Lawrence Prelli

Lawrence Prelli

PROFESSOR
Phone: (603) 862-3034
Office: Communication, Horton Social Science Center Rm 125, Durham, NH 03824

Courses Taught

  • CMN 456: Propaganda and Persuasion
  • CMN 656: Enviro Com and Rhetoric
  • CMN 756: Rhetorics of Display
  • CMN 799H: Honors Thesis

Education

  • Ph.D., Speech/Theater Education, Pennsylvania State University
  • M.A., CommunicationSpeechComRhetoric, University at Albany
  • M.S., Natural Resources/Conservation, University of New Hampshire
  • B.S., Political Sci.&Government Rel., State University of New York at Brockport

Research Interests

  • Rhetoric of ecology and environment, of science and expertise, of symbolic actions

Selected Publications

  • Prelli, L. J. (2018). The Ulysses S. Grant Memorial as a Site of Virtuous Suffering. In R. Aden (Ed.), The Soul of the nation: U.S. Public Memory and the National Mall. Lexington Books.

  • Anderson, F. D., & Prelli, L. J. (2018). Kenneth Burke's Agonistic Theory of Knowledge. WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION, 82(2), 181-193. doi:10.1080/10570314.2017.1294706

  • Prelli, L. J., & Walsh, L. (2017). "Getting Down in the Weeds to Get a God's Eye View: The Synoptic Topology of Early American Ecology". In L. Walsh, & C. Boyle (Eds.), Topologies as Techiques for a Post-Critical Rhetoric (pp. 197-218). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.

  • Prelli, L. J. (2015). After the Genome: A Language for Our Biotechnological Future. QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SPEECH, 101(2), 452-457. doi:10.1080/00335630.2015.1023967

  • Althouse, M. T., Prelli, L. J., & Anderson, F. D. (2015). Mapping the Rhetoric of Intelligent Design The Agentification of the Scene. In MAPPING CHRISTIAN RHETORICS: CONNECTING CONVERSATIONS, CHARTING NEW TERRITORIES (Vol. 21, pp. 161-179). Retrieved from https://www.webofscience.com/

  • Prelli, L. J., Anderson, F. D., & Althouse, M. T. (2011). Kenneth Burke on Recalcitrance. RHETORIC SOCIETY QUARTERLY, 41(2), 97-124. doi:10.1080/02773945.2011.553768

  • Prelli, L. J., & Winters, T. S. (2009). Rhetorical Features of Green Evangelicalism. ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNICATION-A JOURNAL OF NATURE AND CULTURE, 3(2), 224-243. doi:10.1080/17524030902928785

  • Howland, D., Becker, M. L., & Prelli, L. J. (2006). Merging content analysis and the policy sciences: A system to discern policy-specific trends from news media reports. POLICY SCIENCES, 39(3), 205-231. doi:10.1007/s11077-006-9016-5

  • Prelli, L. J. (1996). Empirical diversity, interdependence, and the problem of rhetorical invention and judgment: The case of wife abuse facts. COMMUNICATION THEORY, 6(4), 406-429. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2885.1996.tb00139.x

  • PRELLI, L. J. (1990). RHETORICAL LOGIC AND THE INTEGRATION OF RHETORIC AND SCIENCE. COMMUNICATION MONOGRAPHS, 57(4), 315-322. doi:10.1080/03637759009376206

  • Most Cited Publications