Dr. Mari Lee Mifsud

Associate Professor of Rhetoric
Chair, Rhetoric and Communication Studies
402-J Weinstein Hall
Office: (804) 287-6513

Research:
Rhetorical Theory
Ancient Greek Rhetorical Theory
Histories of Rhetoric
Interdisciplinary Studies: Rhetoric, Philosophy, Classics, Political Theory, Gender Studies, Culture/al Studies

Education:
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
M.A., Colorado State University
B.A., Thiel College

Selected Publications:

In Press.  Mifsud, Mari Lee (2008)  “Rhetoric and Valmiki’s Ramayana.”  In Ancient Non-Greek Rhetorics.  Eds. Roberta Binkley and Carol Lipson.  Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition.  Eds. Patricia Sullivan and Catherine Hobbs.  Purdue:  Parlor Press.  

Mifsud, Mari Lee  (2007)  “On  Rhetoric as Gift/Giving.”  Reprinted in Philosophy and Rhetoric in Dialogue: Redrawing their Intellectual Landscape. Ed. Gerard Hauser.  The Pennsylvania State University Press, 89-107.

Mifsud, Mari Lee (2007) “On Rhetoric as Gift/Giving.”  Philosophy and Rhetoric. 39:4, 89-107.

Mifsud, Mari Lee, Jane S. Sutton, and Lindsey Fox (2005) “Configurations:  Encountering Ancient Athenian Spaces of Rhetoric, Democracy, and Woman.” Journal for International Women’s Studies.  7:2, 36-52.

Mifsud, Mari Lee (2004)  "Oh Popoi! Henry Johnstone, Homer, and the History of Rhetoric." Communication Annual:  Journal of the Pennsylvania Communication Association.  Vol.  60, 73-90.  

Mifsud, Mari Lee (2003)  “The Figure of Homer in the Rhetorical Structure of Vico’s Pedagogy.”  New Vico Studies. 20, 37-44.

Mifsud, Mari Lee (2002)  “Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Eros In the Coming of Self-Knowledge."  In Greek Philosophy of Communication.  Ed. Konstantine Boudouris and John Poulakos.  International Center for Greek Philosophy and Culture.  Athens: Ionia Publications.  107-116.

Sutton, Jane and Mari Lee Mifsud (2002)  “Figuring Rhetoric:  From Antistrophe to Apostrophe through Catastrophe.”  Rhetoric Society Quarterly. 32.4, 29-49.

Mifsud, Mari Lee (2001)  "Revision and Immortality in Philosophical Argumentation:  Reconsidering the Rhetorical Wedge."  Informal Logic. 21.1, 51-60.
 
Mifsud, Mari Lee and Scott Johnson (2000)  "Dialogic, Dialectic, and Rhetoric:  Exploring Human Dialogue Across the Discipline."  Southern Communication Journal.   65.2-3, 91-104

Academic and Professional Activities:
American Society for the History of Rhetoric
International Society for the History of Rhetoric
Rhetoric Society of America
National Communication Association
Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation
International Association for Greek Philosophy