Jesuit Rhetoric and Education in the 16th and 21st Centuries

Inaugural Distinguished Guest Lecture in Jesuit Pedagogy
ELOQUENTIA IMPERFECTA: Jesuit Rhetoric and Education in the 16th and 21st Centuries
by Steven Mailloux, Ph.D., President’s Professor of Rhetoric at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles

Wednesday, 28 September 2011 | 6 to 8 p.m.
12th Floor Lounge, Lowenstein Center | Lincoln Center Campus

Professor Mailloux’s lecture will explore the earliest traditions of Jesuit rhetoric and of Jesuit educational theory, beginning with the Spiritual Exercises and the Ratio Studiorum, as well as the place of Jesuit rhetorical arts and pedagogy today.

Professor Mailloux is the author and editor of six books, including, most recently, Disciplinary Identities: Rhetorical Paths of English, Speech, and Composition. He is currently at work on a history of Jesuit rhetoric.

Sponsored by The Center for Teaching Excellence of Fordham University
Reception to follow lecture

RSVP by Monday, Sept 26, to: www.fordham.edu/ctelecture.