John Arthos Affiliation: Faculty Title: Associate Professor, Rhetorical Studies Office: Higley 313 Email: arthos@denison.edu Phone: 740-587-6210 B.A. from University of Michigan M.A. from Eastern Michigan University Ph.D. from Wayne State University View John's personal page.

John Arthos teaches rhetorical studies courses such as rhetoric of film, argumentation & debate, rhetorical criticism, public speaking, and propaganda. He also teaches courses in hermeneutics, narrative theory, and new media. His research focuses on the relationship between rhetoric and hermeneutics as the foundation of a liberal education.  In 2009 he published The Inner Word in Gadamer's Hermeneutics with the University of Notre Dame Press.  His next book, Speaking Hermeneutically:  Understanding in the Conduct of a Life, is being released in April 2011 by the University of South Carolina Press.  If you Google "John Arthos" his published work is intermingled with the work of his father, who was a prolific Shakespeare and Renaissance literature scholar at the University of Michigan.