USC College Department of English


Lawrence Green
Professor of English

Contact Information
Office: THH 426
Phone: (213) 740-3731
E-mail: lgreen@usc.edu

 

Education

  • B.A. Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley, 1969
  • M.A. Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley, 1971
  • Ph.D. Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley, 1975

Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History

Tenure Track Appointments
  • Professor of English, University of Southern California, 1996-  
  • Associate Professor of English, University of Southern California, 1983-1996  
  • Assistant Professor of English, University of Southern California, 1975-1983  
Non-Tenure Track Appointments
  • Lecturer, Department of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley, 1975-1976  
  • Consultant, Bay Area Writing Project, Berkeley, 1975  
  • Instructor, Department of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley, 1973-1975  
  • Teaching Asst, Department of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley, 1969-1972  
Visiting and Temporary Appointments
  • Professor of English, University of California, Irvine, 2006  
  • Professor of English, University of California, Irvine, 2004  
  • Professor of English, University of California, Irvine, 2002  

Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests
Professor Green researches the Renaissance, rhetoric and linguistics.

Affiliations with Research Centers, Labs, and Other Institutions

  • UCLA Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Associate
  • UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Associate
  • USC Annenberg School for Communications, Affiliate Faculty

Conferences and Other Presentations

Conference Presentations
  • "L’histoire de la rhétorique trente ans après", International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Plenary Lecture, , Strasbourg, France, Université Marc Bloch, Invited, 07/2007  
  • "Patterns of Publication in Classical Rhetoric, 1460-1700", International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Strasbourg, France, Université Marc Bloch, 07/2007  
  • "Rhetoric East and West", Fuzhou Forum on Rhetoric, Seminar, , Fuzhou, China P.R.C., Fujian Normal University, Invited, 05/2007  
  • "Towards a Cultural History of Letter Writing", Renaissance Society of America, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Miami, Florida, 03/2007  
  • "Rhetoric in the Western Tradition", 13th Biennial International Rhetoric Conference, Seminar, , Wuhan, China P.R.C., Rhetoric Society of China, Invited, 11/2006  
  • "The Epistolarion and Rhetorica of Korydalleus", American Society for the History of Rhetoric, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , San Antonio, Texas, National Communication Association, 11/2006  
  • "The Study of the History of Rhetoric as it is Conducted around the Globe", 13th Biennial International Rhetoric Conference, Plenary Lecture, , Wuhan, China P.R.C., Rhetoric Society of China, Invited, 11/2006  
  • "Si può ancora difendere e practicare la retorica?", Discorsi pronunciati, discorsi ascoltati: contesti di eloquenza tra Grecia, Roma ed Europa, Plenary Lecture, , Napoli and Santa Maria di Castellabata, Università degli Studi di Napoli (Federico II), Invited, 09/2006  
  • "Aristotle’s Rhetoric and Renaissance Epistolography", International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Talk/Oral Presentation, , Strasbourg, France, Université Marc Bloch, Invited, 07/2006  
  • "The Age of Rhetoric", Rhetoric Society of America, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Memphis, Tennessee, 05/2006  
  • "Dictaminal Aristotle", Renaissance Society of America, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Cambridge, United Kingdom, 04/2006  
  • "Aristotle's Rhetoric and Renaissance Theory of Letter Writing", American Society for the History of Rhetoric, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Boston, Massachusetts, National Communication Association, 11/2005  
  • "Quintilian, Pseudo-Quintilian, and Declamation in the Renaissance", International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Los Angeles, California, University of Southern California, 07/2005  
  • "The History of Rhetoric in International Contexts", American Society for the History of Rhetoric, Plenary Lecture, , Chicago, Illinois, National Communication Association, Invited, 11/2004  
  • "The Encyclopedic Impulse", Rhetoric Society of America, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Austin, Texas, 05/2004  
  • "Renaissance Controversies about Aristotle’s Rhetoric", Renaissance Society of America, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , New York City, NY, 04/2004  
  • "Quintilian in the Renaissance", National Communication Association, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Miami Beach, Florida, 11/2003  
  • "The Reception of Classical Pathos in Renaissance Rhetoric", Pontes III: Die antike Rhetorik in der europäischen Geistesgeschichte, Talk/Oral Presentation, , Innsbruck, Austria, Universität Innsbruck, Invited, 09/2003  
  • "Renaissance Controversies about Aristotle’s Rhetoric", International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Presidential Lecture, , Madrid, Spain, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Invited, 07/2003  
  • "Lettres à la française et l’inquiétude à l'anglaise", La Rhétorique épistolaire sous l’Ancien Régime, Talk/Oral Presentation, , Winnipeg, Canada, University of Winnipeg, Invited, 04/2003  
  • "Demosthenes, Cicero, and Philip of Spain", American Society for the History of Rhetoric, Talk/Oral Presentation, , New Orleans, Louisiana, National Communication Association, 11/2002  
  • "Scriptural Elocutio in the Renaissance", Talk/Oral Presentation, , Calahorra, Spain, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Invited, 07/2002  
  • "Renaissance Controversies about Aristotle", Rhetoric Society of America, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Las Vegas, Nevada, 05/2002  
  • "Figuration in Scripture", National Communication Association, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Atlanta, Georgia, 11/2001  
  • "New Directions in Renaissance Rhetoric", American Society for the History of Rhetoric, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Atlanta, Georgia, Emory University, 10/2001  
  • "The Pathetic Renaissance", International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Warsaw, Poland, Uniwersytet Warszawski (University of Warsaw), 07/2001  
  • "Renaissance Grammar and the English Literary Imagination", Neo-Areopagus Society, Talk/Oral Presentation, , Los Angeles, California, University of California at Los Angeles, Invited, 03/2001  
  • "Research in Rhetoric for the New Millenium", Universität Essen, Talk/Oral Presentation, , Essen, Germany, Invited, 10/2000  
  • "French Letters: Penetration, Resistance, and Contamination", Talk/Oral Presentation, , Krakow, Poland, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski (Jagiellonian University), Invited, 07/2000  
  • "English Dictamenal Relations with France", Renaissance Society of America, Refereed , Florence, Italy, 03/2000  
  • "Melanchthon, Rhetoric, and the Soul", Tagung Melanchthonhaus, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Bretten and Heidelberg, Germany, 09/1999  
  • "Renaissance Grammar and Elocutio in England", International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Amsterdam, Netherlands, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 07/1999  
  • "Shakespeare, Elocutio, and Phigures of Grammar", Shakespeare Association of America, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , San Francisco, California, 04/1999  
  • "Trends in English Renaissance Letter-Writing", Renaissance Society of America, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Los Angeles, California, 03/1999  
  • "Rhetorical Elocutio in Renaissance Grammar Books", National Communication Association, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Chicago, Illinois, 11/1997  
  • "Aristotle’s Rhetoric Made Methodical", International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Saskatoon, Canada, University of Saskatchewan, 07/1997  
  • "Archival Research in Renaissance Dictamen", Conference on College Composition and Communication, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Phoenix, Arizona, 03/1997  
  • "Renaissance Rhetoric and Conceptions of the Soul", International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Edinburgh, United Kingdom, University of Edinburgh, 07/1995  
  • "Sur l’influence du De anima sur la lecture de La Rhétorique à la Renaissance", Colloque sur La Rhétorique d’Aristote: traditions et commentaires, de l’antiquité au XVIIe si, Talk/Oral Presentation, , Aix-en-Provence, France, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Invited, 07/1995  
  • "Inventing, Arranging, and Delivering the Memory of Caesar - with Style", Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Talk/Oral Presentation, , Los Angeles, California, University of California at Los Angeles, Invited, 02/1994  
  • "Aristotelian Lexis and Renaissance Elocutio", International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Turin, Università degli Studi di Torino, 07/1993  
  • "Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Rhetoric", Talk/Oral Presentation, , Eugene, Oregon, University of Oregon, Invited, 11/1992  
  • "Cicero and Renaissance Criticism", Modern Language Association, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , San Francisco, California, 12/1991  
  • "Aristotle’s Rhetoric in the Renaissance", Conference on The Disciplines of Persuasion: A Symposium on Rhetoric from Classical Times to the Pre, Talk/Oral Presentation, , Knoxville, Tennessee, University of Tennessee, 10/1991  
  • "The Reception of Aristotle’s Rhetoric in the Renaissance", Peripatetic Rhetoric After Aristotle, Sponsored by Project Theophrastus, Talk/Oral Presentation, , New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers University, Invited, 09/1991  
  • "Making Sense of Aristotle’s Rhetoric and Renaissance Views of the Emotions", The Significance of Renaissance Rhetoric, Talk/Oral Presentation, , Coventry, United Kingdom, University of Warwick, Invited, 07/1991  
  • "Situating Aristotle’s Enthymeme in the 1990s", Conference on College Composition and Communication, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Boston, Massachusetts, 03/1991  
  • "Rhetoric and the Clark Collections", The Scope of Eloquence: Texts and Contexts of Rhetoric after the Renaissance, Talk/Oral Presentation, , Los Angeles, California, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Invited, 12/1990  
  • "The Search for Conclusive Forms of Reasoning in the Renaissance", Speech Communication Association, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Chicago, Illinois, 10/1990  
  • "The Ethics of Rhetoric in Historical Perspective", Conference on College Composition and Communication, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Chicago, Illinois, 03/1990  
  • "The Rhetorical Bases of Aristotelian Dialectic", International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Göttingen, Germany, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 07/1989  
  • "Aristotle’s Enthymeme in Rhetorical Research", Talk/Oral Presentation, , Göttingen, Germany, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Invited, 07/1988  
  • "Taking Aristotle at His Word", Conference on College Composition and Communication, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , St. Louis, Missouri, 03/1988  
  • "Rhetorica 1354al: If you can’t crack an old nut, bury it", Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Davis, California, University of California at Davis, 11/1987  
  • "Dialectic is the Antistrophe of Rhetoric", International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Tours, France, Université François-Rabelais, 07/1987  
  • "Ancient and Medieval Rhetorical Traditions in theMargarita Eloquentiae [by Laurentius Traversanus of Savona]", International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Oxford, United Kingdom, St. John's College, Oxford University, 08/1985  
  • "Discovery by Constraint in the Enthymeme", Conference on College Composition and Communication, Refereed , Minneapolis. Minnesota, 03/1985  
  • "Tudor Rhetorical Theory", International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Florence, Italy, Università degli Studi di Firenze, 06/1983  
  • "Troilus and the Rhetoric of Disjunction", Talk/Oral Presentation, , Eugene, Oregon, University of Oregon, Invited, 02/1983  
  • "Rhetoric at Elizabethan Oxford", Talk/Oral Presentation, , Eugene, Oregon, University of Oregon, Invited, 01/1983  
  • "Rhetorical Concerns at Elizabethan Oxford", Talk/Oral Presentation, , Sheffield, United Kingdom, University of Sheffield, Invited, 03/1982  
  • "Complex Enthymemes in Argumentation", Conference on College Composition and Communication, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Dallas, Texas, 04/1981  
  • "Enthymemic Invention and Structural Forecasting", Conference on College Composition and Communication, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Minneapolis, Minnesota, 04/1979  
  • "Predication and Prediction", Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Phoenix, Arizona, 10/1978  
  • "The Rhetoric of Hyperbole", Rocky Mountain Conference on British Studies, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Tempe, Arizona, 10/1978  
  • "Structural Rhetoric in Tamburlaine, Part I", , Los Angeles, California, University of Southern California, Invited, 12/1977  
  • "The Rhetorics of Renaisssance Drama", Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Los Angeles, California, 11/1977  
  • "Intention and Interpretation", National Endowment for the Humanities, Seminar on Rhetoric, Reading, and Writing, Talk/Oral Presentation, , Los Angeles, California, University of Southern California, Invited, 06/1977  
  • "Magistrates and Their Mirrors", Talk/Oral Presentation, , Columbia, Missouri, University of Missouri, Invited, 01/1976  
Other Presentations
  • "The Renaissance Union of Rhetoric and Letters", Plenary Lecture, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, China P.R.C., 05/2007  
  • "Renaissance Controversies about Aristotle's Rhetoric: Crossing Cultures", Public Lecture, Peking University, Beijing, China P.R.C., 11/2006  
  • "Renaissance Controversies about Aristotle's Rhetoric: Crossing Cultures", Public Lecture, Jianghan University , Wuhan, China P.R.C., 11/2006  
  • "Chair, Moderator, Discussant, or Respondent", 27 Scholarly Meetings, Europe and North America, 1978-2005  

Publications

Book
  • Green, L. D., Murphy, J. J. (2006). Renaissance Rhetoric Short-Title Catalogue 1460-1700. London: Ashgate Publisher.
  • Green, L. D. (1986). John Rainolds's Oxford Lectures on Aristotle's "Rhetoric". Newark, London, and Toronto: University of Delaware Press.
Book Chapter
  • Green, L. D. (2007). "Renaissance Controversies about Aristotle's Rhetoric: Crossing Cultures in Communication Theory" [in Chinese], in Broadening the Horizon of Rhetoric. pp. 113-125. Fuzhou, Fujian: Literature and Art Publishing House Strait.
  • Green, L. D. (2005). "The Reception of Classical Pathos in Renaissance Rhetoric," in Pontes III: Die antike Rhetorik in der europäischen Geistesgeschichte. pp. 203-13. Innsbruck, Vienna, Bozen: Studien Verlag.
  • Green, L. D. (2005). "The Encyclopedic Impulse: Laudatio Thomae Sloanis," in Advances in the History of Rhetoric. pp. 211-16. College Park, Maryland: American Society for the History of Rhetoric.
  • Green, L. D. (2004). "Demosthenes, Cicero, and Philip of Spain," in Advances in the History of Rhetoric. pp. 139-50. College Park, Maryland: American Society for the History of Rhetoric.
  • Green, L. D. (2004). "Reynolds or Rainolde, Richard," in New Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Green, L. D., Feingold, M. (2003). "John Rainolds," in Dictionary of Literary Biography; Vol. 281: British Rhetoricians and Logicians 1500-1600. pp. 249-59. Gale Press (Scribner's).
  • Green, L. D. (2002). "Melanchthon, Rhetoric, and the Soul," in Melanchthon und Europa, vol 2: Westeuropa. pp. 11-28. Stuttgart: Jan Thorbecke.
  • Green, L. D. (2001). "Pathos," in Encyclopedia of Rhetoric. pp. 554-69. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Green, L. D. (2001). "Ciceronianism," in Tudor England: An Encyclopedia. pp. 137-39. New York City, NY: Routledge.
  • Green, L. D. (2001). "Rhetoric," in Tudor England: An Encyclopedia. pp. 598-602. New York City, NY: Garland.
  • Green, L. D. (2001). "Logic," in Tudor England: An Encyclopedia. pp. 439-41. New York City, NY: Routledge.
  • Green, L. D. (2001). "Rainolde, Richard," in Tudor England: An Encyclopedia. pp. 581-82. New York City, NY: Routledge.
  • Green, L. D. (2000). "Aristotelian Lexis and Renaissance Elocutio," in Rereading Aristotle's "Rhetoric". pp. 149-65. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University.
  • Green, L. D. (1999). "Grammatica Movet: Renaissance Grammar Books and Elocutio," in Rhetorica Movet: Studies in historical and modern rhetoric in honour of Heinrich F. Plett. pp. 73-116. Leiden: Brill.
  • Green, L. D. (1998). "Aristotle's Rhetoric and Renaissance Conceptions of the Soul," in "La Rhétorique" d’Aristote: Traditions et commentaires, de l’antiquité au XVIIe siècle. pp. 283-97. Paris: Vrin.
  • Green, L. D. (1997). "Aristotle’s Rhetoric Made Methodical," in Autour de Ramus: Texte, théorie, commentaire. pp. 135-73. Quebec: Nuits Blanches.
  • Green, L. D. (1996). "Scholasticism," in Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition: Communication from ancient times to the information age. pp. 655-57. New York City, NY: Garland.
  • Green, L. D. (1995). "Aristotle’s Enthymeme and the Imperfect Syllogism," in Rhetoric and Pedagogy: It's history, philosophy, and practice. pp. 19-41. New York City, NY: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  • Green, L. D. (1994). "Rhetoric 1500-1700," in Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, 3rd Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Green, L. D. (1994). "The Reception of Aristotle’s Rhetoric in the Renaissance," in Peripatetic Rhetoric After Aristotle: Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities. pp. 320-48. Oxford and New Brunswick NJ: Transaction Publishers.
  • Green, L. D. (1994). "Canonicity and the Renaissance Cicero," in Composition in Context. pp. 17-27. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois Univ Pr.
  • Green, L. D. (1994). "Aristotle’s Rhetoric and Renaissance Views of the Emotions," in Renaissance Rhetoric. pp. 1-26. London: Macmillan.
  • Green, L. D. (1991). "Stance Perception in Sixteenth-Century Ethical Discourse," in Rhetoric and Ethics: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives. pp. 59-80. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellon Pr.
Book Review
  • Green, L. D. (2000). Charta of Greek Printing: The contribution of Greek editors, printers and publishers to the Renaissance in Italy and the West, by Konstantinos Sp. Staikos. Renaissance Studies. pp. 244-48.
  • Green, L. D. (1997). Essays on Aristotle’s "Rhetoric", ed. Amélie Oksenberg Rorty. Quarterly Journal of Speech. pp. 493-95.
  • Green, L. D. (1996). Renaissance-Rhetorik / Renaissance Rhetoric, ed. Heinrich F. Plett. Rhetoric and Philosophy. pp. 451-58.
  • Green, L. D. (1993). Aristotle "On Rhetoric": A theory of civic discourse, tr. George Kennedy. Rhetoric and Philosophy
  • Green, L. D. (1992). "A Short History of Writing Instruction," ed. J. J. Murphy. Rhetoric Review. pp. 221-26.
  • Green, L. D. (1992). The Elizabethan Courtier Poets, by Stephen May. Huntington Library Quarterly. pp. 643-45.
  • Green, L. D. (1989). Hermogenes "On Types of Style", tr. Cecil B. Wooten. Quarterly Journal of Speech. pp. 502-505.
  • Green, L. D. (1986). "Rhetorical Approaches to Shakespeare" (review essay of several books). Rhetorica: A journal of the history of rhetoric. pp. 295-301.
Journal Article
  • Green, L. D. (2007). "Controversies about Aristotle's Rhetoric in the Period of the Renaissance: Making Sense of Theories of Communication in Crossing Culture" [in Chinese]. Journal of Fujian Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition). (143), pp. 47-53.
  • Green, L. D. (2007). "Study of World Rhetoric History" [in Chinese]. Journal of Jianghan University. Vol. 26 (1), pp. 74-78.
  • Green, L. D. (2003). "French Letters and English Anxiety in the Seventeenth Century". Huntington Library Quarterly. Vol. 66, pp. 263-74.
  • Green, L. D. (1991). "The Scope of Eloquence: Texts and Contexts of Rhetoric after the Renaissance". Clark Library Newsletter: Bulletin of the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies. Vol. 20, pp. 4-5.
  • Green, L. D. (1990). "Rhetoric, Dialectic, and the Traditions of Antistrophos". Rhetorica: A journal of the history of rhetoric. pp. 5-27.
  • Green, L. D. (1989). "Rhetoric at the Clark". Clark Library Newsletter: Bulletin of the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies. Vol. 17, pp. 5-6.
  • Green, L. D. (1986). "Classical and Medieval Rhetorical Traditions in Traversagni’s Margarita Eloquentiae". Quarterly Journal of Speech. Vol. 72, pp. 185-96.
  • Green, L. D. (1984). "‘We’ll Dress Him Up in Voices’: The Rhetoric of Disjunction in Troilus and Cressida". Quarterly Journal of Speech. Vol. 70, pp. 23-40.
  • Green, L. D. (1983). "Comment and Response" (debate on theories advanced in my article in College English, 1980). College English. Vol. 45, pp. 509-17.
  • Green, L. D. (1981). "Modes of Perception in the Mirror for Magistrates". Huntington Library Quarterly. Vol. 44, pp. 117-33.
  • Green, L. D. (1980). "Enthymemic Invention and Structural Prediction". College English. Vol. 41, pp. 623-34.
  • Green, L. D. (1972). "‘Where’s My Fool?’—Some Consequences of the Omission of the Fool in Tate’s Lear". Studies in English Literature 1500-1900. Vol. 12, pp. 259-74.

Honors and Awards

  • USC Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award, 1992  
  • Wolfson College, Oxford University (elected), 1983  
  • USC Faculty Research and Innovation Grant, 1982-1983   
  • American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship Recipient, 1981-1982  
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Recipient, 1981  
  • Heller Travelling Fellowship, Univ of California, Berkeley, 1972-1973  
  • Departmental Citation (Rhetoric), University of California, Berkeley, 1969  
  • Phi Beta Kappa, Univ of California, Berkeley, 1969  

Service to the University

Committees
  • Member, University Fulbright and Marshall Committees, 1987; 2002-04, 1987-2004  
  • Member, President’s Committee on Academic Policy and Procedure, 1986-1989  
  • Member, Freshman Writing Policy Committee, Division of Humanities, 1982-1988  
  • Member, Tenure & Promotion Committee, Division of Social Sciences, 1984-1986  
  • Chair, Computing Facilities, Division of Humanities, 1984-1985   
Review Panels
  • Fulbright Award Committee, Institute of International Education, National Committee for United Kingdom, 1990-1993  

Service to the Profession

Conferences Organized
  • Organizer and Moderator, "Aphthonius and the Progymnasmata", Memphis, TN, (three-day seminar featuring Dr. Manfred Kraus of Tübingen University, Germany), 05/2006  
  • Organizer, Biennial Congress, International Society for the History of Rhetoric, San Marino and Los Angeles, CA, (week-long international conference at the Huntington Library and the University of Southern California, with 400 scholars from 34 countries, presenting papers in six languages), 07/2005  
  • Organizer and Moderator, International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Chamonix, France, 07/2004  
  • Organizer and Moderator, "Rudolph Agricola and the De inventione dialectica", San Antonio, Texas, (three-day seminar featuring Prof. Peter Mack of Warwick University, United Kingdom), 05/2004  
  • Organizer and Moderator, "The Scope of Eloquence: Texts and contexts of rhetoric after the Renaissance", Los Angeles, CA, (three-day rare book conference at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library), 12/1990  
Editorships and Editorial Boards
  • Editorial Board, Rhetorica: A journal for the history of rhetoric, 2001-  
Professional Offices
  • President, International Society for the History of Rhetoric, 2003-2005  
  • Vice-president, International Society for the History of Rhetoric, 2001-2003  
  • Executive Council, Representative for North America, International Society for the History of Rhetoric, 1985-1989  
Professional Memberships
  • Institute for Early Modern Studies, Huntington Library and USC, 2003-  
  • American Society for the History of Rhetoric, 1990-  
  • Rhetoric Society of America, 1990-  
  • International Society for the History of Rhetoric, 1980-  
  • National Communication Association, 1980-  
  • Rennaissance Society of America, 1980-  
  • Modern Language Association, 1978-  
Review Panels
  • Fulbright Award Committee, Institute of International Education, National Committee for United Kingdom, 1990-1993  
Other Service to the Profession
  • Founding member, Association of Rhetoric Societies (ARS), meetings in Atlanta; Las Vegas; Austin; Kent, Ohio., 2002-2005  
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