Kerri Morris received the PhD from Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, in the dark ages of the last century. She teaches first-year composition, argument, and History of Rhetoric. Her research focuses on the rhetorical genre that Aristotle called "epideixis," which includes speeches of praise and blame, funeral orations, graduation speeches, and other ceremonial oratory. Her publications and presentations include disciplinary critiques and explorations of the epideictic genre's subversive nature and its role in deliberation. She will be on sabbatical in Fall 2008, working on an annotated bibliography of scholarship about epideixis. She is actively involved in faculty governance at UAA, was president of the Faculty Senate during 2006-07, and is engaged in efforts to revise UAA's process of evaluating teaching. She lives with her husband, philosopher Tom Buller, daughter, Kate Buller, and their cat Serrafeena.