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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 in the writing programs at NYU Shanghai, Princeton University, and NYU (NYC). At UC Irvine, he similarly operates in the spaces between artifacts, practices, and disciplines: in this case, coordinating writing resources, individual faculty, and academic units. As WAC+WID Coordinator, Patrick oversees key programs, including the UCI Writing Pedagogy Certificate, a university-wide workshop series on teaching writing that refreshes every term, a competitive research program for graduate students engaged in IRB-approved writing pedagogy studies in their home disciplines, a podcast with fresh insights on teaching writing and communication in higher-education, and creating digital teaching resources that affirm or create relationships.