Scott Andrews, PhD, teaches classes in Essential Speech, Speechmaking, Speechwriting, Persuasion, Argumentation, Interpersonal Communication, Communication & Conflict, and Communication & Leadership, as well as classes in Rhetorical Theory and CMC (Computer Mediated Communication).
For Andrews, teaching and learning are ...
humanistic, constructivist, about possibility, interdisciplinary, pragmatic, active, cooperative, thought-provoking, critical, experiential, shared, multimodal, community-building, habitual, concentrated forms of living, beginning in wonder, ending in application.
Andrews' research lies at the interdisciplinary crossroads of rhetoric & philosophy, poetry & Democracy. His work has appeared in Speaker & Gavel and in Global Academe and in several Top Paper panels at National and Regional Conferences. Past topics investigated include The New York Times, public knowledge in general, Rev. Samuel Davies, President Bill Clinton, John Dewey, William James, Husserl, Isocrates, Plotinus, and Alan Lomax, each as specimens of rhetoric in the public sphere, rhetoric in and of democracy, rhetoric as ontology and rhetoric as constitutive, creative, and ontological.
His dissertation, Pluribus Et Unum, unfolded Walt Whitman's philosophy of Democracy as distilled from Whitman's own public rhetoric. Recent pieces explore Jacques Ranciere's "Sensory/Dramatistic" rhetoric for activists and Claude Lefort's "Political/Social" rhetoric for theorists.
