Patricia is a former Director of the UT Austin University Writing Center.
Her most recent book is Speaking of Race: How to Have Antiracist Conversations That Bring Us Together (The Experiment, January 2021)
Earlier books include
Rhetoric and Demagoguery (Southern Illinois University Press, 2019) Finallist, Rhetoric Society of America book of the year
Demagoguery and Democracy (The Experiment, 2017)
Fanatical Schemes: Proslavery Rhetoric and the Tragedy of Consensus (University of Alabama Press, 2009)
Deliberate Conflict: Argument, Political Theory, and Composition Classes (Southern Illinois University Press, 2004)
Voices in the Wilderness: Public Discourse and the Paradox of Puritan Rhetoric (University of Alabama Press, 1999)
