Richard Leo Enos PhD- Emeritus Professor- Texas Christian University
Richard Leo Enos (B. A., California State University-East Bay, M.A.,and Ph.D., Indiana University,) is an Emeritus Professor and Quondam Holder of The Lillian B. Radford Chair of Rhetoric and Composition in the Department of English at Texas Christian University. His experience includes of the Classical Studies Program at TCU, Professor of Rhetoric in the English Department, and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. His research emphasis is in the history of rhetoric with a specialization in classical rhetoric. Much of his work deals with understanding the relationship between thought and expression in Antiquity. Professor Enos has studied in Italy and Greece and has done research through the American School of Classical Studies at Athens under the auspices of the Greek Ministry of Science and Culture. He has also received support for the study of ancient rhetoric from the National Endowment for the Humanities and is the recipient of the Karl R. Wallace Award for research in classical rhetoric and the Richard E. Young Award for the best article in Rhetoric Review . He was selected by The College Board to help design and test both the curriculum guidelines (middle school through high school) and the reading/writing components for the 2005 SAT examination. On May 28, 2006, Richard Leo Enos was presented with the George E. Yoos Distinguished Service Award by the Rhetoric Society of American and inducted as an RSA Fellow. He currently serves as an Emeritus Member on the Managing Committee of The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, and recently received the 2007 Deans’ Research and Creative Activity Award from Texas Christian University. He was the recipient of “The Chancellor’s Award for Distinguished Achievement as a Creative Teacher and Scholar” and was named a 2009 Piper Professor for the State of Texas. In 2016 he delivered the James Berlin Memorial Lecture at Purdue University. On June 2, 2018 Richard Leo Enos received the Rhetoric Society of America Cheryl Geisler Mentorship Award.