Yarbrough, Stephen R.

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YARBROUGH, Stephen R.

YARBROUGH, Stephen R. American, b. 1950. Genres: Cultural/Ethnic topics, Humanities, Intellectual history, Language/Linguistics, Literary criticism and history, Philosophy, Speech/Rhetoric, Theology/Religion, Biography. Career: Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL, lecturer in English, 1981; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, instructor in English, 1982; Texas A&M University, College Station, assistant professor, 1982-88, associate professor of English, 1988-89; Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, associate professor of English, 1989-92; University of North Carolina at Greensboro, associate professor of English, 1992-97, professor, 1997-. Aristotle University, Fulbright professor, 1990; lecturer at colleges and universities, including Bogazici University, Carnegie-Mellon University, and University of Tulsa. Publications: (with S.C. Brennen) Irving Babbitt, 1987; Deliberate Criticism: Toward a Postmodern Humanism, 1992; (with J.C. Adams) Delightful Conviction: Jonathan Edwards' Rhetoric of Conversion, 1993; After Rhetoric: Studies in Discourse beyond Language and Culture, 1999. Work represented in anthologies. Contributor of articles and reviews to professional journals. Address: Department of English, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC 27412-5001, U.S.A.

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