James Crosswhite (Associate Professor)
Fields of Focus
- Literary Theory
- Literature and the Environment
- Rhetoric and Composition
Courses
Statement
Interests include Philosophy, rhetoric, nature writing, theories of wilderness and the wild.
Publications
Publications include The Rhetoric of Reason: Writing and the Attractions of Argument, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1996. Winner of the Modern Language Association's 1997 Mina P. Shaughnessy Award. "Nature and Reason: Inertia and Argumentation"; "Rhetoric and Cultural Studies: Arguments and Argument-analogues"; "Mood in Argumentation: Heidegger and the Exordium"; "Is There an Audience for this Argument? Fallacies, Theories and Relativisms"; and "Being Unreasonable: Perelman and the Problem of Fallacies."
