Degrees

Books

• Rhetorical Investigations: Studies in Ordinary Language Criticism, University of Virginia Press, 2004
• Rhetorical Thought in John Henry Newman, University of South Carolina Press, 1989

Edited Works

• The Knowing Most Worth Doing: Essays on Pluralism, Ethics, and Religion, University of Virginia Press, 2010
• The Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Literature, Blackwell Publishers, 2010
• The Essential Wayne Booth, University of Chicago Press, 2006
• A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism, Blackwell Publishers, 2004
• Ordinary Language Criticism: Literary Thinking After Cavell After Wittgenstein, Northwestern University Press, 2003
• Rhetorical Invention and Religious Inquiry: New Perspectives, Yale University Press, 2000
• Rhetoric and Hermeneutics in Our Time, Yale University Press, 1997.  Translated into Chinese (Beijing: The Commercial Press, 2018).

Forthcoming Book

• The Disconcordance of Our Language Games: Rhetorical Considerations in Poetry, Thought, and Experience (Palgrave: 2023/24)

Recent Articles

• “Elizabeth’s Bishop’s Grammar School for the Aspect-Blind and A-rhetorical,” in special issue of Religions, edited by Kevin Hart (July, 2017).
• “Thinking the Poem: Elizabeth Bishop’s Transcendental ‘Crusoe in England’ (For Example),” in Garry Hagberg, ed., Wittgenstein and Philosophical Aesthetics (London: Palgrave, 2016).
• “Demonstrating Rhetoric in Wharton’s Ethan Frome” (in manuscript). 
• “Rhetoric and Poetry,” (with Thomas Sloane), Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetics (2010).
•  “Philosophy and Literature—and Rhetoric: Adventures in Polytopia,” inGarry L. Hagberg and Walter Jost, eds., The Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Literature (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2010).
• “Introduction” to Pluralism, Ethics and Religion: Essays by Wayne Booth (University of Virginia Press, 2010).
• “Doing Ordinary Language Criticism,” The St. John's University Humanities Review, Spring, 2007.
• “Introduction” to The Essential Wayne Booth  (University of Chicago Press, 2006).
• Poems in Descant (Fall 2005), The Virginia Quarterly Review (July 2006), Sou’wester (Fall 2006), Virginia Quarterly Review (2009).
• “Foreword” to James McDermott, Austere Style in Twentieth-Century Literature: Literary Minimalism (Edwin Mellen Press, 2006).
• "Sweating the Little Things in Lumet's 12 Angry Men," in Michael Hyde, ed., The Ethos of Rhetoric (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2004).
• “Epiphany and Epideictic: The Low Modernist Lyric in Robert Frost,” in Jost and Olmsted, eds., A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism (Blackwell, 2004).
• "Ordinary Language Brought to Grief: Robert Frost's Home" Burial,” in Dauber and Jost, eds., Ordinary Language Criticism (Northwestern University Press, 2003).
• Introduction to Dauber and Jost, eds., Ordinary Language Criticism (Northwestern University Press, 2003).
• "The Logos of Techne (or, By Virtue of Art)", in Joseph Petraglia, ed., New Essays on Rhetoric and Education (SUNY Press, 2003).
• "Rhetorical Investigations of Robert Frost," in Earl Wilcox and Jonathan Barron, eds., Rereading Robert Frost (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2000).

Honors

• Scholar of the Year, Religious Communication Association, 2018.
• International Society for the History of Rhetoric Travel Grant, Summer, 2001
• Teaching Initiative Grant, 1999
• Sesquicentennial Research Awards, UVa, 1998, 1993, 2004
• Senior Fellow, Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change, UVa, 1994
• Candidate for Danforth Fellowship, University of Chicago, 1979