Bruce L. Edwards, Professor
Associate Vice Provost for Academic Technology

edwards@bgnet.bgsu.edu
http://personal.bgsu.edu/%7Eedwards

Office: 112 University Hall

Phone: 372-7302

Degrees and Institutions:

PhD University of Texas-Austin, 1981
MA Kansas State University, 1979
BA Missouri University of Science and Technology, 1975

Courses Taught:

C.S. Lewis and the Inklings

African Literature and Culture

World Rhetoric(s)

Intro to Linguistics

Southern U.S. Women Writers

Introductory Writing

Graduate Writing

Tagmemic Rhetoric

Area: Rhetoric and Writing

Research Interests: 

Online Pedagogy and Technology; C. S. Lewis and the Inklings; World rhetoric(s); African rhetoric and culture; Religion and popular culture

Recent Publications:

“Bono’s Rhetoric of the Auspicious: Transforming Africa for the Consumerist West”  in Exploring U2, editor Scott Calhoun. Baltimore: Scarecrow Press, 2011.

C.S. Lewis; Life, Works, Legacy; 4 volume reference set. (Praeger, 2007).

"Redeeming the Time: Pike's Tagmemics and its Impact on Rhetoric and Composition Theory," 571-88, Language and Life: Essays in Memory of Kenneth L. Pike. Eds. Mary Ruth Wise, Thomas N. Headland, Ruth M. Brend. Dallas: SIL, 2003.

Chronicles of Narnia DVD Set (liner notes; trivia game) BBC Home Vision Entertainment, 2002.

"C. S. Lewis and Literary Criticism," 330-48. Reading the Classics with C. S. Lewis, Ed. Thomas L. Matin. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2000.

"Redeeming the Time: Kenneth L. Pike's Tagmemics and Its Impact on Rhetoric and Composition," In press. Kenneth L. Pike: His Life and Work: A Festschriften, Ed. Thomas Headlund (SIL, June, 2002.)

Work In Progress:

If I Never Get Back: A Metaphysics of Baseball