Awards

Titled Professor - 2024

Culbertson Chair of Writing

About Robin L. Reames

Robin Reames is the Culbertson Chair of Writing in the Department of English at Indiana University's College of Arts and Sciences. Her research explores the relationship between language and metaphysics (the understanding of what is) in ancient Greek rhetoric. Aspects of this relationship were explored in her first book, Seeming and Being in Plato's Rhetorical Theory (2018) and book of essays Logos without Rhetoric: The Arts of Language Before Plato (2016). She is also the editor, with Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg, of the 3rd edition of The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present (2020). Her most recent book, The Ancient Art of Thinking for Yourself: The Power of Rhetoric in Polarized Times (2024) is written for a general audience and introduces key concepts from the ancient rhetorical tradition that can help readers navigate the complex and polarizing politics of today. Other work has appeared in Psyche, Epochê, Humanities Journal, The Journal of Comparative and Continental Philosophy, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Rhetorica, and Rhetoric Society Quarterly. She teaches courses in the history and theory of rhetoric and literary history.