Research Interests: The history of rhetorical theory, with particular attention to Classical Greek rhetorics, the medieval Greek (Byzantine) tradition, and the Renaissance reception of Classical theory, with a special emphasis on developments in Central and Eastern Europe; Kenneth Burke; the place of style in rhetorical invention and criticism.

Representative Recent Publications:

Conley, T. (2000, Tubingen). "What Counts as a 'topos' in Contemporary Research." In Topik und Rhetoric: Ein Interdisziplinaries Symposium, T. Schirren and G. Ueding (Eds.), pp. 579-585.

Conley T. (2000). Rev. of M. Alexandre, Rhetorical Argumentation in Philo of Alexandria, Journal for the Study of Judaism, 36, 298-302.

Conley, T. (2000). Greek rhetorics after the fall of Constantinople: An introduction. Rhetorica, 18, 265-294.

Conley, T. (1998). The alleged Synopsis of Aristotle’s Rhetoric by John Italos and its place in the Byzantine reception of Aristotle. In I. Rosier, & G. Dahan (Eds.), La rhetorique d’Aristote: Traditions de l’Antiquite a la Renaissance (pp. 49-64). Paris: Vrin.

Conley, T. (1995). An eighteenth-century Greek ‘Triplex modus praedicandi’ treatise. In W. Horner & M. Leff (Eds.), Rhetoric and pedagogy: Essays in honor of James J. Murphy (pp. 197-210). Rahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Conley, T. (1995). Practice to theory: Byzantine ‘Poetrics.’ In I. Sluiter & S. Slings (Eds.), Greek literary theory after Aristotle (pp. 301-320). Amsterdam: VU University Press.