Contact Information

Office: 350 MSRB

Phone: 422-2402

E-mail: gary_hatch@byu.edu

Courses Taught:
Honors 240, Honors 303R, Engl 428R

Link to Vitae

Gary Hatch specializes in the history of rhetoric, rhetorical criticism, and writing program administration. His dissertation is about the role of rhetoric in the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment and focuses on Adam Smith and Hugh Blair. He teaches first-year writing, advanced written and oral communication, and courses on rhetoric, argumentation, and writing pedagogy.

He has published a textbook on argumentative writing, Arguing in Communities (1996), and is currently working on a book about Hugh Blair, an eighteenth-century literary critic and teacher of rhetoric.

Degrees

PhD, Arizona State, 1992

Interests

rhetoric, argumentation & debate, 18th-century English/American Literature