Paul Lynch, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of English
Education
Ph.D. in English, Purdue University 2008
Research Interests
Lynch鈥檚 primary interests are in the rhetoric of religion, rhetorical theory, and writing pedagogy.
Publications and Media Placements
Lynch, Paul. Persuasions of God: Inventing Ren茅 Girard鈥檚 Rhetoric. Transdisciplinary Series in Rhetoric, The Pennsylvania State University Press, forthcoming 2024.
DePalma, Michael-John, Paul Lynch, Jeffrey Ringer, eds. Rhetoric and Religion in the 21st Century, Southern Illinois University Press, forthcoming 2023.
Lynch, Paul. 鈥淲riting as a Spiritual Exercise.鈥� Composition Forum, special issue on Mindfulness, forthcoming 2024.
Lynch, Paul. 鈥淩hetoric and Religion.鈥� Cambridge History of Rhetoric, Volume 5. Edited by Daniel Gross, Steven Mailloux, and LuMing Mao, Cambridge UP, 2023.
Lynch, Paul. 鈥淎lmost Empty Places: Jesuit Mission and Identity as Rhetorical Topoi.鈥� Power and Protest at an American University: No Confidence, No Fear. Edited by Ellen Carnaghan and Kathryn Kuhn, (2020): 108-26.
Lynch, Paul. 鈥淩ecovering Rhetoric: Ren茅 Girard as Theorhetor.鈥� Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture, 27 (2020): 101-122.
Lynch, Paul. 鈥淪hadow Living: Toward Spiritual Exercises for Teaching.鈥� College English. 80.6 (2018): 499-516.
Lynch, Paul. 鈥淥n Care for Our Common Discourse: Pope Francis鈥檚 Nonmodern Epideictic.鈥� Rhetoric Society Quarterly 47.5 (2017): 463-482.
Honors and Awards
2018 Article of the Year Award from the Religious Communication Association for 鈥淥n
Care for Our Common Discourse: Pope Francis鈥檚 Nonmodern Epideictic.鈥� Rhetoric Society Quarterly 47.5 (2017): 463-482.
James H. Korn Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award, Reinert Center for Teaching
Excellence, 2010