James A. Berlin

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James A. Berlin (1942 - 1994) was a theorist in the field of composition studies whose work typically takes historical and rhetorical perspectives. A Marxist philosophy also informs his scholarship. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in Victorian literature in 1975. He served as a professor of English at Wichita State University, at the University of Cincinnati, where he directed first-year English from 1981-85, and at Purdue University from 1987-1994. Between Cincinnati and Purdue, Berlin served as visiting professor at the University of Texas and at Penn State University.

[edit] Works

• Writing Instruction in Nineteenth-Century American Colleges, Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1984.
• Rhetoric and Reality: Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1900-1985, Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1987. ISBN 0-8093-1360-x
• Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures: Refiguring College English Studies, Indiana: Parlor Press, 2003. ISBN 0-9724772-8-4

[edit] References

• Heinemann Books
• Rhetoric and Reality: Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1900-1985, Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1987. ISBN 0-8093-1360-x
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• In Memory of James A. Berlin