Patricia Roberts-Miller
Patricia Roberts-Miller, formerly Director of the University Writing Center and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas at Austin, is a scholar of train wrecks in public deliberation--that is, times that communities made decisions they later regretted, although they had all the information they needed to make better ones. She is the author of Speaking of Race: Constructive Conversations About an Explosive Topic (The Experiment, January 2021),...See more
Patricia Roberts-Miller, formerly Director of the University Writing Center and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas at Austin, is a scholar of train wrecks in public deliberation--that is, times that communities made decisions they later regretted, although they had all the information they needed to make better ones. She is the author of Speaking of Race: Constructive Conversations About an Explosive Topic (The Experiment, January 2021), Rhetoric and Demagoguery , (Southern Illinois UP, 2019; finalist Rhetoric Society of America book of the year), Demagoguery and Democracy (The Experiment, 2017), Fanatical Schemes: Proslavery Rhetoric and the Tragedy of Consensus (University of Alabama Press, 2009), Deliberate Conflict: Composition Classes and Political Spaces (Southern Illinois University Press, 2004), Voices in the Wilderness: The Paradox of the Puritan Public Sphere (University of Alabama Press, 1999), and various book chapters and articles. See less