| William "Bill" Shanahan,
III
Assistant Professor / Director of Forensics
B.S. - Speech Communication: Suffolk University
(Boston, MA) 1984
M.A. - Communication (Rhetoric); Wake Forest
University
1989
Ph.D. - Speech Communication (Rhetoric); University
of Texas at Austin 1996
Persuasion and semantics are two classes "Bill"
Shanahan loves to teach. These student-directed discussion classes
are among the many classes Bill has taught over the last two years
at FHSU. He has also served the role of debate coach at several
other universities.
Publications:
Contributed two chapters to a book on Orwell's Animal
Farm, and a quantitative communication piece which got published
in a mainstream communication periodical. He has also published
a dissertation on Nietzche's rhetorical nihilism and is currently
writing a book on Nietzsche's reception in Communist Germany.
Campus Organizations: Currently developing
a public debate program and interfaculty colloquiums
Goals for the Department:
"Unity,
excellence, and a department devoted to the needs of its students."
Phone # (785) 628-5859
E-mail - wshanaha@fhsu.edu |
