Richard Marback

Richard Marback

Professor of English
Research Fellow Center for the Study of Citizenship

313-577-7694

marback@wayne.edu

Room 10503.2
5057 Woodward
Detroit, MI 48202

Curriculum vitae

Department

English, Center for the Study of Citizenship

Richard Marback

Research interest(s)/area of expertise

  • Rhetorical theory and history of rhetoric
  • Citizenship studies

Education

  • Ph.D. University of Illinois at Chicago (English). 1992 (Specialization in Language, Literacy and Rhetoric)
  • M.A. University of Chicago (Humanities), 1986
  • B.A. Illinois Wesleyan University (Philosophy), 1981

Selected publications

  • “Rhodes Must Fall: An Embodied Rhetorical Assertion.” Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture. 25 (2018)
  • The Meaning of Citizenship. Edited with Marc Kruman. Detroit: Wayne State UP. 2015
  • Generations: Rethinking Age and Citizenship. Editor. Detroit: Wayne State UP. 2015
  • Managing Vulnerability: South Africa’s Struggle for a Democratic Rhetoric. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 2012
  • “Embracing Wicked Problems: The Turn to Design in Composition Studies.” CCC 61.2 (2009): 397-419
  • “Unclenching the Fist: Embodying Rhetoric and Giving Objects Their Due.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 38.1 (2008): 46-65
  • The Hope and the Legacy: The Past, Present, and Future of “Students’ Right to Their Own Language.” Edited with Pat Bruch. Cresskill. NJ: Hampton P. 2005

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Courses taught by Richard Marback

Fall Term 2024 (current)

Winter Term 2024

Fall Term 2023

Winter Term 2023

Fall Term 2022

Winter Term 2022