David Blakesley, PhD

David Blakesley is a professor of English and director of professional writing at Purdue University. He is the author of "The Elements of Dramatism" and "The Thomson Handbook" (with Jeffrey L. Hoogeveen), and the editor (with Julie Whitaker) of Kenneth Burke's "Late Poems," "1968-1993. "He has also written about film and visual rhetoric for "Enculturation," "Kairos," and "Defining Visual Rhetorics" (Hill and Helmers, eds.). For Southern Illinois University Press, he edited the Rhetorical...See more

David Blakesley is a professor of English and director of professional writing at Purdue University. He is the author of "The Elements of Dramatism" and "The Thomson Handbook" (with Jeffrey L. Hoogeveen), and the editor (with Julie Whitaker) of Kenneth Burke's "Late Poems," "1968-1993. "He has also written about film and visual rhetoric for "Enculturation," "Kairos," and "Defining Visual Rhetorics" (Hill and Helmers, eds.). For Southern Illinois University Press, he edited the Rhetorical Philosophy and Theory series. See less