Education
PhD | Speech-Communication, University of Minnesota |
MA | Drama and Theatre Studies, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London |
BA | English & Chemistry, Transylvania University |
Recent Publications
Ray, Angela G. “A Green Oasis in the History of My Life”: Race and the Culture of Debating in Antebellum Charleston, South Carolina. 2014 B. Aubrey Fisher Memorial Lecture. Salt Lake City: Department of Communication, University of Utah, 2014.
VanderHaagen, Sara C., and Angela G. Ray. “A Pilgrim-Critic at Places of Public Memory: Anna Dickinson’s Southern Tour of 1875.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 100, no. 3 (August 2014): 348-74.
Ray, Angela G. “How Cosmopolitan Was the Lyceum, Anyway?” In The Cosmopolitan Lyceum: Lecture Culture and the Globe in Nineteenth-Century America, edited by Tom F. Wright, 23–41. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2013.
Ray, Angela G. “Making History by Analogy: Frederick Douglass Remembers William the Silent.” In Exploring Argumentative Contexts, edited by Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen, 97–114. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2012.
Ray, Angela G. The Lyceum and Public Culture in the Nineteenth-Century United States. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2005.
Recent Achievements
2014-2015 Faculty Fellow, Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Northwestern University
2010-2013 Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence, Northwestern University
For her book, The Lyceum and Public Culture in the Nineteenth-Century United States:
Book Award, Rhetoric Society of America
James A. Winans-Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address, National Communication Association
Diamond Anniversary Book Award, National Communication Association
Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award, Public Address Division, National Communication Association
Daniel Rohrer Memorial Outstanding Research Award, American Forensic Association