Daniel m. GrossAssociate Professor, English Director of Composition |
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Research Interests |
History and Theory of Rhetoric; Early Modern Literature and Culture; Heidegger and Rhetoric | |
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Research Abstract |
My approach to the history and theory of rhetoric is essentially interdisciplinary, which seems to me inevitable considering the subject matter. Rhetoric is, after all, an architectonic that has quietly helped structure modern disciplines from politics and psychology to the study of literature. Therefore to study these disciplines in early modernity or even today is to engage, often unwittingly, the rhetorical tradition. As a historian and theorist of rhetoric, then, my job is to show through scholarship and teaching how productive this engagement can be when it is made explicit. In doing this work my goal is to revise the boundaries of what we consider "rhetoric" in the national context, which is defined primarily within the disciplines of communication studies and composition studies. At the same time I like to promote the presence of rhetoric in neighbor disciplines, including education, history, psychology, anthropology, politics, philosophy, and the study of literature. Currently I am working on a book length project "The Art of Listening," and, with my wife Carla Wilson, a film documentary about the forced exodus of Black folks from the inner-city. |
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| Publications |
BOOKS: The Art of Listening (in progress) The Secret History of Emotion: From Aristotle's Rhetoric to Modern Brain Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Heidegger and Rhetoric (SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy). Edited with Ansgar Kemmann. Albany: SUNY Press, 2005. SELECT ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS: "Political Pathology." In Reasoning Effects: Rhetoric and Medicine in Early Modern Europe. Edited by Stephen Pender and Nancy Struever (forthcoming). "Personal Identity in the History of Ideas: The Born-Again Christian as a Case Study." Rethinking History 13.3 (2009). "Listening Culture." In Culture and Rhetoric (Berghahn Books Studies in Rhetoric and Culture I). Edited by Ivo Strecker, Stephen Tyler, and Robert Hariman (Berghahn, 2008). "The Art of Listening: A Course in the Humanities," The International Journal of Listening 21 (2007): 72-79. "The Heart of Emotion," New Scientist 2553 (2006): 50-51. "Caussin's Passion and the New History of Rhetoric," Rhetorica 21.2 (2003): 89-112. "Foucault's Analogies, or How to Be an Historian of the Present without Being a Presentist," Clio: A Journal of Literature, History and the Philosophy of History 31.1 (2001): 57-82. "Early Modern Emotion and the Economy of Scarcity," Philosophy and Rhetoric 34.4 (2001): 308-321. "Melanchthon's Rhetoric and the Practical Origins of Reformation Human Science," History of the Human Sciences 13.3 (2000): 5-22. "Metaphor and Definition in Vico's New Science," Rhetorica 14.4 (1996), 359-381. |
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| Grants | NEH sponsored Humanities Iowa Major Grant 2003, 2006 | |
| NEA sponsored Iowa Arts Council Grant 2006 | ||
| Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the UCLA Humanities Consortium, Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies, 1998-2000 | ||
| DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Annual Grant 1996-1997 | ||
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Professional Societies |
Modern Language Association International Society for the History of Rhetoric Rhetoric Society of America Conference on College Composition and Communication National Communication Association |
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| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5468 | |
| Last updated | 08/26/2009 | |