Faculty Profile : Ellen Quandahl, Ph.D.

Ph.D English, University of Iowa.
Associate Professor

Teaching and research interests include: rhetorical history and theory, the intersection of theory and pedagogy, teaching of writing and reading, rhetoric and emotion, Kenneth Burke.


Recent publications:

• “To Recall Him . . . Will be a Subject of Lamentation”: Anna Comnena as Rhetorical Historiographer.”  With Susan Jarratt. Forthcoming in Rhetorica 26.3 (2008): 301-335.
• "On a Rhetorical Techne of the Moral Emotions." Rhetorical Agendas: Political, Ethical, Spiritual. Ed. Patricia Bizzell, Lawrence Erlbaum,
  2005.
• "A Feeling for Aristotle: Emotion in the Sphere of Ethics." A Way to Move: Rhetorics of Emotion and Composition Studies, ed. Laura Micciche and Dale Jacobs. Boynton/Cook, 2003. 11-22.
• "More than Lessons in How to Read": Burke, Freud and the Resources of Symbolic Transformation." College English 63.5 (May 2001): 633-654.

Recent Conference Talks

• "Sightseeing/Seeing Sites: How I Didn’t Find Aristotle in Athens," Rhetoric Society of America, Seattle, 2008.
• "The Democritus Letters: Hippocrates, Medicine, and the Construction of Greek Values."  International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Strasbourg, 2007.
• "Between Assessment and Pedagogy: The Rhetoric of Competence in the California State System." Conference on College Composition and Communication, 2005.