David Metzger

DEAN, HONORS COLLEGE
Patricia & Douglas Perry Honors College

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Biography

Dr. David Metzger came to Old Dominion University in 1993 after teaching at Montana State University. He earned a B.A. in English and French and an M.A. in English from Emporia State University (Emporia, KS), an M.A. in Jewish Studies from Hebrew College (Boston), and a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition (classics minor) from the University of Missouri. The author and editor of four books and over forty single-authored articles and book chapters, he currently serves as Dean of the Honors College and Professor of English. From 2010-2013, he also served as the Interim Dean of Academic Enhancement and led the reorganization of that unit. Other administrative duties have included Chair of English, Founding GPD for the PhD in English, Founding Academic Director for the Institute for Jewish Studies and Interfaith Understanding, and Founding Director of Writing Tutorial Services (now The Writing Center). Dr. Metzger remains active in the English department--teaching classes and directing doctoral dissertations.

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al.odu.edu/english/faculty/dmetzger.shtml

Research Interests

History of rhetoric (biblical, classical, modern) <br>Jewish studies <br>Composition, pedagogy <br>Psychoanalytic theory <br>

Articles

Metzger, D. (2018). "No Gap, No Interval": Time, Vision, and Argument in Adam Smith's Rhetoric. Scotia: Interdisciplinary Journal of Scottish Studies, XL (2018), pp. 1-20.

Metzger, D. (2015). "From Thought Experiment and Machines to Ethical Maps: A Response to Jim Brown". Media Commons: a digital scholarly network

Metzger, D. (2011). "Bobby Who?: A Response to Diane Davis". Journal of Advanced Composition, 31 (2011), pp. 273-282.

Metzger, D., and Katz, S. (2010). The Place of Rhetoric in Aggadic Midrash. College English/NCTE, 72 (6), pp. 639-653.

Metzger, D. (2004). "The Call of Rhetoric". Enculturation, 5 (2),

Metzger, D. (2003). "The Process of Analysis and the Queering of Obsessional Discourse". Literature and Psychology, 49 (3), pp. 1-15.

Metzger, D., and Willson, A. (2003). "But is He Really Smart?: Gardner's Multiple Intelligences Theory in the World of Harry Potter". Popular Culture Review, 14, pp. 25-36.

Metzger, D. (2002). "Jacques Maritain and the Development of Academic Medievalism". Popular Culture Review, 13, pp. 24-32.

Metzger, D. (2000). "4 Degrees of Richard Weaver: the rhetoric of responsibility in standards-based education". Kairos: a Journal for Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments, 5 (1),

Metzger, D. (1998). "Identification and the Real of Obsession". Umbr(a), 4,

Metzger, D. (1998). "St. Catherine, Lacan, and the Problem of Psycho-Biography". Disputatio: A Transdisiplinary Journal of Medieval Studies, 3, pp. 87-105.

Metzger, D. (1997). "Saul/Paul and the Promise of Technological Reforms. Enculturation, 1,

Metzger, D. (1997). "Sexuation and the Drive". Umbr(a), 3, pp. 123-139.

Metzger, D. (1997). Freud's "Jewish Science" and Lacan's Sinthome. American Imago, 57, pp. 87-99.

Metzger, D. (1994). "Writing as Symptom and Desire: A Lacanian Perspective on the Emergence of Popular Culture in the Composition Classroom". The Writing Instructor, 13 (3), pp. 101-111.

Metzger, D. (1992). "Rhetoric and Death in Thelma and Louise". Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 5,

Metzger, D. (1989). "Platonic Allegory and the Origins of Writing in the Faerie Queene". Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching, 16, pp. 3-4, 8.

Metzger, D. (1988). "Eternity and Patterns of Conversion in the Digby Mary Magdalene". Athenaeum Society Review, 4,
Books

Metzger, D., and Schulman, P. (2006). Chasing Esther: Jewish Expressions of Cultural Difference. Santa Monica, CA & Haifa, Israel: Kol Katan Press/University of Haifa.

Metzger, D. (2000). Medievalism and the Academy II: Cultural Studies. D.S. Brewer.

Metzger, D., Verduin, K., and Workman, L. J. (1998). Medievalism and The Academy I: Medieval Studies. D.S. Brewer.

Metzger, D. (1995). "Lacan and The Question of Writing." Special Issue of Pre/Text a Journal of Rhetorical Theory.

Metzger, D. (1995). The Lost Cause of Rhetoric: the relation of rhetoric and geometry in Aristotle and Lacan. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press.

Metzger, D. (1993). Rhetoric and the Language Arts Classroom: A Handbook for Language Arts Teachers. Journal of Montana Association of Teachers of English Langauge Arts.
Book Chapters

Metzger, D. (2019). "Psychoanalysis, Dignity, and Life". (pp. 18 pages). Media Commons: Media Commons Field Guide.

Metzger, D. (2014). Maimonides' Contribution to a Theory of Self Persuasion.Jewish Rhetorics: History, Theory, Practice (pp. 112-130). Brandeis University Press.

Metzger, D. (2013). "Foreword: It/Rhetoric is (not) in Heaven".Continegency, Immanence, and the Subject of Rhetoric (pp. ix-xii). Parlor Press.

Scialdone-Kimberley, H., and Metzger, D. (2009). Writing in the 3rd Space from the Sun: A Pentadic Analysis of Discussion Papers Written for the 7th Session of the UN Form on Forests. (pp. 39-54). Routledge: In Rhetorics, Literacies, & Narratives of Sustainability.

Metzger, D. (2004). Interpretation and the Topology of Language.Topologically Speaking (pp. 134-149). New York: The Other Press.

Metzger, D. (2003). "Shoah and The Origins of Teaching".Witinessing the Disaster. (pp. 231-244). Madison, Wisconsin: U of Wisconsin P.

Metzger, D. (2000). The Neurotic Orientation of Religion in Freud and Lacan.The Subject of Lacan: A Lacanian Reader for Psychologists (pp. 45-58). Albany, New York: State University of New York P.

Metzger, D. (2000). "A Dialogue on Dialogues.".Genre by Example: Teachers Writing What They Teach. Ed. David Starkey (pp. 55-78). Portsmouth, NH:

Metzger, D. (1998). "Medievalism and the Problem of Radical Evil in Snodgrass's The Fuehrer Bunker".Medievalism and the Idea of the Middle Ages. Amsterdam: Brepols.

Metzger, D. (1998). "Teaching as a Test of Truth".Rhetoric in an Anti-Foundational World (pp. 423-453). Cambridge, MA: Yale UP.

2018: President, Virginia Collegiate Honors College
2017: "Most Inspiring Faculty Member" Award, ODU Alumni Center
2017: Vice President, Virginia Collegiate Honors Council, VCHC
2014: "Champion of Diversity", Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity
2012: "Living Learning Community of the Year", Student Engagement and Enrollment Services
2007: Award of Recognition for Outstanding Leadership and Service, IJIU Advisory Board
2006: Outstanding Service Award to Arts and Letters, College of Arts and Letters
1993: The NORCHE Prize for Instructional Innovation, Northern Rockies Consortium for Higher Education

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