Areas of interest
Peter Cramer specializes in discourse analysis, writing studies, rhetoric, and argumentation.
Education
- MA, PhD (Rhetoric Carnegie Mellon University)
Biography
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.
Courses
Spring 2025
Future courses may be subject to change.