Lawrence Green

Tenure Track Appointments

• Professor of English, University of Southern California, 1996 –
• Associate Professor of English, University of Southern California, 1983 – 1996
• Assistant Professor of English, University of Southern California, 1975 – 1983

Research, Teaching, Practice, and Clinical Appointments

• Lecturer, Department of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley, 1975-1976
• Consultant, Bay Area Writing Project, Berkeley, 1975-1975
• Instructor, Department of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley, 1973-1975
• Teaching Asst, Department of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley, 1969-1972

Visiting and Temporary Appointments

• Professor of English, University of California, Irvine, 2006
• Professor of English, University of California, Irvine, 2004
• Professor of English, University of California, Irvine, 2002

Summary Statement of Research Interests

Professor Green researches the Renaissance, rhetoric and linguistics.

Conference Presentations

• Rhetoricall Dauncing , International Society for the History of RhetoricLecture/Seminar, International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Chicago, IL, 07/2013
• Renaissance Controversies about Aristotle’s Rhetoric , Il Congresso Brasileiro de RetóricaKeynote Lecture, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Invited, Belo Horizonte, Brazil , 08/2012
• Les commentaires à la Rhétorique d’Aristote à la Renaissance , Éthique, politique et rhétorique dans les traités et leurs commentaires, depuis la période hellénistLecture/Seminar, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Invited, Paris, France, 06/2012
• Renaissance Debates about Aristotelian Deliberative Rhetoric , Abschlusssymposion des Historischen Wörterbuchs der RhetorikTalk/Oral Presentation, Universität Tübingen, Heinrich Fabri Institut, Invited, Blaubeuren, Germany, 05/2012
• Aristotle and the Culture of Rhetorical Literacy , Renaissance Society of AmericaTalk/Oral Presentation, Washington, DC, 03/2012
• De sui ipsius et multorum ignorantia , International Society for the History of RhetoricTalk/Oral Presentation, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy, 07/2011
• Renaissance Commentaries on Aristotle’s Rhetoric , International Society for the History of RhetoricLecture/Seminar, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy, 07/2011
• Aristotle and the Index Rerum Memorabilium , Commemoration of Kees MeerhoffLecture/Seminar, Royal Holland Society of Sciences, Invited, Haarlem, NL, 05/2011
• Classical Stoicism and Renaissance Rhetoric , Chinese Rhetoric Society of the WorldKeynote Lecture, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Invited, Hong Kong, China, 07/2010
• Stoic Residues in Renaissance Rhetoric , American Society for the History of RhetoricKeynote Lecture, Invited, Minneapolis, MN, 05/2010
• Appropriating Aristotle , Renaissance Society of AmericaTalk/Oral Presentation, Venice, Italy, 04/2010
• Renaissance Views of Aristotelian Topoi , International Society for the History of RhetoricTalk/Oral Presentation, Université McGill, Montreal, Canada, 07/2009
• Aristotle and the Status of Emotion in Renaissance Rhetoric , Renaissance Society of AmericaTalk/Oral Presentation, Los Angeles, CA, 03/2009
• International Contexts for Studies in the History of Rhetoric , Orientaciones Actuales de la RetóricaPlenary Lecture, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Invited, Mexico City, Mexico, 03/2009
• Renaissance Ars Rhetorica and Ars Epistolographia: Rhetoric for the Working Man , Segundo Coloquio Internacional de RetóricaPlenary Lecture, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Invited, Mexico City, Mexico, 03/2009
• The Persistence of Aristotle’s Rhetoric: The Renaissance , National Communication AssociationTalk/Oral Presentation, San Diego, CA, 11/2008
• Scriptural Elocutio in Seventeenth-Century England , Renaissance Society of AmericaTalk/Oral Presentation, Chicago, IL, 04/2008
• L’histoire de la rhétorique trente ans après , International Society for the History of RhetoricPlenary Lecture, Université Marc Bloch, Invited, Strasbourg, France, 07/2007
• Patterns of Publication in Classical Rhetoric, 1460-1700 , International Society for the History of RhetoricTalk/Oral Presentation, Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg, France, 07/2007
• Rhetoric East and West , Fuzhou Forum on RhetoricSeminar, Fujian Normal University, Invited, Fuzhou, China P.R.C., 05/2007
• The Renaissance Union of Rhetoric and Letters , Fuzhou Forum on RhetoricKeynote Lecture, Fujian Normal University, Invited, Fuzhou, China P.R.C, 05/2007
• Towards a Cultural History of Letter Writing , Renaissance Society of AmericaTalk/Oral Presentation, Miami, Florida, 03/2007
• Renaissance Controversies about Aristotle’s Rhetoric: Crossing Cultures Public Lecture, Jianghan University, Invited, Wuhan, China P.R.C., 11/2006
• Renaissance Controversies about Aristotle’s Rhetoric: Crossing Cultures Public Lecture, Peking University, Invited, Beijing, China P.R.C., 11/2006
• Rhetoric in the Western Tradition , 13th Biennial International Rhetoric ConferenceSeminar, Rhetoric Society of China, Invited, Wuhan, China P.R.C., 11/2006
• The Epistolarion and Rhetorica of Korydalleus , American Society for the History of RhetoricTalk/Oral Presentation, National Communication Association, San Antonio, Texas, 11/2006
• The Study of the History of Rhetoric as it is Conducted around the Globe , 13th Biennial International Rhetoric ConferenceKeynote Lecture, Rhetoric Society of China, Invited, Wuhan, China P.R.C., 11/2006
• Si può ancora difendere e practicare la retorica? , Discorsi pronunciati, discorsi ascoltati: contesti di eloquenza tra Grecia, Roma ed EuropaPlenary Lecture, Università degli Studi di Napoli (Federico II), Invited, Napoli and Santa Maria di Castellabata, 09/2006
• Aristotle’s Rhetoric and Renaissance Epistolography , International Society for the History of RhetoricTalk/Oral Presentation, Université Marc Bloch, Invited, Strasbourg, France, 07/2006
• The Age of Rhetoric , Rhetoric Society of AmericaTalk/Oral Presentation, Memphis, Tennessee, 05/2006
• Dictaminal Aristotle , Renaissance Society of AmericaTalk/Oral Presentation, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 04/2006
• Aristotle’s Rhetoric and Renaissance Theory of Letter Writing , American Society for the History of RhetoricTalk/Oral Presentation, National Communication Association, Boston, Massachusetts, 11/2005
• Quintilian, Pseudo-Quintilian, and Declamation in the Renaissance , International Society for the History of RhetoricTalk/Oral Presentation, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, 07/2005
• The History of Rhetoric in International Contexts , American Society for the History of RhetoricPlenary Lecture, National Communication Association, Invited, Chicago, Illinois, 11/2004
• The Encyclopedic Impulse , Rhetoric Society of AmericaTalk/Oral Presentation, Austin, Texas, 05/2004
• Renaissance Controversies about Aristotle’s Rhetoric , Renaissance Society of AmericaTalk/Oral Presentation, New York City, NY, 04/2004
• Quintilian in the Renaissance , National Communication AssociationTalk/Oral Presentation, Miami Beach, Florida, 11/2003
• The Reception of Classical Pathos in Renaissance Rhetoric , Pontes III: Die antike Rhetorik in der europäischen GeistesgeschichteTalk/Oral Presentation, Universität Innsbruck, Invited, Innsbruck, Austria, 09/2003
• Renaissance Controversies about Aristotle’s Rhetoric , International Society for the History of RhetoricPresidential Lecture, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Invited, Madrid, Spain, 07/2003
• Lettres à la française et l’inquiétude à l’anglaise , La Rhétorique épistolaire sous l’Ancien RégimeTalk/Oral Presentation, University of Winnipeg, Invited, Winnipeg, Canada, 04/2003
• Demosthenes, Cicero, and Philip of Spain , American Society for the History of RhetoricTalk/Oral Presentation, National Communication Association, Invited, New Orleans, Louisiana, 11/2002
• Scriptural Elocutio in the Renaissance Talk/Oral Presentation, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Invited, Calahorra, Spain, 07/2002
• Renaissance Controversies about Aristotle , Rhetoric Society of AmericaTalk/Oral Presentation, Las Vegas, Nevada, 05/2002
• Figuration in Scripture , National Communication AssociationTalk/Oral Presentation, Atlanta, Georgia, 11/2001
• New Directions in Renaissance Rhetoric , American Society for the History of RhetoricTalk/Oral Presentation, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 10/2001
• The Pathetic Renaissance , International Society for the History of RhetoricTalk/Oral Presentation, Uniwersytet Warszawski (University of Warsaw), Warsaw, Poland, 07/2001
• Renaissance Grammar and the English Literary Imagination , Neo-Areopagus SocietyTalk/Oral Presentation, University of California at Los Angeles, Invited, Los Angeles, California, 03/2001
• Research in Rhetoric for the New Millenium , Universität EssenTalk/Oral Presentation, Invited, Essen, Germany, 10/2000
• French Letters: Penetration, Resistance, and Contamination Talk/Oral Presentation, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski (Jagiellonian University), Invited, Krakow, Poland, 07/2000
• English Dictamenal Relations with France , Renaissance Society of America, Florence, Italy, 03/2000
• Melanchthon, Rhetoric, and the Soul , Tagung MelanchthonhausTalk/Oral Presentation, Bretten and Heidelberg, Germany, 09/1999
• Renaissance Grammar and Elocutio in England , International Society for the History of RhetoricTalk/Oral Presentation, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 07/1999
• Shakespeare, Elocutio, and Phigures of Grammar , Shakespeare Association of AmericaTalk/Oral Presentation, San Francisco, California, 04/1999
• Trends in English Renaissance Letter-Writing , Renaissance Society of AmericaTalk/Oral Presentation, Los Angeles, California, 03/1999
• Rhetorical Elocutio in Renaissance Grammar Books , National Communication AssociationTalk/Oral Presentation, Chicago, Illinois, 11/1997
• Aristotle’s Rhetoric Made Methodical , International Society for the History of RhetoricTalk/Oral Presentation, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, 07/1997
• Archival Research in Renaissance Dictamen , Conference on College Composition and CommunicationTalk/Oral Presentation, Phoenix, Arizona, 03/1997
• Renaissance Rhetoric and Conceptions of the Soul , International Society for the History of RhetoricTalk/Oral Presentation, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 07/1995
• Sur l’influence du De anima sur la lecture de La Rhétorique à la Renaissance , Colloque sur La Rhétorique d’Aristote: traditions et commentaires, de l’antiquité au XVIIe siTalk/Oral Presentation, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Invited, Aix-en-Provence, France, 07/1995
• Inventing, Arranging, and Delivering the Memory of Caesar – with Style , Center for Medieval and Renaissance StudiesTalk/Oral Presentation, University of California at Los Angeles, Invited, Los Angeles, California, 02/1994
• Aristotelian Lexis and Renaissance Elocutio , International Society for the History of RhetoricTalk/Oral Presentation, Università degli Studi di Torino, Turin, 07/1993
• Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Rhetoric Talk/Oral Presentation, University of Oregon, Invited, Eugene, Oregon, 11/1992
• Cicero and Renaissance Criticism , Modern Language AssociationTalk/Oral Presentation, San Francisco, California, 12/1991
• Aristotle’s Rhetoric in the Renaissance , Conference on The Disciplines of Persuasion: A Symposium on Rhetoric from Classical Times to the PreTalk/Oral Presentation, University of Tennessee, Invited, Knoxville, Tennessee, 10/1991
• The Reception of Aristotle’s Rhetoric in the Renaissance , Peripatetic Rhetoric After Aristotle, Sponsored by Project TheophrastusTalk/Oral Presentation, Rutgers University, Invited, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 09/1991
• Making Sense of Aristotle’s Rhetoric and Renaissance Views of the Emotions , The Significance of Renaissance RhetoricTalk/Oral Presentation, University of Warwick, Invited, Coventry, United Kingdom, 07/1991
• Situating Aristotle’s Enthymeme in the 1990s , Conference on College Composition and CommunicationTalk/Oral Presentation, Boston, Massachusetts, 03/1991
• Rhetoric and the Clark Collections , The Scope of Eloquence: Texts and Contexts of Rhetoric after the RenaissanceTalk/Oral Presentation, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Invited, Los Angeles, California, 12/1990
• The Search for Conclusive Forms of Reasoning in the Renaissance , Speech Communication AssociationTalk/Oral Presentation, Chicago, Illinois, 10/1990
• The Ethics of Rhetoric in Historical Perspective , Conference on College Composition and CommunicationTalk/Oral Presentation, Chicago, Illinois, 03/1990
• The Rhetorical Bases of Aristotelian Dialectic , International Society for the History of RhetoricTalk/Oral Presentation, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, 07/1989
• Aristotle’s Enthymeme in Rhetorical Research Talk/Oral Presentation, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Invited, Göttingen, Germany, 07/1988
• Taking Aristotle at His Word , Conference on College Composition and CommunicationTalk/Oral Presentation, St. Louis, Missouri, 03/1988
• Rhetorica 1354al: If you can’t crack an old nut, bury it , Philological Association of the Pacific CoastTalk/Oral Presentation, University of California at Davis, Davis, California, 11/1987
• Dialectic is the Antistrophe of Rhetoric , International Society for the History of RhetoricTalk/Oral Presentation, Université François-Rabelais, Tours, France, 07/1987
• Ancient and Medieval Rhetorical Traditions in theMargarita Eloquentiae [by Laurentius Traversanus of Savona] , International Society for the History of RhetoricTalk/Oral Presentation, St. John’s College, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom, 08/1985
• Discovery by Constraint in the Enthymeme , Conference on College Composition and Communication, Minneapolis. Minnesota, 03/1985
• Tudor Rhetorical Theory , International Society for the History of RhetoricTalk/Oral Presentation, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy, 06/1983
• Troilus and the Rhetoric of Disjunction Talk/Oral Presentation, University of Oregon, Invited, Eugene, Oregon, 02/1983
• Rhetoric at Elizabethan Oxford Talk/Oral Presentation, University of Oregon, Invited, Eugene, Oregon, 01/1983
• Rhetorical Concerns at Elizabethan Oxford Talk/Oral Presentation, University of Sheffield, Invited, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 03/1982
• Complex Enthymemes in Argumentation , Conference on College Composition and CommunicationTalk/Oral Presentation, Dallas, Texas, 04/1981
• Enthymemic Invention and Structural Forecasting , Conference on College Composition and CommunicationTalk/Oral Presentation, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 04/1979
• Predication and Prediction , Rocky Mountain Modern Language AssociationTalk/Oral Presentation, Phoenix, Arizona, 10/1978
• The Rhetoric of Hyperbole , Rocky Mountain Conference on British StudiesTalk/Oral Presentation, Tempe, Arizona, 10/1978
• Structural Rhetoric in Tamburlaine, Part I , University of Southern California, Invited, Los Angeles, California, 12/1977
• The Rhetorics of Renaisssance Drama , Philological Association of the Pacific CoastTalk/Oral Presentation, Los Angeles, California, 11/1977
• Intention and Interpretation , National Endowment for the Humanities, Seminar on Rhetoric, Reading, and WritingTalk/Oral Presentation, University of Southern California, Invited, Los Angeles, California, 06/1977
• Magistrates and Their Mirrors Talk/Oral Presentation, University of Missouri, Invited, Columbia, Missouri, 01/1976

Other Presentations

• Chair, moderator, discussant, or respondent, at more than 45 Scholarly Meetings, Europe, North America, South America, and Asia, 1977-2013

Book

• Green, L. D., Murphy, J. J. (2006). Renaissance Rhetoric Short-Title Catalogue 1460-1700. London: Ashgate Publisher.
• Green, L. D. (1986). John Rainolds’s Oxford Lectures on Aristotle’s “Rhetoric”. Newark, London, and Toronto: University of Delaware Press.

Book Chapters

• Green, L. D. (2012). Cultural Contexts of Renaissance Commentary on Aristotle’s Rhetoric. Papers on Rhetoric XI pp. 81-93. Perugia: Editrice “Pliniana”.
• Green, L. D. (2011). Retórica del Ars Renacentista y del Ars Epistolographica: Retórica para el Hombre que Trabaja. Retórica y Argumentación: Perspectivas de estudio pp. 161-74. Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México: Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas.
• Green, L. D. (2010). [in Bulgarian] “Scriptural Elocutio in Seventeenth-Century England,” in New Chapters in the History of Rhetoric. New Chapters in the History of Rhetoric pp. ??.
• Green, L. D. (2010). “Renaissance Views of Aristotelian Topoi“. Papers on Rhetoric (Vol. X) pp. 127-39. Rome: Herder Editrice.
• Green, L. D. (2009). “Si può ancora difendere e praticare la retorica?: The Global Study of Rhetoric,” in Discorsi alla prova. n.s. 1 pp. 585-99. Naples: Università degli Studi di Napoli.
• Green, L. D. (2009). “Scriptural Elocutio in Seventeenth-Century England,” in New Chapters in the History of Rhetoric, International Studies in the History of Rhetoric. (Vol. 1) pp. 537-48. Leiden: Brill.
• Green, L. D. (2008). “Renaissance Controversies about Aristotle’s Rhetoric: Crossing Cultures in Communication Theory” [in Chinese], in Broadening the Horizon of Rhetoric. pp. 113-125. Fuzhou, Fujian: Literature and Art Publishing House.
• Green, L. D. (2008). [In Chinese] “The Global Study of the History of Rhetoric”. (Vol. 11) Social Sciences in China Publishing House: Rhetoric Collection.
• Green, L. D. (2005). “The Reception of Classical Pathos in Renaissance Rhetoric,” in Pontes III: Die antike Rhetorik in der europäischen Geistesgeschichte. pp. 203-13. Innsbruck, Vienna, Bozen: Studien Verlag.
• Green, L. D. (2005). “The Encyclopedic Impulse: Laudatio Thomae Sloanis,” in Advances in the History of Rhetoric. pp. 211-16. College Park, Maryland: American Society for the History of Rhetoric.
• Green, L. D. (2004). “Demosthenes, Cicero, and Philip of Spain,” in Advances in the History of Rhetoric. pp. 139-50. College Park, Maryland: American Society for the History of Rhetoric.
• Green, L. D. (2004). “Reynolds or Rainolde, Richard,” in New Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Green, L. D., Feingold, M. (2003). “John Rainolds,” in Dictionary of Literary Biography; Vol. 281: British Rhetoricians and Logicians 1500-1600. pp. 249-59. Gale Press (Scribner’s).
• Green, L. D. (2002). “Melanchthon, Rhetoric, and the Soul,” in Melanchthon und Europa, vol 2: Westeuropa. pp. 11-28. Stuttgart: Jan Thorbecke.
• Green, L. D. (2000). “Aristotelian Lexis and Renaissance Elocutio,” in Rereading Aristotle’s “Rhetoric”. pp. 149-65. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University.
• Green, L. D. (1999). “Grammatica Movet: Renaissance Grammar Books and Elocutio,” in Rhetorica Movet: Studies in historical and modern rhetoric in honour of Heinrich F. Plett. pp. 73-116. Leiden: Brill.
• Green, L. D. (1998). “Aristotle’s Rhetoric and Renaissance Conceptions of the Soul,” in “La Rhétorique” d’Aristote: Traditions et commentaires, de l’antiquité au XVIIe siècle. pp. 283-97. Paris: Vrin.
• Green, L. D. (1997). “Aristotle’s Rhetoric Made Methodical,” in Autour de Ramus: Texte, théorie, commentaire. pp. 135-73. Quebec: Nuits Blanches.
• Green, L. D. (1995). “Aristotle’s Enthymeme and the Imperfect Syllogism,” in Rhetoric and Pedagogy: It’s history, philosophy, and practice. pp. 19-41. New York City, NY: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• Green, L. D. (1994). “Rhetoric 1500-1700,” in Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, 3rd Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Green, L. D. (1994). “The Reception of Aristotle’s Rhetoric in the Renaissance,” in Peripatetic Rhetoric After Aristotle: Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities. pp. 320-48. Oxford and New Brunswick NJ: Transaction Publishers.
• Green, L. D. (1994). “Canonicity and the Renaissance Cicero,” in Composition in Context. pp. 17-27. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois Univ Pr.
• Green, L. D. (1994). “Aristotle’s Rhetoric and Renaissance Views of the Emotions,” in Renaissance Rhetoric. pp. 1-26. London: Macmillan.
• Green, L. D. (1991). “Stance Perception in Sixteenth-Century Ethical Discourse,” in Rhetoric and Ethics: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives. pp. 59-80. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellon Pr.

Book Review

• Green, L. D. (2008). Georgius Trapezuntius: Rhetoricum libri quinque, ed. Luc Deitz. Renaissance Quarterly. pp. 1214-15.
• Green, L. D. (2000). Charta of Greek Printing: The contribution of Greek editors, printers and publishers to the Renaissance in Italy and the West, by Konstantinos Sp. Staikos. Renaissance Studies. pp. 244-48.
• Green, L. D. (1997). Essays on Aristotle’s “Rhetoric”, ed. Amélie Oksenberg Rorty. Quarterly Journal of Speech. pp. 493-95.
• Green, L. D. (1996). Renaissance-Rhetorik / Renaissance Rhetoric, ed. Heinrich F. Plett. Rhetoric and Philosophy. pp. 451-58.
• Green, L. D. (1993). Aristotle “On Rhetoric”: A theory of civic discourse, tr. George Kennedy. Rhetoric and Philosophy
• Green, L. D. (1992). “A Short History of Writing Instruction,” ed. J. J. Murphy. Rhetoric Review. pp. 221-26.
• Green, L. D. (1992). The Elizabethan Courtier Poets, by Stephen May. Huntington Library Quarterly. pp. 643-45.
• Green, L. D. (1989). Hermogenes “On Types of Style”, tr. Cecil B. Wooten. Quarterly Journal of Speech. pp. 502-505.
• Green, L. D. (1986). “Rhetorical Approaches to Shakespeare” (review essay of several books). Rhetorica: A journal of the history of rhetoric. pp. 295-301.