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CURRICULUM VITAE

Steven Mailloux [email protected]

Department of English 310-338-3018 Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles, CA 90045

EDUCATION: 1977 Ph.D. in English (Rhetoric, , and Literature Program), University of Southern California 1974 M.A. in English, University of Southern California 1972 B.A., Loyola University of Los Angeles

TEACHING POSITIONS: 2009-Present President’s Professor of Rhetoric, Loyola Marymount University 2001-2010 Chancellor’s Professor of Rhetoric, Univ. of California,Irvine 1991-2010 Professor of English, University of California, Irvine 1986-1991 Professor of English, Syracuse University 1982-86 Associate Professor of English, University of Miami 1979-82 Assistant Professor of English, University of Miami 1977-79 Assistant Professor of English, Temple University

GRANTS AND AWARDS: 2004 Fulbright Fellowship to lecture at Summer School in the , Moscow State University, Russian Federation 2004 Fellowship in “ of the Neighbor” Resident Group, University of California Humanities Institute 1996 Fellowship in "Post-Nationalist American Studies" Resident Group, University of California Humanities 1985 Andrew Mellon Fellowship, Stanford Humanities Center 1981,1984 Orovitz Summer Awards in Arts and Humanities, Univ. of Miami 1983 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowship 1982 Fellowship, School of Criticism & , Northwestern Univ. 1979 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (1 year)

BOOKS: Disciplinary Identities: Rhetorical Paths of English, Speech, and Composition. Modern Association, 2006.

Reception : Rhetoric, , and American Cultural . Cornell University Press, 1998. Reissued 2009.

Rhetoric, Sophistry, Pragmatism. Edited for series on Literature, Culture, Theory. Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Rhetorical Power. Cornell University Press, 1989. Reissued 2009.

Interpreting and Literature: A Hermeneutic Reader. Co-edited with Sanford Levinson. Northwestern University Press, 1988.

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Interpretive Conventions: The Reader in the Study of American Fiction. Cornell University Press, 1982; paperback edition, 1984.

OTHER COLLECTIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES: Rhetoric, Literature, and Interpretation. Special Associate Editor for Bucknell Review, 28, no. 2 (1983).

Theories of Reading, Looking, and Listening. Special Associate Editor for Bucknell Review, 26, no. 1 (1981).

Checklist of Melville Reviews. Compiled with Hershel Parker. Melville Society, 1975.

ESSAYS AND SHORTER PUBLICATIONS: “Rhetorical Ways of Proceeding: Eloquentia Perfecta in U.S. Jesuit Colleges.” In Traditions of Eloquence: The Jesuits and Modern Rhetorical Studies. Ed. Cinthia Gannett and John Brereton. Fordham UP, 2015.

“Jesuit Comparative Theorhetoric.” Rhetoric Review 34 (2015): 363-66.

“Jesuit Eloquentia Perfecta and Theotropic . Studies in and 34 (July 2015): 403-12.

“Notes on Prayerful Rhetoric with Divinities.” Philosophy and Rhetoric, 47 (2014): 419-33.

“Rhetorical Pragmatism and Histories of New Media: Rorty on Kierkegaard on the .” Amerikastudien/American Studies 58 (Winter 2014): 279- 90.

“Narrative as Embodied Intensities: The Eloquence of Travel in Nineteenth- Century Rome.” Narrative 21 (May 2013):125-39.

“Enactment , Jesuit Practices, and Rhetorical Hermeneutics.” In Re/Theorizing Writing Histories of_Rhetoric. Ed. Michelle Ballif Southern Illinois University Press, 2013. Pp. 25-40.

“A Good Person Speaking Well.” Conversations 43 (Spring 2013): 10-12.

“Theotropic Logology: J. Hillis Miller, Paul de Man and .” In The Political_Archive of Paul de Man: Property, Sovereignty, and the Theotropic. Ed. Martin McQuillan. Edinburgh UP, 2012. Pp. 72-80.

“Humanist Controversies: The Rhetorical Humanism of Ernesto Grassi and Michael Leff.” Philosophy and Rhetoric, 45 (2012): 134-47.

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“Euro-American Rhetorical Pragmatism: Democratic Deliberation, Humanist Controversies, and Purposeful Mediation.” Pragmatism Today 2 (Winter 2011): 81-91

“Hermeneutics, Deconstruction, Allegory." In The Cambridge Companion to Allegory. Ed. Rita Copeland and Peter Struck. Cambridge UP, 2010. Pp. 254-65.

“Reading the Past into the Future: Changing Disciplinary Identities in Rhetorical Studies.” In Reengaging the Prospect of Rhetoric: Current Conversations and Contemporary Challenges. Ed. Marque Porrovecchio. Routledge, 2010. Pp. 175-81.

Interview with Keith Gilyard. In Conversations in Cultural Rhetoric and Composition Studies. Ed. Gilyard and Victor Taylor. Davies Group, 2009. Pp. 29-51.

“Reflections on Lincoln and English Studies.” College English 72 (November 2009): 162-63.

“Political in Douglass and Melville.” In Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville: Essays in Relation. Ed. Robert Levine and Samuel Otter. University of North Carolina Press, 2008. Pp. 159-80.

“Judging and Hoping: Rhetorical Effects of Reading about Reading.” In New Directions in American Reception Study. Ed. Philip Goldstein and James L. Machor. Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. 23-31.

“One Size Doesn’t Fit All: The Contingent Universality of Rhetoric.” In Sizing Up Rhetoric. Ed. David Zarefsky and Elizabeth Benacka. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, 2008. Pp. 7-19.

“Thinking with Rhetorical Figures: Performing Racial and Disciplinary Identities in Late-Nineteenth-Century America.” American Literary History, 18 (Winter 2006): 695-711.

“Thinking in Public with Rhetoric.” Philosophy and Rhetoric, 36, no. 2 (2006): 140-47.

“Places in : The Inns and Outhouses of Rhetoric.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 92 (February 2006): 53-68.

“In Memoriam: Louise M. Rosenblatt, 1904-2005.”PMLA 120(May 2005): 886-87.

“Using Traditions: A Gadamerian Reflection on Canons, Contexts and Rhetoric.” In The Viability of the Rhetorical Tradition. Ed. Janet Atwell, Richard Graff, and Art Walzer. Albany: SUNY, 2005.

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“Rhetorical Hermeneutics Still Again: or, On the Track of Phronêsis.” A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism. Ed. Walter Jost and Wendy Olmsted. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.

“Contingent Universals: Religious Fundamentalism, Academic Postmodernism, and Public Intellectuals in the Aftermath of September 11.” Cardozo Law Review 24 (April 2003): 1583-1604. (Reprinted as “Contingent Universals and Pragmatism.” In Postmodern Sophistry: Stanley Fish and the Critical Enterprise. Ed. Gary A. Olson. Albany: SUNY Press, 2004.)

“Rhetoric and Literature.” International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. 2nd ed. Ed. William Frawley. Volume 2. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 472-75.

“Practices, , and Traditions: Further Thoughts on the Disciplinary Identities of English and Studies.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 32 (2003): 129-38.

“Re-Marking Slave Bodies: Rhetoric as Production and Reception.” Philosophy and Rhetoric 35 (2002):96-119.

“From Segregated Schools to Dimpled Chads: Rhetorical Hermeneutics and the Suasive Work of Theory.” In Rhetoric and Composition as Intellectual Work. Ed. Gary A. Olson. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002. Pp. 131-42.

"Making Comparisons: First Contact, Ethnocentrism, and Cross-Cultural Communication." In Post-Nationalist American Studies. Ed. John Carlos Rowe. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

"Disciplinary Identities: On the Rhetorical Paths between English and ." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 30 (Spring 2000).

"Rhetorical Pragmatism and the Uses of Literature." REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature 15 (1999).

"Reading Typos, Reading Archives." College English 61 (May 1999).

"Measuring Justice: Notes on Fish, Foucault, and the Law." Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature 9 (Spring/Summer 1997): 1-10. Reprinted in Law Text Culture (Australia) 3 (1997).

"Articulation and Understanding: The Pragmatic Intimacy of Rhetoric and Hermeneutics." In Hermeneutics and Rhetoric in Our Time. Ed. Walter Jost and Michael Hyde. New Haven: Yale U P, 1997.

"Rhetoric 2000: The New Prospects." In Making and Unmaking the 5

Prospects of Rhetoric. Ed. Theresa Enos. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1997.

"The Politics of Doing: A Partial Response." In Reconceptualizing American Literary/: Rhetoric, History, and Politics in the Humanities. Ed. William Cain. Garland Press, 1996.

"Hermeneutics," "Pragmatism," and "Reception Study" entries for the Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition: Communication from Ancient to the Age. Ed. Theresa Enos. Garland Press, 1996.

"Persuasions Good and Bad: Bunyan, Iser, and Fish on Rhetoric and Hermeneutics in Literature." Studies in the Literary Imagination 28 (1995).

"Rhetoric Returns to Syracuse: Curricular Reform in English Studies." In English Studies/Culture Studies: Institutionalizing Dissent. Ed. Nancy Ruff and Isaiah Smithson. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

"Rhetorically Covering Conflict: Gerald Graff as Curricular Rhetorician." In Teaching the Conflicts: Gerald Graff, Curricular Reform, and the Culture Wars. Ed. William Cain. New York: Garland Press, 1994.

"Misreading as an Historical Act: Cultural Rhetoric, Bible Politics, and Fuller's 1845 Review of Douglass' Narrative." In Readers in History: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Contexts of Response. Ed. James Machor. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.

"A Pretext for Rhetoric: Dancing 'Round the Revolution." In PRE/TEXT: The First Decade, a Retrospective. Ed. Victor J. Vitanza. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993.

"Rhetorical Hermeneutics Revisited." Text and Performance Quarterly, 11 (July 1991).

“The Rhetorical Politics of Editing: Responses to Eggert, Greetham, Cohen and Jackson." In Devils and Angels: Editing and Literary Theory. Ed. Philip Cohen. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1991.

"The Rhetorical Use and Abuse of Fiction: Eating in Late Nineteenth-Century America." boundary 2, 17 (Spring 1990).

"The Turns of Reader-Response Criticism." In Conversations: Contemporary Critical Theory and the Teaching of Literature. Ed. 6

Charles Moran and Elizabeth Penfield. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1990.

"Interpretation." In Critical Terms for Literary Study. Ed. Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin. University of Chicago Press, 1989. Spanish : "Interpretacion." Trans. Antonio Ballesteros Gonzalez. In Hermeneutica. Ed. Jose Domingez Caparros. Madrid, 1997.

"Judging the Judge: Billy Budd and 'Proof to All Sophistries.'" Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature, 1 (Spring 1989).

"Power, Rhetoric, and Theory: Reading American Texts." In Making Sense: The Role of the Reader in Contemporary American Fiction. Ed. Gerhard Hoffmann. Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 1989.

"Reading Huckleberry Finn: The Rhetoric of Performed Ideology." In New Essays on Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Ed. Louis J. Budd. Cambridge University Press, 1985.

"Rhetorical Hermeneutics." Critical , 11 (June 1985).

" or Consequences: On Being Against Theory." Critical Inquiry, 9 (June 1983). Reprinted in Against Theory: Literary Studies and the New Pragmatism. Ed. W. J. T. Mitchell. University of Chicago Press, 1985.

"Convention and Context." New Literary History, 14 (Winter 1983).

"Introduction: 'Reading-Texts.'" Bucknell Review, 26, no. 1 (1981).

"Reading in Critical Theory" (-review of Tompkins' Reader-Response Criticism). MLN, 96 (December 1981).

"How to Be Persuasive in Literary Theory: The Case of Wolfgang Iser" (Essay-review of Iser's The Act of Reading). Centrum, n.s. 1 (1981).

"Learning to Read: Interpretation and Reader-Response Criticism." Studies in the Literary Imagination, 12 (Spring 1979). Reprinted in American Critics at Work: Examinations of Contemporary Literary Theories. Ed. Victor Kramer. Whitston Publishers, 1985.

"All Readers Reading." Reader, no. 5 (1978).

" and Composition Theory." College Composition and Communication, 29 (October 1978).

"The Red Badge of Courage and Interpretive Conventions: Critical Response to a Maimed Text." Studies in the Novel, 10 (Spring 1978). 7

"Reader-Response Criticism?" Genre, 10 (Fall 1977).

"Stanley Fish's 'Interpreting the Variorum': Advance or Retreat?" Critical Inquiry, 3 (Autumn 1976).

"Evaluation and Reader-Response Criticism: Values Implicit in Affective Stylistics." Style, 10 (Summer 1976).

OTHER REPRINTS: “The Turns of Reader-Response Criticism.” In Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Linda Paviovski. Gale, 2004.

“Interpretation and Rhetorical Hermeneutics.” Ch. 3 of Reception Histories. In Reception Study: From Literary Theory to Cultural Studies. Ed. James L. Machor and Philip Goldstein. Routledge, 2001.

“The Bad-Boy Boom.” Part of Ch. 4 of Rhetorical Power. In the New Riverside Edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Ed. Susan K. Harris. : Houghton Mifflin, 2000.

"Reading the Culture Wars: Traveling Rhetoric and the Reception of Curricular Reform." Part of Ch. 7 of Reception Histories. In At the Intersection: Cultural Studies and Rhetorical Studies. Ed. Thomas Rosteck. New York: Guilford, 1999.

REVIEWS OF: Debra Hawhee’s Moving Bodies: Kenneth Burke at the Edges of Language. Rhetorica 30 (2012): 94-97.

James N. Comas’s Between Politics and Ethics: Toward a Vocative History of English Studies. Rhetoric Review 27 (2008): 442-46.

Reed Dasenbrock’s Truth and Consequences: Intentions, Conventions, and the New Thematics. Rhetoric Review 21 (2002).

Richard H. Brodhead's Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America. New England Quarterly, 67 (1994).

Wolfgang Iser's Prospecting: From Reader Response to Literary . Modern , 89 (November 1991).

The Rhetoric of Interpretation and the Interpretation of Rhetoric, ed. Paul Hernadi. Contemporary Literature, 32 (Summer 1991).

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T. K. Seung's Semiotics and Thematics in Hermeneutics. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 43 (Spring 1984).

Hans Robert Jauss's Aesthetic and Literary Hermeneutics. Minnesota Review, N.S. 20 (Fall 1983).

The Reader in the Text: Essays on Audiences and Interpretation, ed. Susan Suleiman and Inge Crosman. Comparative Literature, 35 (Spring 1983).

Susan Horton's Interpreting Interpreting. Comparative Literature, 33 (Summer 1981).

David Bleich's Subjective Criticism. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 38 (Winter 1979).

Directions for Criticism: Structuralism and Its Alternatives, ed. L.S. Dembo and Murray Krieger. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 37 (Fall 1978).

CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED LECTURES since 2000:

“Faithful Dialogues.” Fifth University of South Carolina Conference on Rhetorical Theory, Columbia, SC (October 2015).

“The Virtues of Eloquentia Perfecta: Jesuit Rhetoric in the Nineteenth- Century.” Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Tübingen (July 2015).

“Theorhetoric and Restored Jesuitism.” International Symposium on Jesuit Studies: Exploring Jesuit Distinctiveness, Boston College (June 2015).

“The Political Theology of Reception: From Huck Finn to Francis Finn, S.J.” Conference of the American Literature Association, Boston (May 2015).

Response to J. Hillis Miller. Conference: “Is Theory Critical?” University of California, Irvine (May 2015).

“Rhetorically Reconfiguring English Studies.” Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, Vancouver (January 2015).

“Rhetorics of .” Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, Chicago (November 2014).

“On the Future of the Ph.D. in English.” Meeting of the California State University’s English Council, San Diego (October 2014). 9

“Jesuit Theorhetoric in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Education.” Crossings and Dwellings: Restored Jesuits, Women Religious, American Experience, 1814-2014. Loyola University Chicago (October 2014).

“Jesuit Theorhetoric as Equipment for Living.” Triennial Conference of the Kenneth Burke Society, St. Louis University (July 2014).

“Jesuit Theorhetoric and Ignatian Spiritual Exercises,” “Disciplinary Identities and the Rhetorical 60s,” and “Jesuit Comparative Theorhetoric.” Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America, San Antonio (May 2014).

“Reconfiguring Disciplinary Identities.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Indianapolis (March 2014).

“Rhetoric in English Departments Yesterday Today and Tomorrow.” Department of English. Indiana University (March 2014).

“Rhetoric as Translator, Translation as Rhetoric.” Fourth University of South Carolina Conference on Rhetorical Theory, Columbia, SC (October 2013).

“Jesuit Theorhetoric.” Workshop: “Speaking-For: Figures of Advocacy and Representation.” (September 2013).

“Under the Sign of Theology: Kenneth Burke on Language and the Supernatural Order.” Keynote lecture at Conference on Rhetoric as Equipment for Living: Kenneth Burke, Culture and Education. Ghent University, Belgium (May 2013).

“Jesuitical Possibilities for a Worldly Theorhetoric.” Rhetoric and the Possible. Northwestern University (May 2013).

“Human Acts, Divine Publics.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Las Vegas (March 2013).

“The Virtues of Eloquence.” Keynote Lecture at Heartland Delta Conversations, New Orleans (February 2013).

“Huck Finn Meets Tom Playfair: Virtue Ethics and Jesuit Narrative Rhetoric.” Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, Boston (January 2013).

“The Author Still Hasn’t Left the Building: Intention, Conventions, and Rhetorical Agency.” Conference on Textual Studies and Literary Theory, Loyola University of Chicago (October 2012). 10

“Rhetorical Arts at LMU: The Prequel” and “KB’s Theotropic Logology.” Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America, Philadelphia (May 2012).

“Critical Theory Today and Yesterday.” Undergraduate Critical Theory Emphasis Conference, “Critical Theory Today,” University of California, Irvine (April 2012).

“Eloquentia Perfecta: Jesuit Theo-Rhetoric as Media Theory.” St. Louis University (March 2012).

“Eloquentia Perfecta and Jesuit Education, Then and Now.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, St. Louis (March 2012).

“Narrative as Embodied Intensities: The Eloquence of Travel in Nineteenth- Century Rome.” International Conference on Narrative, Las Vegas (March 2012).

“Connecting the Multiple Fields of an English Department.” Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, (January 2012).

“Rhetorical Acts, Human and Divine.” Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, New Orleans (November 2011).

“The Stakes of Rhetoric’s Becoming.” Third University of South Carolina Conference on Rhetorical Theory, Columbia, SC (October 2011).

“Eloquentia Perfecta, Today and Tomorrow.” Inaugural Conference on Jesuit Higher Education: Rhetoric, Philosophy, and Theology. Loyola Marymount University (October 2011).

“Eloquentia Imperfecta, Jesuit Rhetoric in the Sixteenth and Twenty-first Centuries.” Inaugural Distinguished Guest Lecture in Jesuit , Center for Teaching Excellence, Fordham University (September 2011).

“How Rhetoric Thinks Historically: The Non-Encounter between Martin Heidegger and Kenneth Burke.” Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Bologna (July 2011).

“Repeopling Rome: The Travel Imaginary of Melville and Company.” International Melville Conference: Melville and Rome, Rome (June 2011).

“Gods and Dogs: Conferencing with Kenneth Burke on Language and Religion.” Triennial Conference of the Kenneth Burke Society, Clemson University (May 2011).

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Annual Nina Mae Kellogg Lecture: “Witnessing with Words: Rhetoric, Religion and the Law." Portland State University (May 2011).

"Eloquentia Perfecta and Rhetorical Hermeneutics." Fordham University (May 2011)

“Rhetorical Hermeneutics of the Subject: Politics, Spiritual Exercises, and the Aesthetics of Experience.” Experimental Critical Theory Symposium, UCLA (May 2011)

“Rhetoric Fragmentation as Opportunity.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta (April 2011).

“From Metal Men Comics to Cultural Rhetoric.” Keynote address to the Loyola Marymount University Honors Program Summit, Newport Beach (August 2010).

"African-American Rhetoric, Christian Political Theology, and Classical Culture." Classics in the Modern World: A Democratic Turn? Open University, Milton Keynes, England (June 2010).

“Eloquentia Perfecta and the Early Tradition of Jesuit Rhetoric” and “American Rhetorical Pragmatism.” Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America, Minneapolis (May 2010).

“Rhetorical Hermeneutics and Kierkegaard on the Internet.” Graduate Symposium in Interdisciplinary Rhetorical Studies, University of Minneapolis (May 2010).

“Political Theology in Late-Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Law.” Inaugural Conference of 19C: Society for Nineteenth-Century Americanists. Penn State University (May 2010).

“Rhetorical Pragmatism and Histories of New Media: Rorty on Dreyfus on Kierkegaard on the Internet.” Time Will Tell, But Won't: In Memory of Richard Rorty. University of California, Irvine (May 2010).

“Paul’s TheoRhetoric: Interpretive Politics in Law and Religion.” English Graduate Colloquium. University of California, Irvine (February 2010).

“TheoRhetoric as Media Theory.” Cultures of Communication, of Media in Early Modern Europe and Beyond. Clark Library (December 2009).

“Witnessing with Words: Rhetoric, Religion, and the Law.” Faculty Colloquium. Loyola Marymount University (November 2009).

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“Reading the Older Greek Sophists as Proto-Pragmatists.” Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, Chicago (November 2009).

“Rhetorical Questions.” Second University of South Carolina Conference on Rhetorical Theory, Columbia, SC (October 2009).

“TheoRhetoric: St. Paul, Interpretive Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act.” Conference on Law, Literature, and Religion. Villanova Law School (September 2009).

“Rhetorical Humanism and Anti-Humanism: Heidegger, Grassi, and Burke as Readers of Theology.” Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Montreal (July 2009).

“Paul as TheoRhetor: Later Christian Readings in Political Theology.” Conference on “Exploring Paul.” Saint Paul University, Ottawa (April 2009).

“Theotropic Logology? Paul de Man and Kenneth Burke.” Conference on “Property, Sovereignty, and the Theotropic: Paul de Man’s Political Archive.” University of California, Irvine (April 2009)

“TheoRhetoric as Narrative.” Project Narrative at Ohio State University. (April 2009).

“Thinking Rhetorically Together: Disciplinary Futures for English Departments.” University of Houston (March 2009).

“WRW’s RLL: The Early Years.” Session on “Forming the Profession: W. Ross Winterowd and the History of Composition Studies.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Franscisco (March 2009).

Beck Lecture: “ and Performance in the Liberal Arts.” Denison University (February 2009).

“TheoRhetoric, St. Paul, and the Chinese Exclusion Act.” Loyola Marymount University (January 2009).

“Rhetorical Hermeneutics and the Rhetorical Lens.” Law and Rhetoric Workshop (Mercer University School of Law), San Diego (January 2009).

“What is Pragmatism as a Tradition of Thought.” Special Session: Pragmatism and Literature. Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association. San Francisco (December 2008).

“Reading the Past into the Future: Changing Disciplinary Identities in Rhetorical Studies.” Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association, San Diego (November 2008). 13

“Engaging Rhetorical Theory.” First University of South Carolina Conference on Rhetorical Theory, Columbia, SC (October 2008).

“The Responsibilities of Religious Rhetoric: Sacred Hermeneutics and Conflicts over Identity and Universalism.” Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America, Seattle (May 2008).

“Are Human Universal? Absolute? Global?” Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America, Seattle (May 2008).

“‘I majored in miracles’: Race and Religion in American Politics.” Loyola Marymount University (April 2008).

“Rhetorical Prospects, Disciplinary Futures.” Stanford University (January 2008).

“Truth, Events, Rhetoric.” Session: Rhetoric and/as Ethics. Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, Chicago (December 2007).

“Disciplinarity . . . and Beyond?” Division on the History and Theory of Rhetoric and Composition. Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, Chicago (December 2007).

“Identity as Interpreted Being: The Fidelity of Rhetorically Performing Race.” Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, Chicago (November 2007).

“Cosmopolitan Identity, Universalist Rhetoric and Political Contingency." Cosmopolitanism and Globalization: 20th Anniversary Conference at the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook. SUNY Stony Brook (October 2007). Also, SUNY Buffalo (April 2008).

“Reading Events: Political Enactment and Rhetorical Hermeneutics." Conference of the Reception Study Society. University of Missouri, Kansas City (September 2007).

“Paul’s Rhetorical Thinking: Old Identity Politics and New Universalisms.” Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Strasbourg (July 2007).

“Identity, Event, Rhetoric.” Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas. University of Malta (July 2006).

“One Size Doesn’t Fit All: The Contingent Universality of Rhetoric.” Keynote at the Twelfth Biennial Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America, Memphis (May 2006).

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“Communicating in Public . . . or Not.” Session: Counter-Publics, Counter- Rhetorics, Counter-Rationality; and Respondent in Session: Rhetorical Hermeneutics and Constitutional Interpretation. Twelfth Biennial Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America, Memphis (May 2006).

“Multi-Sited Rhetoric: Response to George Marcus.” Center for Law, Society, and Culture. University of California, Irvine (May 2006).

“Rhetorical Practice, Historical Work.” Conference on “New Rhetorics, New Histories.” University of Iowa (April 2006).

“Judging and Hoping: Rhetorical Effects of Reading about Reading.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago (March 2006)

“Rhetorical Ontology: Response to Dawes, Portnoy, and Wald.” Session: Language and Human Rights: Rhetorical Acts, Material Consequences. Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, Washington D.C. (December 2005).

“SCT 1982: de Man vs. Said.” Session: The School of Criticism and Theory and the Past, Present, and Future of Critical Theory.” Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, Washington D.C. (December 2005).

“Religious Faith, Pragmatist Truth.” Knowledge and Belief Conference. Stanford Humanities Center (October 2005).

“Transacting Reception.” Keynote address at Conference on “American Reception Study: Reconsiderations and New Directions.” University of Delaware (September 2005).

“Persuasion and Paul in African-American Rhetorics.” Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Los Angeles (July 2005).

“Burkean Receptions: Augustine and Heidegger.” Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition and Triennial Conference of the Kenneth Burke Society: “Kenneth Burke and His ” (July 2005).

“The Political Theologies of Douglass and Melville.” Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville: A Sesquicentennial Celebration, New Bedford (June 2005)

“Perspectives on the History of Rhetoric.” Seminar at the First Biennial Institute of the Rhetoric Society of America (May 2005).

“Remixing St. Paul: Rhetorical Uses of Pauline Theology.” Conference on 15

Inquiries into Rhetoric and Christian Tradition (May 2005).

“Rhetoric and Organizations.” Fourth Annual Knowledge and Organizations Conference, Laguna Beach (May 2005).

“Reflections on Canons, Contexts, and Rhetoric.” Session: The Viability of the Rhetorical Tradition. Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco (March 2005).

Response to Jay Twomey’s “Silence with Full Submission.” Conference on Rhetorics of Identity: Place, Race, Sex, and the Person.” Redlands (January 2005).

“Alain Badiou’s St. Paul: The Foundation of Universalism.” Session: The Critical Archive: What Nineteenth-Century Americanists Should be Reading. Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, Philadelphia (December 2005)

2004 Ian Fletcher Lecture. Arizona State University (October 2004).

“Friends, Enemies, Neighbors: The Cultural Politics of Shining Cities and Evil Empires.” Inaugural Conference of the Center for the Study of Rhetoric and Applied Communication. University of Memphis (October 2004).

“The Future of Rhetorical Studies.” San Diego State University (September 2004.

“How Do We Argue? Cultural Politics in the United States.” Fulbright Conference on “Russian-American Dialogue on U.S. History.” Moscow State University (June 2004).

“Race, Religion, and Rhetoric: Identitarian Paths of Thought” and “‘Conscience set into motion.’” Eleventh Biennial Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America, Austin (May 2004).

“Pragmatism and .” Conference on “Varieties of Education: Pragmatism and the Future of Pragmatism.” New York University (February 2004).

“ARS Revisited: Rhetoric Here and There.” Division on the History and Theory of Rhetoric and Composition. Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association (December 2003).

“Places in Time: The Inns and Outhouses of Rhetoric.” Conference of Alliance of Rhetoric Societies conference, Northwestern University, (September 2003).

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“Spreading the Rhetorical Word at the Present Moment” and “‘Turn Left and Keep Going Until . . .’: Directions in Rhetorical Politics, Academic and Otherwise.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York (March 2003).

“The Rhetoric of Contingent Universals.” Twenty-First Annual J. Jeffery Auer Lecture in Political Communication. Department of Communication and Culture. Indiana University (March 2003).

“Oratorical Performance and Rhetorical Paths of Thought.” American Studies Association, Washington, D.C. (November 2002).

“Rhetorical Paths of Thought: Visual Rhetorics, Classical Traditions and Performing Racial Identity in Nineteenth-Century America.” Leonora Woodman Lecture at Purdue University (October 2002).

“My Critics Were Right: Further Thoughts on ‘Disciplinary Identities.’” and “Making the Call: Encountering the Other in Rhetorical Hermeneutics.” Tenth Biennial Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America, Las Vegas (May 2002).

“Universals and the Limits of Rhetoric: Religious Fundamentalism and Academic Postmodernism in Reactions to September 11.” Conference on “Fundamentalisms, Equalities, and the Limits of Tolerance in a Post- 9/11 Environment.” Cardozo School of Law (April 2002).

“Pauline Receptions: Crummell, Nietzsche, and Douglass.” Conference on “St. Paul and Modernity.” UCLA Center for Jewish Studies (April 2002).

“Comments on Caleb Bingham and Alternative Traditions of Rhetoric in Early America.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago (March 2002).

“Thinking in Word and Image: Print Culture, Visual Rhetorics, and Performing Racial Identity in Late-Nineteenth-Century America.” Thomas Sheehan Lecture at the Second Annual Lucy Freibert Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century American Letters. University of Louisville (February 2002).

“Healing Rhetoric: Racial Identities and New Testament Receptions in Nineteenth-Century.” Conference of “Rhetorics of Healing.” University of Redlands (January 2002).

“The Author Has Not Left the Building: Intentions, Conventions, and Rhetoric.” Division of Research Methods. Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association (December 2001).

“Cultural Poetics and Rhetorical Hermeneutics.” Division on the History 17

and Theory of Rhetoric and Composition. Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association (December 2001).

“Gazing Back from Marked Bodies: Classical Traditions, Visual Rhetorics, and the Performance of Racial Identity in Nineteenth-Century America.” Conference on “Visual Rhetoric.” Indiana University (August 2001); also University of Texas at Austin (October 2001).

“What the of my skin meant”: W. S. Scarborough, Classical Thought, and the Rhetorical Performance of Racial Identity.” Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition (July 2001); also the MESEA Conference on “Sites of Ethnicity. University of Padua (June 2002).

“Tracking the Rhetorical Paths of Thought.” Keynote lecture at the Colloquium on Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture. (March 2001).

“Aesthetics as Rhetoric Turned on Itself.” Session: the Transubstantiation of Rhetoric in the Discipline of English Studies. Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C. (December 2000).

“Disciplining Rhetoric as an Interdiscipline.” Meeting of the American Society for the History of Rhetoric, University of Washington (November 2000).

“Rhetoric and Occupational .” Department of Occupational Therapy, University of Southern California (October 2000).

Presentation for Forum on “Multiple Literacies in a Digital Age.” University of California, Irvine (October 2000).

“Before and After Modern Literary Studies: Classical Traditions, Racial Identities, and Teaching the Rhetorical Paths of Thought.” Keynote Lecture at the Symposium on Teaching Literature. University of Michigan (October 2000).

“Thinking with Rhetorical Figures: Frederick Douglass, Racial Identity, and the Classical Tradition.” Penn State University (September 2000); also University of Puget Sound (October 2000); and Miami University (November 2000).

“Rhetoric and Legal Hermeneutics.” Notre Dame Law School Colloquium on Legal Discourse (June 2000).

“Archiving Paths of Thought” and "Classical Rhetoric and the Marked Measures of Slavery. Ninth Biennial Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America, Washington, D.C. (May 2000). 18

"Rhetoric and the Human ." Department of Occupational Therapy, University of Southern California, May 2000.

"Rhetorical Paths of Thought: Burkean (Dis)Connections." Kenneth Burke Society Conference, University of Iowa (May 1999); shorter versions read at the University of Wisconsin (March 2000) and the University of California, Irvine (April 2000).

"Identifying Community in the Third Sophistic." Session: Composing Third Sophistic Communities." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Minneapolis (April 2000).

"Gadamer's Rhetorical Hermeneutics?" Session: A Gadamer Centennial: Twentieth Century Hermeneutics. Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association, Chicago (December 1999); revised version read at the Conference on "Rhetorics and Hermeneutics" at the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, Claremont Graduate School (March 2000).

ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS:

2003-08 Director, Critical Theory Emphasis, UCI 2007 Interim Chair, Department of Asian American Studies Spring, 2005 Acting Campus Writing Coordinator, UCI 2002-03 Interim Chair, Department of English and Comparative Literature, UCI 1999-2000 Interim Director of the UC Humanities Research Institute 1994-99 Associate Dean of Humanities for Graduate Study, UCI 1998-99 Acting Director of the UCI Humanities Center Spring, 1998 Acting Director of the UC Humanities Research Institute Spring, 1997 Acting Campus Writing Director, UCI Spring, 1994 Acting Director of African-American Studies, UCI Fall, 1993 Acting Campus Writing Director, UCI 1986-89 Chair, Department of English, Syracuse University

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: Modern Language Association, National Council of Teachers of English, Rhetoric Society of America, International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Kenneth Burke Society, National Communication Association, Reception Study Society, Melville Society

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Editorial Board Member for journals: Advances in the History of Rhetoric (2015-present); Philosophy and Rhetoric (1994-present); Conversations (2011-2014); Western Journal of Communication (2012-13); American Literature (2007-2009); Quarterly Journal of Speech (1986-89, 2000-06, 2008-10); Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (2004-09); American 19

Literary History (1988-94); Rhetoric Society Quarterly (2000-07); Works and Days (1995-present); Pre/Text (1992-present); Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2000-03).

Advisory Committee Member. PMLA (1993-1996).

Executive Board of the Reception Study Society (2006-2015)

Editorial Board Member for university press series: “Transdisciplinary Rhetorics,” Penn State University Press; Rhetoric Culture and Social Critique, University of Alabama Press; “Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation,” Penn State University Press

Proposal Evaluator for the National Endowment for the Humanities (1986-88, 1998-2000); Canada Council of the Arts Awards (1989); CIES Fulbright Fellowships (1994-96); Stanford Humanities Center (1996-present).

Organizer and Chair of panel on “Jesuit Literary Imagination” for Future of the Catholic Literary Imagination Conference at the University of Southern California (February 2015)

Consultant. Department of English. Indiana University (March 2014).

Chair. Executive Committee of the MLA Division on Teaching as a Profession and Organizer of Division Session on “History of Teaching as a Profession” (2014).

Executive Committee of MLA Division on Teaching as a Profession(2012-2014).

MLA Publications Committee Member (2006-09); Committee Chair (2008-09).

Co-leader. Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute on “Rhetorical Criticism.” Penn State University (June 2009).

External Reviewer. Assessment Plan for the MA in English. Cal Poly Pomona (May 2008).

External Reviewer. Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry. University of Iowa (April 2006).

Elected to the MLA Election Committee (2003-2005).

Board of Directors Member. Rhetoric Society of America (1997-2001).

Elected to the MLA Delegate Assembly Organizing Committee (1999-2001) and Organizing Committee Chair (2000-2002).

Master Class Teacher. Department of English. University of Southern 20

Florida (March 2000).

Elected Delegate to the Modern Language Association Delegate Assembly, Northeast Region (1990-92) and Politics and the Profession (1996-98).

Nominating Committee. American Literature Section. Modern Language Association, 1996-97.

Consultant. Ohio State University Research Roundtable (June 1997).

Convener. Disciplinary Forum on "Futures for Rhetorical Studies." Humanities Research Institute, University of California, Irvine (April 1997).

External Reviewer. Ph. D. Program of the English Department, Ohio State University (April 1995).

Invited Participant. Disciplinary Forum on "The Future of American Studies." Humanities Research Institute, University of California, Irvine (October 1994).

Invited Participant. Disciplinary Forum on "Rethinking Comparative Ethnic Studies." Humanities Research Institute, University of California, Irvine (April 1994).

Co-organizer and Discussion Leader. "Rhetoric(s) for English Studies." Special Session at Annual Convention of MLA, New York (December 1992).

Consultant to the English Department, University of Oregon, for the MLA-FIPSE English Programs Curriculum Review Project (1992).

Co-leader of Workshop for New Chairs. Association of Departments of English. Summer Seminar at Pomona College (June 1991).

Co-leader of faculty seminars and consultant on new Ph. D. Program in Writing, Teaching, and Criticism. SUNY Albany (June 1990).

Chair. Textual and Bibliographical Studies Section. SAMLA (1979-80 and 1985-86).