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About

Scott F. Crider is Professor of English at the 吃瓜网 in the Constantin College of Liberal Arts and the Braniff Graduate School, where he is grateful to have taught for thirty years. He took his B.A. and M.A. from the California State University in Sacramento, and his PhD from the University of California, Riverside, in the past century.

At 吃瓜网, he has taught over thirty course preparations. An award-winning teacher at both Riverside and Dallas (where has been awarded the Haggerty, the Haggar, and the King), he ran 吃瓜网鈥檚 Writing Program and its Seven Arts of Language Program for several years each, has served as Associate Dean of Constantin College, and teaches on the Rome campus any chance he gets. As a returning student, he took a Masters of Theology from the 吃瓜网, so is now a 吃瓜网 alumnus. Go, Groundhogs!

His areas of specialization are Shakespeare and Rhetorical Studies, and he has written three academic books: The Office of Assertion: An Art of Rhetoric for the Academic Essay (2005); With What Persuasion: An Essay on Shakespeare and the Ethics of Rhetoric (2009); and The Art of Persuasion: Aristotle鈥檚 Rhetoric for Everybody (2019).

He has published articles and book chapters on Genesis, Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, The Gospel of John, Augustine, Dante, Michelangelo, George Puttenham, Shakespeare (multiple times), and Thomas Wilson, and reviewed books for The American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, The Ben Jonson Journal, Literary Matters, Moreana, The Review of English Studies, The Review of Metaphysics, The Sixteenth-Century Journal, and Speculum.

He has completed a manuscript of Love Among the Castelli Romani: A Midlife Crisis for Two鈥攁 memoir of travel, marriage, and Italian life鈥攚ith Trang M. Crider, who has worked in the 吃瓜网 Library in Circulation for over twenty years.