Staff and Students

Centre for Rhetoric Studies

University of Cape Town

1996 - present

Directors of the Centre for Rhetoric Studies

Professor Ph -J Salazar, Distinguished Chair in Humane Letters, University of Cape Town Director, Rhetoric and Democracy Program, College International de Philosophie, Paris (current director)

Professor Y. Gitay, Isadore and Theresa Cohen Chair of Hebrew Language (retired from UCT in 2004)

Resident Fellows 2001-2002

Dr. E. Doxtader, University of Wisconsin-Madison 2003

Prof. A. Gross, Minnesota, 2001

Prof. S. Osha, Ibadan, 2002

Prof. M. Charland, Concordia-Montreal, 2002

 

 

Resident Fellows  1996 - 2001

 

Prof William Leap, American University.

 

Dr Debbie Epstein, U of London.

 

Dr Barbara Cassin, CNRS, Paris-Sorbonne.

 

Prof Anita Haya Patterson, U of Illinois.

 

Dr William Spurlin, Columbia and Cardiff.

 

Prof Jean Rouch, Museum of Man, Paris.

 

Prof Beverly Sauer, Carnegie Mellon.

 

Professor Eva Kushner, Toronto.

 

Dr Charles Calder, U of Zambia.

 

Prof C Jan Swearingen, Texas at Arlington.

 

Dr Cecilia Pennacini, U of Florence.

 

Prof Eugene Garver, St. John’s.

 

Prof Mary Jane Collier, U of Denver.

 

Prof Tamar Katriel, University of Haïfa.

 

Dr Erik Doxtader, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

 

Prof Cezar Ornatowski, UC at San Diego.  

 

Prof. Herbert Simons, Temple University

 

Prof.  Maurice Charland, Concordia, Montreal

 

Prof Alan Gross, Minnesota.

 

 

Students

List of Interns (1998-2000)

An initial partnership between the Centre and the Khululekani Institute for Democracy, involving (since 1998) the placement of students at Parliament, was instrumental in developing the Centre's interest in taking students on board for formal degrees.

Stefania Collina (PhD, U of Turin), Victor Legendre (BA, Paris), Charlotte Montel (pre-doctoral, Paris), Angela Bull, Fanchon Hamon (PhD in Rhetoric Studies).

Sifiso Ngesi, MPhil in Rhetoric Studies, the first graduate to present a formal degree at the Centre (cum laude, June 2001) with a rhetorical study of the Open Democracy Bill.

2001 - 2002 MPhil

As from 2001 the Centre registers MPhils in Rhetoric Studies, with courses and short theses (topics below) centered on SA public deliberation and democracy building.

Campbell Lyons (MPhil by dissertation: Nietzsche, Rhetoric, Philosophy)

Nomakhaya Nogaga (African Renaissance speeches)

Connie Mpokotho (Religious Rhetoric)

Bridget Young (Contemporary royal Zulu oratory)

Catherine WynSculley (Political Rhetoric) 

PhD students

Luke Eleftheriou (film rhetoric)

Fanchon Hamon (rhetorical radios in SA)

Clive Kronenberg (Cuban rhetoric and democracy)

Domnique Lanni (human rights rhetoric)