Wallace, Karl R.
- 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.
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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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