Trey Conner

Associate Professor

Personal profile

About

Dr. Conner (he/him) forms community partnerships that empower youth and provide service learning opportunities for USFSP students, facilitates a welcoming classroom space for students to learn rituals of writing ranging from contemplative practices to distributed authorship, and writes about the function of chanting, song, and rhythm in diverse rhetorical and poetic traditions, including scholarly articles on Carnatic music, Advaita Vedanta, critical posthumanism, neuroscience, open source culture, psychedelics, and digital pedagogy. Recent publications include chapters in the edited volumes The Routledge Handbook of Comparative World Rhetorics (Routledge 2020), Responding to the Sacred: an Inquiry into the Limits of Rhetoric (Penn State Press 2021), and Global Rhetorical Traditions (Parlor Press 2022). Trey remains always already engaged in a nourishing process of “infinite rehearsal” of collaboration with friends, family, students, and colleagues, and is currently at work on Everything Worth Doing Now.

Education/Academic qualification

Rhetoric and Composition, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University

Rhetoric and Composition, M.A., Pennsylvania State University

English, B.A., University of Florida

Disciplines

  • Creative Writing
  • English Language and Literature
  • Rhetoric