Studies in Debate and Oratory
About this Journal
This journal aims to cultivate and produce scholarship that advances the practices and pedagogy of oratory and debate from historical, contemporary, theoretical, and practical perspectives. We see deep connections between the way human beings express ideas and arguments orally (before audiences) and the formation and creation of knowledge itself. We are suspicious of the idea that knowledge is either temporally or logically prior to expression as rhetoric. Investigation of these practices are investigations of epistemology not mere ornament or technique. The journal welcomes any and all submissions that examine the history, capacity, theory, practice, role, limits, or possibilities of the arts of oratory and debating. Such submissions can be situated in terms of case-studies, normative and/or prescriptive discussions of the aims of oratory and debate, or the application of the principles of oratory and debate to issues in civic education and action.