Emeritus Faculty | School of Communication Studies | SIU

"My greatest desire was always to create a theater for the oral performance of good literature. That dream was realized when the "Calipre Stage" was built out of odds and ends in an empty space behind the department. In that theater many oral interp. students found a home as they progressed to their degree at all levels. I was also pleased and supported in the development of literary genre courses, script creation and of course the staging of performance. The result of these courses was experiment with developing theory and experimenting with literary form and its performance."

Philosophy of communication; Argumentation, communication, cultural, and rhetorical theory; Hermeneutic phenomenology, critical theory, and process philosophy as research orientations.

Theories and Models of Human Communicology, Semiotic Phenomenology, Philosophy of Communication.

Lab in Interpersonal Communication, Phenomenological Methodology, Political Rhetoric

Performance studies, performance methods, autoethnography.

Women's autobiography, literary adaptation, and personal narratives in performance.

Performance studies, performance ethnography, cultural ritual, performance pedagogy