William Fusfield
Associate Professor

Areas of specialization
History of German and American Rhetoric, Critical Theory, Rhetoric
and Culture, Rhetoric of Science
Phone: (412) 624-0895
Fax: (412) 624-1878
Office: CL 1117J
Mailing Address:
University of Pittsburgh
Department of Communication
1117 Cathedral of Learning
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
E-mail: fusroy+@pitt.edu
Major Publications
Journal Articles:
"Refusing to Believe It; Consideration on Public Speaking Instruction
in a Post-Machiavellian Moment." Social Epistemology 11:3-4 (1997):
253-314.
"Communication Without Constellation? Habermas' Argumentative Turn
in (and away from) Critical Theory." Communication Theory (Nov
1997): 301-320.
"'To Want to Prove it ... is .. Really Superfluous': Friedrich Schlegel's
Reinterative Repudiation of Demonstrative Rhetoric in the Athenaum Fragment
#82." Quarterly Journal of Speech 83:2 (May 1997).
Courses Taught
Graduate
American Rhetoric in Idioms
History of American Environmental Rhetoric
Undergraduate
Rhetoric and Culture
Environmental Rhetoric
Member of:
National Communication Association