William Lewis

Department for the Study of Culture and Society

Program for Rhetoric and Communication Studies
Drake University
Des Moines, IA 50311

william.lewis@drake.edu
515-271-2194 (w)
515-271-3826 (fax)
515-277-0168 (h)

M.A., PhD	University of Minnesota	1982	Speech Communication
B.A.	Macalester College	1972	Political Science (with Distinction)

1990-	Associate Professor, Drake University
1992-97	Chair, Department of Rhetoric & Communication Studies
1982-1989	Assistant Professor
Fall 1986-      Spring 1987	Honors Program Director Assistant to the Provost

Rhetorical Criticism	Public Speaking
Communication and Law	Small Group Communication
Political Communication	Communication and Culture
Rhetorics of Race	Freshman Seminar in Cultural Studies
Reasoning in Communication	First Year Seminar, Popular Trials
Law, Politics, and Society Seminar	First Year Seminar, Making Sense

SERVICE

Reviewer

Quarterly Journal of Speech

Communication Studies

Political Communication

Rhetoric & Public Affairs

Western Journal of Communication

Southern Communication Journal

Speech Communication Association Convention

Central States Speech Association Convention

Various committees including:

• Chair of General Education Committee, Admissions and Financial Aid Committee, College Program Review Committee (Fine Arts)
  
• Member of Arts and Science Council, Intercollegiate Athletic Committee, Computer Enriched Curriculum Advisory Committee, University Strategic Planning Committee
  
• Advisor to various student groups including Pre-Law Advisor, College of Arts & Sciences; Mortar Board; special advisor for Open Program students

• Research grant for the study of the Angelo Herndon trial
  
• Honors course development funds, 1991-1992
  
• Research Grant for study of the Baby M trial
  
• POROI seminar in Political Communication, Fall 1990
  
• Study at University of Iowa Institute for Advanced Studies, Narrative and the Human Sciences, Summer 1990
  
• NEH Summer Seminar Grant, "Symbolic Anthropology: A Humanistic Critique" at the University of Virginia, 1983

• "Race Trials: The Rhetoric of Victimage and the Racial Consciousness of 1930's America," (with John Lucaites) in Argument in a Time of Change: Proceedings of the Tenth Biennial Conference on Argumentation, ed. By James F. Klumpp, Annandale, VA: NCA, 1998.
  

• "'God What a Job!': Commitment in the Face of Uncertainty, Alterity, and Dislocation," in Argument in a Time of Change: Proceedings of the Tenth Biennial Conference on Argumentation, ed. By James F. Klumpp, Annandale, VA: NCA, 1998.
  

• Review of: Austin Sarat and Thomas R. Kearns (eds.), The Rhetoric of Law, Univ. of Michigan Press, 1994 for the Rhetoric Society Quarterly 27(Fall 1997): 101-104.
  

• "1955/1995: Emmett Till and the Rhetoric of Racial Injustice," in Argumentation and Values: Proceedings of the Ninth Biennial Conference on Argumentation, ed. by Sally Jackson, Annandale, VA: SCA, 1996.
  

• "Forum. On the Rhetoric of Judicial Discourse, and More: A Reply to Rountree," Southern Communication Journal 61 (Winter 1995): 174-77.
  

• "Of Innocence, Exclusion, and the Burning of Flags: The Romantic Realism of the Law," Southern Communication Journal 60 (Fall 1994): 4-21.
  

• Review of: Haig Bosmajian, Metaphor and Reason in Judicial Opinions, Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1992 for the Rhetoric Society Quarterly 22 (Fall 1992): 50-52.
  

• "Real Politics: A Comment on 'The Non-Problem of Political Correctness,'" Iowa Journal of Speech Communication 24 (Spring 1992): 27-9.
  

• "Law's Tragedy," Rhetoric Society Quarterly 21 (Summer 1991): 11-21.
  

• "Baby M Goes to the Circus: The Popularity of the Popular Trial," in Argument in Controversy, Proceedings of the Seventh Biennial Conference on Argumentation, ed. by Donald W. Parson, Annandale, VA: SCA, 1991.
  

• "Power, Knowledge, and Insanity: The Trial of John W. Hinckley, Jr.," in Popular Trials: Rhetoric, Mass Media, and the Law, ed. by Robert Hariman, University of Alabama Press, 1990.
  

• "'Getting Away With Murder': George Bush, Lee Atwater, Willie Horton, and the Cultural Logic of Common Sense," in Spheres of Argument, Proceedings of the Sixth Biennial Conference on Argumentation, ed. by Bruce E. Gronbeck, Annandale, VA: SCA, 1989.
  

• Review of Anne Edwards, Early Reagan: The Rise to Power for the Quarterly Journal of Speech 75 (1989): 343-5.
  

• "Politics in the Mode of Realism: Reagan, the Hostages, and the Limits of Narrative Form," Journal of Communication Inquiry 12 (Winter 1988): 74-89.
  

• "Telling America's Story: Narrative Form and the Reagan Presidency," Quarterly Journal of Speech 73 (August 1987): 280-302.
  Reprinted in:
• Readings in Rhetorical Criticism ed. by Carl R. Burghardt, Stratus Publ. Co., 1995
  (also in 2d ed., 2000)
• The Practice of Rhetorical Criticism by James Andrews, Longman, Inc., 1990
• Rhetorical Criticism: Exploration and Practice by Sonja K. Foss, Waveland Press, Inc., 1989.

• "Popular Trials: Emmett Till and the Limitation of America's Social Imagination" presented in panel on "Rhetoric and Law's Memory" at 3rd Conference on Law, Culture & Humanities, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, March 2000.
  

• Response to "Reagan on Civil Rights: Returning to 'Original Intent'" by Craig R. Smith at "The White House and Civil Rights", 6th Annual Conference on Presidential Rhetoric, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, March 2000.
  

• "Play in the System: Lawyers as Tricksters", presented at National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, Nov. 1999
  

• "Confronting Constitutional Evil: Korematsu's Tragic Eloquence", presented at 2nd Conference on Law, Culture & Humanities, Wake Forest University, March 1999
  

• Response: "Presidential Performance in the Electronic Age," Sixth Biennial Public Address Conference, Iowa City. Iowa,, Oct. 1998
  

• "Race Trials: The Rhetoric of Victimage in America's Rhetorical Consciousness" presented in panel on "Criminal Trials as Cultural Events" at 1st Conference on Law, Culture & Humanities, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, March 1998.
  

• "Writing War/Reading Race: Korematsu's Tragic Presence", presented at National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, Nov. 1997
  

• "Race Trials: The Rhetoric of Victimage and the Racial Consciousness of 1930's America," (with John Lucaites) Tenth Biennial Conference on Argumentation, Alta, Utah, August 1997.
  

• "'God What a Job!': Commitment in the Face of Uncertainty, Alterity, and Dislocation, Tenth Biennial Conference on Argumentation, Alta, Utah, August 1997
  

• "Rodney King and the Limited Discourses of Identity," Speech Communication Association convention, San Diego, Nov. 1996.
  

• "Negro/Red: Angelo Herndon's Performance of Communist Identity," Speech Communication Association convention, San Diego, Nov. 1996.
  

• "Civil Incivility: Prophetic Rhetoric and Racial Controversy," Conference on Religion, Politics, and Civic Virtue, University of Nebraska, Oct. 1996.
  

• "Race-ing the Democratic Imagination," Fifth Biennial Public Address Conference, University of Illinois, Oct. 1996.
  

• "Who Can Forget the Scottsboro Boys? And Who Remembers Angelo Herndon?: Conceptions of Racial Justice at the Intersection of Law and Journalism," Speech Communication Association convention, San Antonio, TX, Nov. 1995.
  

• "The Angelo Herndon Trial," Speech Communication Association convention, New Orleans, LA, Nov. 1994.
  

• Response to panel on "The Rhetoric of Racial and Gender Identity, " Speech Communication Association convention, New Orleans, Nov. 1994.
  

• "'An Alien Word': Popular Trials in the Play of Social Meaning," Speech Communication Association convention, Miami, Nov. 1993.
  

• "Turow v. Grisham: Legal Novels in the World of Postmodern Politics," Speech Communication Association convention, Miami, Nov. 1993.
  

• Response to panel on "Law, Rhetoric, and Culture: Connections of Theory and Practice," Speech Communication Association convention, Miami, Nov. 1993.
  

• "In the Beginning Was Their 'Word': Gendered Interpretation in the Reporting of the William Kennedy Smith Trial," Speech Communication Association convention, Chicago, Nov. 1992.
  

• "On Community and Exclusion: The Romantic Realism of the Law," Central States Speech Association Convention, Chicago, April 1991.
  

• "Narrative Genres and Legal Discourses," Speech Communication Association Convention, November 1990.
  

• "Transforming Tragedy: Law, Literature, and the Case of Baby M," Conference onNarrative in the Human Sciences, University of Iowa, July 1990.
  

• "'Getting Away With Murder': George Bush, Lee Atwater, Willie Horton, and the Cultural Logic of Common Sense," Sixth Biennial Conference on Argumentation, Alta, Utah, August 1989.
  

• "Postmodernism," Seminar on Postmodernism, Speech Communication Association Convention, November 1988.
  

• Organized Panel on Common Sense and the Interpretation of Public Culture for Central States Speech Convention, April 1988.
  Paper: "Some Ideological Correlates of Common Sense Rhetoric"
  

• Reagan, the Hostages, and the Limits of Narrative Form," Speech Communication Association Convention, November 1987.
  

• "Knowledge, Power, and Insanity: The Trial of John Hinckley, Central States Speech Convention, April 1987.
  

• "Common Sense in the Nuclear Age: The Cuban Missile Crisis as Exemplar," Speech Communication Association Convention, November 1986.
  

• "Telling America's Story: Narrative Form and the Reagan Presidency," Central States Speech Convention, April 1986.
  

• "Defining the Good Life in Corporate America: In Search of Excellence as Rhetorical Narrative," Central States Speech Convention, April 1986.
  

• "The Trial of John Hinckley," Seminar on the Rhetoric of Popularized Trials, Speech Communication Association Convention, November 1985.
  

• "'Insanity' as Rhetorical Action," Speech Communication Association Convention, November 1984.
  

• "The Study of Culture in Rhetorical Criticism," Seminar on Communication and Culture, Speech Communication Association Convention, November 1984.
  

• "How Football Means: Play as Rhetoric," Central States Speech Convention, April 1982.