Associate Professor of Communications

Nick J.
Sciullo

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Sciullo is an Associate Professor of Communications at Texas A&M University - Kingsville where he teaches classes across the communication curriculum from intercultural communication to organizational communication to public speaking and everything in between. His work has been published in Argumentation & Advocacy, Communication Teacher, Communication Education, Rhetoric and Communications, rhizomes, Canadian Journal of Communication, Kentucky Journal of Communication, Journal for the Study of Radicalism, Journal of Scholarly Publishing, and more. Dr. Sciullo grew up in Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA the largest city in the Commonwealth of Virginia known for its beaches, boardwalk, and tourism. He is an avid fan of college sports, especially the West Virginia University Mountaineers, enjoys international travel, and live music.

 Selected PublicationS

      BOOKS

Sciullo, N.J. (2018). Communicating Hip-Hop: How Hip-Hop Culture Influences Popular Culture. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.

      ARTICLES/BOOK CHAPTERS

Race

Sciullo, N.J. (forthcoming 2022). “Enslaved Floridians, The Saltwater Railroad in Florida, And The History of Cape Florida.” Tequesta: The Journal of the Historical Association of Southern Florida, 82, ___-___.  

Sciullo, N.J. (2022 forthcoming). The Racial Coding of Latinx Subjectivity Construction in the Debate Surrounding Arizona’s SB 1070. In H. Jimenez & Villaseñor, M.J. (Eds), The Latinx Experience: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Sage.

Sciullo, N.J. (2022 forthcoming). Pittsburgh’s Post-Racial Hill District? Mediated Challenges to Governmental Discourses about the Hill District in Fences and Steve Mellon’s “A Life on the Hill”. In P. Davis, Craig, B., & Rahko, S.E. (Eds.), Title TBD. University Press of Mississippi.

Sciullo, N.J. (2022 forthcoming). The Trouble with Friends: Race, Place, and the U.S.-Mexico Border. Studia Sociologica, 12, ___-___.

Sciullo, N.J. (2019). Review Essay: The Persistence of Race/Racism in Communication Studies. Canadian Journal of Communication, 44, 603-609.

Sciullo, N.J. (2019). Merit’s Shell Game: The Hidden Ball for Minoritarian Scholars. Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, 8, 87-91.

Sciullo, N.J. (2019). Boston King’s Fugitive Passing: Fred Moten, Saidiya Hartman, and Tina Campt’s Rhetoric of Resistance. rhizomes, 35, http://www.rhizomes.net/issue35/sciullo.html

Sciullo, N.J. (2017). George Jackson’s December 1964 Letter to His Father: Agency from Within the Prison Walls. Journal for the Study of Radicalism, 11, 161-182.  

Sciullo, N.J. (2015). The Ghosts of White Supremacy: Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and the Specters of Black Criminality. West Virginia University Law Review, 116, 1397-1408.

Sciullo, N.J. (2015). Richard Sherman, Rhetoric, and Racial Animus in the Rebirth of the Bogeyman Myth. Hastings Communication & Entertainment Law Journal, 37, 201-230.

Sciullo, N.J. (2015). Hip-Hop’s Pervasive Influence on Today’s Young Professionals: Hustle and Collaboration as Models for Professional Success. In Pamela Bridgewater, andré douglas pond cummings, and Donald Tibbs (Eds.), Hip Hop and the Law: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement (pp. 243-248). Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press. 

Sciullo, N.J. (2014). The Racialism and Erasure of Academic Freedom. Florida International University Law Review, 9, 73-74.

Sciullo, N.J. (2013). A Working Paper on The Mask of Law: Montoya’s Mask and the Un/Masking of Legal Discourse. Harvard Journal of Law & Gender, available at http://harvardjlg.com/2013/03/a-working-paper-on-the-mask-of-law-montoyas-mask-and-the-unmasking-of-legal-discourse/.  

Sciullo, N.J. (2012). Social Justice in Turbulent Times: Critical Race Theory and Occupy Wall Street. National Lawyers Guild Review, 69, 225-238. 

Sciullo, N.J. (2009). Conversations with the Law: Irony, Hyperbole and Identity Politics or Sake Pase?  Wyclef Jean, Shottas, and Haitian Jack: A Hip-Hop Creole Fusion of Rhetorical Resistance to the Law. Oklahoma City University Law Review, 34, 455-513 (2009). 

Pedagogy

Sciullo, N.J. (2019). Counterfactuals in the Communication Classroom as Global Critical Pedagogy about Intercultural Communication and Rhetorics of Difference. Journal of Speech and Theatre Association of Missouri, 49, 33-50.

Sciullo, N.J., & Duncan, M. (2019). Professionalizing Peer Review: Suggestions for a More Ethical and Pedagogical Review Process. Journal of Scholarly Publishing, 50, 248-264.

Sciullo, N.J. (2018). Writing as a Humanities Ph.D. Student: Discovering the Writer in You, Exploring New Venues, and Rebuffing Criticisms. Humanities Bulletin, 1, 280-287.

Sciullo, N.J. (2017). The Lecture’s Absent Audience. Communication Education, 66, 237-239.

Sciullo, N.J. (2016). Jadakiss’s “Jason”: An Activity to Teach the Visual Rhetoric of Police Violence and Resistance. Kentucky Journal of Communication, 35, 43-51.  

Sciullo, N.J. (2016). Diversity’s Troubling Panacea: Difference Studies in Instructional Communication. Communication Education, 65, 107-109.

Sciullo, N.J. (2015). Must We All Be Beholden to Peer Review? On the Advantages and Disadvantages of the Law Review Model for Rhetorical Scholarship. Review of Communication, 15, 102-121 (2015).

Sciullo, N.J. (2014). All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Hip-Hop: Hip-Hop’s Role in Teaching Communication Skills. Communication Currents, 9,  available at http://www.natcom.org/CommCurrentsArticle.aspx?id=5217.

Sciullo, N.J. (2014). Using Hip-Hop Music and Music Videos to Teach Aristotle’s Three Proofs. Communication Teacher, 28, 165-169. 

Law, Rhetoric, and Humanities

Sciullo, N.J., & Meyer, C.A. (forthcoming 2022). Iscorates’s Paneyricus and Trump v. Hawaii: Distrust of Migrants in Classical and Modern Times. In F.J. Mootz, K.K. Davis, B.N. Larson, & K.K. Tiscione (Eds.), Classical Rhetoric and Contemporary Law: A Critical Reader. University of Alabama Press.

Sciullo, N.J. (2022). Themes in New Left Histories. Humanities Bulletin, 5, 84-93.

Sciullo, N.J. (2022). The Un-Reality of Democratic Order. St. Thomas Journal of Law and Public Policy, 15, 522-543.

Sciullo, N.J. (2020). Accumulation, Cultural Capital, and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. ab-Original: Journal of Indigenous Studies and First Nations and First Peoples’ Cultures, 3, 192-211.

Sciullo, N.J. (2020). “What’s the Rap? Thinking Critically about Citation Practices Given the Rise of Hip-Hop.” In The Study on Social and Education Sciences 2020. Monument, CO: International Society for Technology, Education and Science.

Goodwin, P., Casas, R., Cintrón, R., Hanan, J.S., Rossman, L.L., & Sciullo, N.J. (2020). Precarious Economies: Capitalism’s Creative Destruction in the Age of Neoliberal Campus Planning. Review of Communication, 20, 152-160.

Sciullo, N.J. (2019). Justified’s Visual Rhetoric: Television’s Subtle Unmasking of the Myth of the South. Journal of Visual Literacy, 38, 335-349.

Sciullo, N.J. (2019). Accumulation, Cultural Capital, and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. ab-Original: Journal of Indigenous Studies and First Nations and First Peoples’ Cultures, X, ___-___.

Sciullo, N.J. (2019). Queer Phenomenology in Law: A Critical Theory of Orientation. Pace Law Review, 39, 667-709.

Sciullo, N.J. (2014). Unexpected Insights into Terrorism and National Security Law Through Children’s Literature: Reading The Butter Battle Book as Monstrosity. British Journal of American Legal Studies, 3, 507-527.  

Sciullo, N.J. (2013). Reassessing Corporate Personhood in the Wake of Occupy Wall Street. Widener Law Journal, 22, 611-685. 

Sciullo, N.J. (2012). On the Language of (Counter)Terrorism and the Legal Geography of Terror. Willamette Law Review, 48, 317-341. 

Sciullo, N.J. (2011). The Ghost in the Global War on Terror: Critical Perspectives and Dangerous Implications for National Security and the Law. Drexel Law Review, 3, 561-582. 

Sciullo, N.J. (2011). Zizek/Questions/Failing. Willamette Law Review, 47, 287-325. 

Sciullo, N.J. (2011). Amos Lee’s “Street Corner Preacher” through Michel Foucault’s Critique of Scientific Knowledge: A Critique of Legal Knowledge. the crit: a critical legal studies journal, 4, 1-30. 

Sciullo, N.J. (2009). Atlantean Prose and the Search for Democracy. the crit: a critical legal studies journal, 2, 130-153 (2009).   

Sciullo, N.J. (2008). Canada and Russia in the North Pole: Cooperation, Conflict, and Canadian Identity in the Interpretation of the Arctic Region. Crossroads, 8, 93-109.

Sciullo, N.J. (2008). A Whale of a Tale: Postcolonialism, Critical Theory, and Deconstruction: Revisiting the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling Through a Socio-legal Perspective. New York City Law Review, 12, 29-53.   

Sciullo, N.J. (2006). “This Woman’s Work” in a “Man’s World”: A Feminist Analysis of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002. Whittier Law Review, 28, 709-739 (2006). 

Sciullo, N.J. (2006). Regionalism, the Supreme Court, and Governance: Healing Problems that Know No Bounds. Howard Scroll: The Social Justice Law Review, 8, 21-55.   

Public Scholarship 

Sciullo, N.J. (2019). Tyrannical Fears: What if Trump Is the Tyrant Gun Owners Fear?. Activist History Review, available at https://activisthistory.com/2019/04/08/tyrannical-fears-what-if-trump-is-the-tyrant-gun-owners-fear/

Sciullo, N.J (2019). The United States’s Long History of Racist Fences, Real and Imagined. Monitor: Global Intelligence on Racism, available at http://monitoracism.eu/u-s-long-history-of-racist-fences-real-imagined/.

Sciullo, N.J (2017). Festivus as Anti-Capitalist Resistance. The Activist History Review, available at https://activisthistory.com/2017/12/23/festivus-as-anti-capitalist-performance/.

Sciullo, N.J. (2017). The Danger of True News on the Road to Charlottesville. The Activist History Review, available at https://activisthistory.com/2017/10/25/the-danger-of-true-news-on-the-road-to-charlottesville/.

Debate and Argumentation

Sciullo, N.J., & Christie, L. (forthcoming 2020). Toward a More Reflective Policy Debate Praxis: Allying Instead of Allyship Supporting Minority Debaters. Contemporary Argumentation and Debate, 39, ___-___.

Sciullo, N.J. (2021), Nuclear War!: Theorizing the Negative Impacts of Policy Debate’s Tropological Mistreatment of War for Military-Affiliated Learners. In C. McDermott, L.H. Hernandez, & A. May (Eds.), Supporting the Military-Affiliated Learners: Communication Approaches to Military Pedagogy Education (pp. 181-200). Lexington Books.

Sciullo, N.J. (2019). The Racial Coding of Performance Debate: Race, Difference, and Policy Debate. Argumentation and Advocacy, 55, 303-321.

Sciullo, N.J. (2018) (published in 2019). Competing Interpretations and Reasonability in Topicality Debates: An Argument for Ground and Education. The Forensic of Pi Kappa Delta, 103, 15-26.

Sciullo, N.J. (2017). Making Debate More Inclusive for the Student-Veteran Debater. Argumentation and Advocacy, 53, 138-148.

Sciullo, N.J. (2016). Toward a theory of “The role of the ballot is to vote for whoever does the best debating”. The Forensic of Pi Kappa Delta, 101, 35-44.

REPORTS

Bergman, E, Dragoș, S., Escobedo, L., Hadrog, R., Schoon, S., Sciullo, N.J., & Țîștea, I. (2022) A Resource Guide to Bringing Critical Romani Studies into Anti-Racist Pedagogy. Central European University.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Sciullo, N.J. (2021). Rural and urban divides during COVID teaching. Proceedings of the Georgia Communication Association, 91, 16-20. 

Sciullo, N.J., & Taylor, L. (2019). The non-vote vote as anti-legal identity: Catalan independence from the shame of Europe. International Society for the Study of Argumentation Proceedings, 6, 1057-1063.

Sciullo, N.J. (2014). Weak ontology and critical rhetoric: What Vattimo and White contribute to rhetorical theory. Proceedings of the Georgia Communication Association, 84, 67-71. 

Sciullo, N.J. (2013). Ontologies of Death: Being-towards-death in Tupac’s oeuvre and the criminal justice system,” Papers of the 2012 Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference: Hip Hop, Education & Expanding the Archival Imagination (pp. 32-37).  

Sciullo, N.J. (2013). Spirit injury: Expanding the discussion. Proceedings of the Georgia Communication Association, 83, 26-31.

REPRINTS

Sciullo, N.J. (2009). Conversations with the Law: Irony, Hyperbole and Identity Politics or Sake Pase?  Wyclef Jean, Shottas, and Haitian Jack: A Hip-Hop Creole Fusion of Rhetorical Resistance to the Law. Oklahoma City University Law Review, 34, 455-513 (2009). 

·      Reprinted in Pamela Bridgewater, andré douglas pond cummings, and Donald Tibbs (Eds.), Hip Hop and the Law: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement (pp. 117-124). Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press (2015).

·      Reprinted in Nanette Norris (Ed.), “Unionist Popular Culture and Rolls of Honour in the North of Ireland During the First World War” and Other Diverse Essays (pp. 59-79). Lewistown, NY: Edwin Mellon Press (2012).