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Daniel M. Gross is Professor of English and Affiliate Faculty in the Critical Theory Emphasis. His research in rhetoric runs along three tracks: writing and communication, history of the disciplines, and medical humanities. Book publications include The Cambridge History of Rhetoric, Volume 5: Modern Rhetoric after 1900, edited with Steven J. Mailloux and LuMing Mao (Cambridge University Press, 2025); Being-Moved: Rhetoric As the Art of Listening (University of California Press, 2020); Uncomfortable Situations: Emotion between Science and the Humanities (University of Chicago Press, 2017); Science and Emotions after 1945: A Transatlantic Perspective (University of Chicago Press, 2014), edited with Frank Biess; The Secret History of Emotion: From Aristotle’s Rhetoric to Modern Brain Science (University of Chicago Press, 2006). Heidegger and Rhetoric (State University of New York Press, 2005), edited with Ansgar Kemmann.

A musicologist by training (PhD UCLA), Patrick works at the intersection of musical instruments, animal culture, and the history of science and technology. After completing a graduate certificate in writing pedagogy at UCLA, he taught writing at NYU Shanghai, Princeton University, and NYU Washington Square where he felt equally at home in writing courses about music, sound, and visual culture as he was exploring what it means to be an expert today with STEM-focused students. In addition to supporting regular programming offered by the CWCC, Patrick is available for individual consultations with instructors across the university on a variety of topics, such as giving and receiving feedback on student writing, lesson planning, academic integrity, and conferencing with students. At the current moment, he is most interested in how serendipity and surprise motivate writing and research.