After Empire: Myth, Rhetoric, and Democratic Revival

Robert L. Ivie is Professor Emeritus in English (Rhetoric) and American Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. His writing on political rhetoric, war culture, and democratic discourse includes Hunt the Devil: A Demonology of US War Culture (2015) with Oscar Giner, Dissent from War (2007), and Democracy and America’s War on Terror (2005).

Oscar Giner, Professor of Theatre at Arizona State University, focusing on myth and ritual in the Spanish religious stage and Native American performances, has contributed to Rhetoric, Materiality and Politics (2009) and Sourcebook for Political Communication Research (2011) and coauthored Hunt the Devil: A Demonology of US War Culture (2015).