Renovating Rhetoric in Christian Tradition

Contributors

199 Contributors — Aesha Adams-Roberts received her PhD from Pennsylvania State University. Her dissertation, “As the Spirit Gives Utterance: The Language and Literacy Practices of Black Women Preachers,” includes Aesha’s own experiences as an ordained minister. She is currently a blogger and raising her two children, Amani and Roy, at home. Thomas Amorose is a professor of English at Seattle Pacific University. He has published in the areas of rhetoric and the liberal arts and what he calls “the rhetoric of ultimate things.” The latter has taken him into the rhetoric of religion, material rhetoric, and literary nonfiction. Beth Daniell is a professor of English at Kennesaw State University in the North Atlanta suburbs, where she teaches rhetorical theory to undergraduates and research methods to graduate students. She serves as director of the general education program in the English department and as director of the writing-across-the-curriculum program in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. She is the author of A Communion of Friendship: Literacy, Spiritual Practice, and Women in Recovery and editor, with Peter Mortensen, of Women and Literacy: Local and Global Inquiries for a New Century. Rosalyn Collings Eves teaches at Southern Utah University, where she coordinates the writing fellows program. Her research interests include nineteenth-century women’s rhetorics and rhetorics of space. She was the recipient of the Rhetoric Society of America dissertation award, and her work has appeared in Rhetoric Review as well as in a handful of edited collections. New work is forthcoming in Legacy. Anne Ruggles Gere is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Gertrude Buck Collegiate Professor at the University of Michigan, where she serves as director of the Sweetland Center for Writing and as co-chair of the Joint PhD in English 200 ■ contributors and Education. Author of a dozen books and more than seventy-five articles, she is a past chair of CCC. Bruce Herzberg is a professor of English and media studies and director of the Writing and Communication Program at Bentley University, where he teaches courses in the Bible, composition, and public speaking. His publications include The Rhetorical Tradition as well as articles on composition teaching, service learning, and rhetoric. In biblical studies he recently published “Isaac’s Blindness” in Narrative, “Deborah and Moses” in the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, and “Samson’s Moment of Truth” in Biblical Interpretation. He is at work on a study of the function of miracles in legal discourse in the New Testament and rabbinic literature. Priscilla Perkins teaches composition and American literature at Roosevelt University. She is co-author of Literacies: Reading, Writing, Interpretation and has published on hermeneutic approaches to teaching evangelical college students, general education reform, and eugenics in the writings of Gertrude Stein and Theodore Dreiser. She is currently studying how Bernard Lonergan’s philosophy can be used to encourage more holistic undergraduate learning in the humanities. Lizabeth A. Rand is an associate professor of rhetoric at Hampden-Sydney College, a liberal arts college in Virginia for men, where she also serves as the director of the Rhetoric Program and the associate director of the Writing Center. She teaches basic writing, research writing, creative nonfiction, and rhetorical theory. Her primary research interest is the study of illness, identity, and argument, but she is also interested in rhetorics of religiosity, especially within the Seventh-day Adventist church. Liz Rohan is an associate professor of composition and rhetoric at the University of Michigan–Dearborn. Her articles have appeared in such journals as Rhetoric Review, Composition Studies, and Reflections. With Gesa Kirsch she edited Beyond the Archives: Research as a Lived Process. Karen K. Seat is associate professor of religious studies and director of the Religious Studies Program at the University of Arizona. Her book, “Providence Has Freed Our Hands”: Women’s Missions and the American Encounter with Japan, examines nineteenth-century Protestant women’s mission movements and their impact on American ideologies regarding gender, race, Christianity, and civilization. contributors ■ 201 Vicki Tolar Burton is a professor of English at Oregon State University, where she teaches courses in rhetoric, writing, and pedagogy and directs the Writing Intensive Curriculum Program. She is the author of Spiritual Literacy in John Wesley’s Methodism: Reading, Writing, and Speaking to Believe. She has published articles in College English, College Composition and Communication, and Rhetoric Review and has written chapters for a number of anthologies. Elizabeth Vander Lei...