Michael Dorland

Michael Dorland is Professor of Communication in the School of Journalism and Communication Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. A novelist, film critic, and journalist before returning to academe some 20 years ago, his academic interests since then often drew on previous professional experience. This was the case of his book on film policy in Canada, an edited collection on the cultural industries, a study of the rhetoric of international comparative legal history and, most recently, his study of 60 years of psychiatric research on Holocaust survival, since the "discovery" of the Nazi concentration camps. As an intellectual historian by training, he is most interested in the various mutations rhetoric has undergone, from its classical origins to contemporary visual communication. He is working on a new book on Michel Foucault's The Order of Things, from the perspective of visual communication.