Charles Wilbanks

Associate Professor

Office: 415 Humanities Office Building,
(803) 777-6595

wilbanks@mailbox.sc.edu

Education

Ph.D., University of Nebraska, 1983

Specialization Areas

• Speech Communication
• Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century American Public Address
• Civil-Religious Rhetoric
• Argumentation and Debate
  

Recent Courses

See Course Descriptions for detailed information.

• SPCH 548 Contemporary Campaign Rhetoric
• SPCH 744 American Public Address
• SCCC 158 Rhetoric (Honors)
  

Current Research Project(s)

Sermons of Bishop Robert Smith
Article on Slavery and the American Revolution

Publications

Love, Unity and the American Revolution: Robert Smith’s Rhetoric of Righteous Community, University of South Carolina Press, In Press. (Projected publication date, 2006).

“The Christian-Humanist Rhetoric of Antonio de Capmany,” in Los Ejes de Retorica, 2005.

Walking By Faith: The Diary of Angelina Grimké, 1828-1835, (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003).

Presentations

“The American Revolution and Robert Smith’s Rhetoric of Righteous Community,” British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Conference, St. Hugh’s College, Oxford, England, January 6-8, 2005.

“Knowledge and the American Civic Conscience: John Witherspoon’s Legacy,” with Thorne Compton, International Eighteenth Century Studies Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, July, 2002.

“Unitarian Aesthetic Theory and American Political Morality: The Legacy of Edward Tyrell Channing,” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Conference, George Mason University, April, 2002.

“David Hume’s Theory of Taste,” British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Conference, Aberdeen, Scotland, August 11-14, 2000.

“Guilt and Redemption: Angelina Grimke’s Three Conversions as Reflected in Her Diaries, 1828-1829,” Women’s Private Writing/Writing Women’s History Conference, University of New England, Westbrook College, Portland Maine, June 15-18, 2000.

“The Stowe Debate: From Page to Stage,” with Kevin Sargent. First University of Malaga Conference on American Theatre, Malaga, Spain, May 22-24, 2000.

“David Hume and the Ascendance of Aesthetic Rhetoric in Eighteenth Century Spain.” Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Las Vegas Nevada, February 25-27, 2000.