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Camille Lewis

Assistant Professor of Communication Studies

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Camille Kaminski Lewis is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. She holds a Ph.D. from Indiana University in Rhetorical Studies with a minor in American Studies.

Her first book, Romancing the Difference: Kenneth Burke, Bob Jones University, and the Rhetoric of Religious Fundamentalism, was a scholarly attempt to stretch the boundaries of both Kenneth Burke’s rhetorical theory on tragedy and comedy as well as stretch conservative evangelical’s separatist frames. Her second book, White Nationalism and Faith: Statements and Counter-Statements, tracks the religious arguments for and against white nationalism in America since the Civil War. Her anthology, One Hundred Years of Women Debating the Equal Rights Amendment: 1923-2023, tracks the rich history of women arguing for equality in the U.S. Constitution.

Her fourth book, Klandamentalism: Bob Jones at the Intersection of Revivalism, Politics, and White Supremacy, tackles the destructive melding of conservative evangelicalism with the Ku Klux Klan.

Additional books on William Jennings Bryan and Dolly Parton are in process.

After nearly twenty years in the classroom, Camille is thrilled to be teaching Rhetoric & Strategy, Argumentation, Rhetorical Criticism, Great Speeches, and Public Speaking at Furman.

Honors & Awards

  • The John I. Sisco Excellence in Teaching Award, Southern States Communication Association, 2022.

Education

  • Ph.D., Indiana University
  • M.A., Bob Jones University
  • B.A., Bob Jones University

Research Interests

Race, Religion, and Rhetoric in the American experience; Feminism in the Public Sphere.

Publications

  • “We Can’t Forget: Conservative Protestants in the COVID-19 Pandemic,” The Covid Pandemic and the World's Religions: Challenges and Responses, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023
  • “Fundamentalism,” Contested Concepts in the Study of Religion: A Critical Guide, Bloomsbury Press, 2023
  • “‘The Bounds of Their Habitation’: Bob Jones’ Rhetorical Duel with Billy Graham,” Fides et Historia, 53:1 (Winter/Spring 2021): 37-59
  • “From Sousaphones to Superman: Narrative, Rhetoric, and Memory as Equipment for Living,” The Journal of Aesthetic Education, 54, no. 4. (Winter 2020): 6-18. doi:10.5406/jaesteduc.54.4.0006
  • “‘I Come from Georgia’: Andrew Cobb Erwin’s Southern Resistance to the Ku Klux Klan.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 23, no. 2 (Summer 2020): 331–65. doi:10.14321/rhetpublaffa.23.2.0331.

Additional Professional Activities

Professor Lewis is the President for the Carolinas Communication Association.

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