James A. Berlin

James A. Berlin (1942 - 1994) was a theorist in the field of composition studies whose work typically takes historical and rhetorical perspectives. A Marxist philosophy also informs his scholarship. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in Victorian literature in 1975. He served as a professor of English at Wichita State University, at the University of Cincinnati, where he directed first-year English from 1981-85, and at Purdue University from 1987-1994. Between Cincinnati and Purdue, Berlin served as visiting professor at the University of Texas and at Penn State University.

Works

*"Writing Instruction in Nineteenth-Century American Colleges", Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1984.
*"Rhetoric and Reality: Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1900-1985", Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1987. ISBN 0-8093-1360-x
*"Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures: Refiguring College English Studies", Indiana: Parlor Press, 2003. ISBN 0-9724772-8-4

References

* [http://books.heinemann.com/authors/258.aspx Heinemann Books]
*"Rhetoric and Reality: Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1900-1985", Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1987. ISBN 0-8093-1360-x
* [http://www.uta.edu/english/rcct/E5311/biblio/berlin.html]
* [http://www.jacweb.org/Archived_volumes/Text_articles/V14_I2_Lauer.htm In Memory of James A. Berlin]