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Mark J. Porrovecchio
Mark J. Porrovecchio (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh) is Director of Forensics and Associate Professor in the Speech Communication Department at Oregon State University. He studies rhetoric, the history of speech communication and pragmatism. His work has appeared in the Western Journal of Communication, Etica & Politica and The Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society. He is the editor of Reengaging the Prospects of Rhetoric: Current Conversations and Contemporary Challenges (Routledge, 2010); author of F. C. S. Schiller and the Dawn of Pragmatism: The Rhetoric of a Philosophical Rebel (Lexington Books, 2011) and the co-editor of Contemporary Rhetorical Theory: A Reader, 2nd Edition (Guilford, 2016).