J. Michael Hogan Adjunct Professor of Writing

I came to Davidson in 2016 as a Visiting Professor and Chair of Communication Studies. Before that, I was the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Rhetoric at the Pennsylvania State, where I also was the founding director of the Center for Democratic Deliberation. 

I am the author, co-author, or editor of eight books and more than seventy articles, book chapters, and reviews on political campaigns and social movements, foreign policy debates, presidential rhetoric, and public opinion and polling. While at Penn State I served as a scholarly advisor to the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, and I still co-direct an online educational website funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Voices of Democracy: The U.S. Oratory Project. 

At Davidson, I worked to establish a new major in Communication Studies, and I helped launch the Deliberative Citizenship Initiative. Since my three-year appointment in Communication Studies, I have taught several sections of Writing 101 at Davidson, working with the former director of the Writing Program, Van Hillard, to integrate deliberative pedagogies into that course. I continue to serve on editorial boards for journals and book series in Communication and Rhetoric, and I’m still on the editorial board of a book series I helped found at the Penn State University Press, Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation. I graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Wisconsin, and I earned my Ph.D. from the same institution. Before moving to Penn State in 1997, I taught at Indiana University and at the University of Virginia.