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Arthur E Walzer

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Art Walzer

Arthur Walzer

Communication Studies 225 Ford Hall
Curriculum Vitae

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Narrative

My scholarship centers on the history of rhetoric, especially rhetoric in Ancient Athens and Rome and British rhetoric during the Renaissance and Enlightenment. I am currently working on the Renaissance writer Thomas Elyot (1490-1546). I have also long been interested in ethical concerns that rhetorical discourse raises.


Specialties

  • History of Rhetoric
  • Rhetoric and Ethics, Moral Philosophy
  • Civic Rhetoric
  • Classical Rhetoric
  • Renaissance Rhetoric
  • Eighteenth-Century Rhetoric

Publications

  • George Campbell: Rhetoric in the Age of Enlightenment. Walzer, Arthur Eugene, State University of New York Press, Author, 2002.
  • Viability of the Rhetorical Tradition. Walzer, Arthur Eugene, Richard Graff and Janet Atwill, State University of New York Press, Co-Editor, 2005.
  • Rereading Aristotle's Rhetoric.. Walzer, Arthur Eugene, Alan Gross and Michael Tiffany, Southern Illinois University Press, Co-Editor, 2000.

Awards

  • Fellow, Rhetoric Society of America: for Contributions to the Study of Rhetoric, 2004
  • Distinguished Teacher Award, College of Ag, University of Minnesota, 1991

Courses Taught

  • Perspectives on Ethics,RhetoricClassical, Modern, Postmodern
  • Perspectives on Knowledge, Power, Rhetoric in 18th Century
  • Rhetorical Theory: Classical Era
  • Rhetorical Theory: Modern Era
  • Rhetorical Fictions and 20th Century Conflicts
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