"This is sure to become the standard edition of one of the most influential works in the history of rhetoric."―Thomas P. Miller
Nominated for an RSA and an MLA Book Award.

New Scholarship:
“The Tyranny of Best Practices: Structural Violence and Writing Programs.” Forthcoming Spring 2018, JAEPL.


Selected Recent Presentations:
“Theorizing a Transatlantic History of Rhetoric: Emerson, Burke, and the Legacies of Eloquence.” (Read in abstenia by Paul Dahlgren). International Society for the History of Rhetoric, London, England, July 2017.

“Key Findings from a Cs Research Grant on Veterans in the Writing Classroom.” Workshop Leader. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Tampa Bay, FL, March 2015.

“Stowe’s Challenge to Changing Literacy.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Tampa Bay, FL, March 2015.

“American Exceptionalism, Divine Birthright, and Iraq War Memoirs.” Modern Language Association. Vancouver, BC, January 2015.

“Transmedia and the Limits of Military Expression.” Thomas R. Watson Conference, Louisville, KY, October 2014.

“Accessing Training, Opening Dialogue: Helping Writing Faculty Know More about WhoStudentVeteransAre.” ConferenceonCollegeCompositionandCommunication, Indianapolis, IN, March 2014.

“Faculty Responsibility to Veterans in the Classroom.” Featured Speaker and Panel. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Las Vegas, NV, March 2013.

“Literary Representations of War in Iraq War Memoirs.” Modern Language Association, Boston, MA, January 2013.