John Louis Lucaites (PhD, University of Iowa, 1984) is associate professor in the Department of Communication and Culture, adjunct associate professor in American Studies at Indiana University. He is also a Fellow at the Poynter center for the Study of Ethics at Indiana University. He teaches courses in rhetorical theory and the relationship between rhetoric and social theory. His current research focuses on the critique of liberalism and democratic culture. He is the coauthor with Celeste Michelle Condit of Crafting Equality: America's Anglo-African Word (Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award for Outstanding Scholarship, National Communication Association, 1993).
Celeste Michelle Condit (PhD, University of Iowa, 1982) is Professor of Speech Communication at the University of Georgia. She is coediting Women's studies in Communication. Her books include Decoding Abortion Rhetoric: The Communication of Social Change (University of Illinois, 1990) and Crafting Equality: America's Anglo-African Word (University of Chicago, 1993; coauthored with John Louis Lucaites). She was the corecipient of the Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award and the Golden Monograph Award and the recipient of the Dogulas Ehninger Award.
Sally A. Caudill (PhD, University of Georgia, 1998) is a
Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication
Studies at Macalester College. She has published several essays on
women's roles in reproductive technologies and public speaking. At
present, her research interests include multicultural communication
and the rhetoric of resistance. She has won numerous teaching
awards and served as a student representative to the Women's Caucus
of the National Communication Association.
"Lucaites, Condit, and Caudill have done an exceptional job of
mapping out the terrain of issues facing contemporary rhetorical
theorists. This volume covers a breadth of perspectives and issues,
serving well both as an introduction to contemporary debates and as
a launching pad for the next generation of scholarship. With this
volume as a sourcebook and guide, I feel optimistic about the
future of rhetorical theory."--John M. Sloop, PhD, Department of
Communication Studies, Vanderbilt University Nashville,
Tennessee
"This much needed-volume captures the vitality and growing pains of
recent rhetorical theory. Readers may be thankful that this body of
work, previously known to a virtual community of rhetoricians, now
has been made easily accessible. It is essential reading for anyone
who would join the expanding conversation about rhetoric."--John
Lyne, PhD, Professor of Communications, University of Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
"This book introduces important essays in contemporary rhetorical
theory and offers insightful frames of interpretation pointing up
their collective significance. It also foreshadows an agenda for
the next generation of rhetorical scholarship. Helping us
understand the rhetorical dimension of what is often called 'human
nature,' the book arouses our curiosity--and perhaps our
foreboding--about the world we constantly shape and reshape as we
play the deeply human game of rhetoric."--Michael Osborn, Professor
Emeritus, Department of Communication, University of Memphis
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