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Contributors 227 Contributors Jeanne Fahnestock is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland, where she has served as the director of Professional Writing and of the writing programs. She has published articles and chapters on Victorian fiction, argumentation, stasis theory, coherence, and the rhetoric of science and, with Marie Secor, has coauthored a text, A Rhetoric of Argument. Her study of key figures of speech in scientific argument, Rhetorical Figures in Science, was published in 1999. Thomas B. Farrell is a professor of rhetoric and political communication at Northwestern University. He has published over seventy articles and monographs dealing with rhetoric and public culture. In 1990, Farrell received the Charles H. Woolbert Award for scholarship of exceptional originality and influence. His study of modernity and the rhetorical tradition, Norms of Rhetorical Culture, won the 1994 Winans-Wichelns Award for distinguished scholarship in rhetoric and public address. Farrell’s collection, Landmarks in Contemporary RhetoricalTheory, appeared in 1998. Farrell is interested in the ways public symbols, images, and figures channel our participation toward partisan ends and collective projects. Robert N. Gaines is an associate professor of communication at the University of Maryland. His research is principally concerned with the individuals and intellectual forces that shaped rhetorical theory in ancient times. He has published a number of essays that touch upon Hellenic rhetoric, especially in Isocrates, Plato, and Aristotle, but his most recent research has addressed the relation of rhetoric to philosophy in the Hellenistic era––particularly in the works of Cicero and Philodemus. He is currently at work on a critical edition and translation of Philodemus ’s On Rhetoric, Book 4. Eugene Garver is Regents Professor of Philosophy at Saint John’s University. He is the author of Machiavelli and the History of Prudence and Aristotle’s “Rhetoric”: An Art of Character. His work is designed to contribute to the history of prudence, that is, the history of good uses of practical reason, with special attention to the place of rhetoric in arguments about those good uses. His writings center on the relation between argument and character, and so among logic, rhetoric, and ethics and politics. Among his works in progress are explorations of the implications of his reading of Aristotle’s Rhetoric for Aristotle’s ethics and politics and the implications of all of them for contemporary practice. Contributors 228 Lawrence D. Green is a professor of English at the University of Southern California , where he teaches history of rhetoric, Renaissance literature, and Renaissance philosophy. He is the author of John Rainolds’s Oxford Lectures on Aristotle’s “Rhetoric” and Rhetoric 1500–1700 in the Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature and has published many articles in Europe and North America on Renaissance understandings of Aristotle, Cicero, and rhetoric, including most recently “Making Aristotle’s Rhetoric Methodical,” “Aristotle’s Rhetoric and Renaissance Conceptions of the Soul,” and “Aristotle’s Enthymeme and the Imperfect Syllogism .” He is a frequent speaker at conferences and has received numerous awards, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. Alan G. Gross is a professor of rhetoric at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities. He is the author of The Rhetoric of Science and of Starring the Text: The Place of Rhetoric in Science Studies. He is a coauthor of Communication Science: The Scientific Article from the 17th Century to the Present and of Chaim Perelman. He is a coeditor of Rhetorical Hermeneutics: Invention and Interpretation in the Age of Science and of The Scientific Literature: A Guided Tour. An article about Aristotle, “The Conceptual Unity of Artistotle’s Rhetoric,” which he wrote with Marcelo Dascal, appeared in Philosophy and Rhetoric in 2001. Carolyn R. Miller is a professor of English at North Carolina State University. Her primary interests are rhetorical theory and rhetorical analysis, particularly as applied to scientific and technical discourse. She has published essays in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Argumentation, and Rhetorica, as well as in several edited volumes, and has received an NEH Fellowship to work on a book about the rhetoric of high technology. She was the 1996–98 president of the Rhetoric Society of America. Michael Tiffany is currently a doctoral candidate in classics at the University of Minnesota. His dissertation in progress is “Energeia and Aristotle’s Rhetoric: Visual Imaging in the Theory and Practice of Ancient Rhetoric.” Jeffrey Walker is an associate professor of English at Pennsylvania State University and will be...