Stephen A. King

Stephen A. King earned his Ph.D. in speech communication at Indiana University-Bloomington in 1997. He is currently chairperson and professor of communication at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas. He also taught at Eastern Illinois University and Delta State University (Mississippi). He has written extensively about rhetoric, public memory, and cultural tourism. He is the author of I'm Feeling the Blues Right Now: Blues Tourism and the Mississippi Delta (2011) and Reggae, Rastafari, and the Rhetoric of Social Control (2002).