Elvera B.Berry
Professor of Communication

Director of Communication Program

Director of Honors Program
E-mail: berrye@roberts.edu
Office: (585) 594-6333

At RWC Since 1964

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Education:
Ph.D. (Education), SUNY Buffalo, 1987

M.A. (Rhetoric), SUNY Brockport, 1981

M.A. (Linguistics & German), University of Rochester, 1967

B.A., Roberts Wesleyan College, 1963

Specialty Areas:

Communication studies; rhetorical theory; Kenneth Burke; educational philosophy and pedagogy

Current Research Interests:

Kenneth Burke's; B.T. Roberts

Sample RWC Courses:

CMC 201 Introduction to Communication

CMC 302 Persuasion and Criticism

CMC 410 Studies in Rhetoric: Kenneth Burke

Sample Publications/Presentations

• “Definiendum: He is Yet to be Defined,” article in Kenneth Burke Society Publication, Fall 2000
• “Transformed through Learning,” Critical Thinking: Language Inquiry Across the Disciplines, Conference Proceedings, 1989