Jesuit Rhetoric across Space and Time

The purpose of this book is to present current scholarship on Jesuit rhetoric in a coherent volume that highlights the diversity of research in the field. It brings together the broadest possible range of perspectives, both across time and space.

Sophie Conte is a full professor of Latin at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (France). She has edited Nicolas Caussin: rhétorique et spiritualité à l’époque de Louis XIII (2007).

Cinthia Gannett is a professor emerita of English and English Writing at Fairfield University (Fairfield, CT, USA). She is coeditor, with John C. Brereton, of Traditions of Eloquence: The Jesuits and Modern Rhetorical Studies (2016).

John C. Brereton (1943–2023) was a professor emeritus of English at the University of Massachusetts (Boston, MA, USA). He has published The Origins of Composition Studies in the American College, 1875–1925 (1996).

Manfred Kraus is a professor emeritus of Classics at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität (Tübingen, Germany). He works on the history and theory of rhetoric, the theory of argumentation, Greek philosophy, Byzantine, Renaissance and Jesuit studies.

Elizabethada A. Wright is a full professor of English, linguistics and writing studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth (USA). She and Christina R. Pinkston co-edited Catholic Women’s Rhetoric: Ethos, the Patriarchy, and Feminist Resistance (2022).

Bartosz B. Awianowicz is a professor of Classics at Nicolaus Copernicus University (Toru´n, Poland). He has published as co-author Monita privata (secreta) Societatis Iesu(2025).