class Schedule
MoWe 1:00-1:50
https://tkennyfountain.com/

Degrees:

Ph.D. University of Minnesota
M.A. University of Memphis
B.A. Brewton-Parker College
 

Book

 

Recent and Selected Articles

T. Kenny Fountain & Chandler Jennings. “Presencing, Immersion, & Community: How Conspiracy Theory Belief is Kindled Online.” Nova Religio, vol 28, no 3, February 2025, pp. 79-103. DOI: 10.1353/nvr.2025.a949121

[Book review essay] T. Kenny Fountain. “Rhetoric and the Cultural Politics of Donald Trump.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly, vol 54, no 1, January 2024, pp. 91-102. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02773945.2023.2295772

Scott Weedon and T. Kenny Fountain. “Embodied Genres, Typified Performances, and the Engineering Design Process.” Written Communication, vol. 38, no. 4, October 2021, pp. 587-626. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0741088321103150

T. Kenny Fountain. “Anatomical Presencing: Visualisation, Model-Making, and Embodied Interaction.” The Routledge Handbook of Language & Science, edited by David Gruber & Lynda Olman, Routledge, 2019, pp. 227-238.