Rudolph F. Verderber Distinguished Lecture Series Brings Communication Scholars to Campus

Beginning in 1999, Professor Rudolph Verderber generously sponsored a lecture series that the faculty requested in his name. The purpose of the lecture series is to bring established scholars in the field of Communication to the University of Cincinnati’s Department of Communication. This year’s event will take place on February 6. The speaker is Dr. Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, professor and chair of Communication Studies at The University of Minnesota.

In addition to informal meetings with faculty and graduate students, our visiting scholars are asked to give two lectures. For the first lecture, we ask visiting scholars to “tell their story” of how they became a communication scholar. This lecture is designed for an undergraduate audience and should have a broad-based appeal. It is intended to motivate our undergraduate students not only to become communication professionals, but also to experience the diversity of what communication professionals do. Dr. Campbell will present “Successes and Challenges as a Woman in the Academy” to undergraduates at 9:30 a.m. in Annie Laws Auditorium.

The second lecture is designed to acquaint faculty and graduate students with visiting scholar’s current research. Dr. Campbell will present “Buried in Cincinnati: Frances Wright--A New Aspasia or Princess of Beelzebub” to faculty and graduate students at 3:00 p.m. at The Faculty Club. A reception for faculty and graduate students will immediately follow the lecture.

Karlyn Kohrs Campbell (PhD 1968, University of Minnesota) is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of

Man Cannot Speak for Her: A Critical Study of Early Feminist Rhetoric

, 2 vols. (1989) and co-author with Kathleen Hall Jamieson of

Deeds Done in Words: Presidential Rhetoric and the Genres of Governance

(1990) and

The Interplay of Influence: News, Advertising, Politics, and the Mass Media

(5th ed., 2001) and with Thomas Burkholder of

Critiques of Contemporary Rhetoric

(1997) and with Susan Schultz Huxman of

The Rhetorical Act

(3d ed, 2003), and editor of

Women Public Speakers in the United States, 1800-1925

(1993) and

Women Public Speakers in the United States, 1925-present

(1994) as well as many journal articles. She is now the editor of the Quarterly Journal of Speech. She has received a number of awards including a fellowship at the Joan Shorenstein Center in the Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University and the National Communication Association Distinguished Scholar Award and the Woolbert Award for scholarship of exceptional originality and influence. Recently she was selected as the 2002 Distinguished Woman Scholar in the Humanities and Social Sciences by the Office of the Vice President for Research at the University of Minnesota. She has taught at the University of Kansas, City College of C.U.N.Y, S.U.N.Y. at Binghamton and at Brockport, the British College in Palermo, Sicily, and California State University at Los Angeles.