Trained Capacities: John Dewey, Rhetoric, and Democratic Practice

Contributors

contributors gregory clark is a University Professor of English at Brigham Young University . His books include Rhetorical Landscapes in America (2004) and, with S. Michael Halloran, Oratorical Culture in America (1994). His recent work examines theories and practices of rhetorical aesthetics. nathan crick is associate professor in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University. His research draws from American pragmatism and classical Greek thought to develop a democratic social theory in which rhetoric is a medium of cooperative inquiry and aesthetic judgment. robert danisch is an assistant professor at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. He is the author of Pragmatism, Democracy, and the Necessity of Rhetoric (2007). Currently he is working on a new book, Completing the Linguistic Turn: The Promise of Rhetorical Pragmatism, which critiques neopragmatism for failing to embrace rhetoric and recommends the development of a rhetorical pragmatism useful for improving American democratic culture. jeremy engels is associate professor of communication arts and sciences and interim codirector of the Center for Democratic Deliberation at Pennsylvania State University. His research investigates the rhetorical foundations of democratic culture in the United States. His first book, Enemyship: Democracy and CounterRevolution in the Early Republic, was published in 2010 in the Rhetoric and Public Affairs series at Michigan State University Press. His essays have been published in Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, American Quarterly, and Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. A native New Yorker, keith gilyard has lectured widely on language, literature, education, and civic affairs. His books include the education memoir Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence (1991), for which he received an American Book Award; Let’s Flip the Script, an African American Discourse on Language, Literature , and Learning (1996); Composition and Cornel West: Notes toward a Deep Democracy (2008); John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism (2010); and 250 Contributors True to the Language Game: African American Discourse, Cultural Politics, and Pedagogy (2011). He is currently a Distinguished Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, University Park. jean goodwin is associate professor of English and in the Speech Communication Program at Iowa State University. Her research focuses on the theory and pedagogy of civic argument. She has had a number of articles published in international journals, including Argumentation, Philosophy & Rhetoric, Informal Logic, Studies in Communication Sciences, and Argumentation and Advocacy, as well as essays in leading collections such as Dialectic and Rhetoric: The Warp and Woof of Argumentation Theory. gerard a. hauser is College Professor of Distinction in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado. He is the author of Vernacular Voices: The Rhetoric of Publics and Public Spheres (1999), An Introduction to Rhetorical Theory (2002), and many other influential publications in rhetorical studies. Hauser is an NCA Distinguished Scholar, an RSA Fellow, and the winner of numerous awards. He is editor of Philosophy & Rhetoric. His current work examines the moral vernacular rhetorics of political prisoners. brian jackson is assistant professor of English and associate coordinator of university writing at Brigham Young University. A graduate of the University of Arizona , he teaches and writes about John Dewey, pedagogy, and American religious rhetoric. He lives in Provo, Utah, with his wife Amy and their four children. donald c. jones is associate professor of rhetoric and professional writing at the University of Hartford. His publications appear in College English, Rhetoric Review, Pedagogy, and the Journal of Advanced Composition. In addition to Dewey and pedagogy , his research interests include writing process theory and digital literacy. william keith is professor of communication at the University of WisconsinMilwaukee . He is the author of Democracy as Discussion: Adult Civic Education and the American Forum Movement (2007) and numerous essays on the rhetoric of science . louise (lucy) w. knight is an independent scholar and Adjunct Professor in Communication Studies at Northwestern University. The author of Jane Addams: Spirit in Action (2010) and Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy (2005), she has also published articles in the Journal of Women’s History, Gender & History, the Journal of Community Practice, and Affilia: Women and Social Work. Her essays have been published in various collections, including Maurice Hamington, ed., Feminist Interpretations of Jane Addams, and Marilyn Fischer et al., Jane Addams and the Practice of Democracy. She has reviewed books for the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times Book Review, and the Women’s Review of Books and writes for Contributors 251...