Interviews : Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Rhetoric and Literacy

This book contains interviews with psychologist Mary Field Belenky, linguist and philosopher of language Noam Chomsky, French deconstructionist Jacques Derrida, international literacy scholar Paulo Freire, distinguished anthropologist Clifford Geertz, philosopher Richard Rorty, and cultural critic Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (all of whose work has influenced the discipline of rhetoric and composition) followed by essay responses from notable scholars in rhetoric and composition.

Gary A. Olson is the president of Daemen College. Previously, he was the provost and vice president for academic affairs and a professor of English at Idaho State University. His most recent book is A Creature of Our Own Making: Reflections on Contemporary Academic Life. He also authored Justifying Belief: Stanley Fish and the Work of Rhetoric and coedited Postmodern Sophistry: Stanley Fish and the Critical Enterprise.