Debra Hawhee

Associate Professor, English and
Speech Communication

Office: 123 Lincoln Hall
Office Phone: 265-6802

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Teaching

Rhetoric and Gesture, Bodies in Literature, Critical and Rhetorical Theory, Ancient Rhetoric

Specializations

History of Rhetoric, classical rhetoric, rhetorical theory, Kenneth Burke, body studies, rhetorical education

Publications

Bodily Arts: Rhetoric and Athletics in Ancient Greece. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004. • Ancient Rhetoric for Contemporary Students, 3rd ed. with Sharon Crowley, Pearson-Longman, 2004. • "Burke on Drugs." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 31:1 (2004), 5-28. • "Bodily Pedagogies: Rhetoric, Athletics, and the Sophists' Three Rs." College English 65:2 (2002), 142-162. • "Agonism and Arete." Philosophy and Rhetoric 35:3 (2002), 185-207. • "Kairotic Encounters." In Perspectives on Rhetorical Invention, edited by Janice Lauer and Janet Atwill. (pp. 16-35) Knoxville : U of Tennessee P, 2002. • "Emergent Flesh: Phusiopoesis and Arts of Training." Journal of Sport and Social Issues 25:2 (2001), 141-157.

Work in Progress

Hawhee is currently at work on a book about Kenneth Burke's theories of the body, tentatively titled "At the Edges of Language: Kenneth Burke's Theories of the Body."