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Beth Innocenti Beth Innocenti
Email: bimanole@ku.edu
Voice: 785-864-9018
Office: 116H Bailey Hall
Professor, Ph.D., University of Illinois
Beth Innocenti'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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