Contact Information

Office: 4161 JFSB

Phone: 422-8964

Email: nancy_christiansen@byu.edu

Semester Schedule: Spring 2013:

ENGL 232
MWF 10:00-11:50
W005 BNSN

Other University Assignments:
Rhetoric Minor Coordinator

Student Consultations:
MW 12:00-12:50 or by appointment

Biography:

Nancy Christiansen specializes in rhetoric's history, theory, and pedagogy, in rhetorical criticism, in reading theory and pedagogy, in style theory, and in Renaissance British literature, particularly Shakespeare. She is currently writing a book tentatively entitled "Shakespeare's Paideia: Five Tragedies as Rhetorical Handbooks" and a textbook called "The Critical Reader." She has completed a book called "Figuring style: The Legacy of Renaissance Rhetoric." She has articles published on Renaissance rhetoric, Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, and the classical rhetorical curriculum. She is particularly interested in articulating the relationships between rhetoric and poetics, ethics, and philosophy and in rhetorical and ethical criticism.

Degrees: PhD, UCLA, 1994

Interests:

Renaissance Literature Shakespeare The History of Rhetoric The Rhetorical Philosophy of the Renaissance Grammar School and University Curriculum Stylistic Theory