Jeffrey Walker

Jeffrey of Texas; Maistor Rhetor; Rhetorician Extraordinaire; Consul of the Philosophers; Sophist.

Ph.D., Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley.

My research and teaching interests include rhetorical theory and the history of rhetoric, classical and modernist rhetoric, rhetoric and poetics, rhetorical analysis and criticism, and rhetorical education.

My publications include BARDIC ETHOS AND THE AMERICAN EPIC POEM (LSU Press, 1989); RHETORIC AND POETICS IN ANTIQUITY (Oxford, 2000); INVESTIGATING ARGUMENTS: READINGS FOR COLLEGE WRITING (a textbook, co-authored with Glen McClish; Houghton-Mifflin, 1991); and articles in RHETORICA, RSQ, ADVANCES IN THE HISTORY OF RHETORIC, PAPERS ON RHETORIC, COLLEGE ENGLISH, and other journals. My more recent publications include a translation of Michael Psellos’ “Encomium of His Mother”; an article on “The Place of ‘Theory’ in Ancient Rhetoric”; and an article on “Rhetoric and Poetics” for the INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COMMUNICATION.

I have taught at Penn State (1985-2000), Emory University (2000-2004), and UT (2004-now), and have been a Fulbright lecturer at the University of Athens (Greece, 1992), and an NEH Fellow (2007-2008). I am a member of the Editorial Board of Rhetoric Society Quarterly (RSQ), and of the Council of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (ISHR).

Current projects include ELEMENTS OF RHETORICAL ANALYSIS, a textbook (co-authored with Mark Longaker); and THE GENUINE TEACHERS OF THIS ART, a book on the sophistic and handbook traditions in ancient rhetorical education. Both of which I hope will be out by 2011.

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