Campus Faculty


Amos Kiewe

Professor and Department Chair of Communication and Rhetorical Studies
Ph.D., Ohio University

Email: akiewe@syr.edu

Kiewe's areas of research are in rhetorical theory and criticism, political communication, presidential studies, argumentation, and persuasion. He teaches the following courses at SU: CRS 183 Perspectives and Concepts in Rhetoric; CRS 327 Speechwriting; CRS 355 Introduction to Political Communication; CRS 425 Advanced Public Speaking; CRS 455 Rhetorical Criticism; and CRS 603 Contemporary Theories of Rhetoric. Kiewe has published in Communication Studies, Legal Studies Form, Journal of American Culture, Argumentation and Advocacy, and Southern Communication Journal. He co-authored FDR's Body Politics: The Rhetoric of Disability (Texas A&M Press, 2003), A Shining City on a Hill: Ronald Reagan's Economic Rhetoric, 1951-1989 (Praeger, 1991), co-edited Actor, Ideologue, Politician: The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan (Greenwood, 1992), and edited The Modern Presidency and Crisis Rhetoric (Praeger, 1994).