Rodney Herring

Rodney Herring serves as Associate Professor and Associate Department Chair in the Department of English at the University of Colorado Denver, where he has been a faculty member since 2010. His academic leadership includes departmental administrative responsibilities alongside his teaching and research duties.

Specializing in rhetoric and writing, Herring's research focuses on the historical intersections of rhetoric with economic systems. His scholarly work examines financial discourse across centuries, analyzing how economic concepts like credit, debt, and monetary policy are rhetorically constructed. Key areas include 18th-century financial rhetoric, historical banking discourse, and the rhetoric of political economy, with particular attention to pivotal moments like the 1720 financial bubbles.

Herring's publications demonstrate consistent engagement with major rhetoric journals, revealing evolving research trajectories from foundational rhetorical theory toward increasingly specialized economic history applications. His collaborative work with Mark Garrett Longaker highlights interdisciplinary approaches to financial rhetoric.

• Associate Department Chair, Department of English (Current)
• Primary instructor for graduate and undergraduate courses including Argumentation and Logic, Business Writing, and Rhetorical Theory
• Active contributor to rhetoric scholarship through publications in top-tier journals