Karen Whedbee
Professor
Media Studies
Assistant Chair
Office: Watson Hall 208
Office Phone: 815-753-7108
Email: kwhedbee@niu.edu
Profile
(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin)
Specialty: History of rhetoric; free speech; communication ethics; historical & critical methods.
Office Hours
Tuesday & Thursday: 11:00-11:30 and 2:00-2:30
And by appointment
Updated: Tuesday February 12th 7:08 am
Teaching Schedule
COMS 403/COMS 503 at 12:30-1:45 TTh
JOUR 480 at 2:00-3:15 TTh
Updated: Thursday August 30th 9:05 am
Latest Publications
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Whedbee, K. (2008). "Making the Worse Case Appear the Better: British Reception of the Greek Sophists Prior to 1850." Rhetoric & Public Affairs 11(4): 603-630.
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Whedbee, K. (2007). "An English Plato: J.S. Mill's Gorgias." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 37: 19-41.
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Whedbee, K. (2005). "Authority and Critical Reason: George Grote's Defense of Democratic Justice." Victorians Institute Journal 33: 97-115.
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Whedbee, K. (2004). "Reclaiming Rhetorical Democracy: George Grote's Defense of Cleon and the Athenian Demagogues." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 34.4: 71-95.