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Robert N. Gaines (Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1982), Professor and Lilly-CTE Teaching Fellow (2003-04), is Editor of Advances in the History of Rhetoric, Co-Editor of the Rhetorical Studies Area in the ICA-sponsored International Encyclopedia of Communication, and Co-Director of the NEH-funded "Voices of Democracy: The U.S. Oratory Project." His primary research program concerns the individuals and intellectual forces that shaped rhetorical theory in ancient times. He is currently editing and translating Philodemus' On Rhetoric, book 4, as part of the NEH-funded Philodemus Translation Project. He offers courses in the history of rhetoric and philosophy of communication.
Selected publications:
Robert N. Gaines, "New Perspective on the Second Sophistic in Philodemus," Papers on Rhetoric, vol. 7, ed. Lucia Calboli Montefusco (Rome: Herder, 2006), 81-94.
Robert N. Gaines, "De-Canonizing Ancient Rhetoric," The Viability of the Rhetorical Tradition, ed. Richard Graff, Arthur Walzer, and Janet Atwill (Albany: SUNY Press, 2005), 61-73.
Robert N. Gaines, "Cicero, Philodemus, and the Development of Late Hellenistic Rhetorical Theory," Philodemus and the New Testament World, ed. John T. Fitzgerald, Dirk Obbink, and Glenn Holland, Novum Testamentum, Supplements, 111 (Amsterdam: Brill, 2004), 197-220.
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