Erik Doxtader is a scholar of
rhetoric
Rhetoric () is the art of persuasion, which along with grammar and logic (or dialectic), is one of the three ancient arts of discourse. Rhetoric aims to study the techniques writers or speakers utilize to inform, persuade, or motivate parti ...
and
critical theory
A critical theory is any approach to social philosophy that focuses on society and culture to reveal, critique and challenge power structures. With roots in sociology and literary criticism, it argues that social problems stem more from soci ...
. Born in
Fort Collins,
Colorado, Doxtader took a BA at the
University of Kansas and both an MA and Ph.D. from the Department of Communication Studies at
Northwestern University.
Career
Doxtader is a professor in the Department of English at the
University of South Carolina, and the current editor of ''
Philosophy & Rhetoric'', an international quarterly journal published by the
Pennsylvania State University Press. Prior to assuming the editorship in 2018, he served as the journal's Book Review Editor from 2005-2017.
Doxtader is a former Senior Research Fellow at the
Institute for Justice and Reconciliation
The Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) is a non-governmental organisation and think tank based in Cape Town, South Africa. It was forged out of the country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2000. The aim was to ensure that less ...
, a recognized non-governmental organization in
Cape Town,
South Africa. In 1999, he was awarded a 2000-2001 fellowship in the
SSRC-MacArthur program in ''Peace and Security in a Changing World.'' His book, ''With Faith in the Works of Words: The Beginnings of Reconciliation in South Africa'', received the 2010
Rhetoric Society of America book award.
[Rhetoric Society of America]
"Awards - RSA Book Award Recipients"
(accessed 21 September 2021).
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University of Kansas alumni
Northwestern University School of Communication alumni
American rhetoricians
University of South Carolina faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Writers from Fort Collins, Colorado
University of California, Berkeley faculty
University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
Academic journal editors
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty