Kurt Ritter Vita
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Education
Ph.D. Indiana
University, 1974
M.A. Indiana
University, 1966
B.A. Claremont
McKenna College (Claremont Colleges, CA), 1965
Professional Experience
Texas A&M University at College Station, 1982 -
Present
University of Missouri at Columbia, 1979-1982
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1973-1979
U.S. Air Force, 1967-1971
Research Interests
Political Rhetoric, Presidential Campaign Communication, and American Civil Religion.
Books
Kurt Ritter & Martin J. Medhurst, eds. Presidential
Speechwriting: From the New Deal to the Reagan Revolution
and Beyond. Texas A&M University Press,
2003. Paperback printed in 2004.
Kurt Ritter & David Henry. Ronald Reagan: The
Great Communicator. Greenwood Press, 1992.
Kurt Ritter & James R. Andrews. The American Ideology:
Reflections of the Revolution in American Rhetoric.
National Communication Association, 1978.
Other Selected Publications
“Election 2004 Concession and Victory Speeches: The Influence of Genre, Context, and Speaker on Addresses by Presidential and Vice Presidential Candidates.” American Behavioral Scientist 49 (2005):488-509 (with Jennifer Willyard).
“Ending the 2000 Presidential Election: Gore’s
Concession Speech and Bush’s Victory Speech.” American
Behavioral Scientist 44 (2001): 2314-2330 (with B.
Wayne Howell).
“Robert Gray Gunderson: Historian as Civic Rhetorician” in
Andrew King and Jim A. Kuypers, eds. Twentieth-Century
Roots of Rhetorical Studies (pp. 175-209). Westport,
CT: Praeger Publishers, 2001.
“Lyndon B. Johnson’s Voting Rights Address
of March 15, 1965: Civil Rights Rhetoric in the Jeremiad
Tradition,” in Lloyd E. Rohler and Roger Cook,
eds. Great
Speeches for Criticism and Analysis, 4th edition
(pp. 198-219). Greenwood, IN: Alistair Press, 2001
(with William Forrest Harlow).
“Ronald Reagan’s 1960s Southern Rhetoric:
Courting Conservatives for the GOP.” Southern
Communication Journal, 64 (1999): 333-345.
“Gingrich Versus Gephardt: A Generic Analysis of
the First Rhetorical Battle in the New Republican Congress,” in
Lloyd E. Rohler and Roger Cook, eds. Great Speeches
for Criticism and Analysis, 3rd edition (pp. 340-349).
Greenwood, IN: Alistair Press, 1998, (with John Tindell).
“John Robert Lewis: Minister, Civil Rights Activist,
U.S. Representative,” in Richard W. Leeman, ed. African
American Orators: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook (pp.
226-238). Westport,
CT: Greenwood Press, 1996 (with Garth Pauley).
“Inaugurating the Clinton Presidency: Regenerative
Rhetoric and the American Community,” in Robert
E. Denton, Jr. and Rachel L. Holloway, eds. The Clinton
Presidency: Images, Issues, and Communication Strategies (pp.
1-16). New York: Praeger, 1996 (with David Procter).
“Lyndon B. Johnson’s Crisis Rhetoric after
the Assassination of John F. Kennedy: Securing Legitimacy
and Leadership,” in Amos Kiewe, ed. The Modern
Presidency and Crisis Rhetoric (pp. 73-89). New York:
Praeger, 1994.
“Reagan’s 1964 TV Speech for Goldwater: Millennial
Themes in American Political Rhetoric,” in Martin
J. Medhurst and Thomas W. Benson, eds. Rhetorical Dimensions
in Media: A Critical Casebook, 2nd edition (pp.
58-72). Dubuque,
IA: Kendall/Hunt,1991.
“Whither the Evil Empire? Reagan and the Presidential
Candidates Debating Foreign Policy in the 1988 Campaign.” American
Behavioral Scientist 32 (1989): 436-450 (with Robert
Ivie).
“Drama and Legal Rhetoric: The Perjury Trials
of Alger Hiss.” Western Journal of Communication 49
(1985): 83-102.
“American Political Rhetoric and the Jeremiad Tradition:
Presidential Nomination Acceptance Addresses, 1960-1976.” Central
States Speech Journal 31 (1980): 153-171.
Selected Honors
Phi Kappa Phi (honor society), 2005.
Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching (university-wide
award, Association of Former Students of Texas A&M
University), 2004.
Outstanding Scholar in Rhetoric (Texas Speech Communication
Association), 2004.
Wells Fargo Honors Advisor Award (Honors Student Council,
Texas A&M University), 2004.
Fish Camp Namesake (student-generated recognition at
Texas A&M University), 2001.
Big 12 Faculty Fellowship (faculty exchange with University
of Kansas), 1999.
Faculty Development Leave (sabbatical leave to support
research on presidential rhetoric), 1996-1997.
Teacher/Scholar Award (University Honors Program, Texas
A&M University), 1994.
AMOCO Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching, 1993
.
National Endowment for the Humanities Grant (grant to
support research at the Hoover Institution for War, Revolution
and Peace, Stanford University), 1991.
Faculty Research Leave (College of Liberal Arts, Texas
A&M University; leave for a research project
on the political oratory of Ronald Reagan), 1990.
Aubrey Fisher Research Award (Western States Communication
Association for the best article published in 1985 in the Western
Journal of Communication), 1986.
Karl R. Wallace Award (grant for research at presidential
libraries on political rhetoric), 1979.
Winans-Wichelns Award for Distinguished Scholarship
in Rhetoric and Public Address [with James R. Andrews]
(book award for The American Ideology: Reflections
of the Revolution in American Rhetoric), 1978.
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