While I’m on permanent leave from my doctoral program to pursue other passions, I still very occasionally publish and present paper talks in my field of ancient Greek rhetoric. My graduate training in rhetoric, classics, and aesthetics has helped me become an analytical yet inventive thinker, and I am forever grateful to my advisors and colleagues in ancient rhetoric.
Brief academic bio: I am a PhD candidate in the history of rhetoric (all but dissertation status) on permanent hiatus from my program at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a previous visiting researcher at UC Berkeley's Department of Rhetoric. My academic research explores the intersections between rhetorical theory and aesthetics in the Hellenistic tradition, focusing on the rhetorical force of visual and imaginary images in theory and practice from Aristotle through the Second Sophistic. (Jim Elkins has written about my work on ekphrasis and phantasia in Writing With Images.)
Current and upcoming academic publications and presentations:
Review of Susan Jarratt’s Chain of Gold: Greek Rhetoric in the Roman Empire for the Journal for the History of Rhetoric (formerly titled Advances in the History of Rhetoric, the society journal for the American Society for the History of Rhetoric), November 2022.
“You are poking up a wasps’ nest of narrative: foreign guests, local hosts, and ekphrasis as incitement to storytelling in ancient Greek novels” accepted for presentation at the 19th Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Portland, OR, May 2020. Conference subsequently canceled due to COVID–19 pandemic.
(Relatively) recent academic publications and presentations:
"Extended Note: Aristotle’s Rhetorical Energeia," in Advances in the History of Rhetoric, November 2017.
Presentation on Theophrastus and vegetal rhetorics for "The Nature of Rhetoric" panel, American Society for the History of Rhetoric conference, November 2016.
Review of Kathleen Lamp's A City of Marble: The Rhetoric of Augustan Rome in Advances in the History of Rhetoric, March 2016.
Presenter and chair, "Visualization and Vivacity, Seeing and Knowing," Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Atlanta, May 2016.
“Philostratus' Revisions of Platonic Mimesis,” Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Atlanta, May 2016.
Review of Anne Shepard's The Poetics of Phantasia: Imagination in Ancient Aesthetics in Rhetoric Society Quarterly, April 2015.
Presenter and chair, "Parrhesia and Sophistry: Foucault's History of Rhetoric in the Late Lectures," American Society for the History of Rhetoric at the National Communication Association Conference, November 2014.
“Energeia, Phantasia, and Rhetorical Presence in Aristotle,” Rhetoric Society of America Conference Research Network, San Antonio, May 2014.
"Theories of Rhetoric, Rhetoric as Theory," Theory/Post-Theory Conference, UC Berkeley Department of Rhetoric and Stanford University Department of Art & Art History, April 2014