Mailloux (English, U. of California-Irvine) presents histories of English studies, speech communication, and rhetoric-composition, and shows how they can be done from the interdisciplinary perspective of rhetorical studies. There have been many separate histories of these disciplines, he says, but his parallel histories encourage dialogue among teachers and scholars within the larger field of language arts. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Steven Mailloux is professor of English, Chancellor's Professor of Rhetoric, and director of the Critical Theory Emphasis at the University of California, Irvine. His works include Rhetorical Power (Cornell UP, 1989) and Reception Histories: Rhetoric, Pragmatism, and American Cultural Politics (Cornell UP, 1998).