Robert Eddy

  1. Professor Emeritus
Email Addresseddyr@wsu.edu
LocationAvery 491
Phone509-335-4828

Biography

Robert Eddy’s PhD is from the University of Durham, England, where he studied the rhetorics of politics, science, and religion. He directed writing programs at universities in China and Egypt, and he was Director of Composition, from 2002 through 2010 at Washington State University/Pullman. He won the University of North Carolina Board of Governors’ Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2001, worth $10,000. English Graduate Organization voted his rhetorics of racism course the Best Graduate Seminar of the Year Award, Spring, 2021.

Selected Publications

Book in Progress

  • Rhetorics of Renaming in Malcolm X. Single author monograph.

Books Published

  • From Columbus to Churchill: Heroes, Villains, and Confronting Racism. 2022. Co-editor S. M. Ghazanfar. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers. 205 pages.
  • Writing Across Cultures: a Rhetoric. 2019. Co-author Amanda Espinosa-Aguilar. Utah State University Press. 244 pages.
  • Time, Consciousness, and Writing. 2019. Co-editor Theo Malekin. Brill Scholarly Publishing, Leiden, Netherlands. 325 pages.
  • John Spurk, 2017. History of Northern Essex Community College 1960-1985: the First Twenty-Five Years. Ed. with an Introduction by Robert Eddy. Haverhill, MA: Northern Essex Community College. 238 pages.
  • A Language and Power Reader: Representations of Race in a Post-Racist Era. 2014. Co-editor Victor Villanueva. Utah State University Press. 364 pages.
  • Reflections on Multiculturalism. 1996. Yarmouth, Maine: Intercultural Press. 213 pages.

Four Favorite Articles/Book Chapters

  • Book Chapter: “Antiracism, Zhuangzi‘s Happy Wanderer, and Overcoming the Crusades.” Memoria: Essays in Honor of Victor Villanueva. Eds. Asao Inoue, Siskanna Naynaha, and Wendy Olson. CCCC Studies in Writing and Rhetoric Series, National Council of Teachers of English, 2024, pages 254-266.
  • Book Chapter: Robert Eddy and Raed Alsawaier, “Foundations of Rhetoric in Ibn Hazm: Selections from Ring of the Dove and A Treatise on the Cure of Souls and the Improvement of Manners.” Global Rhetorical Traditions. Eds. Hui Wu and Tarez Samra Graban. Parlor Press, 2023, pages 47-66.
  • “Racial Autobiographies and Malcolm X.” Race and Pedagogy Journal, 2015, Vol. 1: No. 1, Article 4. Available at: https://rpj.scholasticahq.com/article/121587-racism-pedagogy-and-the-renaming-of-the-usa-racial-autobiographies-and-malcolm-x (*See disclaimer)
  • “Writing: the Interpreter of Desires,” Writing on the Edge, 11 (1), (2000), 48-52.

Research and Writing Projects

  • Malcolm X and rhetorics of renaming
  • Rhetorics, power, and difference
  • AI and politics of the post-human

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