Acknowledgments

This book expands on ideas that were originally explored in “Trust on Display: The Epideictic Potential of University Governance,” printed in College English. I am grateful to the anonymous reviewers of that article, who also have contributed to the ideas here. Bethany Davila, Stephanie Kerschbaum, Amy Reed, and Shannon Walters provided feedback on many versions of these ideas; they are very present in this text, though my mistakes are my own. My fellow writers in a daily early-morning virtual Write-on-Site (WOS) were cheerful company and reminded me that I wasn’t writing alone. Laura Mauldin and Clare Mullaney were reassuring and consistent presences and encouraged me to submit this manuscript in the first place. My supportive colleagues in administration at Jefferson answered my many questions about governance and made numerous contacts on my behalf; my writing program colleague Valerie Hanson graciously gave feedback on multiple chapters. I also thank my dean, Barbara Kimmelman, who has helped me carve out time for writing. Funds for release time and support for this project were generously provided by the Jefferson Office of Applied Research. My fall 2021 Writing 201 honors students humored my obsession with epideictic rhetoric and inspired me with their own rhetorical interventions on campus. My interviewees patiently explained the intricacies of their institutional systems and opened their archived files to me. I am grateful to the leaders and participants of the Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) summer institutes, “Doing Classical Reception in Rhetorical Studies,” where this idea was born, and “Fugitive Planning and White Knowledge Disruption,” where it was drafted. I thank the Special Collections Research Center at Temple University and the Special Collections Research Center at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, particularly SIUC archivist Matt Gorzalski. The University of Minnesota Press team, Leah Pennywark and Anne Carter, provided support and confidence. And I am deeply appreciative of friends, mentors, and colleagues who have engaged with these ideas along the way: Lois Agnew, Jonathan Beecher, Michael Bérubé, Jeff Cromarty, Eli Goldblatt, Liz Kimball, Tom Miller, and Roxanne Mountford. Finally, I am grateful to my parents; my husband, Matt; and my kids, Jasper and Martin, whose insatiable curiosity inspires me.