Biographies
From RhetorClick
Andrea A. Lunsford and Lisa S. Ede Andrea Lunsford and Lisa Ede have been close friends since meeting in 1970 at Ohio State University. Since their friendship started, they have collaborated on many writing projects.
Andrea Lunsford received her Ph.D. from The Ohio State University and was a Distinguished Professor of English at Ohio State University before she joined Stanford University in March 2000. Lunsford has coauthored and written fourteen books, as well as numerous articles and chapters. Lisa Ede also received her Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. She currently is a Professor of English at Oregon State University.
Ferdinand De Saussure Ferdinand De Saussure (1857-1907) was a Swiss linguist. He studied linguistics at the University of Leipzig (1876) then later studied in Berlin. From 1881-1891, after receiving his doctorate from Leipzig, he taught in Paris, and in 1891, he accepted a professorship at Geneva. He taught at the University of Geneva for the rest of his career. In 1907, he started teaching General Linguistics.
Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) was a Russian literary theorist and philosopher of language. He was born into a noble family in Russia, and his father and grandfather owned and managed state banks. Few of his works were published during his lifetime. Most of his writing focused on Marxism, semiotics, structuralism, and religious criticism.
Kenneth Burke Kenneth Burke (1897-1993) attended Ohio State University for a semester before moving to Columbia University; however, he left college to pursue writing. He is thought of as a major American literary theorist.
I. A. Richards I. A Richards (1893-1979) studied philosophy at Magdalene College, Cambridge. He taught his first literary class at Magdalene. After working with C. K Ogen, he began studying interpretation, and after seeing his students’ interpretations of poems, he wrote Practical Criticism and Principles of Literary Criticism. Once he started teaching at Harvard University, he argued that it is useless to have theory without application. He is most known for the revival of the rhetorical triangle, as well as being the father of New Criticism.
Donald C. Bryant Donald C. Bryant (1905-1987) studied speech and English at Cornell University. He taught at the high school and university levels; he was a professor at New York State College for Teachers, Washington University, and University of Iowa. He was an editor for The Quarterly Journal of Speech for one term, and the president of the Speech Communication Association. He is known for defining the function of rhetoric as, “Adjusting ideas to people and people to ideas.”
Michel Foucault Michel Foucault (1926-1984) attended Ecole Normale Superieure. After seeing a psychiatrist, he began studying psychology, and he earned his license in France, as well as a degree in philosophy. He taught psychology at the Universite Lille Nord de France from 1953 to 1954. After leaving France for a few years, Foucault returned to finish his doctorate and accept a position at the University of Clermont-Ferrand. In 1965, he moved to the University of Tunis. He later moved to the United States and lectured at the University at buffalo in 1970, as well as at UC Berkeley.
Roland Barthes Roland Barthes (1915-1980) was a French philosopher, literary theorist and critic. He taught in France, Romania and Egypt while he wrote Writing Degree Zero. In 1952, he started at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique to study sociology and lexicology. After writing numerous well-known essays, Barthes began traveling to lecture. In 1967, he wrote The Death of the Author, and in 1977, he was elected to the chair of Semilogie Litteraire at the College de France.
