Wallace, Karl R.

  1. Wallace, Karl R.
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Professional Activities: Speech Association of America. President, 1954; Executive Council, 1945-1960; Chairman, Committee on Nature of Field of Speech, 1963; Member, Wingspread Conference, Jan.25-27, 1970; Chairman, Finance Board; Member, Administrative Committee; Editor, Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1945-1947. Member, Eastern Speech Association, Southern Speech Association, central States Speech Association, Western Speech Association, Massachusetts Speech Association, New England Speech Association. American Association of University Professors. President, Illinois Chapter, 1957-1958. National Council of Teachers of English. College Conference on Composition; NCTE-SAA Committee on Rhetoric and the Teaching Thereof, 1964-1968. The Renaissance Society of America. Philosophy and Rhetoric, Editorial Board, 1968-1973. Author of: Francis Bacon on Communication and Rhetoric, 1943. Studies in Speech and Drama in Honor of Alexander M. Drummond, Eds. D.C. Bryant, B.W. Hewitt, K.R. Wallace, and H.A. Wichelns., 1944. Fundamentals of Public Speaking, with D.C.Bryant, 1947, 1953, 1960, 1969, 1974. Oral Communication, with D.C. Bryant, 1948, 1954, 1962. Background Studies in the History of Speech Education in America, Editor-in-Chief, 1954. Francis Bacon on the Nature of Man: The Faculties of Man's Soul, 1967. An Historical Anthology of Select British Speeches, Eds. D.C. Bryant, C.C. Arnold, F.W. Haberman, R. Murphy, K.R. Wallace, 1967. Understanding Discourse: The Speech Act and Rhetorical Action, 1970. Lectures Concerning Oratory by John Lawson, Ed. with E. Neal Claussen, 1972.

For further bibliographic information on these books and for a list of the many articles by Wallace see the Biography folder in Box 1.

1905 Born November 10, Hubbardsville, New York. Parents Lew and Rena (Dart) W. 1923 Graduated Westfield, Pennsylvania, High School. 1927 B.A. Cornell University in English and Public Speaking. 1927 1930 Instructor, Assistant Professor of Speech, Iowa State College. 1929 Married Dorothy M. Pierce, August 27. 1931 M.A. Cornell University in Rhetoric, Drama. 1931 1933 Assistant and Instructor in Public Speaking, Cornell University. 1933 Ph.D. Cornell University in Rhetoric and Public Address, Drama and English History. 1933 1936 Assistant Professor of Speech, Iowa State College. 1933, 1934 (summers) Assistant Professor of English, University of Missouri. 1936 1937 Assistant Professor of English in Charge of Speech, Washington University, St. Louis. 1937 1947 Associate Professor, Professor of Speech; Chairman, School of Speech, 1937-44; Chairman, School of Speech and Drama, 1944-47, University of Virginia. 1947 1968 Professor of Speech; Head, Department of Speech and Theater, University of Illinois. 1954 President, Speech Association of America. 1954 (summer) Professor of Speech, University of Michigan. 1956 1972 Advisory editor in Speech, Dodd, Mead and Company. 1968 1973 Professor of Speech, University of Massachusetts Amherst. 1973 Died October 1973, Amherst, Massachusetts.

From the guide to the Karl R. Wallace Papers FS 086., 1898-1976, 1925-1973, (Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries)
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