Gregory Clark (rhetorician)


Gregory Clark is an American scholar and teacher working in rhetorical studies and American cultural criticism. His project is both theoretical and critical, developing concepts of how influence works that he then uses to study capacities for influence inherent in American cultural practices.
His theoretical project centers on an ongoing exploration of rhetorical aesthetics: ways that rhetoric works through aesthetic means and ways that aesthetic encounters do rhetorical work. Clark's primary resource for this work is the work of Kenneth Burke. His critical project has examined early American literature and oratory, American landscapes, and now is focusing on American music in order to trace ways the experiences they provide shape American identity. In 2015 he began an ongoing project pianist and composer, Marcus Roberts, to teach and demonstrate democratic practices of personal and civic interaction through the model of jazz music.
Clark is Professor of English at Brigham Young University where he has led the American Studies and University Writing programs and chaired the English Department and served as associate dean in the College of Humanities. He teaches courses in rhetorical theory, composition theory, and rhetoric and leadership. He has also taught periodically in the graduate program in rhetoric and writing at University of Utah].
Gregory Clark has been a leader in the Rhetoric Society of America, serving as a member of the Board, Editor of Rhetoric Society Quarterly, and Executive Director. In July 2016 he became President .
In 2011 Gregory Clark was appointed as the inaugural fellow of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem . In 2012 he was awarded the University Professorship at Brigham Young University.
He and his wife have three daughters, and eight grandchildren.

Publications

;Gregory Clark's books
;Recent articles and chapters