Thomas M. Conley
Contact Information
Office: 109 Communication
Telephone: (217) 333-1864
Email: t-conley@illinois.edu
Professor
Curriculum Vitae
Experience
- The history of rhetorical theory, with particular attention to Classical Greek rhetorics, the medieval Greek (Byzantine) tradition, and the Renaissance reception of Classical theory, with a special emphasis on developments in Central and Eastern Europe; Kenneth Burke; the place of style in rhetorical invention and criticism.
Education
- Ph.D., University of Chicago
Selected Publications
Conley, T. (2006). Cicero hunnicus: Miklós Oláh's Eloquent Attila. Rhetorica, 24, 275-301.
Conley T. (2006). Rummaging in Walz's attic: Two Anonymous Opuscula in Rhetores graeci. Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, 46, 101-122.
Conley, T. (2005). Byzantine literary criticism and the uses of literature. In A. Minnis (Ed.), The Cambridge hstory of literary criticism (Vol. 2, pp. 669-692). NY: Cambridge University Press.
Conley, T. (2004). Vituperation in seventeenth century historical scholarship. Rhetorica, 22, 169-182.
Conley T. (2002). Byzantine rhetorics. Logo: Revista de Retórica y Teoria de la Communicación, 2, 23-35.
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