Peter Cramer
Associate Professor
Department of English
Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive
Burnaby, BC
Canada V5A 1S6
pcramer[at]sfu.caBiography
Peter Cramer is an associate professor of Writing & Rhetoric in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University. He teaches courses in writing, discourse analysis, argumentation, and the history and theory of rhetoric. His research examines how writers and speakers across public and professional domains help to shape our experience of controversy and consensus. His work has been published in Language in Society, Written Communication, Argumentation, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, and Rhetoric Review, and his monograph Controversy as News Discourse was published by Springer in 2011.
Keywords: Discourse Analysis, Writing, Rhetoric, Argumentation
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2373-984X
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-cramer/
Background
Associate Professor, Simon Fraser University, 2012-present
Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University, 2006-2012
PhD Rhetoric, Carnegie Mellon University, 2005
Selected Publications
Cramer, P. (2024). 'Wasp porn': The discursive construction of ridicule and the right to joke about science. Language in Society. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404524000897
Cramer, P. (2016). Story Problems: Where Do the Agonists of the Dialogue Model of Argument Interact? Argumentation, 30(2), 129-144. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10503-015-9358-2
Cramer, P. (2015). Stasis Four for Literate Jurisdictions: Writing for an Art World Referee. Rhetoric Review, 34(3), 315-335. http://doi.org/10.1080/07350198.2015.1040306
Cramer, P., & Eisenhart, C. (2014). Examining Readers' Evaluations of Objectivity and Bias in News Discourse. Written Communication, 31(3), 280-303.
Cramer, P. (2013). The EBM Argument Hygiene Campaign. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 19(3), 447-453.
Cramer, P. (2013). Sick Stuff: A Case Study of Controversy in a Constitutive Attitude. Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 43(2), 177-201.