Contact Information

Office: 4002 JFSB

Phone: 422-3581

Email: gregory_clark@byu.edu

Commonly Taught Courses
Engl 495R/HColl 490: Humanities and Leadership
Engl 612: History of Rhetoric
Engl 613: Rhetorical Theory and Criticism

Semester Schedule: Not teaching Winter 2013


Other University Assignments:
Associate Dean, College of Humanities

Student Consultations: By appointment

Vita: Link to Vita

Biography:

Greg Clark is University Professor of English. He has taught at BYU since 1985--courses in rhetorical theory and criticism and, recently, leadership as rhetorical practice. He designs each course around a pressing question. Students use assigned readings, class discussions, and research to develop their own answers to that question, sharing their progress along the way. 

At BYU he has directed the University Writing Program and the American Studies program, chaired the English Department, and is now Associate Dean in the College of Humanities. He is heavily involved in the work of the BYU Public School Partnership and the Center for the Improvement of Teacher Education and Schooling. 

Beyond BYU, he has been editor of Rhetoric Society Quarterly and executive director of  Rhetoric Society of America. He also teaches occasionally in the Rhetoric and Composition PhD program at the University of Utah. He publishes essays and books that explore meeting points of rhetoric and art in American culture.

He and his wife Linda live east of campus. They have 3 daughters, 3 sons-in-law, and 4 grandchildren--all far away. 

Degrees:
PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1985
BA, MA, BYU, 1972, 1977

Interests:

Rhetoric theory, history of rhetoric, rhetorical criticism. American cultural studies from rhetorical perspectives. Current work examines rhetorical effects of American landscapes and American musics.