Stephen E. Lucas is Professor of Communication Arts and
Evjue-Bascom Professor in the Humanities at the University
of Wisconsin–Madison, where he has taught since 1972. He
received his bachelor’s degree from the University of California,
Santa Barbara, and his master’s and doctorate degrees from Penn
State University.
Professor Lucas has been recognized for his work as both a
scholar and a teacher. His first book, Portents of Rebellion:
Rhetoric and Revolution in Philadelphia, 1765–1776, received the
Golden Anniversary Award of the National Communication
Association in 1977 and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. His
major articles include “The Schism in Rhetorical Scholarship”
(1981), “The Renaissance of American Public Address: Text and
Context in Rhetorical Criticism” (1988), “The Stylistic Artistry of
the Declaration of Independence” (1990), and “The Rhetorical
Ancestry of the Declaration of Independence” (1998), for which he
received the Golden Anniversary Monograph Award of the
National Communication Association. He is currently working on
Words of a Century: The Top 100 American Speeches, 1900–1999.
Professor Lucas has received a number of teaching awards, including the
Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching at the University of
Wisconsin and the National Communication Association’s Donald Ecroyd
Award for Outstanding Teaching in Higher Education. His lecture course on
“The Rhetoric of Campaigns and Revolutions” is among the most popular on
campus and has twice been selected for statewide broadcast in its entirety
by Wisconsin Public Radio. Professor Lucas is featured in the Educational
Video Group’s program on the history of American public address, and he
has appeared on the History Channel’s documentary on the Declaration of
Independence.
Professor Lucas has directed the introductory public speaking course at
the University of Wisconsin–Madison since 1973. Over the years he has
been responsible for numerous teaching innovations and has supervised the
training of hundreds of graduate assistants. In addition to participating in
public speaking workshops and colloquia at schools throughout the United
States, he has served as a judge for the major national English-language
public speaking competitions in China, has lectured at numerous Chinese
universities, and has conducted workshops for Chinese instructors on
teaching public speaking.
Stephen Lucas and his wife, Patty, live in Madison, Wisconsin, and
have two sons, Jeff and Ryan. His interests include travel, sports, art, and photography.
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