Contact Information

Office: 4161 JFSB

Phone: 422-8964

Email: nancy_christiansen@byu.edu

Semester Schedule: Spring/Summer 2012:

Not teaching Spring or Summer 2012

Biography: Nancy Christiansen specializes in rhetoric's history, theory, and pedagogy, in rhetorical criticism, in reading theory and pedagogy, in style theory, and in Renaissance British literature, particularly Shakespeare.

She is currently writing a book tentatively entitled "Shakespeare's Paideia: Five Tragedies as Rhetorical Handbooks" and a textbook called "The Critical Reader." She has completed a book called "Figuring style: The Legacy of Renaissance Rhetoric." She has articles published on Renaissance rhetoric, Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, and the classical rhetorical curriculum. She is particularly interested in articulating the relationships between rhetoric and poetics, ethics, and philosophy and in rhetorical and ethical criticism.

Degrees: PhD, UCLA, 1994

Interests: Renaissance Literature
Shakespeare
The History of Rhetoric
The Rhetorical Philosophy of the Renaissance Grammar School and University Curriculum
Stylistic Theory