Virginia Woolf once said “a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction” (1250). When looking at the history of w...

The Rhetorical Tradition explains that much of Kenneth Burke’s work over more than 50 years “has been to attempt to redefine and expand t...

Nietzsche was a brilliant philosopher who is often quoted and referenced in today’s modern philosophy, though he wasn’t as popular in his da...

19 th century rhetoric is an interesting period because women were finally getting a major voice in public affairs.  By the end of the eigh...

Mike Rose, who is well known in the field of education, wrote his ground breaking  essay “The Language of Exclusion” in  1985. Even though i...

The Enlightenment saw the rise of linguistics, grammar, semiotics, epistemology and even psychology joining the list of things that are re...

As much as European thinkers struggled with the application of rhetoric in various fields such as law or medicine, going into the Renaissa...

So, I’ve noticed in this blog, I’ve focused a lot on the history of rhetoric. Maybe it is because history is one of my favorite subjects,...

The history of Egyptians, Semites, and women in ancient Greece is an interesting one. I like that we are discussing these topics in this c...

I thought the reading by and about “Longinus” On the Sublime was really intriguing, especially because of his huge influence on European sc...

Ok so maybe they didn’t invent everything, but they certainly helped define many aspects of thought that we still use today.   For ex...

Aristotle’s definition of rhetoric is as follows: “Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available mea...

So it just felt right to revive this blog that I started back in fall of 2016 in Linda Overman's Amazing class at CSUN English 495: Eng...

Question: Reflect on how your experience of creating a myth differs from and/ or enhances the study of myth?  What did you learn from this ...

Question: Reflect on how your experience of creating a myth differs from and/ or enhances the study of myth?  What did you learn from this ...

  So this is my Blog dedicated to my educational escapades. I want to talk a bit about media in the classroom, but first, let me tell you...