Essays in Critical, Contemporary, and Philosophical Rhetoric

Raymie E. McKerrow is Professor Emeritus, School of Communication Studies, Ohio University, Athens, USA. He earned his BS at Southern Illinois University (1966), an MA at Colorado State University (1968), and his PhD in Communication at the University of Iowa (1974), all of them in the USA. As past president of the National Communication Association (2000) and the Eastern Communication Association (1986), he has received NCA’s Douglas Ehninger Distinguished Rhetorical Scholar Award (2006) and NCA’s Wallace A. Bacon Lifetime Teaching Excellence Award (2017). He has published 100 essays in journals, proceedings, and edited collections, and is best known as a “critical rhetorician,” based on his oft-cited 1989 essay: “Critical Rhetoric: Theory and Praxis.” His research focuses on the intersection of postmodernism, critical rhetoric and culture. He taught doctoral level graduate seminars in feminist rhetoric, rhetoric and culture, and specialized courses on Foucault and Social Change and Ranciére and Social Change.