C. MCKENZIE

At the University of Arizona McKenzie’s MFA thesis was an existential mystery novel, Burn What Will Burn and his Ph. D. (Rhetoric and Composition) dissertation, Maverick Ethos: The Principles and Practice of PostIdentification Rhetoric won a Best Dissertation award from the Graduate Students’ Association. McKenzie is founder and general editor of FYHC: The Journal of First-year Honors Composition. He has taught at the University of Arizona, Arizona State, Farleigh Dickinson, Pima Community College and John Jay.  He has work on the web @ Big Text: The Literary Magazine of Texas A&M University and is busy as we speak on a rhetorical analysis of Native American dioramas at the Arizona State Museum, a new novel, The Dictionary of Large and small Things and trying to figure out how to make post-hermeneutical rhetoric work in some space outside his own brain.