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Nobleza Asuncion-Lande Mary Banwart Nancy Baym Tom D. Beisecker Kristine Bruss Diana B. Carlin Jay Childers Michael Dennis

Paul G. Friedman Jeffrey Hall Scott Harris Mary Lee Hummert Adrianne Kunkel Beth Manolescu Donn Parson

Dorthy Pennington Robert C. Rowland Tracy Russo Amy Schmisseur Dave Tell Yan Bing Zhang Emeritus Faculty

Beth Manolescu Email: bimanole@ku.edu Voice: 785-864-9018 Office: 116E Bailey Hall

Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Illinois
Beth Manolescu's teaching and research interests are in the history of rhetoric and argumentation. She is particularly interested in eighteenth-century rhetoric, early American public address, and norms of argumentation. She regularly teaches the undergraduate course "The Rhetorical Tradition," bridge courses "American Rhetoric: Puritans to 1900," "Rhetoric of Woman's Rights," and "Argumentation," and the graduate courses "Neoclassical Rhetorical Theories" and "Research Methods: Historical and Descriptive." Her work has been published in journals such as Rhetorica, Quarterly Journal of Speech, and Argumentation. She has served on the Steering Committee of the American Society for the History of Rhetoric.

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