Rhetorical theorist Mailloux to lecture

Steve Mailloux, a nationally recognized literary scholar and prominent advocate for rhetoric and cultural studies, will deliver a public lecture Thursday, March 30.

Mailloux’s talk, entitled “What do Rhetoric and Hermeneutics have to Teach Us?” will be held in the Lenehan Conference Room, 6191 Helen C. White Hall, at 3:30 p.m.

At Syracuse University, along with Louise Phelps, Mailloux led the department to create a doctoral degree program in rhetoric and cultural studies, a program that has led the teaching of cultural literacy across a wide variety of fields.

Now at the University of California at Irvine, Mailloux is building a program in rhetoric and writing that helps graduate and undergraduate students to understand the epistemological and cultural issues involved in writing, as well as the practical and professional as well.

Mailloux is also author of three seminal studies of rhetoric and critical theory interpretation, and he is the editor of a book that compares discourse in neo-pragmatic philosophy with the sophisticated understanding of language.

Mailloux’s visit is sponsored by the Brittingham Visiting Scholars fund.