He Office of Assertion an Art of Rhetoric for the Academic Essay

Associate Dean of Constantin Higher
Professor of English

Office:  1st Floor Braniff
Telephone: 972-721-5108
E-Mail service: crider@udallas.edu

I am an English teacher.

What is "English"?

It's an ancient report of poesy and rhetoric, as quondam as Socrates. Poetry and rhetoric-as seen in the sophists and in Plato-founded the ancient paideia, and it has been a major influence upon pedagogy ever since, the Aristotelian version of information technology at the middle of the medieval educational arrangement and the Ciceronian, at the centre of the humanist project of the earlymodern period, both projects establishing "the humanities."

As Aristotle explains, poesy is essentially mimetic: In narrative, drama and lyric, it represents human deportment in social club to understand them. And rhetoric is the discovery of the persuasive in the political, forensic or formalism circumstances that define our lives. Rhetorical poetics is the study of language for self-understanding and responsible ethical and civic action. English language is besides a contempo written report in which, under the influence of Matthew Arnold, colleges teach students how to read and write literature in English. Before and so, poesy and rhetoric were studied in school in their ancient languages. At present, English itself is a medium of written report.

I teach students how to read, converse and write better well-nigh written texts. I do inquiry in both poetics and rhetoric in my work on Shakespeare, most extensively in "With What Persuasion."  I am also very interested in writing for those new to "English" to introduce them to both arts within our own marvelous linguistic communication. "The Office of Exclamation" is an introduction to the art of rhetoric and the academic essay, and I accept begun writing an introduction to verse through studying Shakespeare's Sonnets. Both introductions discuss the figure of speech poetry and rhetoric share-metaphor-which is the essential activity of culture and the cosmetic to the ii deficiencies of our own contemporary culture: the literalism of too many of the scientific and the fundamentalism of likewise many of the religious.

Education

B.A., M.A. California State University, Sacramento
Ph.D. University of California, Riverside

 Recent Courses

• Across the Core
• The Seven Arts of Linguistic communication
• Literary Traditions I, Two,III,IV
• The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Language and Liberal Didactics
• Advanced Composition and the Teaching of Writing
• The Art of the English language Judgement
• Classical Rhetoric
• Aristotle's Rhetoric
• The Figure of Spoken communication
• Classical Ballsy:  Homer and Vergil
• Dante
• Dante and Milton (with John Alvis)
• Shakespeare's Plays
• Shakespeare'due south Sonnets and Narrative Poems
• Literary Study I: The Lyric
• Literary Study II: Prose Narrative

Research Interests

Shakespeare
Rhetoric and Limerick
The English Renaissance
The Rhetorical Tradition, Ancient and Modern
The History and Character of Liberal Educational activity
The English Bible as Literature

Scholarship

Publications

Aristotle's Rhetoric for Everybody(The Arts of  Liberty Project 2015).  https://artsofliberty.udallas.edu/aristotles-rhetoric-everybody-chapter-listing

With What Persuasion: An Essay on Shakespeare and the Ethics of Rhetoric (Studies in Shakespeare, Vol. 18). New York: Peter Lang, 2009.

The Role of Assertion: An Art of Rhetoric for the Academic Essay. Wilmington, Delaware: ISI Books, 2005.

"Shakespeare and the Figures of Speech." The Cambridge Earth Shakespeare Encyclopedia.  Ed. Bruce Smith, et al.  Cambridge:  Cambridge UP, [forthcoming].

"Love's Book of Honor and Shame: Shakespeare's Sonnets and Lyric Flourishing." Souls with Longing: Representations of Honor and Love in Shakespeare.  Eds. Bernard J. Dobski and Dustin Gish.  Lanham, MD:  Lexington Books, 2011. 293-302.

"An Art of Gathering Scattered Humanity:  Ciceronian Borough Humanism and the Defense of Responsible Rhetoric in De Oratore." Ramify 2 (2011):  67-92.

"Lyric Bearing:  Shakespeare's Sonnet 116, Vergil's Aeneid and the Ship of Metaphor." The Garden of Lyric.  Ed. Bainard Cowan.  Dallas:  Dallas Plant for Culture and the Humanities P, 2011.  105-119.

"The Homo Bail, Broken and Mended: Ciceronian Sin and Redemption in King Lear."  InBlossom's Literary Themes:  Sin and Redemption.  Ed. Harold Bloom and Blake Hobby.  New York:  Chelsea Firm Publishers, 2010.  135-145.

"Lyric Breath:  Taking Seriously the Trope of Immortality in Shakespeare's Sonnets," in Core Texts, Community and Culture:  Working Together for Liberal Education.  Association for Core Texts and Courses:  Selected Annual Proceedings from the 2004 Annual Briefing.  Ed. J. Scott Lee and Ron Weber, et al.  Lanham, MD:  Upwardly of America Press, 2010.  97-102.

"Eloquence Repaired: Thomas Wilson'due south New Myth of the Origin and Nature of Oratory" inTalking Renaissance Texts: Essays in Honour of Stanley Stewart, ed. M. Thomas Hester and Jeffrey Kahan. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2009. 248-265.

"The Golden Amphora: Alienation and Tradition in Homer'southward Iliad" in Bloom's Literary Themes: Alienation. Ed. Harold Bloom and Blake G. Hobby. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 2009.

"Through Nurture and Good Advisement: Paulina, Ideal Orator of Shakespeare's The Winter'southward Tale." Cithara 47.ii (May, 2008): 17-36.

"Looking There: The Literary and the Dialectical in a Class on King Lear" in King Lear: Ignatius Critical Edition, ed. Joseph Pearce. Ft. Collins, Colorado: Ignatius Printing, 2008: 285-295.

"Rhetorical Poetics and Shakespeare Studies: A Review Essay of Heinrich Plett's Rhetoric and Renaissance Culture," The Ben Jonson Periodical 14.two (November, 2007): 268-284.

Public Lectures

• The St. Vincent DePaul Lecture at TAC, Apr 2013:
  "Figures Unethical: The Rhetoric of Marriage in Macbeth"
• Rome Walking Tour Lecture, September 2012: "Michelangelo Reads the Bible"
• Convocation Address, May 2012: "The Most Useful Education"

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