Steven Mailloux

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2021

Abstract

Steven Mailloux was assistant professor of English, Temple University, 1976–77; assistant professor of English, University of Miami, 1977–79; associate professor of English, University of Miami, 1979–82; professor of English, Syracuse University, 1982–86; professor of English, University of California, Irvine, 1987–91; Chancellor’s Professor of rhetoric, University of California, Irvine, 1991–2010; 2009–present; President’s Professor of rhetoric, Loyola Marymount University. His work in reader- response criticism and American New Pragmatism reengaged contemporary literary theory with ancient rhetoric. Rhetorical hermeneutics was his invention.

Original Publication Citation

Veeser, H. Aram. “Steven Mailloux.” The Rebirth of American Literary Theory and Criticism: Scholars Discuss Intellectual Origins and Turning Points, Anthem Press, 2021, pp. 133–44, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvx1hvm1.15.

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