Lynn Clarke

Lynn Clarke is a Lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh's Department of Communication. She holds a PhD from Northwestern University and specializes in rhetorical theory, psychoanalysis, and deliberative politics. Her work examines intersections between rhetoric, philosophy, and judicial rhetoric in controversial policy cases.

Education: PhD in Rhetoric from Northwestern University.

Research focuses on the appearances of speech/writing in ethico-political contexts, definitional controversies, and the role of publicity in judicial rhetoric. She explores these themes through lenses of psychoanalytic theory and critical political philosophy.

Teaches courses on public speaking, freedom of speech, rhetorical criticism, and social movements rhetoric at both undergraduate and graduate levels.

Prominent publications include analyses of ethico-political discourse and definitional authority in collective contexts. No scientific awards explicitly mentioned.

Advising activity details not specified in text. Active in interdisciplinary research collaborations, as seen in her 2015 presentation on human rights rhetoric.