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James Crosswhite, Mentor
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Christopher Vincent, McNair Scholar

James Crosswhite received his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in 1989 and joined the UO faculty that same year. Director of the UO Composition Program, Crosswhite’s teaching and research interests include philosophy, rhetoric, nature writing, and theories of wilderness and the wild. Professor Crosswhite’s publications include The Rhetoric of Reason: Writing and the Attractions of Argument, University of Wisconsin Press (1996). Other publicatons include “Conflict in Concert: Fighting Hannah Arendt’s Good Fight,” JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory (forthcoming); “Rhetoric in the Wilderness,” in A Companion to Rhetori, Walter Jost and Wendy Olmsted, eds, Blackwell (forthcoming); “Con Amore: Henry Johnstone’s Philosophy of Argumentation.” Informal Logic (2001); and “The Deep Rhetoric of the Late 20th Century,” paper presented in July, 2003, at the International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Madrid, Spain. Currently, Professor Crosswhite is working on a new book, Deep Rhetoric: Reason, Violence, Justice, and Wisdom.