Paul Lynch, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of English
Education
Ph.D. in English, Purdue University 2008
Research Interests
Lynch鈥檚 primary interests are in the rhetoric of religion, rhetorical theory, and writing pedagogy.
Publications and Media Placements
Books
- Lynch, Paul. Persuasions of God: Inventing Ren茅 Girard鈥檚 Rhetoric. Transdisciplinary Series in Rhetoric, The Pennsylvania State University Press, forthcoming 2024.
- DePalma, Michael-John, Paul Lynch, Jeffrey Ringer, eds. Rhetoric and Religion in the 21st Century, Southern Illinois University Press, forthcoming 2024.
- Lynch, Paul and Nathaniel Rivers. Thinking with Bruno Latour in Rhetoric and Composition. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2015.
- Lynch, Paul. After Pedagogy: The Experience of Teaching. Studies of Writing and Rhetoric Series. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 2013.
Articles and Chapters
- Lynch, Paul. 鈥淩hetoric and Religion.鈥� Cambridge History of Rhetoric, Volume 5. Edited by Daniel Gross, Steven Mailloux, and LuMing Mao, Cambridge UP, 2025.
- Lynch, Paul. 鈥淐atholic Rhetorical Education: A Curricular Proposal.鈥� Journal of Catholic Higher Education, forthcoming 2025
- Lynch, Paul. 鈥�.鈥� Composition Forum, special issue on Mindfulness, 2025
- Lynch, Paul. 鈥淎lmost Empty Places: Jesuit Mission and Identity as Rhetorical Topoi.鈥� Power and Protest at an American University: No Confidence, No Fear. Edited by Ellen Carnaghan and Kathryn Kuhn, (2020): 108-26.
- Lynch, Paul. 鈥淩ecovering Rhetoric: Ren茅 Girard as Theorhetor.鈥� Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture. 27 (2020): 101-122.
- Lynch, Paul. 鈥淪hadow Living: Toward Spiritual Exercises for Teaching.鈥� College English. 80.6 (2018): 499-516.
- Lynch, Paul. 鈥淥n Care for Our Common Discourse: Pope Francis鈥檚 Nonmodern Epideictic.鈥� Rhetoric Society Quarterly. 47.5 (2017): 463-482.
- Lynch, Paul. 鈥淩escuing Rhetoric: Kenneth Burke, Ren茅 Girard, and the Forms of Conversion.鈥� Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 24 (2017): 138-159.
- Lynch, Paul. 鈥�.鈥� Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society 5.1 Web. 2015.
- Lynch, Paul. 鈥淐omposition鈥檚 New Thing: Bruno Latour and the Apocalyptic Turn.鈥� College English 74.5 (2012): 458-76.
- Johnson, Kristine and Paul Lynch. 鈥�Ad perfectam eloquentiam: The 鈥楽poils of Egypt鈥� in Jesuit Renaissance Rhetoric.鈥� Rhetoric Review 31.2 (2012): 99-116.
- Lynch, Paul. 鈥淯nprincipled Pedagogy: Casuistry and Postprocess Teaching.鈥� Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 11.2 (2011): 257-83.
- Lynch, Paul. 鈥淐omposition as a Thermostatic Activity.鈥� College Composition and Communication 60.4 (2009): 728-745.
- Lynch, Paul. 鈥溾�楨go Patricius, peccator rusticissimus鈥�: The Rhetoric of St. Patrick of Ireland.鈥� Rhetoric Review 27.2 (2008): 111-130.
- Lynch, Paul. 鈥淪omething Completely Different: Notes Toward a Burkean Ethics.鈥� KB Journal: The Journal of the Kenneth Burke Society 5.1. Web. 2008.
- Johnson Sheehan, Richard and Paul Lynch. 鈥淩hetoric of Myth, Magic, and Conversion: Ancient Irish Rhetoric.鈥� Rhetoric Review 26.3 (2007): 233-252.
- Lynch, Paul. 鈥溾�楾rying Not to Talk Alike and Succeeding鈥�: Bakhtin鈥檚 Authoritative and Internally Persuasive Word in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.鈥� Studies in the Novel 38.2 (Summer 2006): 172-186.
Non-Refereed Scholarly Publications
Lynch, Paul. 鈥淭oward a Rhetorical Crisis in the Catholic Church.鈥� Church Life Journal, 26 February 2024, .
Lynch, Paul. 鈥淎 Friendly Injustice: Kenneth Burke, Ren茅 Girard, and the Rhetoric of Religion.鈥� Re-inventing Rhetoric Scholarship: 50 Years of the Rhetoric Society of America. Eds. Roxanne Mountford and David Tell, Anderson, SC: Parlor Press, 2020. 88-97.
Marshall, Laura Hardin and Paul Lynch 鈥淓nglish 1900: A Writing (and Writing Program) Laboratory.鈥� Composition Studies, 48.3 (2020): 83-102.
Lynch, Paul and Matthew J. Miller. 鈥淭wenty-Five Years of Faith in Writing: Religion and Composition鈥� Present Tense 6.2 (2017). (A 200+ item annotated bibliography on religion and composition with a 4700-word critical introduction.)
Lynch, Paul, ed. Prison Dictionary. 91女神 College in Prison Program, Prison Arts Program, 2015.
Lynch, Paul. 鈥淭he Rhetoric of Apostasy: Christopher Hitchens at War with the Left.鈥� Concord and Controversy: Proceedings of the 2010 Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Eds. Antonio de Velasco and Melody Lehn. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum, 2011. 235-45.
Honors and Awards
2023 Ignite Seminar Teacher of the Year, University Core
2018 Article of the Year Award from the Religious Communication Association for 鈥淥n
Care for Our Common Discourse: Pope Francis鈥檚 Nonmodern Epideictic.鈥� Rhetoric Society Quarterly 47.5 (2017): 463-482.
2010 James H. Korn Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award, Reinert Center for
Teaching Excellence