Hello all, my name is Mark Hannah, and I am a second year rhet/comp PhD student. I originally am from Poseyville, IN, which is a small town in southwestern Indiana near Evansville. Prior to coming to Purdue I worked as a tax attorney and tax consultant for three years. Regarding my educational background, I have a Masters degree in English from Northern Illinois University, a JD from DePaul University, and a BA from Wabash College which is just down the road from Lafayette in Crawfordsville, Indiana.
In terms of my scholarly work, I'm interested in deliberative rhetoric and how it has changed/evolved over the years and more importantly how it operates today. I'm also interested in legal rhetoric as well as understanding how law can be seen as a technology in rhetoric. For this class, I want to investigate how deliberative rhetoric showed up during the classical period as well as broaden my background in rhetorical history.