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Greg Anderson

Wheaton College Department of Communication
Research Interests: 18th Century British Rhetoric, C.S. Lewis, Religious rhetorical practice

Susan E. Antlitz

Illinois State University
Research Interests: Composition/Rhetoric, Computers and Writing, MOO Theory and Pedagogy, Community/Spirituality

Jonathan Benda

Tunghai University (Taiwan)
Research Interests: Comparative Rhetoric, Global English/World Englishes

Barbara Bird

Taylor University English Department
Research Interests: 18/19th Century Rhetoric; Composition Theory

David Brauer

Palm Beach Atlantic University
Research Interests: Rhetoric and 20th Century Humanism

Mary Beth Breland

Hannibal-LaGrange College
Research Interests: Writing Instruction in Baptist Colleges and Universities

Daniel S. Brown, Jr.

Grove City College; Department of English and Communication
Research Interests: American Public Address; Theology of Communication; Religious Communication

Vicki Tolar Burton

Oregon State University
Research Interests: Rhetoric/Literacy in early Methodism; women and writing

Jeff Cain

Sacred Heart University
Research Interests: Christian and Spiritual Traditions; postmodernism

Katherine C. Calore

University of the South School of Theology
Research Interests: Preaching and Doctrine, Preaching and Dramatic Theory

Scott Calhoun

Cedarville University Department of Language and Literature
Research Interests: Rhetoric and Composition; Rhetorics of Images and Signs; Rhetoric and Hermeneutics; Rhetoric in the Early Church/Late Antiquity

Rev. Dr. Roger D. Duke

Baptist College of Health Sciences
Research Interests: John A. Broadus use of Classical Rhetoric in the Southern Baptist Convention and his Treatise on the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons

Chris Faulk

University of Northern Colorado, English
Research Interests: Poststructuralism, Cultural Studies, Creative Nonfiction, Christian History and Theology, Modern and Postmodern Rhetoric, Composition Theory

Tarez Samra Graban

Purdue University
Reserach Interests: women and rhetoric; women's use of irony in oppositional texts; rhetorical traditions from post-classical to modern eras

Mark Gring

Texas Tech University
Research Interests: Religious argument and sociopolitical change; Christian Apologetics and presuppositionalism; Rhetorical Analysis of Culture

Mark Haas

Geneva College
Research Interests: Historical Issues - Tertullian, Puritans Perspectivalism and Epistemic Rhetoric - Wolterstorff, Sire

Krystia Hancher

Indiana University at Pennsylvania
Research Interests: Voice; rhetoric within modern Catholicism; rhetoric between the Western and Eastern Christian churches (esp. Roman Catholic vs. Orthodox); rhetoric of the body; performance and rhetoric; rhetoric of the medieval mystics; theological rhetoric; multicultural rhetoric

Per Hasle

Aalborg University (Denmark)
Research Interests: Rhetoric. Logic, esp.the logic of time. Rhetoric and computers.

Gary Hatch

Brigham Young University, English
Research Interests: preaching manuals, Paul, Mormon rhetoric

John B. Hatch

University of Dubuque, Communication Department
Research Interests: Reconciliation (racial, etc.), Rhetoric of contemporary Christian music, Cross-cultural contextualization of gospel.

Judy Hebb

Atlanta Christian College
Research Interests: Alternative Discourses

Megan Hughes

Purdue University
Research Interests: Deliberative rhetoric, civic discourse, Puritanism, Roger Williams

Rod Keller

Brigham Young University - Idaho
Research Interests: Religion in the English classroom

Kathleen J. Klompien

California State University, Los Angeles
Research Interests: Writing Center Research, Composition Pedagogy

Suzanne D. Kobzeff

Fresno Pacific University
Research Interests: Developmental writing/ WAC

Chandra Lewis-Qualls

Abilene Christian University, English Department
Research Interests: Computers and Writing, Feminist Pedagogy, New Media, Sociolinguistics

Amy Martin

College of Mount Saint Vincent (Bronx, N.Y.)
Research Interests: Intellectual property / WAC

Carol Martin

North Park University
Research Interests: Rhetoric, Poetics, Religion

Ben McCorkle

Ohio State University
Research Interests: Visual Culture, New Media Studies, History of Rhetoric

Rose Metts

Savanah State University
Research Interests: Church traditions, Rhetoric in an Inter-racial church

Kilian McCurrie

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Research Interests: spiritual identity, teacher identity, and the teaching of writing; rhetoric and the Christian tradition.

Jennifer Morrison

Niagra University, English
Research Interests: research methodology, writing program administration, writing pedagogy, writing program assessment

Roxanne Mountford

University of Arizona, English
Research Interests: History, theory, and practice of preaching; religious rhetoric; gender and communication; rhetoric of space.

Georgia A. Newman

Georgia College and State University - Milledgeville
Research Interests: Christian mysticism, esp. influence on writer Flannery O'Connor; pedagogical issues - religion in the classroom

Annie Olson

LeTourneau University
Research Interests: Composition Pedagogy, OWLs, Bakhtin and Composition

Priscilla Perkins

Roosevelt University School of Liberal Studies
Research Interests: Catholics in the secular academy; critical pedagogy and liberation theology; hermeneutics; evangelical and fundamentalist students in secular composition classrooms

Brad Peters

Northern Illinois University
Research Interests: Rhetoric of Medieval Christian Mystics

Ana Maria Preto-Bay

Brigham Young University
Research Interests: Philosophy of Psychology; writing as a source of self-understanding and spiritual growth

Birgitta Ramsey

Southeastern Louisiana University
Research Interests: Cross-national writing research

Robert Stephen Reid

University of Dubuque, Communication Dept.
Research Interests: Rhetoric and Homiletics; The intersection of oral and literate composition strategies in antiquity and the present.

Vivian Rice

Syracuse University

Kia Richmond

Nothern Michigan University (Marquette)
Research Interests: Emotion, teacher education, creative nonfiction, spirituality

Jennifer Scott

Ohio University, Interdisciplinary Studies
Research Interests: rhetoric of Christian theology, performance studies, hermeneutics of testimony

Lynne Schwartzhoff

Southwestern Illinois College - English
Research Interests: Rhetoric in the scholastic tradition, Composition pedagogy, Religious appeals in college composition, Epistemology, Catholic response to post modernism

Bradley Siebert

Washburn University, Topeka
Research Interests: Mennonite discernment/Hermeneutics; Peace and Postmodern 'Theory'

Lisa Shaver

Miama University/Ohio
Research Interests: Literacy, women's spiritual writing, women in Methodism in early America

James K.A. Smith

Calvin College, Philosophy
Research Interests: Philosophical Theology, Continental Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Postmodernism, "Radical Orthodoxy"

Sheri Stenberg

Creighton University

Bradford T. Stull

Rivier College
Research Interests: Medieval Literature and hermenutics

Joonna Smitherman Trapp

Northwestern College
Research Interests: Slave Narratives of Conversion, History of Christian Rhetoric; Rhetoric of the Gothic

Prevot Van Der Merwe

University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Research Interests: stories for caring

Heather Walker

Northwestern College Research Interests: Metaphor, theological rhetoric

Bob Whipple

Creighton University
Research Interests: Writing instruction (history) at Jesuit Universities; Rhetoric and mission, Technology and literacy

Leah Zuidema

Michigan State University
Research Interests: English education; advocacy and academic service learning; metacognition

Neeraj

Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Research Interests: History of Hermenutics and Typology, its uses and abuses in the churches today

Sarah Yoder

Texas Christian University, English Dept. (Ph.D. candidate)
Research Interests: History of Rhetoric, Rhetoric and Nationalism, Women's and Minority Rhetorics, Peace Studies

Vail H. McGuire

Kettering College of Medical Arts, Department of Arts and Sciences
Research Interests: Theology, particularly post modern and feminist, and its ability to inform rhetorical theory

Brian Jackson

Brigham Young University, English
Research Interests: American religious rhetoric; prophetic rhetoric (Social Gospel, Cornel West, Jim Wallis); 19th century Mormon oratory