Expertise

My work is about the relationship of hermeneutics, which is a theory of understanding modeled on the experience of reading a text, and rhetoric, which I think about as the art of discourse in the broadest sense.

Past Affiliations

Associate Professor, Department of Communication and Culture

Communities
English
Degrees
PhD, Wayne State University, Communication Specialization in Rhetoric, 1996
MA, Eastern Michigan University, Education, 1992
BA, University of Michigan, Languages and Literatures, 1978