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Janet M. Atwill

Selected Publications:

Books

  • The Viability of the Rhetorical Tradition, edited with Richard Graff and Arthur Walzer (Buffalo: SUNY Press, 2005)
  • Perspectives on Rhetoric Invention, ed. with Janice Lauer (University of Tennessee Press, 2002)
  • Rhetoric Reclaimed: Aristotle and the Liberal Arts Tradition (Cornell UP, 1998).

Textbooks

  • Writing: College Handbook, 5th ed., with James Heffernan and John Lincoln (W.W. Norton, 2001)
  • Four Worlds of Writing: and Action in Context, with Janice Lauer, Andrea Lunsford, et al. (New York: Addison, Wesley, Longman, 2000).

Representative articles

  • The Viability of the Rhetorical Tradition. Albany: SUNY Press, 2005) 75-92
  • “Aristotle.” Classical Rhetorics and Rhetoricians, Eds. Michelle Ballif and Michael Moran. (Westport, CT: 2005): 51-64
  • “Aristotle,” Classical Rhetorics and Rhetoricians, (Westport, CT: Press, 2004)
  • “Rhetoric and Civic Virtue”; “Rhetoric and Civic Virtue,” The Viability of the Rhetorical Tradition, (2004)
  • “Art and Disciplinarity.” Enculturation 5.2 (2004): http://enculturation.gmu.edu/5_2/atwill.html
  • Review, The Beginnings of Rhetorical Theory in Classical Greece, by Edward Schiappa, Rhetorica 18.3 (2000)
  • Review, Aristotle’s Voice: Rhetoric, Theory and Writing in America, by Jasper Neel, Rhetoric Review 14.2 (1996): 431-37
  • “Changing the Puzzle,” Rhetoric Review 16.1 (1997): 23-25
  • “Refiguring Rhetoric as an Art: ’s Concept of Techne (with J. Lauer), Discourse Studies in Honor of James L. Kinneavy, ed. Rosalind J. Gabin (Potomac, MD: Scripta Humanistica, 1995), 25-40
  • “Aristotle” and “Techne” in Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition (Garland Publishing, 1994), 26-30, 719
  • “The Uses of Deception: Epistemological and Axiological Measurement in Aristotle and Ancient Thought,” Pre/Text 14. 1-2 (1993): 343-72
  • “Continguencies of Historical Representation,” Writing Histories of Rhetoric, ed. Victor Vitanza (University of Illinois Press, 1993), 98-111
  • “Instituting the Art of Rhetoric: Practice, and Productive Knowledge in Interpretations of Aristotle’s Rhetoric,” New Perspectives on the Histories of the Rhetorical Tradition, ed. Takis Poulakos (Praeger/Westview, 1993), 91-117
  • Review Essay: Aristotle. On Rhetoric Theory of Civic Discourse, trans. With introduction, Notes and Appendixes by George A. Kennedy, CCC, 44.1 (1993): -95
  • Reprinted in (Inter) views: Perspectives on Rhetoric and Literacy, ed. Gary O lson and Irene Gale (Southern Illinois Press, 1991), 243-54
  • “Rhetoric and Cultural Explanation: Discussion with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak,” (with Philip Sipiora), Journal of Advanced Composition 10.2 (1990): 292-304.

Honors

Recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2006-07).
President, American Society for the History of Rhetoric (2004-05).
Vice President, American Society for the History of Rhetoric (2003-04).
Modern Language Association, Executive Committee Division of History & Theory of Rhetoric.
Editorial Board: Philosophy and Rhetoric, Advances in the History of Rhetoric, Pre/Text.


Contact Information

Janet M. Atwill
Professor
Department of English
314 McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-0430

Office: (865) 974-6939
Fax: (865) 974-6926
E-mail: jatwill@utk.edu

Education

M.A., University of Missouri, Kansas City
Ph.D., Purdue

Research

Rhetoric and Composition,
Critical Theory