Randall Bytwerk, professor of communication arts and sciences, department co-chair
bytw@calvin.edu
616-526-6286
DeVos Communication Center 250A
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Educational background
- BA – Calvin College, 1971
- MA – Northwestern University, 1973
- PhD – Northwestern University, 1975
Research interests
Nazi and East German propaganda
Unusual interests
Professor Bytwerk sponsors the Moses Award, given to the perpetrators of particularly good practical jokes.
He's been backpacking in California's Sierra Nevada every summer for nearly 40 years.
Selected publications
"Grassroots Propaganda in the Third Reich: The Reich Ring for National Socialist Propaganda and Public Enlightenment," German Studies Review 33 (2010), 93-118.
Landmark Speeches of National Socialism (College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press, 2008).
"The Argument for Genocide in Nazi Propaganda,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 91 (2005), 37-62.
Bending Spines: The Propagandas of Nazi Germany and the German Democratic Republic (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2004). Translations into French and Chinese in progress.
Julius Streicher: The Man Who Persuaded a Nation to Hate Jews (New York: Stein and Day, 1983). Reprinted by Dorset Press, New York, 1988. Revised edition published by Cooper Square Press, 2001.
Additional information
German Propaganda Archive - A major collection of translations of propaganda material from the Nazi and East German eras. It includes over 400 translations.
Curriculum vitae
Download Randall Bytwerk's professional curriculum vitae.
