Debra Hawhee

Associate Professor

Curriculum Vitae

Education: Ph.D., Penn State University

Research Interests: History of Rhetoric, classical rhetoric, rhetorical theory, Kenneth Burke, body studies.

Current Research: Professor Hawhee is an historian and theorist of rhetoric whose work pays particular attention to how and when language and bodies come together. She has written a book about rhetoric's emergence as an art of the body, which considers how the terminology, teaching, and performance of ancient rhetoric was derived in large part from sports such as wrestling and boxing. Her study, Bodily Arts: Rhetoric and Athletics in Ancient Greece , won an NEH fellowship in 2002 and was published on the University of Texas Press 's Classics List. Hawhee is also author, with Sharon Crowley, of Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students , now in its third edition. She is currently at work on a book about Kenneth Burke's theories of the body.

Representative Recent Publications:

Hawhee, D. (2004). Bodily Arts: Rhetoric and Athletics in Ancient Greece . Austin : University of Texas Press.

Hawhee, D. (2004). Burke on Drugs. Rhetoric Society Quarterly 31:1, 5-28.

Hawhee, D. (2002). Bodily Pedagogies: Rhetoric, Athletics, and the Sophists' Three Rs. College English 65:2, 142-162.

Hawhee, D. (2002). Agonism and Arete. Philosophy and Rhetoric 35:3, 185-207.

Hawhee, D. (2002). Kairotic Encounters. In Perspectives on Rhetorical Invention , edited by Janice Lauer and Janet Atwill. (pp. 16-35) Knoxville : U of Tennessee P.

Hawhee, D. (2001.) Emergent Flesh: Phusiopoesis and Arts of Training. Journal of Sport and Social Issues 25:2, 141-157.