Brian A. Lain

Previous Scheduled Teaching

Published Intellectual Contributions

Abstracts and Proceedings

• Lain, B.A., Treat, S. (2010). Authors, Audiences, and Argument: ABC's LOST and Narrative Structure After 9/11. D.S. Gouran (Ed.), The Functions of Argument and Social Context Selected papers from the 16th Biennial Conference on Argumentation, Alta, UT.. 281-288. Annadale Press.
• Lain, B.A. (2008). "Citizenship and Detention in the War on Terror: What the American Government Learned From Manzanar (And Applied in Guantanamo).". Tokyo, Argumentation, the Law, and Justice: Proceedings of the 3rd Tokyo Conference on Argumentation, Chuo University.
• Lain, B.A. (2006). "Identifying (with) the Place of Power: Recognition in Arguments.". Alta, Engaging Argument: Proceedings of the fourteenth NCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation.
• Lain, B.A. (2006). "Remembering Protest, Protesting Memory: The Histories and Uses of Japanese American Internment Resistance.". Alta, Critical Problems in Argumentation: Proceedings from the Thirteenth NCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation.
• Lain, B.A. (2004). "American Uses of Japanese American Memory: How Internment Narratives Are Put into Discourse.". Tokyo, Proceedings from the Second Tokyo Conference on Argumentation.
• Lain, B.A. (2004). "Panoramic Memories: Realism, Agency, and the Remembrance of Japanese American Internment.". Rhetorical Democracy: Discursive Practices of Civic Engagement. Eds. Gerard Hauser and Amy Grim. Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc.
• Lain, B.A. (1998). "Liberation Pedagogy: Addressing Oppression through Debate Arguments.". Argument in a Time of Change: Definitions, Frameworks, and Critiques, Proceedings of the Tenth NCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation. Ed. James F. Klump. Annandale, VA, NCA Press.

Book

• Lain, B.A., Borchers, T. (1995). "Special Issue: 69th Annual Discussion and Debate Source Book: 1995-96 High School Debate Topic: China Policy.". Richard G. Fawcett Ed.. The Forensic Quarterly.

Book Chapter

• Anderson-Lain, K.A., Mabrey, P., Voth, B., Lain, B.A. (2022). Student learning outcomes and high-impact practices.. K. Young & D. Cram-Helwich (Eds.), Reimagining the future of intercollegiate debate: Pedagogy, practice, sustainability.. 22-30. American Forensics Association. https://www.americanforensicsassoc.org/reimagining-the-future-of-intercollegiate-debate-2022-book/
• Lain, B.A. (2020). Notes on the Humor of Translation: American Policy Debate Theory and Comic Translations. Networking Argument: Selected Works from the 20th NCA/AFA Alta Conference on Argumentation.
• et al.. (2010). Development and Advancement in the Coaching Profession: A Report on Professional Debate Coaching Positions and Benchmarks for the Profession.. A. Louden (Ed.) Navigating Opportunity: Policy Debate in the 21st Century. New York, Idebate Press.

Conference Proceeding

• Lain, B.A., Lain, B.A., Hample, D. (2021). Demonstrating academic relevance and rigor: Linking the NCA Learning Outcomes in Communication to debate program assessment through portfolios. Local Theories of Argument: Selected Works from the 21st NCA/AFA Alta Conference on Argumentation. Routledge.
• Lain, B.A., Anderson-Lain, K. (2020). Networking debate and civic engagement: Measuring the impact of high school debate camp.. C. Winkler (Ed.), Networking Argument: Selected Works from the 20th NCA/AFA Alta Conference on Argumentation..
• Lain, B.A., Hlavacik, M.J., Ivanovic, M., Ontiveros-Kersch, B. (2018). Recovering Debate Coach as Civic Figure: Highly Active Debate Coaches, Their Participation in Civic Outreach Activities, and Reward Perceptions.. Recovering Argument: Selected Works from the 19th NCA/AFA Alta Conference on Argumentation. Annandale, Taylor and Francis.
• Lain, B.A. (2010). Speaker Points, Wins, and Losses: A History of the Evolution of Academic Debate and its Place within Communication Studies.. D.S. Gouran (Ed.), The Functions of Argument and Social Context Selected papers from the 16th Biennial Conference on Argumentation, Alta, UT.. 274-280. Annandale Press.

Journal Article

• Holloway, L.D., Rowe, J.D., Weiller-Abels, K.H., Lain, B.A., Walker, L.D. (2020). The Chair's Role in Promoting Work-Life Balance. The Department Chair. 30 (3) 4. Boston, MA, Jossey-Bass.
• Lain, B.A., Anderson-Lain, K.A., Oliver, L. (2017). Making Debate Normal: The Texas Normal Debating League’s Democratic and Pedagogical Functions. 37 (1) 129-161. http://www.cedadebate.org/CAD/index.php/CAD/article/view/323/305
• Hlavacik, M.J., Lain, B.A., Ivanovic, M., Ontiveros-Kersch, B. (2016). The State of College Debate According to a Survey of Its Coaches: Data to Ground the Discussion of Debate and Civic Engagement. Communication Education. 65 382-396. Abington, Oxfordshire, Taylor & Francis.
• Lain, B.A., Zompetti, J.P. (2005). "Kritiking as Argumentative Praxis." . Speaker and Gavel.

Monograph

• Lain, B.A. (2001). "Moving Walls across the Common Ground of the Japanese American National Museum: An Examination of a National Minority Museum's Strategy of Connecting American and Japanese Values.". NAAS/NAHLS/NANAS/IAAS 2001 Culture Monograph Series. Moorehead, KY, Moorehead State Univ.

Popular Press Article

• Lain, B.A. (2002). "Performing Japanese American Citizenship: The Case of Congressional Reparations Hearings.". An Imperfect World: Resonance from the Nation's Violence, International Association of Asian Studies 2002 Race Relations Monograph Series. Moorehead, KY, Moorehead State Univ.
• Lain, B.A. (1996). "Verb, That's What's Happening: Kritiking Theory and Practice.". The Shock, The Shame, The Horror: Juvenile Crime: Debater's Research Guide. Winston-Salem, NC, Wake Forest University Press.
• Lain, B.A., Stafford, S. (1994). "Hitchhiking on the Information Superhighway: Research on the Net.". Immigration Regulation: Borderline Policies: Debater's Research Guide. Forest University Press.
• Lain, B.A. (1994). "Taking a New Route to the Tournament: What the Information Superhighway Means for Debate and Evidence.". Immigration Regulation: Borderline Policies: Debater's Research Guide. Wake Forest University Press.
• Lain, B.A. (1991). "A Research Primer.". Addressing Homelessness: Social Services in the 1990s: Debater's Research Guide. Wake Forest University Press.

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Grant - Research

• Bland, D.M., , l., Bell, V., Thompson, R., "UNT Digital Adjunct Faculty Training Academy," sponsored by Office for the Provost & VPAA, Office of Faculty Success, University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (2019 - 2020).