| Education | |
| 1996 |
PhD Northwestern University Communication |
| 1992 |
MA University of Arkansas Communication |
| 1984 |
BA San Jose State University English |
| Employment |
|
| 2015 - Present |
Professor English Affiliate Professor in American Studies Indiana University, Bloomington |
| 2004 - 2015 |
Associate Professor Communication and Culture Indiana University, Bloomington |
| 1998 - 2003 |
Assistant Professor Communication and Culture Indiana University, Bloomington |
| 1996 - 1998 |
Visiting Assistant Professor Communication and Culture Indiana University, Bloomington |
| 1988 - 1990 |
High School Teacher English Antelope Valley Union High School District Lancaster, CA |
| 1986 - 1988 |
High School Teacher English, Mathematics, E.S.L Campbell Union High School District San Jose, CA |
| Grad Student Dissertations |
|
| 2024 |
Millie Hizer (co-advisor, with Scot Barnett) Southeast Louisiana University Title: Accessibility in Higher Education: Rhetorically Navigating Spaces of Ableism |
| 2021 |
Bridget Sutherland Edmonds College, Seattle, WA Title: “She Made the Decision to Stay”: Resisting Rhetorics of Spatiality and Victim Blaming in the Effort to End Intimate Violence |
| 2019 |
Jessica Rudy Amazon, Inc. Title: Civic Selfies: Online Social Media and the Development of Feminist Political Identity |
| 2018 |
Katie Lind University of North Carolina, Greensboro Title: The Unbearable Loss of Being: Curating, Documenting, and Resisting Anthropogenic Mass Extinction |
| 2018 |
Rudo Mudiwa UC Riverside Title: The Prostitute as Citizen: Mobile Women and the Politics of Urban Space in Post-Independence Zimbabwe |
| 2016 |
Cortney Smith Oberlin College Title: Countering the Vanishing Race Myth through a Native American Rhetoric of Hybridity |
| 2016 |
Elizabeth Gilmore Clemson University Title: The Rhetoric of Benevolence: Invisible Children and the Construction of Whiteness in Philanthropy |
| 2015 |
Valerie Wieskamp Appalachian State University, Boone, NC Title: Sexual Assault and the Melodramatic Mythos of War |
| 2014 |
Jennifer Heusel University of Oregon Title: Why do these silly things exist?: Postracial, Free Market Logics in Local Discourse about Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) |
| 2012 |
Dave Naze Highland Community College, Freeport, IL Title: Kansas City, Congress, and Cooperstown: Re-Remembering The Cultural Legacy of Jackie Robinson |
| 2008 |
Kathleen McConnell San Jose State University Title: Thinking Like a School System: Compulsory Education, Plurality, and the Problem of Judgment |
Books
Terrill,
Robert E., editor. Reconsidering Obama: Reflections on
Rhetoric. (New York: Peter Lang, 2017).
Terrill,
Robert E. Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack
Obama: The Price and Promise of Citizenship. (Columbia:
University of South Carolina Press, 2015).
Terrill,
Robert E., editor. The Cambridge Companion to Malcolm X.
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).
Terrill,
Robert E. Malcolm X: Inventing Radical Judgment. (East
Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2004).
Andrews,
James R., Michael C. Leff, and Robert E. Terrill. Reading
Rhetorical Texts: An Introduction to Criticism. (Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1998).
Selected Articles and Book Chapters
Terrill,
Robert E. “Rhetorical Imitation and Civic Diversity.” Advances
in the History of Rhetoric 22.2 (2019): 157-171.
Terrill,
Robert E. “The Post-Racial and Post-Ethical Discourse of
Donald J. Trump.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 20.3
(2017): 493-510.
Terrill,
Robert E. “Reproducing Virtue: Quintilian, Imitation, and
Rhetorical Education.” Advances in the History of Rhetoric
19.2 (2016): 157-171.
Terrill,
Robert E. “Rhetorical Criticism and Citizenship Education.” In
Rhetorical Criticism: Purpose, Practice, and Pedagogy,
edited by James Kuypers. Lexington Books, 2014.
Terrill,
Robert E. “Mimesis, Duality, and Rhetorical Education.” Rhetoric
Society Quarterly. 41.4 (2011): 295-315.
Terrill,
Robert E. “An Uneasy Peace: Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize
Lecture.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 14.4 (2011):
761-779.
Terrill,
Robert E. “Learning to Read.” Rhetoric & Public
Affairs 13.4 (2011): 689-697.
Terrill,
Robert E. “Unity and Duality in Barack Obama’s ‘A More Perfect
Union.’” Quarterly Journal of Speech 95.4 (2009):
363-386.
Terrill,
Robert E. “James Buchannan: Romancing the Union.” In Before
the Rhetorical Presidency, edited by Martin J. Medhurst.
Texas A&M University Press, 2008.
Terrill,
Robert E. “Unprecedented: Mimesis and Miscarriage.” In The
Rhetoric of the New Political Documentary, edited by
Thomas Benson and Brian Snee. Southern Illinois University
Press, 2008.
Terrill,
Robert E. “Going Deep.” Southern Communication Journal
71 (2006): 165-173.
Terrill,
Robert E. “Irony, Silence, and Time: Frederick Douglass on the
Fifth of July.” The Quarterly Journal of Speech 89
(2003): 216-234.
Terrill,
Robert E. and Eric King Watts. “W. E. B. Du Bois, Double
Consciousness, and Pan-Africanism in the Progressive Era.” In
A Rhetorical History of the United States: Rhetoric and
Reform in the Progressive Era, edited by J. Michael
Hogan. Michigan State University Press, 2002.
Terrill, Robert E. “Protest,
Prophecy, and Prudence in the Rhetoric of Malcolm X.” Rhetoric
& Public Affairs 4.1 (2001): 25-53.
Terrill, Robert E. “White
Guy, Black Texts: Appropriateness and Appropriation across
Racial Difference.” Rhetoric Review 20 (2001): 56-60.
Terrill, Robert E.
“Spectacular Repression: Sanitizing the Batman.” Critical
Studies in Media Communication 17 (2000): 493-509.
Terrill, Robert E.
“Colonizing the Borderlands: Shifting Circumference in the
Rhetoric of Malcolm X.” Quarterly Journal of Speech
86.1 (2000): 67-85.
Terrill, Robert E. and David
Zarefsky. “Consistency and Change in the Rhetoric of Stephen
A. Douglas.” Southern Communication Journal 62.3
(1997): 179-196.
Terrill, Robert E. and Michael
C. Leff. “The Polemicist as Artist: Du Bois’s Response to
Booker T. Washington.” In Argumentation and Values:
Proceedings of the Ninth SCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation,
edited by Sally Jackson. Speech Communication Association,
1995.
Terrill, Robert E. “Put on a
Happy Face: Batman as Schizophrenic Savior.” Quarterly
Journal of Speech 79.3 (1993): 319-335.
| Awards |
|
| 2017 |
Faculty Mentor Award, presented by the Graduate and Professional Student Government and the University Graduate School, Indiana University |
| 2016 |
Marie Hochmuth
Nichols Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Public
Address (for Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama: The Price and Promise of Citizenship) |
| 2011 |
Choice Reviews “Outstanding
Academic Title” (for The Cambridge Companion to Malcolm X) |
| 2005 |
Kohrs-Campbell
Prize in Rhetorical Criticism (for Malcolm X: Inventing Radical Judgment) |
| 1998 |
Rose B.
Johnson Award Southern Communication Journal |
| 1997 |
Graduate Dissertation Award
in Communication Studies Northwestern University School of Speech |