About SBU

Ellis, Daniel

Name:
Daniel Ellis
Daniel Ellis, Ph.D.

Academic School:
School of Arts and Sciences

Academic Department:
English

Titles/Responsibilities:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Director of Composition
  • Director of the Plassmann Writing Center

Contact Information:
Office Phone: (716) 375-2452
E-mail: dellis@sbu.edu
 

Office Location/Hours:
Plassmann D3

Academic Degrees:
  • Ph.D., English, Temple University, 2009
  • M.F.A. Creative Writing, University of New Orleans, 2001
  • B.A. English, University of New Orleans, 1998

Accomplishments:

Publications 

  • “Arguing the Courtship of Elizabeth and Alençon: An Early Modern Marriage Debate and the Problem of the Historical Public Sphere.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly. 42.1 (2012).
  • “Childhood Reflections: Elizabeth I’s The Glass of the Sinful Soul and the Foundations of Her Rhetoric.” Explorations in Renaissance Culture. 37.1 (2011).
  • “A Conservative Revolution:  Elizabeth I and the Making of Religious and Rhetorical Truth.” Advances in the History of Rhetoric 10 (2007): 175-196.
     

Presentations/Workshops 

  • Presenter, “Nativity and Dissolution: Charles I’s 1629 Declaration and Milton’s Nativity Ode,” Conference on John Milton, Murfreesboro, TN, October 2011.
  • Presenter and Organizer, “2010: A (individual and institutional) Space Odyssey: Digital Remix.”  Conference for College Composition and Communication, March 2010, Louisville (upcoming).
  • Workshop Participant, “History Matters,” RSA Institute, Rhetoric Society of America, State College, PA, June 2009.
  • Presenter, “Rhetorical Execution: Elizabeth, Rhetorical Theory, and the Death of Mary, Queen of Scots.” Queen Elizabeth I Society Annual Meeting, Hot Springs, AK, March 2009.
  • Roundtable Participant: “What Is Rhetoric Research? A Roundtable.” Modern Language Association, San Francisco, 2008.
  • Presenter and Panel Organizer, “What We Talk about When We Talk about Courtship: Historical Rhetoric, Rhetorical History, and the Marriage Negotiations of Elizabeth and Anjou.” Rhetoric Society of America, Seattle, WA, May 2008.
  • Presenter, “‘By reason all ought to believe’: Religious Truth and the Rhetorical Practice of Elizabeth I.” Conference for College Composition and Communication, April 2008.
  • Presenter, “A Conservative Revolution: Elizabeth I and the Making of Religious and Rhetorical Truth,” American Society for the History of Rhetoric Conference, Chicago, IL, November 2007.

Current Research Interests/Projects:

My research interests broadly stated are in the intersection of writing education and political and university structures in the 16th, 20th and 21st centuries. 


I am currently at work on a book manuscript, “Free from Any Other Meaning”: Truth and Politics in the Rhetoric of Elizabeth I, which examines rhetorical instruction in 16th century England and the writings and orations of Queen Elizabeth I.