Dr. Phillip J. Donnelly

Academic Leader’s Day –
Renewing Christian Rhetoric for Contemporary Classrooms: Human Persuasion and Practical Wisdom in a Digital Age

ACADEMIC LEADERS DAY is a new offering for Repairing the Ruins, produced by the Alcuin Fellowship. This event is directed toward academic deans, department heads, lead teachers, and teachers with a focus on this topic.

Dr. Phillip J. Donnelly, PhD, is Professor of Literature for the Great Texts Program in the Honors College at Baylor University.  He is the author of The Lost Seeds of Learning: Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric as Life-Giving Arts (Classical Academic Press) and Milton’s Scriptural Reasoning (Cambridge University Press).  He has worked with Classical schools for about twenty years, helping faculty discern how a Christian understanding of the verbal arts can inform their daily work as educators.