Robert Allan Brookey (Ph.D., University of Minnesota). Assoc. Professor. Speciality: Rhetoric, media studies, new media & technology. Office: RH 116, 753-7128. E-mail: rbrookey@niu.edu.

Ferald Bryan (Ph.D., University of Missouri). Assoc. Professor. Director of COMS 100/100P Program. Specialty: public address; presidential rhetoric; rhetorical criticism. Profile: Author of Henry Grady or Tom Watson?: The Rhetorical Struggle for the New South and other essays on presidential rhetoric. Office: WH 216, (815) 753-7100. E-mail: fbryan@niu.edu.

John Butler (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh). Asst. Professor. Specialty: public argument and debate; rhetorical criticism; public address and historical criticism. Profile: Director of Forensics (Debate and Individual Events); research interest in the rhetoric of American imperialism; contemporary war rhetoric; and the rhetorical dimensions of collective memory. Office: WH 307, (815) 753-7101. E-mail: butler@niu.edu.

Janice D.Hamlet (Ph.D., Ohio State University). Assoc. Professor. Speciality: Intercultural/multicultural Communication; rhetorical studies; womanist epistemology and methodology; communication and spirituality; nonverbal communication. Office: RH 115, (815) 753-7014. Email: jhamlet@niu.edu

Kelly Happe (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh), Asst. Professor. Specialty: Rhetoric of Science. Office: WH 305, (815) 753-7023. Email: khappe@niu.edu

Mary Keehner (Ph.D., Purdue University) Asst. Professor. Specialty: Rhetorical studies, research methodologies, uses of feminist post-structural and critical-cultural theoretical perspectives to interrogate rhetorical constructions of "femininity" and "work" in a variety of institutional discourses, such as presidential rhetoric, workplace health and safety policies, film depictions of working women, and popular romance novel narratives of embodiment. Office: WH 303, (815) 753-7006. Email: keen@niu.edu

Lois S. Self (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin). Department Chair/Assoc. Professor. Specialty: history of rhetoric and public address; gender communication. Profile: Department Chair and consultant for interdisciplinary curriculum development in women's studies and multiculturalism. Office: WH 212, (815) 753-7028. E-mail: lself@niu.edu.

Karen Whedbee (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin). Asst. Professor. Specialty: History of Rhetoric; communication ethics; historical/ critical methods. Office: WH 203, (815) 753-6990. Email: kwhedbee@niu.edu

Recently Retired Faculty

Richard Johannesen (Ph.D., University of Kansas). Professor. Specialty: contemporary rhetorical theory and criticism; communication ethics. Profile: Author of Ethics and Human Communication, 4th ed., and publications about Richard M. Weaver. Office: WH 203, (815) 753-6990. E-mail: rjohannesen@niu.edu.

Dorothy Bishop (M.A. University of Missouri).Asst. Professor. Specialty: Rhetoric, argumentation, public address. Office: WH 305, (815) 753-7023. E-mail: dbishop@niu.edu.