Scholar and teacher of train wrecks in public deliberation, author of: "Demagoguery and Democracy" (The Experiment 2017); "Fanatical Schemes: Proslavery Rhetoric and the Tragedy of Consensus" (U of Alabama 2009); "Deliberate Conflict: Argument, Political Theory, and Composition Classes" (SIUP 2004); "Voices in the Wilderness: Public Discourse and the Paradox of Puritan Rhetoric" (U of Alabama 1999).