John C. Gooch

John C. Gooch

Area Head for Communication Studies
Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Communication Studies
Coach, Comet Speech and Forensics of UT Dallas
Tags: Humanities RHET COMM LIT atec ATCM

Professional Preparation

M.A. - History
West Texas A&M University - 2019
Ph.D. - Technical Communication and Rhetoric
Texas Tech University - 2002
M.A. - English and Technical Communication
Texas Tech University - 1997
B.S. - History and English, Teacher Certification (grs. 6-12)
West Texas A&M University - 1994

Research Areas

Communication pedagogy, technical/professional writing and editing, rhetoric and public address, public policy and communication, rhetoric and law

Publications

Lane, Shelley D., Ruth Anna Abigail, and John Casey Gooch. Communication in a Civil Society. Second edition. Routledge UK, 2023-24 (in progress) 2024 - publications
Zanola, Annalisa, John Casey Gooch, and Roxanne Doerr. Editors. “Oral Communication in the Technical and Scientific Disciplines.” Special edition of Textus: English Studies in Italy. January-April 2022. 2022 - publications
Gooch, John Casey. “The Dragon in the Cave: Fleta as a Legal Imagining of Early English Common Law.” In Legal Imagination in Times of Trouble, edited by Thomas Bennett and Matteo Nicolini. London: Routledge, 2020. 34-52. 2020 - publications
Gooch, John Casey. “The Importance of Rhetorical Perspective in American Legal Education and in American Legal Practice.” Revista General de Derecho Público Comparado 22 (2019). http://www.iustel.com/v2/revistas/detalle_revista.asp?id=14 2019 - publications
Gooch, John Casey. “Revulsion, Paradigmatic Shifts, and Legal Philosophy: Oliver Wendell Holmes’s The Path of the Law and its Impact on American Legal Thought.” Pólemos: Journal of Law, Literature, and Culture 2019. 2019 - publications
Gooch, John Casey. “History, Re-inventing the Wheel, and Rhetorical Pedagogy in the 21st Century: A Response to Jerry Murphy.” Oxford Studies in Rhetoric: A Report from the Interactive Seminar on Rhetoric and the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2016. 53-62. 2016 - publications
Gooch, John Casey. “Illegal Search and Seizure, Due Process, and the Rights of the Accused: The Voices of Power in the Rhetoric of Los Angeles Police Chief William H. Parker.” Pólemos: Journal of Law, Literature, and Culture 9 (2015): 83-98. 2015 - publications
Gooch, John Casey. “Chapter 5: Global Crisis Communication.” Communication in Emerging Media: What’s Trending Now? Carie Lambert and Maribeth Schlobohm, editors. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall-Hunt Publishing, 2015. 109-133. 2015 - publications

Awards

Distinguished Service to International Education - University of Texas at Dallas [2022]

Appointments

Area Head for Communication Studies
School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology - University of Texas at Dallas [2022–Present]
Associate Dean for Graduate Education
School of Arts and Humanities, UT Dallas [2015–2021]
Director of Rhetoric and Writing
School of Arts and Humanities, UT Dallas [2006–2015]
Associate Professor
School of Arts and Humanities/School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology - UT Dallas [2014–Present]
Associate professor teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in rhetoric, communication (general), professional/technical communication, writing/editing, and literature/humanities

Projects

iDebate Rwanda
2023/10–2023/10 Hosting iDebate Rwanda on the UT Dallas main campus, October 16-19, 2023


Virtual Exchange with University of Brescia (Italy)
2023/03–2023/05 Erasmus virtual exchange between "Advanced Public Speaking" students at UT Dallas and students at the University of Brescia in Italy -- with Dr. Annalisa Zanola, Professor of English Language and Linguistics

Area for Communication Studies
Communication Studies is an academic area in the School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology. In addition to teaching three 010 core courses, it also supports a minor field of study as well as a concentration for the B.A. in Visual and Performing Arts.

Minor in Communication



Teaching professional speaking and soft skills to graduate students in Economic Sciences at the University of Verona (Verona, Italy)
2013/02 Held visiting professorship in Verona since 2013

Presentations

Fleta Reconsidered: Textual Community and English Common Law in the Thirteenth Century
2019/10–2019/10 Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Texas Medieval Association (TEMA), Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, October 18-20, 2019
Digital Rhetoric, Social Media, and the Rapid Rise of a Global Movement: The Virtual Impact of PEGIDA
2018/11–2018/11 Paper presented at the annual meeting of AIDEL (Italian Association of Law and Literature), Verona, Italy, November 14-16, 2018
Visualizing the Rhetoric of International Law in the Ukrainian Crisis
2015/11–2015/11 Paper presented at the annual meeting of AIDEL (Italian Association of Law and Literature), Verona, Italy, November 11-13, 2015
106 State University Study of Writing Programming: Bird’s Eye View with Local Contextualization
Roundtable at the 2015 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), Tampa, Florida, March 18-21, 2015
The Voices of Power in the Rhetoric of Los Angeles Police Chief William H. Parker
Paper presented at the annual meeting of AIDEL (Italian Association of Law and Literature), Verona, Italy, November 14-16, 2013

Additional Information

Personal Statement
In October 2022, Dr. John Gooch was appointed Area Head for Communication Studies in the School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology after previously serving for six years as Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Director of Rhetoric and Writing at UT Dallas for nine.

Dr. Gooch earned his Ph.D. in Technical Communication and Rhetoric in 2002 from the Department of English at Texas Tech University. He held academic positions at Louisiana Tech University and Collin College before joining the UT Dallas faculty in the fall of 2005.  

His research interests include rhetoric and public address as well the rhetorics of law and policy, and he has taught courses in rhetoric, presidential public address, technical and professional editing, and professional communication. Dr. Gooch is also currently coaching "Comet Speech and Forensics," the UT Dallas speech team focusing on individual events (e.g., extemporaneous speaking) and limited-preparation debate (e.g., International Public Debate Association or IPDA format). The team competes both in Texas and also nationally.

News Articles

New Program Aims To Give More Students a World of Opportunities

Activities

Conflict Mediation Training
Conflict mediation and ombuds training through Southern Methodist University-Plano, the International Ombudsman Association (IOA), and the Texas Association of Mediators (TAM)
Foreign Language Training
Italian (European level B1/B2, intermediate), Spanish (European level A2/B1, beginner/intermediate), and German (European level A1, beginner/rudimentary reading ability), Latin (basic)

Affiliations

Fulbright Specialist, U.S. Department of State
2022/06–2026/06

Funding

Cooperative-International (CooperINT) Program
9000 EURO - University of Verona [2013/02–2013/06]
Grant to support teaching professional speaking and technical writing at University of Verona (February 15, 2013 until June 1, 2013) - with Dr. Angelo Zago, Associate Professor of Economic Sciences, UniVR