Erik Doxtader

Erik Doxtader is a scholar of rhetoric and critical theory. Born in Fort Collins, Colorado, Doxtader took a BA at the University of Kansas and both an MA and Ph.D. from the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University.

Erik Doxtader
Born
Fort Collins, Colorado
Education
Era20th-/21st-century rhetoric
Regionrhetoric
Institutions
Main interests

Career

Doxtader is a professor in the Department of English at the University of South Carolina,[1] and the current editor of Philosophy & Rhetoric, an international quarterly journal published by the Pennsylvania State University Press. Prior to assuming the editorship in 2018, he served as the journal's Book Review Editor from 2005-2017.[2]

Doxtader is a former Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, a recognized non-governmental organization in Cape Town, South Africa.[3] In 1999, he was awarded a 2000-2001 fellowship in the SSRC-MacArthur program in Peace and Security in a Changing World.[4] His book, With Faith in the Works of Words: The Beginnings of Reconciliation in South Africa, received the 2010 Rhetoric Society of America book award.[5]

Books

Monograph
  • Doxtader, Erik (2009). With faith in the works of words: the beginnings of reconciliation in South Africa, 1985-1995. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. ISBN 978-0-87013-851-5. OCLC 235946025.[reviews 1]

Edited volumes
  • Charles Villa-Vicencio; Erik Doxtader; Ebrahim Moosa, eds. (2015). The African renaissance and the Afro-Arab spring: a season of rebirth?. Washington, DC. ISBN 978-1-62616-198-6. OCLC 910326527.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)[reviews 2]
  • Fanie Du Toit, Erik Doxtader, ed. (2010). In the balance: South Africans debate reconciliation. Auckland Park, South Africa: Jacana Media. ISBN 978-1-77009-837-4. OCLC 662406432.
  • Erik Doxtader, ed. (2009). Inventing the potential of rhetorical culture: the work and legacy of Thomas B. Farrell. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 978-0-271-03627-4. OCLC 427644787.
  • Erik Doxtader; Philippe Joseph Salazar, eds. (2007). Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: The Fundamental Documents. Cape Town: David Philip and New Africa Books.[reviews 3]
  • Charles Villa-Vicencio; Erik Doxtader; Richard Goldstone, eds. (2004). Pieces of the puzzle: keywords on reconciliation and transitional justice. Cape Town, South Africa: Institute for Justice and Reconciliation. ISBN 0-9584794-5-3. OCLC 59757722.
  • Erik Doxtader, Philippe Joseph Salazar, ed. (2007). Truth & reconciliation in South Africa: the fundamental documents. Claremont, South Africa: New Africa Books. ISBN 978-0-86486-707-0. OCLC 184983013.
  • Erik Doxtader, Charles Villa-Vicencio, ed. (2004). To repair the irreparable: reparation and reconstruction in South Africa. Claremont: David Philip Publishers. ISBN 0-86486-618-6. OCLC 60777028.
  • Charles Villa-Vicencio, Erik Doxtader, ed. (2003). The provocations of amnesty: memory, justice, and impunity. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press. ISBN 1-59221-089-9. OCLC 51637703.[reviews 4]
  • Erik Doxtader, Charles Villa-Vicencio, ed. (2003). Through fire with water: the roots of division and the potential for reconciliation in Africa (1st ed.). Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press. ISBN 1-59221-083-X. OCLC 51446663.[reviews 5]

Book reviews
  1. Review of With Faith in the Works of Words: The Beginnings of Reconciliation in South Africa, 1985-1995:
  2. Reviews of The African Renaissance and the Afro-Arab Spring: A Season of Rebirth:
  3. Review of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: The Fundamental Documents:
    • Haron, Muhammed. African Studies Quarterly 11, no. 4 (2010): 129-131. Gale Academic OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A237453624/AONE?u=anon~6b981594&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=28c75e19.
  4. Review of The Provocations of Amnesty: Memory, Justice and Impunity:
    • Verdoolaege, Annelies. Canadian Journal of African Studies 38, no. 1 (2004): 218-221. doi:10.2307/4107296. JSTOR 4107296. "Post-Apartheid South Africa III: Debating Amnesty". Journal of Southern African Studies 31, no. 2 (2005): 472–473. JSTOR 25065014.
  5. Reviews of Through Fire with Water: The Roots of Division and the Potential for Reconciliation in Africa:
    • Harbeson, John W. African Studies Review 48, no. 2 (2005): 189-190. doi:10.1353/arw.2005.0061. JSTOR 20065126.
    • du Plessis, Anton. Strategic Review for Southern Africa 25, no. 1 (2003): 135.

References
  1. Faculty page, Department of English, University of South Carolina (accessed 20 September 2021).
  2. Philosophy & Rhetoric, Editorial Masthead, Penn State University Press (accessed 21 September 2021).
  3. Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, "Institute Research Fellows", IJR Annual Report, 2012, 39 (accessed 20 September 2021); Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, "Senior Research Fellows", IJR Annual Report, 2013, 34, (accessed 21 September 2021); Daily Maverick, "Erik Doxtader" (accessed 21 September 2021); United Nations, South Africa's Institute for Justice and Reconciliation wins UNESCO award", UN News, 28 May (accessed 21 September 2021).
  4. Social Science Research Council, "International Peace and Security Postdoctoral Fellows," Items: Social Science Research Council, 52:4, (December 1998), 109 (accessed 21 September 2021).
  5. Rhetoric Society of America, "Awards - RSA Book Award Recipients" (accessed 21 September 2021).
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