Erec Smith, Ph.D.

Erec Smith
Division/Department
School of the Arts, Communication and Global Studies
Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Composition
Contact Information
Humanities Center, Room 150
  • English (Language, Literacy, and Rhetoric), Ph.D., University of Illinois
  • English Literature, M.A., University of Illinois
  • English, B.A., Ursinus College 
  • WRT100: Introduction to College Writing
  • WRT290: Teaching and Tutoring Writing
  • WRT305: Rhetorical Theory
  • WRT410: Editing and Style
  • Political Rhetoric
  • Rhetorics of Diversity
  • Composition Pedagogy
  • Discourse and Identity
  • Buddhist Philosophy and Rhetoric
  • Edited collection, The Making of Barack Obama: The Politics of Persuasion: An Exploration, with Parlor Press. June, 2013.
  • “Making Room for Fat Studies in Writing Center Theory and Practice.” Praxis: A Writing Center Journal. Winter 2013.
  • “The Lotus Sutra as Rhetorical Doctrine: Toward a Spiritual Paradigm Shift in Academia.” Journal of South Texas English Studies. 1.1. (2009): n. pag.
  • “Writing Under the Bodhi Tree.” Academic Exchange Quarterly 9 (2005): 16-22.