James F. Klumpp (Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1973), Professor,
studies contemporary rhetorical theory and American rhetorical
discourse. He is a rhetorical critic and a historian of the use of
discourse to affect social structure. His work in contemporary
rhetorical theory concentrates on Kenneth Burke and the European
continental critics. Argumentation is another interest, particularly
social argumentation processes. His current research concentrates on
rituals of governance which structure American social change. He offers
courses in contemporary rhetorical theory, political communication, the
history of orality in the United States, and historical/critical
methods. Selected publications: James F. Klumpp, "Burkean Social
Hierarchy and the Ironic Investment of Martin Luther King." Kenneth
Burke into the Twenty-first Century. Ed. Bernard L. Brock. (Albany:
State University of New York Press, 1999), 207-42; Ronald F. Reid and
James F. Klumpp, eds. American Rhetorical Discourse (Long Branch IL:
Waveland, 2004); Bernard L. Brock, Mark E. Huglen, James F. Klumpp, and
Sharon Howell, Making Sense of Political Ideology: The Power of Language
in Democracy (Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006).
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