Carol Clark

My experiences in the Middle East during Fulbright Award in Jordan in 2008-09 have redirected my scholarship within rhetoric and writing studies. Originally, I became interested in the Middle East via my work in classical rhetoric because I teach the History of Rhetoric 1 class with a multi-cultural focus. In addition to the ancient Greek and Roman, we consider historical rhetorics of cultures including Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Chinese, and Arabic. I published an article on Averroes (Ibn Rushd), a 12th century Moorish rhetorician, “Aristotle and Averroes: The Influence of Aristotle’s Arabic Commentator on Western European and Arabic Rhetoric” in Review of Communications(2007). My interest in the contemporary rhetoric of journalism related to the Middle East is reflected in two papers slated for publication. Currently, I am working on papers related to sense of place at Joseph’s Tomb, a contested heritage site in the West Bank, and the epideictic rhetoric of the kings of Jordan.

My continuing interest in the teaching of composition is evidenced by the publication in 2009 of my third first-year composition textbook, Praxis: A Brief Rhetoric (Fountainhead Press) that utilizes ancient rhetoric to frame the teaching of writing. A book on the rhetoric of journalism, Imagining Texas: Pre-Revolutionary Texas Newspapers 1829-1836, was published by Texas Western Press in 2002.

UTEP Faculty Profile: http://academics.utep.edu/Default.aspx?tabid=70104&ID=cclark

Contact Information

Email: cclark@utep.edu

Phone: 915-747-6244

Hudspeth Hall 207

Personal Information

Ph.D., Texas Christian University

Associate Professor