Video chat: Robin Reames on the importance of rhetoric

Welcome to the fifth of an occasional series of video chats with authors and translators who have written about the philosophy, culture, and history of the Greco-Roman tradition.

In this episode I talk to Robin Reames, an Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois-Chicago. She works in the history of ideas, particularly the ideas that compose the field of rhetorical theory. Her research is guided by an interest in the visceral and primordial power of human speech, for which anci...