Office/Office Hours

• office: Carver 310B
• office hours: MWF 10-10:45; TTh 11-11:45, and by appointment.
• office phone: (515) 294-4826
• email: rdearin@iastate.edu

Interests

• Rhetorical theory
• Public address
• Political communication

Selected Publications

• Chaim Perelman. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2003. with Alan G. Gross.
• "The American Dream as Depicted in Robert J. Dole's 1996 Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech." Presidential Studies Quarterly, 27 (Fall, 1997), 698-713.
• "The Speech Dole Must Give," The Washington Post, August 4, 1996, p. C2.
• The New Rhetoric of Chaim Perelman: Statement and Response. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1989.
• "The Philosophical Basis of Chaim Perelman's Theory of Rhetoric," Quarterly Journal of Speech, 55 (October, 1969), 213-224.

Affiliations

• National Communication Association
• Central States Communication Association
• Iowa Communication Association

Degrees

• PhD in Rhetoric and Public Address, University of Illinois, 1970.
• MA in Rhetoric and Public Address, of Illinois, 1965.
• BA in Speech, Harding College, 1963.