Walter Jost

(1983)
Professor
Rhetorical/Literary Theory and Criticism

Degrees

Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1985
M.A. University of Chicago, 1979
M.A. University of Chicago, 1974
B.A. St. Louis University (cum laude), 1973

Books

  • The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy of Literature, co-edited with Garry Hagberg (Blackwell Publishers, forthcoming 2010).
  • Pluralism, Ethics and Religion: Essays by Wayne Booth, edited and with an Introduction by Walter Jost. (University of Virginia Press, forthcoming 2010).
  • The Essential Wayne C. Booth, edited with an Introduction by Walter Jost.  University of Chicago Press, 2006.
  • Rhetorical Investigations: Studies in Ordinary Language Criticism. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
  • A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism. Co-edited with Wendy Olmsted. Blackwell Companion to Literature and Culture Series. Blackwell Publishers, 2004.
  • Ordinary Language Criticism: Literary Thinking After Cavell After Wittgenstein. Co-edited with Kenneth Dauber, Afterword by Stanley Cavell. Northwestern University Press, 2003.
  • Rhetorical Invention and Religious Inquiry: New Perspectives. Co-edited with Wendy Olmsted.  Yale University Press, 2000.
  • Rhetoric and Hermeneutics in Our Time. Co-edited with Michael J. Hyde.  Yale Series on Hermeneutics (Joel Weinsheimer, General Editor). Yale University Press, 1997.
  • Rhetorical Thought in John Henry Newman. University of South Carolina Press, 1989.

Recent Articles

  • “Demonstrating Rhetoric in Wharton’s Ethan Frome” (in manuscript). 
  • “Rhetoric and Poetry,” (with Thomas Sloane), Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetics (forthcoming 2010).
  •  “Philosophy and Literature—and Rhetoric: Adventures in Polytopia,” inGarry L. Hagberg and Walter Jost, eds., The Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Literature (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2010).
  • “Introduction” to Pluralism, Ethics and Religion: Essays by Wayne Booth (University of Virginia Press, 2010).
  • “Doing Ordinary Language Criticism,” The St. John's University Humanities Review, Spring, 2007.
  • “Introduction” to The Essential Wayne Booth  (University of Chicago Press, 2006).
  • Poems in Descant (Fall 2005), The Virginia Quarterly Review (July 2006), Sou’wester (Fall 2006), Virginia Quarterly Review (2009).
  • “Foreword” to James McDermott, Austere Style in Twentieth-Century Literature: Literary Minimalism (Edwin Mellen Press, 2006).
  • "Sweating the Little Things in Lumet's 12 Angry Men," in Michael Hyde, ed., The Ethos of Rhetoric (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2004).
  • “Epiphany and Epideictic: The Low Modernist Lyric in Robert Frost,” in Jost and Olmsted, eds., A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism (Blackwell, 2004).
  • "Ordinary Language Brought to Grief: Robert Frost's Home" Burial,” in Dauber and Jost, eds., Ordinary Language Criticism (Northwestern University Press, 2003).
  • Introduction to Dauber and Jost, eds., Ordinary Language Criticism (Northwestern University Press, 2003).
  • "The Logos of Techne (or, By Virtue of Art)", in Joseph Petraglia, ed., New Essays on Rhetoric and Education (SUNY Press, 2003).
  • "Rhetorical Investigations of Robert Frost," in Earl Wilcox and Jonathan Barron, eds., Rereading Robert Frost (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2000).

Honors

  • International Society for the History of Rhetoric Travel Grant, Summer, 2001
  • Teaching Initiative Grant, 1999
  • Sesquicentennial Research Awards, UVa, 1998, 1993, 2004
  • Senior Fellow, Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change, UVa, 1994
  • Candidate for Danforth Fellowship, University of Chicago, 1979