bryan crable

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Research Interests: Rhetoric and Race Critical Rhetorical Theory Philosophy of Communication and Language Social Justice and Social Change.

Profile from Bryan Crable's Villanova University Profile Page

Bryan Crable, PhD, professor in the Department of Communication, is the founding director of the Waterhouse Family Institute for the Study of Communication and Society (WFI). Under his direction, the Department of Communication created an entirely new undergraduate curriculum, expanded its full-time faculty, added a Master of Arts degree, and launched the Waterhouse Family Institute.

The vision for WFI emerged from Dr. Crable’s own scholarly work in communication and rhetorical theory. His research focuses on the contention that language, and communication more generally, lies at the heart of the human condition, and must be accounted for in any attempt to create social change. His current book project continues this topical focus, but it is specifically aimed at contributing to conversations on whiteness and white supremacy in several humanistic fields. The project, titled White Sacraments: The Rhetoric and Rituals of Blackness, is nearly complete, and under contract with Ohio State University Press.

Dr. Crable’s published work includes Ralph Ellison and Kenneth Burke: At the Roots of the Racial Divide (University of Virginia Press, 2012), a book included in the Mellon Foundation’s American Literatures Initiative. He is also editor of the collection Transcendence by Perspective: Meditations on and with Kenneth Burke (Parlor Press, 2014). Dr. Crable is a two-time winner of the Charles Kneupper Award for best article of the year from the Rhetoric Society of America (2003, 2009), and, for his scholarly and professional contributions to the discipline, was awarded the Kenneth Burke Society’s prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011. In addition to scholarly book chapters and reviews, his essays have appeared in leading scholarly journals, including The Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Rhetoric Review, African American Review, and Argumentation and Advocacy.

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