ARABELLA LYON

EDUCATION: 
Ph.D. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1990
M.A. University of Massachusetts-Boston, 1986
B.S. Boston University, 1976

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:
Associate Professor, SUNY Buffalo, 1999 –
Assistant Professor, Temple University, 1992-1998

SPECIAL FIELDS:
Rhetoric and Communication


Awards and Grants:

NEH Summer Institute, Continuities and Crises: The Interplay of Religion and Politics in China, East-West Center, 2001.

Fulbright Lectureship in American Literature, Sichuan University,
China, 1999-2000.

Ross Winterowd Award for Most Outstanding Book in Composition
Theory, 1999.

Outstanding Teaching in a Senior Seminar, Feminist Theory, Temple University, 1996.

Lilly Teaching Fellowship, 1995-6.

 

Publications:

BOOKS:

Intentions: Negotiated, Contested, and Ignored. State College: Penn State Up, 1998.

 

ARTICLES:

"Confucius, Deliberative Rhetoric, and Democracy." Rhetoric
Before the Greeks. Carol Lipson and Roberta A. Binkley, eds.
Albany: State University of New York UP. (in press).

"Mother: Subjectivity in 'Unmotherhood.'" JAC (in press)

"Rhetoric and Hermeneutics: Division Through the Concept of Invention." New Perspectives of Rhetorical Invention. Ed. Janet Atwill and Janice Lauer. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press (under contract)

"Sources of Non-Canonical Readings, or Doing History from Prejudice." Rhetoric Review 26 (1998): 226-41

Frank Sullivan, Arablla Lyon, Susan Wells, Dennis Lebofsky, Eli Goldblatt. "Student Needs and Strong Composition: Dialectics of Writing Program Reform." College Compostion and Communication 48 (1997): 372-91

Mary Conway. "Who’s Sandra Harding and Where does She Stand?" JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 15 (1995) 571-77

Susanne Langer: Mother and Midwife at the Re-Birth of Rhetoric." Reclaiming Rhetorica: Women in the Rhetorical Tradition. Ed. Andrea Lunsford. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Up, 1995 265-84

Contributor. "Collaborative Afterword." Reclaiming Rhetorica: Women in the Rhetorical Tradition. Ed. Andrea Lunsford. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995. 319-33

"’The Good Man Speaking Well, or Business as Usual.: JAC: Journal of Advanced Composition 14 (1994): 257-63. Reprinted in (Inter)views: Criticism, Philosphy, and Rhetoric Ed. Gary Olson. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1994. 220- 26

"Interdisciplinarity: Giving Up Territory." College English 54 (1992): 39-51

"Representing Communities: Teaching Turbulance.: Rhetoric Review 10 (1992) 279-90

"From Paideia to Pedantry: The Dissolving Relationship of the Humanities and Society." The Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 18 (1988) : 55-62