麻豆传媒

Paul Lynch, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Department of English

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Education

Ph.D. in English, Purdue University 2008

Research Interests

Lynch鈥檚 primary interests are in the rhetoric of religion, rhetorical theory, and writing pedagogy.

Publications and Media Placements

Books

• Lynch, Paul. Persuasions of God: Inventing Ren茅 Girard鈥檚 Rhetoric. Transdisciplinary Series in Rhetoric, The Pennsylvania State University Press, forthcoming 2024.
• DePalma, Michael-John, Paul Lynch, Jeffrey Ringer, eds. Rhetoric and Religion in the 21st Century, Southern Illinois University Press, forthcoming 2024.
• Lynch, Paul and Nathaniel Rivers. Thinking with Bruno Latour in Rhetoric and Composition. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2015.
• Lynch, Paul. After Pedagogy: The Experience of Teaching. Studies of Writing and Rhetoric Series. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 2013.

Articles and Chapters

• Lynch, Paul. 鈥淩hetoric and Religion.鈥� Cambridge History of Rhetoric, Volume 5. Edited by Daniel Gross, Steven Mailloux, and LuMing Mao, Cambridge UP, 2025.
• Lynch, Paul. 鈥淐atholic Rhetorical Education: A Curricular Proposal.鈥� Journal of Catholic Higher Education, forthcoming 2025
• Lynch, Paul. 鈥�.鈥� Composition Forum, special issue on Mindfulness, 2025
• Lynch, Paul. 鈥淎lmost Empty Places: Jesuit Mission and Identity as Rhetorical Topoi.鈥� Power and Protest at an American University: No Confidence, No Fear. Edited by Ellen Carnaghan and Kathryn Kuhn, (2020): 108-26.
• Lynch, Paul. 鈥淩ecovering Rhetoric: Ren茅 Girard as Theorhetor.鈥� Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture. 27 (2020): 101-122.
• Lynch, Paul. 鈥淪hadow Living: Toward Spiritual Exercises for Teaching.鈥� College English. 80.6 (2018): 499-516.
• Lynch, Paul. 鈥淥n Care for Our Common Discourse: Pope Francis鈥檚 Nonmodern Epideictic.鈥� Rhetoric Society Quarterly. 47.5 (2017): 463-482.
• Lynch, Paul. 鈥淩escuing Rhetoric: Kenneth Burke, Ren茅 Girard, and the Forms of Conversion.鈥� Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 24 (2017): 138-159.
• Lynch, Paul. 鈥�.鈥� Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society 5.1 Web. 2015.
• Lynch, Paul. 鈥淐omposition鈥檚 New Thing: Bruno Latour and the Apocalyptic Turn.鈥� College English 74.5 (2012): 458-76.
• Johnson, Kristine and Paul Lynch. 鈥�Ad perfectam eloquentiam: The 鈥楽poils of Egypt鈥� in Jesuit Renaissance Rhetoric.鈥� Rhetoric Review 31.2 (2012): 99-116.
• Lynch, Paul. 鈥淯nprincipled Pedagogy: Casuistry and Postprocess Teaching.鈥� Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 11.2 (2011): 257-83.
• Lynch, Paul. 鈥淐omposition as a Thermostatic Activity.鈥� College Composition and Communication 60.4 (2009): 728-745.
• Lynch, Paul. 鈥溾�楨go Patricius, peccator rusticissimus鈥�: The Rhetoric of St. Patrick of Ireland.鈥� Rhetoric Review 27.2 (2008): 111-130.
• Lynch, Paul. 鈥淪omething Completely Different: Notes Toward a Burkean Ethics.鈥� KB Journal: The Journal of the Kenneth Burke Society 5.1. Web. 2008.
• Johnson Sheehan, Richard and Paul Lynch. 鈥淩hetoric of Myth, Magic, and Conversion: Ancient Irish Rhetoric.鈥� Rhetoric Review 26.3 (2007): 233-252.
• Lynch, Paul. 鈥溾�楾rying Not to Talk Alike and Succeeding鈥�: Bakhtin鈥檚 Authoritative and Internally Persuasive Word in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.鈥� Studies in the Novel 38.2 (Summer 2006): 172-186.

Non-Refereed Scholarly Publications

Lynch, Paul. 鈥淭oward a Rhetorical Crisis in the Catholic Church.鈥� Church Life Journal, 26 February 2024, .

Lynch, Paul. 鈥淎 Friendly Injustice: Kenneth Burke, Ren茅 Girard, and the Rhetoric of Religion.鈥� Re-inventing Rhetoric Scholarship: 50 Years of the Rhetoric Society of America. Eds. Roxanne Mountford and David Tell, Anderson, SC: Parlor Press, 2020. 88-97.

Marshall, Laura Hardin and Paul Lynch 鈥淓nglish 1900: A Writing (and Writing Program) Laboratory.鈥� Composition Studies, 48.3 (2020): 83-102.

Lynch, Paul and Matthew J. Miller. 鈥淭wenty-Five Years of Faith in Writing: Religion and Composition鈥� Present Tense 6.2 (2017). (A 200+ item annotated bibliography on religion and composition with a 4700-word critical introduction.)

Lynch, Paul, ed. Prison Dictionary. 麻豆传媒 College in Prison Program, Prison Arts Program, 2015.

Lynch, Paul. 鈥淭he Rhetoric of Apostasy: Christopher Hitchens at War with the Left.鈥� Concord and Controversy: Proceedings of the 2010 Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Eds. Antonio de Velasco and Melody Lehn. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum, 2011. 235-45.

Honors and Awards

2023 Ignite Seminar Teacher of the Year, University Core

2018 Article of the Year Award from the Religious Communication Association for 鈥淥n Care for Our Common Discourse: Pope Francis鈥檚 Nonmodern Epideictic.鈥� Rhetoric Society Quarterly 47.5 (2017): 463-482.

2010 James H. Korn Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award, Reinert Center for Teaching Excellence