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Anders Eriksson is the project director for the Cross Cultural Rhetoric Project at Örebro university. He has been involved in the project since the beginning 2005 and has taught in most of the classes involved in the project. His ordinary position is associated professor and director of studies for rhetoric at Örebro university. He usually teaches undergraduate and graduate classes in rhetoric, which in Örebro is a fulltime two year program, with classes from Rhetoric A, to Rhetoric D.
He came to the department of rhetoric in Örebro from a research position at Lund University in the faculty of theology where he specialized in the rhetorical analysis of Biblical texts. He earned his doctorate from Lund in 1998 and became docent in 2003.
Anders has a crosscultural background in that he has lived for four years in the USA attending a college in San Diego 1980-81, a Seminary in St. Paul Minnesota 1984-86 where he earned his Masters degree. He has done doctoral work at Yale University, New Haven, and postdoctoral work at Emory University, Atlanta.
He has hosted an international conference on Rhetorical Argumentation in Biblical Texts in Lund 2000, and has co-edited a volume on Ethos and Moral Persuasion in Biblical Texts. His special research interest is the rhetorical exercises known as the progymnasmata. He has translated the most influential of these handbooks, the progymnasmata of Aphthonius of Antioch, from the Greek to the Swedish. And now he wants his students in Örebro to learn basic rhetoric like using narratives in rhetoric, learning how to praise and how to describe.
He is married to Karen, whom he met in Minnesota twenty years ago. He has three children, David, Hanna and Jacob, with whom he likes to spend time. They also help him renovate his old house. |
